LEGO® CITY Fun Day with Professor Heinz Wolff
September 3, 10am – 5pm

All summer long the National Space Centre has been celebrating ten amazing years and has been joined by the LEGO CITY team to make it the most exciting summer to date.

To ensure the event ends with a bang, the National Space Centre will be hosting a visit from not only Professor Heinz Wolff, but also a LEGO CITY designer all the way from Denmark, to share the secrets of the world’s best job!

Over 5,000 LEGO Martian Bases have been built in the 52 days of the school summer holiday period with over ½ tonne of the iconic coloured plastic bricks.

There have been 52 daily winners, who have received a LEGO CITY Space Shuttle and 10 very lucky winners will also have their Lego Space creation commemorated as a picture on the front cover of National Geographic Kids magazine.

On Saturday 3 September the team will be joined by Professor Heinz Wolff, scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station. 

Professor Wolff is also known for presenting The Great Egg Race and Great Experiments, the annual Young Scientist of the Year award in the UK as well as his very successful gaming series on the PC, DS and Wii, "Heinz Wolff's Gravity".

Professor Wolff will be leading visitors in a LEGO CITY Challenge workshop throughout the day.

Visitors will also be able to meet a real life LEGO CITY designer all the way from LEGO Head Office and the hub of LEGO creativity, Billund in Denmark. Fans and families alike will be able to find out what it is like to be a LEGO designer, how the range is created and ask any questions that puzzle about the iconic bricks.

Malika Andress, spokesperson for the National Space Centre said; “The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well" and this summer the visitors to the National Space Centre have played so well that we have used over ½ tonne of LEGO.  We cannot thank the LEGO CITY team enough for the amazing summer of fun that over 40,000 people will have participated in!”

The LEGO CITY Summer activities will continue until 4 September 2011.