LEGO Jurassic World by Brickman - Sydney, Discounts/Worth Going

As there not much about this "Jurassic World by Brickman - The Australian Museum" (
https://australian.museum/exhibition/jurassic-world-brickman) I thought I would start a post.

Prices: (+$4.95 handling fee if buying online)
Ticket type / Price
Adult $35
Child (3-15 years) $25
Family (admits 4) 2A+2C / 1A+3C $95
Concession $27.50
+ Getting there which with petrol and public transport prices being so high it is its going to add up (for my son and I return on the train was $21). Remember free public transport is coming in the school holidays (but it could be very busy)

Discounts:
I couldn't find any but instead of booking online you can just buy your tickets at the door and save $4.95. While it could be booked out that is very unlikely and I would not recommend going at a peak time anyway as no one will enjoy it.

And no you cant use the NSW Gov vouchers unless you buy an annual pass for the museum which doesn't give you much given the museum has free entry. But if your not going to use your Parent Vouchers you can use $100 worth and pay $35 extra for a family pass (2A+4C) only available in person at the museum (single entry only).

Worth going ?:
Well depends on how much money you have, if money is no object yeah kids will like it but its mostly the time spent playing with the troughs of bricks as there's not much to see.

I wouldn't sacrifice say buying the kids a good Lego set that's for sure.

They say there are 50 large scale dinosaurs but that's BS. There are a bunch of dinos that are in cases that look like regular retail Lego set size and that's how they get 50.

The ones worth seeing are around:
3x Duplo dinos,
3-4 eggs at various stages of hatching (around 2x the size if a basket ball),
5 small (say 1m high (including 2 flying over the escalator),
2x life size + 2x heads only of the raptors,
a mosaic of mosasaurus
the front of a jeep,
and the head of a trex.
There is also a handful of small things to see like the DNA strand and a monorail etc

Without paying you can see a life size Baryonyx and the Jurassic World Front Gate.

Recommendations:
The museum has a dinosaur section which is quite good and you can see a full size lego dino and the JW gate for free so if your on a budget just go to the Museum instead.
Just go in with 1 adult as there isn't really much to see so save the extra $35
Have little kids ? maybe take then in a pram as under 3 year old's for free :)
Take your time, its small so do all the building sections otherwise you will be done in 10min.
Be warned there is a shop at the end so be prepared if you plan to give the kids something maybe pre buy it from Kmart or Amazon (some sets where twice the kmart price but most around RRP)
Go there with low expectations so you can only be impressed. It should cost $10 per person as that's what's its worth.

Comments

  • +1 Wow, thanks for the heads up, was thinking about it, now reconsidering.

  • Damn, sounds smaller than I thought

    • Its small especially if you're going to see Lego, they have 6 rooms but only 3 have big Dinos the rest are TV screens and small displays.

  • Good review, covers all the key areas and has some surprises. +1.

  • Saw it advertised outside the AM on Sunday. Sounds a bit too expensive for what you get out of it to be honest.

  • +1

    Good review, OP. We went with using the parent vouchers + $35, as the kids love going to the museum. Only thing to correct you on is the family pass offers up to 4 children under 18.

    We went a few week's ago and it was packed. Although it was small, the lego creations were still very impressive considering the number of blocks and hours taken that would have been required to build each dinosaur. The kids loved it, but seeing it once is more than enough :)

  • We paid $70 for two adult tickets, to take our almost 3 year old (free!) and 5 month old (free!). For us, not worth it. The almost 3 year old was too young to appreciate the Lego aspect, just kept asking to see more dinosaurs so we went through it pretty fast as it is small. We thought the builds were impressive but not $70 worth of impressive for us personally.

    I think older kids would enjoy it, but the troughs of Lego were a MESS. My husband spent ages trying to find four wheels to make a car for a ramp and in the end a worker gave me a little built one after she saw me digging through a few troughs.

    Like OP said, the dinosaur exhibit was quite good, especially for young kids who are dinosaur-mad but not necessarily Lego-mad.

    • HAHA the wheels ! yes sooo many wheels but none fit the axels !

  • Our kids got through it in 45 mins….so yeah kinda interesting and there's a heap of work that went into them but it's a lot of $$$ for not long.

  • LegoLand in Malaysia is $62 per adult!

  • Did your miss the giant green Brontosaurus ? It was probably above you and you didn't notice as there were smaller Dino's/eggs beneath.

    • Nope its was cool, its made of Duplo so its in my 3 Duplo dinos :)

  • Out of curiosity, have you seen this type of Lego before? It's not your usual retail Lego System or Technic. Being bigger, it's solid throughout and just a lot of basic bricks. To build one, you'd probably start with a CAD model.

    As an example, Brickman built the big minifig in David Jones Chatswood and other stores.

    Definitely not worth the $35/$25 entry, especially if you are into the retail Lego sets and MOCs.

  • I have seen these before, I still remember this https://youtu.be/OEQX4I_U_so pretty sure it was free and they had a lot in there and some of the big Lego models moved etc.

    I would think with tech the way it is it wouldn't be hard to design a big Lego model. You should be able to scan existing dinosaur models and images and get it to put it into brick form for you to build (i have seen some cool software that does stuff like this). Much harder to build something unique thought. Also on Lego masters they did some decent size models seemingly without and pre design on a computer.

    Also not that expensive, the full size Baryonix is 100k bricks and 99% basic 4x2's etc so at cost price i would think 3c a piece (given you can buy retail for creator set at 4-5c pp when on sale) totals $3k for the lego. Total cost of Lego on display around $180k

  • Australian Museum (Sydney) was free general entry last week, for a dino festival.
    The Lego Jurassic World by Brickman wasn't included. My 8y.o. is Lego, Jurassic World, and Brickman craxy at the moment so there was strong temptation go into the special exhibition, but the $60+ price made me doubt the value for money. As much as I love Lego, staring at a few big models has limited appeal, and paying $35 to do so is a real turn off. And if I sent the kid in alone (even if allowable) would I be waiting fifteen minutes (definitely not good value) or six hours (where has he got to?
    So I was looking around for indications of how much there was to see (I didn't think of looking here!) and came across Jay's Brick Blog review (Includes a walkthrough video) of the exhibition in Melbourne last year: https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/review-jurassic-world-by-bric…

    As much as the little one would have enjoyed it, I'm relieved to have not shelled out for it - bought two Lego sets for Easter instead.

    Seems Brickman got a $670k grant for the project!

  • The amount of money this must generate in lego sales I'm surprised that the entry fee is as high as it is, they spent $170 Million USD to make Top Gun 2 but seeing it is cheaper than an adult lego ticket.

    Yes I know, comparing a movie to lego isn't comparing apples with apples but still, based on my experience at the last Brisbane Brickman show the exhibit really isn't that much and most people would go through pretty quickly.

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