16ft Pharaoh heads down the Thames to LEGOLAND Windsor

A 16ft Pharaoh en route to LEGOLAND Windsor made its way along the River Thames today on the final leg of a 1,395 mile journey from the Czech Republic to the theme park.




Made from 200,000 individual pieces of LEGO and weighing in at one ton, the Pharoah is one of the biggest LEGO models ever created. It took a team of model makers five months to complete and had to be transported to Britain by truck and boat.




Following in the footsteps of Anubis the Egyptian God of the Dead who famously floated down the Thames in 2007 to mark the opening of the Tutankhamen exhibition in London, the Pharaoh is the centrepiece for a brand new attraction, Kingdom of the Pharaohs, which opens to the public for the first time on 21 March 2009.




Chief model maker from LEGOLAND Windsor, Guy Bagley said: "We can't wait to get our Pharaoh into the theme park. We've invested £3million in the new land, Kingdom of the Pharoahs, which we know visitors will love. But without this final piece, we can't quite get the land finished and the park open in time!"

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[perkyboy13]

the second scarab tower!

[Kerr0765]

Three new rides, I know of laser raiders and scarab bouncers but the third?

[CoasterFreak1995]

Amazing!

[rasmet0193]

NICE