Built in 4,983 pieces, this fan-made LEGO Emirates Stadium doesn’t aim for scale accuracy, it leans hard into emotional precision. The kind only a Gooner who’s memorized the view from Block 106 could pull off. You don’t build a curved roofline like that unless you’ve sat underneath it and looked up through the translucent panels during a freezing midweek match. You don’t angle the corners with that exact taper unless you’ve approached the stadium from Holloway Road and clocked how it wraps around the street like a spaceship parked in North London.
First thing you notice? The wraparound stands curve like a clenched fist. Not an easy shape to pull off in LEGO, where right angles reign and curves are the stuff of engineering masochism. But here, the stadium’s horseshoe architecture is convincingly mimicked with a rhythmic pattern of plates and slopes, especially around the East and West stands. The builder didn’t cheat either – no 3D-printed nonsense or custom bricks. Just pure, stock LEGO geometry doing heavy lifting.
Designer: PetaS
Look closer at the facade. The 2023 renovation’s sleek cladding and updated visuals haven’t been lost in translation. Transparent tiles simulate the glass-front entrances, while light gray plates evoke that clean, monolithic look that replaced the older, busier stadium skin. Even the subtle height shift between the Clock End and North Bank is acknowledged in the build with a few clever rows of hidden SNOT techniques.
The inner pitch follows the modular footprint LEGO used for Old Trafford and Camp Nou, about 32×48 studs, meaning this model slots neatly into a growing ecosystem of football cathedrals. Yes, it’s technically compacted, but within that footprint are symmetrical seating banks with color-coordinated tiles suggesting the layered red seats of the real thing. Even the corner gaps that connect the stands in real life are preserved here with exposed studs and deliberate open air.
What sells it, though, is the vibe. LEGO stadiums can feel sterile, like someone tried to turn civic architecture into shelf decor. But this one feels lived-in. There’s movement in the lines, clarity in the layout, and that indescribable sense of place only a stadium with decades of emotion baked into its concrete can deliver. This is the build equivalent of singing “North London Forever” with 60,704 others—and somehow, through the magic of clutch power, it hits almost as hard.
And while you won’t be slipping a minifig through the turnstiles (scale was sacrificed early and wisely), the detailing more than makes up for it. The roof’s truss system (those unmistakable white arches that loom over the real Emirates like skeletal arms) gets a clever approximation using Technic elements. They’re delicate, but essential. They carry the visual memory of the original structure, even if they don’t hold up a damn thing in the model.
The brainchild of LEGO builder PetaS, the LEGO Ideas Arsenal Emirates Stadium currently gathers votes from the broader LEGO community with the hopes of hitting the 10,000-vote mark, following which we could see it become a box set, just like Old Trafford and Real Madrid. Any self-respecting gunner should definitely head down to the LEGO Ideas website and give this MOC (My Own Creation) a vote, joining the 3,442 other LEGO-lovers who have already cast their ballot! You can vote for the Arsenal Emirates Stadium on the .
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