Aloha Bricks ’26 at Bishop Museum

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We are excited to share a  major new project – we’ve been working with the Bishop Museum, Hawaii’s premier natural and cultural history museum, on a brick-built exhibit called Aloha Bricks ’26. Conceived by museum staff with our support, the exhibit highlights Hawaii’s landmarks, flora, fauna, and schools. The exhibit consists of four main components:

-minifig-scale replicas of Hawaii’s landmarks, including Iolani Palace, the Bishop Museum, the Hawaii Theater/Chinatown, the USS Arizona Memorial and Bowfin Submarine, and Hawaiian Airlines’ aircraft fleet through the years, the Hokulea voyaging canoe, and a Pasha ship – all designed and built by HILUG members

-mosaics of flora and fauna studied by Bishop Museum scientists, designed and built by museum staff

-mosaics of 50 different intermediate school mascots from all across the state, built by students at each of those schools

-large-scale sculptures of the i’iwi bird, Hawaiian tree snail, kalo (taro), humuhumunukunukuapua’a (Hawaiian triggerfish), and the Hawaiian hoary bat, designed collaboratively between Bishop museum staff and LCPs, and built by LCPs

Plus, a 100-foot long winding table with over 200,000 white bricks for visitors to create with!

This exhibit had a preview night tonight and we had the honor of untying the lei and opening the doors! We are honored to have played a significant role in this home-grown show that highlights our island home. One of our local TV stations ran a nice news segment about the exhibit.

Check out the show, running at least until Oct. 11 

HILUG Minifig Exchange is live!

Weʻve got a fun new station set up for everyone to enjoy – the HILUG Minifig Exchange!

Located by the cul-de-sac on Pule Place in St. Louis Heights, youʻll find a special container attached to a lamppost, filled with minifigures! Bring any of your own minifigs that you’d like to trade, and exchange for the same number of figures from the box. Leave a figure – Take a figure. And please take a photo while you are here and tag us on Instagram @hawaiilug and #hifigexchange. Enjoy!

HILUG Minifig Exchange
HILUG Minifig Exchange

ʻOhana Stargazing at SALT Kakaʻako

Join us Saturday, May 28, 6-9PM at SALT at our Kakaʻako! We will be part of this family-friendly celestial event, with a display of space- and local-themed MOCs and a build area for the kids!

There will also be:

Rooftop telescopes from Stargazers of Hawaiʻi, the Hawaiian Astronomical Society, and UH Institute for Astronomy

VR Canoe Voyaging with Kilo Hōkū VR

Arts & crafts activities related to Polynesian voyaging

Learning from Light & Scale Model Solar System from the UH Institute for Astronomy

HILUG at Bishop Museum’s Travelling Bricks

May 25 – Oct. 27, 2019

HILUG is proud to partner with Bishop Museum on the new Travelling Bricks Exhibit! This show include 120 LEGO® models in 60 scenes, created by LEGO® Professional Artists, including a 22-foot-long Titanic, 10-foot-long Zeppelin, a Saturn V rocket, and a 10-foot-long Carl Sagan spaceship!

HILUG brings a unique sense of aloha to Bishop Museum’s presentation of this exhibit, with models of familiar and iconic Hawaiian images like Aloha Tower and the voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa.

Preview of the Honolulu Transit display built by HILUG members

After viewing the exhibit, the whole ‘ohana can get creative, with over 300,000 LEGO® bricks on hand to build anything your imagination can design!

Travelling Bricks: An Exhibition Made of LEGO®  Bricks will inspire your keiki’s imagination and develop the builders of tomorrow brick by brick

October 6 & 7: Oh Baby Family Expo

Join us for a weekend of family fun at the Oh Baby Family Expo / Toy & Game Expo at the Blaisdell Exhibit Hall, 10am-5pm both days!

We will have original Lego creations on display, and building areas with plenty of LEGO® and DUPLO® bricks! Take a break from shopping at the event and come build with us!