My LEGO model of Rainbow Dash from ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’. She contains approx. 3,700 parts.

I started this project over a year and a half ago. There were many times where I felt like giving up; designing her proved to be a huge challenge. My main expertise previously has been in building model trains. They tend to be covered in straight lines and right-angle corners. This is about as removed from that as you can get.

What kept me going was the encouragement I received from friends in the MLP fandom. Since LEGO models aren’t common in that community, the novelty of the project seemed to be a good draw. Essentially, people wanted to see the finished thing just as much as me.

When I began the project, I set out a few objectives:

• She would be an accurate representation of how Rainbow appears in the cartoon, when viewed from all angles
• It would be obvious that she is made of LEGO
• She would be free standing
• She would have an exciting pose and expression to best represent her character, rather than looking like a lifeless statue

The fact that she is able to balance on just 2 legs is more of a fluke than anything else.

Also on my Deviant Art:

oilyvalves.deviantart.com/art/LEGO-Rainbow-Dash-689024997