Doctor Ho Ho Ho: Family make 7ft festive Dalek from 100,000 lego bricks and create a phenomenon



The most evil being in the universe isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you consider Christmas – even when it’s made out of Lego.



But you can’t blame the Addis family for knocking up this impressive 7ft Dalek complete with a Santa hat out of the toy bricks.



After all, they’ve pretty much exhausted every festive idea over the past 18 Christmases, using thousands and thousands of Lego pieces to create everything from a snowman to a giant angel and a snow-covered church.



Festive Dalek: The Addis family with this year's Lego masterpiece at thier home in Huntingdon, Cambs.

Each creation takes economics teacher Mike Addis, his wife Catherine Weightman and their children Tom, 18, Holly, 15, and Christopher, 13, up to 200 hours to complete from their plastic arsenal of 100,000 bricks.



The end result is then photographed and becomes the family’s Christmas card which they send out from their home in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.



This year they ran out of seasonal ideas, hence the Dalek’s pride of place on the card with the Santa hat covering its dome and eyestalk.



Miss Weightman, 48, who works for Natural England, said: ‘We thought we’d have a bit of fun this year and build something a bit out of the ordinary, but obviously, we want to keep it quite festive.’



It's another Christmas cracker: Holly, Christopher and Tom in front of the Lego version of the Earls Barton Sexon Church in 2008.



Hark the Lego Angel sang: Holly, Christopher and Tom in front of their 2006 Angel, left, while in 2008 the family chose the Nutcracker as their theme, right.



Over the years: Holly, Christopher and Tom in front of the Choir boys and a Victorian postbox



She added: ‘My husband and I loved messing about with Lego when we were children. Eighteen years ago some friends brought their children and some Lego round to our house to visit us and our new baby, Tom.

‘We decided it would be great fun to build something, and we realised we had a reasonable amount of bricks, so we started building.



‘The next year, we were all together at Christmas, and decided to do it again – and a family tradition was born.’

