Beautiful Madness

The result of "two or three months of hard work", the build is a great showcase for how bright and colourful Lewis Carroll's classic should be. But adapting a known work had both benefits and restrictions for NewHeaven. "There wasn't a particularly complicated part because we were adapting a universe that was already designed for us," says Speedrus. "Though the most difficult thing to make was the characters. They need a specific pose to tell a story, and needed to look exactly the same as they do in the movie. The vegetation and buildings weren't so strict but we couldn't change the characters' faces."

So what's more satisfying to work on - smaller builds that go big on detail, or large builds like Wonderland that go big on everything? "You need to have a balance between big and small projects. Smaller projects give you the satisfaction of doing a lot of things in a short amount of time, and on the other side, bigger projects give you the satisfaction of doing something great, something that can give sparkles in the eyes of your community."

As for the most satisfying part of this particular project, that was when everything came together. "For Alice we built everything separately," says Speedrus. "So at the end when everything was finished, the map was still not done yet, because we [still] needed to assemble it. This assembly was the most satisfying part to make because we finally saw our map done!"