Brixpo was held on the weekend of the 5th and 6th of July in Adelaide, South Australia. This year, 157 LEGO fans attended from all over the country, making it the largest LEGO fan event in South Australia. It’s a fun weekend with exciting builds to view, a great selection of vendors, and many old and new friends to meet.
Brixpo 2025 exhibitors
It’s always difficult to know what to write about a LEGO Fan event without it sounding just like any other show. Sure, I could write about the “winning builds” or the “highlights,” but that’s the same sort of thing you’ll read anywhere else. Instead, I’ve chosen to examine a few of the more unusual mosaics found at Brixpo 2025.
Skeletor
Full of colour and a heavy dose of nostalgia, the Skeletor mosaic drew a constant crowd throughout the event. The creator, Steve Gasson, took his inspiration from his childhood love of the 1980s cartoon/toy line, Masters of the Universe, and from seeing large mosaics at past Brixpo events.
skeletor by Steve gasson
Measuring in at around 78cm high by 65cm wide, it took him around 6 months to design and build freehand without the use of a mosaic tool or app. There was a lot of trial and error involved to get the right shape and proportion for the face, and he was limited by the smaller variety of purple pieces in his own collection. This made it challenging to apply a range of greebling techniques in the design, but it did result in an outstanding design.
Skeletor was awarded the “Best NPU” at Brickpo 2025. Steve would love to keep the mosaic as part of his Skeletor collection, but suspects most of the pieces will end up in future greebled mosaic builds.
Wicked
Catrin Johnson’s Glinda and Elphaba and mosaics from Wicked were partially inspired by an abundance of green “cheese slopes” from the Pick-a-Brick wall at her local LEGO store. She has previously built Barbie and Ken mosaics, and had sworn she’d never build another “blonde” build, but she could hardly build Elphaba without a Glinda so back to blonde it was.
glinda by catrin johnson
The mosaics took over around 4 months to build and were initially designed in a pixelating program to set the size and shapes to best fit the chosen movie stills. The design process involved pulling up more bricks than she put down in order to capture the textured vision in her head. She also found herself watching Wicked multiple times to confirm her colour choices.
elphaba by catrin johnson
The builds currently adorn the wall of her home office and make the perfect backdrop for her video calls. If you look closely, you may see a special Easter Egg in the sky on both mosaics.
Technic Flowers
Frances Schroeter initially built a regular botanical mosaic and was then challenged to build another using Duplo parts. This then led to her being further challenged to build one using Technic parts. This brightly coloured design is the result.
technic flowers by frances Schroeter
She struggled to find inspiration for her build from the work of others, so had to relay on her own imagination to construct the design.
Measuring in at 50cm x 65cm x 7cm, the Technic Flowers mosaic has been exhibited at Brickvention, Brixhibition Launceston, Brixpo and Brixhibition Ulverstone. Perhaps the biggest challenge for Frances was sourcing Technic style parts in colours other than yellow. As part of the design, she has chosen to avoid regular System bricks and plates, but has included old Samsonite gears, Bionicle and Hero Factory parts.
For now, Frances intends to keep her colourful creation together—at least until she starts working on a motorised Technic Flower display.
LEGO Logo
Structured like an over-sized classic pin art board, Greg Horner and Nicky Schneider’s LEGO Logo mosaic is around 100cm x 100cm in size and consists of over 19,200 parts.
Their original design involved using a technic frame for the pins, but this did not allow the pins to be evenly spaced. To compensate, they used a wooden frame made with a CNC machine which enabled the holes to be accurately spaced to create the design.
pin art lego logo by Greg Horner and nicky schneider
Apart from being a little repetitive, Nicky says it didn’t take long to construct and their main challenge was finding enough 10L Technic axles from the various BrickLink stores around the world.
The mosaic is likely to stay together for now and may end up on permanent display in Greg’s store, TOYS R GO in Adelaide.
Upscaled Classic Space
Sarah Balin’s Classic Space mosaic forms part of the Upscaled Classic Space Scene build by her father, Michael Balin. Standing at around 87cm x 69cm x 1.6cm, the mosaic is constructed in four quadrants for ease of transport and assembly.
Sarah and Michael worked together on the design of the build and spent a lot of time trying different software, fiddling with images and choosing colours. They found there wasn’t a lot of information available about creating “side of brick” as opposed to “top of brick” mosaics. The design is big and solid, as it has to hold itself together without the use of a board. While building, it was difficult to get it looking right on one side and still have cross-supporting bricks on the other, so they had to be clever with the use of plates and corner bricks.
Upscaled classic space mosaic by Sarah Balin
The mosaic was originally exhibited at Brixpo 2024, and Sarah spent over 20 hours building in the week before the event while Michael drove around picking up parts from local BrickLink sellers. To date, the build has also appeared at Brickvention, BrickGambier, Bendigo Bricks as well as this year’s Brickpo. At this stage, they are still debating whether they should keep the mosaic and display it at home, or dismantle it and put the parts towards future projects.
I love seeing mosaics at LEGO Fan events. It’s always fun to see the designs and the special techniques used to make the mosaics unique. There were around 20 mosaics at Brixpo 2025 and every one of them was a delight to see. I can’t wait to see what new, innovative designs are exhibited next year.
Have you ever built a mosaic? What was your biggest challenge? Let us know in the comments below.
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