LEGO’s newest release, Camp Nou Stadium, will no doubt endear FC Barcelona fans to the brick brand. The LEGO Group and FC Barcelona have partnered to bring this incredibly detailed, 5,500 piece set to life. Jordi Balsells, director of Barça Licensing and Merchandising, said, “The Camp Nou is one of the symbols of FC Barcelona. We are therefore very proud to get the opportunity to jointly create this reproduction of the stadium with the LEGO Group that fans will be able to build from bottom to top and which represents the home of all Culers.”
When fully constructed, the dimensions of LEGO Camp Nou Stadium are 19-inches wide x 18-inches deep x 8-inches high. It is chock full of details, as one might expect. Aside from looking architecturally just like the real place, there are also player tunnels, the VIP entrance, press boxes, signs and flags everywhere, and a teeny tiny team bus. The scoreboard reads 5-0, referencing Barca’s dismantling of Real Madrid in 2010. The model even splits into five pieces after it has been built, with the sides dividing into four pieces, with the pitch separate from them. This makes it easy to move it, but also allows builders to take cool photos where they get to see the recreation of the famously steep sides of the stadium.
LEGO is also running a competition where you can not only win the set itself but a personalized minifigure of yourself to cement your status as a club superfan. To enter, all you have to do is complete a quiz about the club, created by FC Barcelona historians, and if you get all 10 questions right you are entered into the prize drawing. There are 46 prizes in total (one for each member of the male and female first-team squads).
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