LEGO Celebrates Star Wars Day in Style

If you aren’t from the NYC area, and haven’t seen the information yet online, The LEGO Group recently built a rideable LEGO Brick Millennium Falcon pedicab, which is currently traveling around Bryant Park. This Star Wars themed pedicab took over 20,000 bricks to build, and the entire process from design to completion took almost 400 hours! Here are more details on how you can become involved.

Tourits “fly” around Bryant Park on a one-of-a-kind, brick-built LEGO Millennium Falcon pedicab made from over 20,300 LEGO bricks, to celebrate Star Wars Day, May 4, 2018 in New York. (Amy Sussman/AP Images for The LEGO Group)

Fans are encouraged to snap and post photos of the first-ever rideable LEGO Millennium Falcon pedicab using the hashtags #LEGOStarWars and #RoarForChange to drive charitable donations. Roar for Change is a global challenge that supports UNICEF’s lifesaving work for children around the world. Between May 3 – 25, Star Wars: Force for $1 will be donated to the organization for each public post, like, or share on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter that includes #RoarForChange. 

STATS & DETAILS:

• 20,300 bricks
• 396 hours to design and build
• Measuring at 9-feet long x 6-feet wide
• Hashtags: #LEGOStarWars and #RoarForChange

Supervised by Star Wars fan favorite, Chewbacca, a passenger boards the first-of-its-kind LEGO Millennium Falcon pedicab for a ride around Byrant Park on May 4, 2018. Created in celebration of Star Wars Day, the model was built over 396 hours with 20,300 bricks. (Amy Sussman/AP Images for The LEGO Group)

A New York City pedicab is transformed by LEGO Master Builders, who spent 396 hours making it into a rideable LEGO Millennium Falcon comprised of over 20,300 bricks to celebrate Star Wars Day, May 4, 2018 in New York. (Amy Sussman/AP Images for The LEGO Group)