New | Lego Occupy Central display recreates protests in miniature detail

Occupy Central has been captured in minute detail in Admiralty where a protester has recreated scenes from the protests in a display made with Lego figures.

Natalie Chan, a 25-year-old sales representative, has spent the past week remaking notable moments of the movement, including the alleged police beating of protester Ken Tsang Kin-chiu. She has also included details like individual face masks for Occupiers and blue ribbons for anti-Occupy protesters, made by hand from bits of paper.

“The hardest part was making the blue ribbons for the anti-Occupy protesters so people can distinguish between the miniature figures,” Chan, who has spent the last 10 nights at Admiralty, said.

“I had to make blue ribbons or umbrellas for almost every ‘minifig’. Yesterday people started making plastic armbands to protect themselves from the police, so I had to add those. Details like the shrink wrap take a lot of time too.”

Chan said she got the idea for a Lego production because she wanted to step back and review the Occupy movement.

“I wanted to pull myself out of the situation to see if I would get a different perspective on what’s happening in society or think deeper about this whole movement,” she said.