[RSS]: Designer insight: George Gilliatt

Юли 17, 2023

Many LEGO set designers use our BrickLists feature to maintain a list of the sets they've worked on and often provide interesting insights about their involvement.

Once a week we publish an entry from one of their lists on the home page to increase awareness of this information and to encourage more designers to create them.

George Gilliatt wrote this about their work on 31116 Safari Wildlife Tree House:

I made a concept for the brick-built giraffe way back when I was on internship - the head build didn’t change at all in the 3 years between then and launch! The original concept for the tree house actually had a hinging function, with a hinge brick hidden in the rock area. This would mean you can unfold the model to have two tree houses with a bridge connecting them!

FUN FACTS:
- I wanted each of the alternate models to look coherent, so decided to omit one of the main colours from each: the biplane doesn’t include any blue, and the catamaran doesn’t include any red. I made the two 1x1x1 2/3 bricks with side studs inside the giraffe red so that I would have even more red for making the plane.
- At the time of writing, this set has the highest NONSOA (Number Of Named Species Of Animals) of any minifigure-scale LEGO set, totalling 7: Giraffe, Flamingo, Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill, Lion, African Lovebird, Nile Crocodile and Marabou Stork.

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