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Family builds amazing Christmas models through the years

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Mike Addis and his wife with their model polar bear.Image source, Addis family
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This is the latest edition to the Addis family's Christmas statues. It's a giant model of a polar bear made out of tiny Lego bricks. Mike and his wife Catherine make a figure each year. They start the project in mid October and it usually take about 6-8 weeks to complete.

Model of a polar bearImage source, Addis family
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This is the inspiration for this year's creation. Mike re-created this model of a polar bear entirely out of plastic bricks.

Mrs Addis building the polar bearImage source, Addis family
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The inside of the model is made of coloured bricks with the outside white to represent the polar bear's fur.

Lego model of a polar bearImage source, Addis family
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After weeks and weeks of work this is the result. The family say it was one of the most difficult models they've ever made.

Previous models of a German Christmas Market and a postboxImage source, Heather Noble
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Check out these amazing builds, a German Christmas Market made in 2001 and this replica of the postbox at Kings College in Cambridge which they made in 2009. The Addis children, Thomas, Holly and Christopher used to help make the models but now they are grown up they leave it up to their parents.

Choir singers and a model houseImage source, Addis family
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Look at these amazing models. The people singing carols in a choir were made in 2003 and the house is model of the Addis family's own home which they made the next year.

Toy soldier and angelImage source, Addis family
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This giant toy soldier from the nutcracker was made in 2005 and the jazzy angel the following year. The angel is in such bright clothes because they ran out of white bricks!

Saxon churchImage source, Addis family
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This is a model of a Saxon church near where the family live. It is made to scale which means it is the same as real life but it's just been shrunk. It was made in 2008.

Santa DalekImage source, Addis family
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What's scarier than a Dalek coming to get you? A Santa Dalek, this festive exterminator was made for Christmas 2011.

Lego gingerbread houseImage source, Helen Burchell
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This tasty model is a traditional gingerbread house which the family made in 2013. Yum! So far they've not decided what they'll make next year but I'm sure it'll be a cracker.