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A cargo ship and lighthouse, a futuristic skyscraper, a parrot, a castle, a steam locomotive: To the untrained eye, they might not have much in common.

But they are, in fact, a unifying theme in Lego artist Paul Hetherington’s creation, a piece called “Imagine it! Build!” that is one of 16 finalists out of 443 submissions in a special-edition Lego set contest in honour of the brick’s 60th birthday last year.

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“The Lego brick is so inspirational, it’s created a subculture of people who like to build with those bricks,” Hetherington, 49, said. “Imagine it! Build it! explodes around the (red main) brick with different creations Lego has made, representing different themes Lego has done over the years.

“I tried to visually represent the creative power that is present in the Lego brick.”

The hundreds of entries were judged by Lego designers from the home base in Denmark. In their decision to make Hetherington’s piece a finalist, they noted it “interestingly puts people (instead of their creations) front and centre … this design gives the builder a taste of the limitless ideas just waiting to burst out.”