Kid destroys $15,000 LEGO sculpture an hour after new exhibit opens
Children might be small in stature, but let's be honest, they can be rather destructive when left to their own devices.
Such is the case with a young Chinese boy, who single-handedly pushed over a giant fox figurine of Nick from Zootopia on Sunday at the LEGO Expo in Ningbo, China.
It so happened that it was the first day of the exhibition and the display had been open to the public for no more than an hour when the incident occurred.
According to Zhao, the artist who spent three days and nights painstakingly piecing together the figurine, the parents were very apologetic over the mishap.
The LEGO figurine is said to cost more than 100,000 yuan ($15,170).
Zhao declined compensation as he insisted the child had not meant to break the figurine. The artist went on to post pictures of the broken figurine on his Weibo account, but did not elaborate about what had happened except to say he was heartbroken to see his hard work destroyed.
This LEGO fiasco is a far cry from another incident involving children, which took place on May 17, at the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
Two young boys were caught on security cameras entering a restricted display area and breaking off the wings of a glass angel sculpture by Chinese artist, Shelly Xue. The boys were chaperoned by two adults who not only stood by and watched the boys wreak havoc, but also whipped out their phones to film the boys.
After the footage of the glass incident went viral, netizens called for parents to keep their children in check and also for galleries to ban children from entering.
Throw the kid in the gorilla exhibit!
ReplyDeleteThere's only one reasonable response for this: shoot the artist. It's not the parents fault that the horrible child ran out of control, so let's kill something innocent instead! Yay! 'murica!
ReplyDeletehence kids should not be allowed in an art exhibition.
ReplyDeleteAfter the kid entered the loge enclosure, the lego had to be shot. Lego sedation was not an option. It was for the kids own satety.
ReplyDeleteI use to work at LEGO as a designer and those sculptures take weeks to develop. There's a science to building those large exhibits. Yes, there is such a job position called Master Builder.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what Lego is meant for? Piecing things together, disassemble, and doing it over and over again?:)
ReplyDeleteThe artist who put it together in 3 days claims that it is worth 15,000 USD. Not a bad salary for 3 days work.......
ReplyDeleteWhy look here it's yet another undisciplined little runt!! Must have been the lego's fault!! Are there any good parents out there? I guess they think their kid is cute but really what you doing is raising a future bully/degenerative.
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