Lego creations can be fragile and kids are destructive.

But when you put the children's interlocking brick building system into the hands of an artist, you can get a sculpture that people clamor to see.

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Brick by brick and block by block, artist Zhao built a life-sized figure of Nick from Disney's "Zootopia" at a Chinese Lego exhibit.

But thanks to a child who wanted to touch the model, it didn't last an hour after the show opened, CCTV News reported.

Before the child touched it, the statue, worth more than 100,000 yuan or about $15,000, took three days to build, Mashable reported.

Zhao didn't take any payment for the broken statue and insisted that the child didn't mean to break it.

This isn't the first time that kids have destroyed works of art.

Two boys were caught on camera breaking the wings of a glass angel at the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

Two adults were accompanying the children and were caught recording them on their cellphones.

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