From towering skyscrapers to intricate cultural landmarks, every piece that graces Legoland Minilands across the region begins its journey at the Merlin Magic Making (MMM) Lego Production Hub in Kulai, Johor.
00:00This factory in Kulai houses Merlin Magic Making, the Asia-Pacific headquarters for Lego model production.
00:12It's here that 91 skilled craftspeople transform millions of plastic bricks into architectural marvels.
00:19From towering skyscrapers to intricate cultural landmarks,
00:23every piece that graces Legoland Minilands across the region begins its journey here.
00:28For Miniland, when we want to open a new Legoland Park, it takes as much as three years.
00:34That means from the research point to decide what cluster we want to develop in terms of the layout,
00:40and what models we want to put, approval, branding and all, it takes three years.
00:45The team's last project was to deliver 529 replicas for Miniland in Legoland Shanghai, which just opened in July.
00:53Their next major project is a Singapore-themed Miniland in Legoland Malaysia.
01:01The 16 models took about 16,000 hours to complete using 1.5 million Lego bricks.
01:08The scale of these projects is also staggering.
01:11Take their Marina Bay Sands replica, standing 4 meters tall, weighing over 1.4 tons, and requiring 260 kilograms of internal steel reinforcement.
01:23I think the most challenging one is the Marina Bay Sands.
01:27Because we have never built such model before, which means that usually a tower will have one tower, just one single tower.
01:35But for YMBS case, we have three towers and also a big ship on top, which is the Skydeck.
01:43So planning it was really difficult because it really takes all the thinking power from the designers and also the animators to get everything in place.
01:56The replicas aren't just architectural copies.
01:59The team travels to each location, capturing thousands of photographs day and night, studying everything from building colours to local culture.
02:07We don't just take pictures of the landmarks and buildings, but the entire essence of the city in general.
02:13So, what cars they drive there? What do the people that do on their daily basis?
02:20Even to the point of what sort of trash bins, benches or even bus stops that they have there?
02:27If I may add, so not only on the day pictures, on my department where I produce lights for the building,
02:35we need to see how it looks like at night so that we can replicate as much as we can for the lights.
02:43And also sound, do they have buses, motorcycle, what kind of motorcycle, was it scooter?
02:49Because I have a team who create the ambient sound which requires all those details.
02:59So, up to that detail we are going to, in order to replicate the city, not just only the looks but also the ambient sound.
03:10Besides being structurally stable, the replicas must also be visually striking.
03:15The first thing that came in mind is what is the main attractive things that guests have to catch their eyeballs.
03:21What is the main thing? So, it's the waterfall. That's the first thing that I need to make sure it looks nice.
03:27And the other thing is, that is the inner part of the waterfall.
03:30So, what's about the outside part is the white edges as you can see just now.
03:35So, how can I make a solution for it to stay strong?
03:39In this project, what I want to explore very much is, I want to propose a lot of new Lego elements.
03:46So, I did explore much of new Lego sets and new Lego techniques as well.
03:55So, if you look in deep in this model, you can see a lot of new techniques and new elements that have been used
04:02and a lot of colours and all the plants are different and unique.
04:07The Singapore-themed Miniland in Legoland Malaysia opens to the public on August 1st.
04:16So, you can see a lot of new things that they look at with using the other features of the Outdoor band or something like that.
04:21So, you can see the other objects that have been done with the other features that have been built in the opposite of our Götele.
04:25So, when I practice the future of the Bay, you can see this one of the pieces that have been built in between,
04:26those are something that has been built.
04:27But what you see here is the beginning of the Dharma is the beginning of the separation between the ancestors.
04:28Do one of the branches and the two are different than thetail.
04:31So, the event of the network itself that have been built in the other parts of the mystical networks and the правs that have been built on the next.
04:33So, what do you see here is the beginning?
04:35So, there are the pieces of the country together,
04:37and what do you access it have been built iněš´ and the years.
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