Lego landscapes and a balloon Monkey King loom large at Hong Kong games fair

Comics, cosplay and creativity shine on opening day of Ani-Com & Games Hong Kong

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Wilson Pang Sze-tai puts the finishing touches to the Monkey King display. Photos: Edward Wong

Published: 8:46pm, 28 Jul 2016Updated: 10:05am, 29 Jul 2016

This year’s ani-com fair has a particular Hong Kong flavour, with a million Lego pieces yielding landscapes of Central and Chek Lap Kok airport, and a two-metre Monkey King made of balloons.

The 18th annual Ani-Com & Games Hong Kong fair opened its doors at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday and runs until Tuesday. It features 608 stalls from around 70 exhibitors.

Star Wars toys are always a popular attraction at the fair.

Visitors can get their hands on unreleased games and products from PlayStation and Xbox, while checking out action figures from the latest Marvel and Star Wars films. Comics and cosplayers were also major attractions.

The Lego landscapes measure at least four metres long and illustrate past and present versions of Central and the international airport in great detail. There are even a dozen planes, the largest a one-metre 747 made up of 20,000 Lego pieces.

Cosplayers act out their comic book fantasies.

“The Lego we build has a story behind it,” said William Wong, one of the creators of the airport piece, who has been a Lego builder for more than 20 years. “The contrast between past and present tells us we need to treasure what we have now,” he explained, referring to the contrast between the Kai Tak and Chek Lap Kok airports, which took two months to build.

Darth Vader leads stormtroopers into action.

Adrian Sinn Cheuk-lap, seven, built a smaller but equally impressive exhibit of firemen in action, winning Lego’s junior architect competition.