In 2027, we celebrate 20 years since 10182 Cafe Corner was released. This was the first of the Modular buildings – now an ongoing tradition for the January release schedule. The revamped LEGO® Community engagement group – the LEGO® FanColab have announced that in 2027 there will be 22 LEGO Fan Communities coming together to celebreate, by each building one of the modular buildings at 4x (linear) scale. Going from 32×32 to 128×128 studs in size.

Each community will be responsible for designing, engineering and constructing its own Modular Building. While the communities will work within shared standards to ensure that when the buildings can come together, they create a cohesive collection, each group will have significant creative freedom to determine how its building comes to life, while maintaining the overall exterior DNA of these iconic buildings. 

And this won’t be a small undertaking. 

Most communities will work with approximately 500,000 LEGO elements, while two of the largest builds will use approximately 750,000 elements. Across the project, that represents approximately 11.5 million LEGO elements. 

I am excited to see my Local LUG, – MUGs – the Melbourne LEGO user’s Group has been selected to take part in this project. We have drawn 10232 The Palace Cinema to redesign and expand.

I asked our Community Representative (formerly ambassador), Wade Davies to find out what this means for the club:

“I’m excited about bringing the MUGs community together for a group build. It’s a massive undertaking to design, build, and coordinate the displays around the country.

It will bring different members and their skill sets together to make something truly unique”

The process is underway, with the early stages of the design coming together, while members are recruited for specific design challenges within the build. But this is not just a design challenge for a couple of enthusiasts. It will be something that the entire club will be able to help put together.

The Participating Communities 

The participating communities represent a truly global collaboration, spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. 

Throughout 2027 and into 2028, we hope to see the modulars appearing at major LEGO fan events and public exhibitions around the world. Where opportunities allow, multiple buildings will come together to create even larger displays and celebrate the scale of what these 22 communities have accomplished together. 

Follow the journey 

Building at this scale is going to take time, creativity, problem solving and a lot of LEGO elements. But most importantly, it will take communities coming together. 

Over the coming months, we will have the chance to see these communities take on the challenge. Watch their designs develop, see the builds take shape, celebrate their progress and discover the stories they choose to tell. 

Where opportunities arise, we encourage LEGO fans to visit the events where these Modulars are displayed, meet the communities behind them and experience the builds for themselves. 

And if you are part of the wider LEGO fan community, get involved where you can. Share their progress, cheer them on, ask questions, celebrate the milestones and help us recognize the incredible work happening in communities around the world. 

This is a celebration of 20 years of Modulars, but it is also a celebration of the people who have built, displayed, talked about and been inspired by them over the past two decades. 

Follow the communities, follow the builds, and help us celebrate Modulars Around the World. 

For my family, the modular buildings were something that we discovered when we went along to Brickvention in 2009 – at that stage there were only a few, but they were all still on the shelves. This was part of our introduction to AFOLdom. As a member of MUGs, I am excited to be joining the team on their journey and sharing some of the stories along the way. Follow @mugs.lug on instagram for their updates, as well as the other communities involved. I can’t wait to help get the club’s upsized Palace Cinema together, and I have been invited by the committee to help document the process. Ironically enough, I have had a copy of the palace cinema sitting in the cupboard of unbounded optimism (I was certainly optimistic that I would get it built shortly after I bought it…)Perhaps I will need to get it out soon…

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