Thursday, February 19, 2009

Trivia: Pharaoh floats down the Thames

Press Association

It is always a shame to hear about these events after they have passed. I live a two minute walk from the Thames and would have loved to have seen it. It must have been somewhat surreal.

An unusual royal procession has sailed serenely down the Thames as river traffic made way for a 16ft Egyptian Pharaoh made entirely of Lego.

Weighing one tonne and comprising more than 200,000 building blocks, the enormous statue - one of the largest Lego models yet built - will be part of a new £3 million attraction at Legoland Windsor.

It was the end of a long voyage for the model, which has travelled 1,395 miles by truck and boat from the Czech Republic to the theme park's Kingdom of the Pharaohs, which opens on March 21.


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