Sunday, February 06, 2005

Lego Church

Another in our continuing series:  "Way too much spare time"

A marvel done with Legos.

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Lego_church

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A few quick facts:

How long to build it? It was about a year and a half of planning, building and photographing.

How many pieces of LEGO to build it? more than 75,000

How big is it? About 7 feet by 5 1/2 feet by 30 inches (2.2 m x 1.7 m x .76 m)

How many lego people does it seat? 1372

How many windows?
3976

It features a balcony, a Narthex, stairs to the balcony, restrooms, coat rooms, several mosaics a nave, a baptistry an alter, a crucifix, a pulpit and an elaborate pipe organ



This gets bonus points for its utter religous irrelevance  . . .

Posted at 09:45 AM in Art & Design, Humor | Permalink

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Comments

Unbelievalbe.............awesome!!! Thanks also for the stats on building this amazing piece.
We want more...........keep up the fantastic work. Susan

Posted by: Susan | Feb 17, 2005 9:14:23 AM

totally awesome...where is this located? Is it available to see in person?

Posted by: Carol | Feb 22, 2005 10:14:42 PM

Cool, but seriously does the person who built this have a life? I mean really why couldn't they have built something better like a city of something. Hats off to whoever built is, but really...its pathetic

Posted by: danny | Mar 11, 2006 8:13:33 PM

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