Chinese artist ‘in pieces’ as painstakingly made Lego vision of Zootopia shattered in a second by boy, 4

It took only a second for a four-year-old Chinese boy to destroy a Zootopia Lego figurine of more than 10,000 bricks built over three days and nights for an exhibition, mainland media report.

News posted online about the destruction of the Disney cartoon character, Nick Fox, created for a Children’s Day exhibition on Wednesday at a shopping mall in the city of Ningbo, in Zhejiang province, sparked fevered online debate, the news portal Youth.cn reported.

More than 60,000 comments and views were generated after the artist, identified only by his surname of Zhao, wrote on his microblog site that he felt depressed and frustrated after his exhibit was pushed over.

He had worked for three days and night without a break in order to complete the Nick Fox character in time for Wednesday’s deadline.

The boy had ignored the “No touching” sign on display beside the exhibit and sent it toppling over only one hour after it went on public show at the mall, the report said.