by Noella Noelophile®
When Ed Diment was two years old, someone gave him a LEGO® set. After that, he says, any other toys failed to impress him.
He’s been building with LEGO®s ever since. 
On Friday, media and visitors had the opportunity to visit the Queen Mary, to see one of Ed’s latest creations, through his UK-based professional LEGO®-building company, Bright Bricks.
This is the world’s largest LEGO® brick ship model, weighing more than 600 pounds and using approximately 250,000 LEGO® parts. Ed and his team spent 600 hours building this 1/40 scale model of the Queen Mary.
The Queen Mary model is a permanent exhibit, opening today, with the goal of introducing the next generation to the majestic ship. 
Notice the building stations–young future artists are invited to create their own ships, after seeing the model!
Ed said he and his team are now working on a “Dragons, Knights and Castles” installation–featuring a life-sized princess and knight. And yes, there will be a unicorn! (The new work will be on display in February, 2016, and the finished pieces will be on display on Bright Bricks’ website.)
While we were admiring the Queen Mary model, Ed displayed his LEGO® speed-building skills.
On the spot, he created this microphone for an onsite reporter…
…as well as this dolphin.
Next to the larger model, there was also this miniature Queen Mary–approximately the size of the average mobile phone.
Ed, who has won one-handed LEGO® building challenges, was asked how long it took him to build the mini-ship.
“Oh–about twenty minutes.”
Bright Bricks’ LEGO® Queen Mary model is on display in The Shipyard, on the Promenade Deck of the Queen Mary, at 1126 Queens Highway in Long Beach. The display is open 10 am to 6pm daily; here’s the link for more information.