A Lego event hailed the 'world’s largest brick festival' has been compared to Glasgow's Willy Wonka fiasco after visitors were greeted with a "bleak" and "empty" room.

Angry Lego fans are now demanding refunds after being left disappointed by the
"rip-off" Brick Fest Live experience at Birmingham's NEC over the bank holiday.

The event promised “a jaw-dropping collection of brick creations from across the globe”, which would be “mind-blowing” and amaze “adults and children”.

But attendees said the reality was a sparse offering of attractions inside an aircraft hanger-like room with one saying they'd seen "better displays in village halls”.

Others said the scenes reminded them of the now infamously disastrous 'Willy’s Chocolate Experience’ in Glasgow earlier this year and branded it "a scam".

Lego superfans are now demanding their money back after travelling far and wide to for the £35 a ticket event which left them "disgusted" and "underwhelmed".

The spectacle, which Lego does not sponsor, authorise or endorse, originates in the USA and describes itself as “the world’s largest hands-on brick event”.