Lego everywhere in the play area.

Brian Cook is unashamedly an AFOL (Adult Fan Of Lego) and has spent 6 months creating a model of the Omega Destroyer from the 1990's television series 'Babylon 5'. Brian's partner Debbie Perrins (right).

Bronson Fryer, 8, of Woodville with a model from the Star Wars collection he has been constructing and collecting for the past four years.

For the first time a crowd lining up for blocks didn't stretch down the street at Arena Manawatu.

About 3500 Lego lovers came through Barber Hall for Palmerston North's first Lego Brick Show over Saturday and Sunday.

"People who came to the show got to see Lego like they never have before," said organiser and exhibitor Brian Cook.

Warwick Smith Lego fan Brian Cook spent six months creating a model of the Omega Destroyer from the 1990s television series Babylon 5. His partner Debbie Perrins, assisted with the display.

Forty Lego builders displayed their talents with elaborate constructions of everything from spaceships to a marae.

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Event spokesman Dylan Thomsen said proceeds would be donated to Kids Can and Arohanui Hospice.

Thomsen said the event was devised by Lego lovers simply wanting to share their passion and check out what other people could come up with.

There were people taking part who had been collecting Lego for decades, he said.

Exhibitor Frank Avere's display was one of the most popular.

A ghost train packed with Lego figures of popular characters from TV and movies weaved between an intricately detailed mansion and pirate shanty town.

When Avere hit a button smoke would billow from the train, delighting passing children.

﻿He said there were all kinds of official sets on display, but most attention was paid to the clever original creations.

Creations such as his scale model of a marae.

"That's what Lego is about, being able to create anything," he said

"That marae is unique, people seemed truly amazed by it. I even got to display it at the Festival of Elements in Porirua [on Waitangi Day]."