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Sky’s the limit for Lego contest winner

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Yacht designer: Warwick Academy student Conor Shanahan’s M. V. <I>Imagination</I> had all the bells and whistles of a mega-yacht, and won first place in the 8-12 category of the Phoenix Store’s recent Lego competition.

Skyscrapers, supersonic aircraft, mega yachts and more, all the product of fertile Bermudian imaginations, were on display at the Phoenix Annex Toy Store on Saturday afternoon.Twelve finalists from three age categories had been chosen from 59 entries in the Lego competition organised by the Phoenix Stores and BGA, and six-year-old Dhillon Vaucrosson walked away with a $1,500 gift card as grand-prize winner for his skyscraper, as well as $100 for winning the four-to-seven age category.Warwick Academy student Conor Shanahan won the eight-to-12 year category, while first place winner in the over-12 age group was Seth Wilson, currently studying for ‘A’ levels in the UK; both walked away with $100 gift certificates each.“We were pleased with all the entries,” remarked Phoenix Kidz manager Jacquelyn Napier-Marsh, “and choosing the 12 finalists was the hardest task in the world.”Clearly impressed with the quality of the entries and the efforts the children took with their creations, Mrs. Napier-Marsh added, “Some of them sent in stories to explain their creations.”Dhillon’s skyscraper, which towered over the young Saltus student, took three and a half days to make and featured “a lot of cool parts like a helicopter landing pad, three balconies and a souler [sic] panel to give souler energy,” according to Dhillon’s artist’s (engineer’s?) statement. Not a static creation, the skyscraper featured window washers and Bionicals being fended off by humans with swords.Asked if he had followed a plan, Dhillon explained, “I sort of went along building. My dad sort of gave me a little help.”Conor’s wittily christened mega-yacht, M.V. Imagination, took two days to build, and was modelled after one he had built before. There were two interior decks, with lounge, galley and other accommodation, two radars, a satellite dish, a hoist for a RIB and a control unit to operate it all.Seth Wilson’s Harry Potter, Arabian Nights-inspired castle was a work in progress over the Christmas holidays, and was in fact bigger than the castle on display, but was too big to be transported, according to his father, and younger brother Finn, who stood in for Seth. An existentialist creation, “What’s on the outside is not necessarily what’s on the inside,” Seth’s father explained. “ There’s a gateway, but in fact you can walk around it, because there are no walls. This is like life: when people give up on their ambition, but should just look around the corner.”Another entrant on hand to explain his creation was Warwick Academy student Ethan Philip who has been creating with Lego since he was three. The 13-year-old spent two nights building a supersonic aircraft inspired by a photograph of the SST Concorde.This looks to be the first of an annual competition, according to Mrs. Napier-Marsh.”It’s nice to keep doing the creations,” she remarked.

A towering achievement: Six-year-old Dhillon Vaucrosson walked away with $1,500 gift certificate as grand prize winner of the recent Lego competion organised by the Phoenix Stores.
Soaring creation: Ethan Philip’s entry in the Phoenix Store’s Lego competion was based on the Concorde.