--- title: Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Made of LEGO description: The whole world is celebrating Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, including Legoland. canonical: https://time.com/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-08T15:46:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:07.339Z og:title: Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Entirely Out of LEGO og:description: Two words: LEGO Corgi og:url: https://time.com/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58579d38d29e9f4/698896fce20a879fe9a9125c/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Britain Windsor Legoland party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Entirely Out of LEGO twitter:description: Two words: LEGO Corgi twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58579d38d29e9f4/698896fce20a879fe9a9125c/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Entirely Out of LEGO > Sponsored content. 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Steve Parsons—PA/AP by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 8, 2016 3:46 PM UTC The whole world is celebrating Her Royal Highness [Queen Elizabeth’s](http://time.com/4297754/queen-elizabeth-ii-surprising-facts/?iid=sr-link3) 90th birthday, from the U.K. to the U.S. to the [Hundred Acre Woods](http://time.com/4349690/prince-george-winnie-the-pooh-queen-elizabeth/?iid=sr-link5) to Legoland. The [Windsor, U.K. location](https://www.legoland.co.uk/) of the LEGO-themed amusement park threw Queen Elizabeth a miniature street party fit, appropriately enough, for a Queen, set up in front of the park’s perfect plastic recreation of Buckingham Palace, built using 35,000 [LEGO](http://time.com/4246385/heres-why-it-hurts-so-much-to-step-on-a-lego/?iid=sr-link2) bricks. The party was made entirely of LEGO, and it took over 30,000 of them to create the festive street scene complete with a feast, British flags, bunting, and 600 attendees. They even included a mini version of the Royal Family, including Prince Charles, The Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Harry and Princesses Anne, Beatrice and Eugenie, and, naturally, the Queen’s corgis. (Hard to tell if any of the LEGO critters are [dorgis](http://time.com/4352389/queen-elizabeth-vanity-fair-cover-corgis/?iid=sr-link1), the Queen’s beloved Corgi dachshund hybrid). The party took Legoland’s [model](http://time.com/4040472/lego-vatican-philadelphia/?iid=sr-link4) making team 650 hours to build. The Queen will celebrate [her birthday](http://time.com/3919377/queen-elizabeth-ii-birthday/?iid=sr-link2) on June 12, but the Lego birthday party will continue to be on display at Legoland Windsor until November. \[H/T [The Standard](http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/great-days-out/legoland-unveils-miniature-street-party-made-entirely-of-lego-to-mark-queens-90th-a3266786.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/"},"headline":"Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Entirely Out of LEGO","datePublished":"2016-06-08T15:46:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:07.339Z","description":"Two words: LEGO Corgi","url":"https://time.com/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Lego","Toys","royals","queen elizabeth"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58579d38d29e9f4/698896fce20a879fe9a9125c/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta58579d38d29e9f4/698896fce20a879fe9a9125c/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Britain Windsor Legoland party","caption":"Legoland Windsor Resort model maker Kat James puts the finishing touches to a miniature street party outside a model of Buckingham Palace in Miniland ahead of the Patron's Lunch on The Mall in London to mark the Queen's official 90th birthday, June 8, 20","creditText":"Steve Parsons—PA/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4361412/legoland-queen-elizabeth-birthday-lego/","name":"Legoland Threw Queen Elizabeth a Birthday Party Entirely Out of LEGO"}}]}] ```