--- title: Zootopia Lego Sculpture Destroyed After Just Hours description: A young Chinese boy climbed under the ropes surrounding the exhibit—for a photo, of course—and managed to knock down the entire sculpture canonical: https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-01T21:11:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:53.181Z og:title: Kid Destroys $15,000 'Zootopia' LEGO Sculpture Hours After Exhibit Opens og:description: Nick Wilde was not long for the world og:url: https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kid Destroys $15,000 'Zootopia' LEGO Sculpture Hours After Exhibit Opens twitter:description: Nick Wilde was not long for the world twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kid Destroys $15,000 _Zootopia_ LEGO Sculpture Hours After Exhibit Opens by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 1, 2016 9:11 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 1, 2016 9:11 PM UTC An hour after the LEGO show in Ningbo, China opened, the giant fox was toast. A LEGO artist known as Mr. Zhao spent three days painstakingly building an impressive likeness of Nick Wilde, the fox from Disney’s [_Zootopia_](http://time.com/4247121/review-zootopia-teachable-moment/?iid=sr-link1)_,_ out of thousands of [plastic LEGO bricks](http://time.com/3977789/lego-brickumentary-math-professor-combinations/?iid=sr-link2) for display in a shopping mall in Ningbo. When the show opened on Sunday, a young boy climbed under the ropes surrounding the exhibit—for a photo, of course—and managed to knock down the entire sculpture, [Shanghaiist](http://shanghaiist.com/2016/06/01/kids%5Fdestroys%5Fnick%5Fwilde.php) reported. The piece was only partially glued, so it could not be easily reconstructed. Sadly, the display had been open to the public for no more than an hour when the incident occurred, so very few people got to see the fruits of Zhao’s labor. The child’s parents apologized, and Zhao graciously did not blame the kid, because “a child couldn’t really comprehend the cost of such an accident.” Zhao also said he would not seek compensation for the damages, even though the [LEGO](http://time.com/3931946/lego-sustainable-materials/?iid=sr-link5) figurine was reported to have cost more than 100,000 yuan ($15,170). \[H/T[_Shanghaiist_](http://shanghaiist.com/2016/06/01/kids%5Fdestroys%5Fnick%5Fwilde.php)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/"},"headline":"Kid Destroys $15,000 Zootopia LEGO Sculpture Hours After Exhibit Opens","datePublished":"2016-06-01T21:11:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:53.181Z","description":"Nick Wilde was not long for the world","url":"https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","China","Lego","Toys","Children and Families","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4354048/zootopia-lego-sculpture-destroyed-china/","name":"Kid Destroys $15,000 Zootopia LEGO Sculpture Hours After Exhibit Opens"}}]}] ```