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Written by Jason Barlow
There are cool jobs, and then there are really cool jobs. Spend any time wandering around with Craig Callum, design manager at LEGO, and you need to prepare yourself for the sight of grown adults being reduced to gibbering wrecks when confronted by someone who gets paid to dream up new LEGO sets.Suffolk-raised Craig, 33, designed Renault trucks before joining Denmark"s most famous company five years ago. He"s now design lead on the Speed Champions line, arguably the coolest of all the gigs even within the rarefied LEGO universe (unless you"re a major Star Wars or Batman fanboy). Speed Champions now encompasses the likes of Audi, Bugatti, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, McLaren and Porsche, with more coming down the pipe. Craig"s business card is a customised LEGO mini version of himself, and he knocks about Billund where the company is based in a 1930 Ford Model A coupe nicknamed Old Red". Frankly, he would be annoying if he wasn"t such a nice guy.TG caught up with him to discover what it takes to make some of the coolest toys in the world
Date written: 23 Mar 2017
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There are cool jobs, and then there are really cool jobs. Spend any time wandering around with Craig Callum, design manager at LEGO, and you need to prepare yourself for the sight of grown adults being reduced to gibbering wrecks when confronted by someone who gets paid to dream up new LEGO sets.Suffolk-raised Craig, 33, designed Renault trucks before joining Denmark"s most famous company five years ago. He"s now design lead on the Speed Champions line, arguably the coolest of all the gigs even within the rarefied LEGO universe (unless you"re a major Star Wars or Batman fanboy). Speed Champions now encompasses the likes of Audi, Bugatti, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, McLaren and Porsche, with more coming down the pipe. Craig"s business card is a customised LEGO mini version of himself, and he knocks about Billund where the company is based in a 1930 Ford Model A coupe nicknamed Old Red". Frankly, he would be annoying if he wasn"t such a nice guy.TG caught up with him to discover what it takes to make some of the coolest toys in the world
Date written: 23 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7183
