![]() ![]() They spend long hours adhering thousands of individual pieces together and work on maintaining the parks’ various sculptures and exhibits. Typically, a new hire starts as an apprentice builder - essentially a “glue minion,” according to a young “peon” who works at LEGOLAND Florida. But in most cases, they have to start from the bottom and work their way up: only the most skilled Lego artisans achieve the honor of master builder. These builders are hand-picked by Lego, and are employed at the company’s Discovery centers, and its seven LEGOLAND theme park locations (Billund, Denmark Windsor, England Günzburg, Germany Nusajaya, Malaysia Florida, California). To give you an idea of how selective this group is, there are only 40 Lego master builders in the world, 7 of whom are Americans. The road to becoming a master model builder for Lego is excruciating and arduous - and the monetary payoff is less than exciting. Master builder Dan Steininger at work Source: c_chan808 But how much can you expect to earn as a Lego maestro, and what exactly does the job entail? We’ve explored three jobs - model master builders, Lego Certified Professionals, and industry “renegades” - to answer these questions. ![]() As Jamie Berard, Lego’s senior product designer, says, “Dad’s gotta have his toy room too!”įor the select few in the AFOL community, playing with Lego bricks has become more than a mere hobby: the best of the best have made a career out of it. One AFOL we spoke with says most in the community are “educated and/or intelligent, and have some sort of technical background.” Many are engineers, computer programmers, and hackers who have no reservation about shelling out $2,000 on EBay for an “Ultimate Collector’s” Millennium Falcon, or a rare limited-edition set. Adult fans of Lego - or AFOL (pronounced “awful”) - is a small but passionate confederacy of builders who refuse to believe Lego is just for kids. Sixty-five years ago, deep in the basement of a Billund, Denmark carpentry workshop, Ole Kirk Christiansen conceived Lego 560 billion pieces later, the company has defined childhood for millions of kids across the globe.īut for some, the fun doesn’t stop at puberty. One thing you can do with 11,014 Lego bricks Source: Lenny Spiro ![]()
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