I managed to win a trip to Legoland Denmark when I was 10-ish (1988) with a competition to build a limited pieces animal model.
If anyone fancies an evening Lego speed build challenge, I think it was 15 parts, my entry included one bit which was a space-type concave curved bulkhead thing that looked exactly like a cobra’s hood. Though I now wish I could have built that Alien above.
one of the proudest moments of fatherhood was, when I asked my son where he should place the engine on the spaceship we were building, see him stop, count the dots and place it exactly the right spot.
