Lego World Show comes to Arnotts department store in Dublin.
Lego was invented in Denmark in the 1930s. It began as a wooden block but by the end of the 1940s it had transformed into a plastic brick.
Today children can build literally anything if they have the right sets and plenty of money.
The different items in the exhibition at Arnotts department store on Dublin's Henry Street took over six months to build and are worth about £30,000. There are over one million bricks and the designers have built just about every scenario imaginable from the wild west to musical instruments, a moving spinning wheel to traffic lights.
The Lego World Show runs from 23 March - 16 April 1983.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 March 1983.
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