This is the Addis family and their 100,000-brick Lego Christmas-themed Dalek — Dr. Who’s enemy cyborgs. Every December, the Addis — Mike, Catherine and their three children, Tom, Holly and Christopher — spend hours creating something massive out of bricks.
The Dalek took them 200 hours. For 18 years they have been building pretty crazy stuff, from a human-sized Nutcracker to a gigantic model of Earls Barton Sexon Church. Big enough for the children to get in. Back when Tom was a baby, a family friend brought a Lego set, and that’s how it all started.
I love these people. [Daily Mail]
light487
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:01 PMSome might make jokes about scarring the kids for life and all that.. but this is the kind of family fun and bonding that a lot of families are missing these days. Back when I was kid we used to do this kinda stuff all the time.. maybe not to such grand scales but the same principle….
I look around at my brothers’ and sister’s families and I don’t see them doing a lot of this kind of stuff at any time of the year…
Freeman
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:34 PMYou are so right, many families dont do this kind of bonding anymore, for what ever reason. having said that however my family loves coming together on christmas to construct a seige weapon each christmas.
nothing says christmas like hurliing tow-balls a few blocks away.
good on them for keeping it up each year, lets keep family traditions going.