Girl wins Lego challenge, scores TV role

By Jodie Minus
Updated November 5 2012 - 8:45pm, first published June 11 2009 - 10:35am
Girl wins Lego challenge, scores TV role
Girl wins Lego challenge, scores TV role
Taylor Sumelj's semitrailer made of Lego (below) has earnt her a part in a mini movie on the Cartoon Channel. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Taylor Sumelj's semitrailer made of Lego (below) has earnt her a part in a mini movie on the Cartoon Channel. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER

A nine-year-old girl from Blackbutt will make her television debut tomorrow after building a prize-winning truck out of coloured toy bricks from Denmark.Taylor Sumelj, a Year 4 student at Nazareth Catholic Primary School, beat hundreds of other Lego truck builders from across the country to win an appearance in a 90-second mini movie on the Cartoon Network."My brother (Jacob) really wanted to enter and he made a big truck," Taylor told the Mercury. "Then I said I would help him make another one, so we did another one together and I never really imagined it would get anywhere near the top 10 because so many people entered."A photo of Taylor's truck with nine other finalists was posted online, put to a public vote and she won."My truck is very unique," Taylor said. "It has a big rectangle at the back that was the trailer and it was really big and had lots of lights on it and it looks like a really, really strong truck."For the mini movie, Taylor was filmed against a green screen and had to pretend she was driving a truck while also waving, swerving to avoid running over a duck and then hitting a fire hydrant. She also had two lines of dialogue to remember: "Hey!" and "No problem, I have a truck which can help you."And there's no hard feelings from Jacob, 7, as Taylor decided to give him the truckload of Lego she won. "It's not really one of my favourite toys," Taylor said. "But whenever I have got nothing to do I play with Lego and then when I stop I don't think I will do it ever again, because I don't think it will be fun. But when I am playing with it, it is fun."

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