BELLINGHAM — A Lego replica of Bellingham’s Old City Hall building might be coming to a toy store near you. The 1892 building, which is now part of the Whatcom Museum, was accepted in LEGO Ideas, an initiative that allows the public to submit designs for potential new Lego sets. This one was submitted by Brad Bergman, a Bellingham local who competed on the most recent season of Fox competition show “Lego Masters” alongside his husband, Mike Tarrant.
Bergman adjusted the design several times before Lego finally notified him last week that his idea had been accepted. The result was a 3,000-piece, five-module design that stands 2 feet tall.
The museum hosted a local Lego-building competition Friday as part of its initiative to offer free admission the first Friday of every month. Bregman, who judged the competition, came up with the model for April’s event, before getting the idea to submit it to Lego.
“I worked with the Whatcom Museum staff to design a model of Old City Hall that I could build live on Free First Friday, in keeping with April’s ‘community building’ theme. Then I suggested that we try to get the design approved for LEGO Ideas,” Bergman stated in a press release.
