and scaling ( yes , there will be math ). After you graduate , you ’ ll probably start your career at LEGOLAND as an apprentice , helping to glue sculptures together . After a while , you ’ ll be promoted to senior builder ( y ’ know , provided you ’ re good at your job and not doing something crazy like swallowing LEGO pieces …). If you ’ re good enough , you might be one of the lucky few ( we cannot stress enough how few there are ) who get promoted to Master Builder , making models for displays and promotions !
# 2 : LEGO CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL Let ’ s say you want to be a bit more … freelance . You ’ d still be certified by LEGO , but you ’ d work independently , making LEGO sculptures for companies interested in having giant , LEGO dinosaurs or a life-sized model of a car or whatever .
It can be a fairly lucrative career , with some LCP ’ s making up to $ 100,000 for their work . A few even put on gallery exhibitions . Plus , LCP ’ s can buy bricks straight from LEGO , which is a pretty big perk .
32 Master Builders created this life-size model of an X-Wing !
The path to becoming a LEGO Certified Professional is about what you ’ d expect . Unless you ’ re already a famous artist ( with LEGO as your medium ), your best shot is becoming a Master Builder and then applying for LCP status . As of the writing of this article , LEGO is not accepting new candidates .
# 3 : JUST BUILD If you like building awesome stuff with LEGO , just go for it ! There ’ s a huge community of Adult Fans Of LEGO ( AFOL ) who are way better at making up cool new builds than they are at crafting acronyms .
Some collectors buy LEGO sets just to separate out the pieces and sell “ lots ” of certain bricks , shapes or colors to freelance builders . After all , how else are you supposed to put together a 10,000-brick LEGO ocean ?
Children built this map of a futuristic Japan using 1.8 million LEGO bricks !
So , grab yourself a bucket of loose LEGO bricks and create whatever you can imagine !