July 21st, 2007This Is Why Lego Kicks Ass
As a kid, I loved playing with Lego. As a bigger kid, I don’t really play with the bricks anymore, but I am still captivated by the incredible things people can build from these imagination enablers.
Malle Hawking (pictured above with his contribution to peace in the Middle East) spent over a year assembling approximately 300,000 Lego pieces to create the 5 meter long, 160 kilo USS Harry Truman. The scale model has working electrical lights on deck, motorized elevators and catapult, a hangar, aircraft and even radar dishes. This is certainly one of the best examples of large-scale Lego construction I’ve seen in a while.
According to the RecordHolders.org, this is the Largest Lego Ship in the world.
The great thing about Lego is that age is not a factor when it comes to having fun or making something truly amazing. If you had an unlimited number of pieces and a year to build whatever you wanted, what would the end result be?
Wow… that’s really big and heavy.
I wonder how much it will cost him. I mean the cost to acquire a LEGO set in that quantity.
Maybe he got a sponsor for doing this in return.
I’m not sure whether there was a sponsor involved or not, but this would have easily set the man back several thousand dollars. It is possible to order specific pieces off the Lego website, so perhaps he designed the model first using something like the Lego Digital Designer, and then ordered the required pieces to get a bulk discount.
It would still cost a pretty penny, though