- I choked on a Lego when I was younger.
So recording this video
wasn't traumatizing at all.
(mock sobs)
Lego's have been popular with kids for decades,
even more so lately with the release of Lego movies.
But it's not just kids that enjoy them.
In fact,
adults now do too.
Except some of them go a little too far
with their creations.
Here are the 10 most mind blowing things
people built out of Lego.
Number 10 is Jesus.
Holy Lego.
On April 12th, 2009,
members of the Oensta Gryta Protestant Church
in Vaesteras, Sweden
unveiled a divine project that they'd completed
after 18 months of work with the help of 40 volunteers.
The project was a large Lego Jesus,
and was fashioned after a sculpture in Copenhagen
called Christus by Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen.
A crowd of 400 Christians attended
the statues introduction on Easter Sunday
to get a good look of the children's toy
interpretation of the holy idol.
This fully white Jesus statue stands 1.8 meters tall,
and is made of 30,000 Legos,
many of which were donated.
Colored blocks were still put to use inside
of the statue's solid inner layer.
Meaning that this Jesus is filled
with colorful rainbows at it's core.
Secret rainbow Jesus.
That has a nice ring to it.
Number nine is the Lego Mona Lisa.
Painted in 1503 by Leonardo Da Vinci,
the Mona Lisa is considered his masterpiece,
and is one of the most recognizable pieces
of art in the world.
In 2007,
artist Nathan Sawaya created an exhibit
called the Art of the Brick
where he put many original, and recreated works,
on display.
Including a version of the painting.
This Mona Lisa is a full scale replica
made of 4,573 pieces of Lego.
While her pixely eyes may not follow you
in the same way that the original oil painting does,
it's detailed enough that if seen from a distance,
you might actually mistake it for the real thing.
But this wasn't even it's first replica.
In the early 2000s,
Lego artist Eric Harshbarger
built a more detailed version with over 30,000 pieces.
It measured 1.8 by 2.4 meters,
and weighed around 20 kilograms.
It was appropriately dubbed the Mona Lego.
Oh this is cool.
Also some people,
way too much time on their hands.
Number eight is a polar bear.
Featured in the Philadelphia zoo,
this incredibly lifelike polar bear
stands out as a true achievement
in both art and engineering.
Constructed meticulously by artist Sean Kenney
and five assistants,
the bear statue took over 1100 hours to make,
all of that occurring in less than two months.
Something tells me these people did not sleep much.
The team used over 95,000 Lego pieces
to cover a metal wire frame that formed the bears body.
It was installed on a platform at the zoo
sitting just above a lake
to show the isolation the bear was in.
Kenney claims to have spent two full days
simply trying to get the bears facial expression right.
The look that he was going for
was a combination of confused, sad,
frustrated, and worried.
As the animal was standing on an ice flow
representing the fact that polar bears
are an endangered species.
Here's a little tip for you,
that look is called a frown.
Very complicated, I know,
but try it.
It works.
Number seven is Brickley the Sea Serpent.
In Lake Buena Vista across from the Lego Imagination Center
in downtown Disney Orlando, Florida
lives a friendly looking creature
that is incredibly completely made out of Lego bricks.
Brickley the Sea Serpent
is a green and yellow snake-like construct
with a dragon's head that makes it resemble
what many say the Loch Ness monster looks like.
This happy statue was built in 1997
using over 170,000 Lego bricks
by the team at the imagination center.
Stretched out,
Brickley would be over nine meters long.
However,
he seems to enjoy weaving up and down,
exiting the water a total of four times.
Though he was apparently the first,
Orlando's Brickley is no longer the only version
of the Lego serpent
as he's become an icon at flagship Lego stores
in places like Chicago, New York, and even London.
Okay Brickley is a clever name,
but personally I would have chosen the Brickness Monster.
Has a nice ring to it.
Number six is a Lego pharaoh.
On February 18th, 2009,
people traveling along the River Thames in London
got a big surprise when a 4.9 meter tall
colorful Egyptian statue came floating along
carefully transported on a large boat.
The pharaoh took five months to construct
with each of it's 200,000 Lego pieces
placed by the hands of four different modelers.
Okay we've got a giant pharaoh to make.
How many of us are there?
Four.
This is gonna take a while.
It was built in the Czech republic
and transported by truck and boat
over 2,245 kilometers to get to it's final destination,
Legoland Windsor in Berkshire, England
where the structure now stands as the centerpiece
of the parks Kingdom of the Pharaoh attraction.
In total,
the statue of toy bricks
weighed over 1,000 kilograms.
So if you've ever wondered how much
200,000 Lego bricks formed into the shape
of an Egyptian king weighed,
now you know.
Personally that was a question
that kept me up many a nights.
So I'm just glad I learned.
Number five is a car.
In 2004,
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo
teamed up with Legoland in Carlsbad, California
to promote safe driving in a wholesome
Lego kind of way.
The project was to create a Lego car.
A full sized replica of a Volvo XC 90 SUV.
The blocky blue SUV was created by Lego's team
of master model builders.
It's made up of 201,076 Lego pieces,
and weighs 1,331 kilograms
with every bit of the car, except for the tires,
becoming Lego-ized.
Upon it's completion,
it sat at the entrance of Legoland
in full view of the park's yearly
1.3 million visitors.
Unfortunately since Lego windshields are not transparent,
Lego door handles don't open,
and Lego engines have no internal combustion functions,
the car's not drivable.
But if the opportunity every arises,
it certainly would make an excellent
car crash spectacle.
Although I would not want to be the guy
that cleans that crash up.
Oh lord.
Number four is the Lego Sport City.
Lego Sport City is a huge intricately designed
sports complex and resort,
which was built by the Hong Kong Lego Users Group.
The massive landscape,
which measures over three meters by 7.9 meters
was built as a promotional piece
for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games,
and took around 100 hours to complete.
The city includes replicas of the national stadium,
the national aquatic center,
the beach volleyball stadium,
and the Olympic village.
All of these buildings,
along with the scenery between them,
are comprised of over 300,000 Lego bricks
and 4500 uniquely assembled Lego people.
The aquatic center even has internal wiring,
and a fluorescent lamp to give
the big blue building a nice glow.
Man these people are just going all out.
Next thing you know,
they're just going to build a cruise ship out of Lego.
That's next?
Number three is the Queen Mary 2 Cruise Liner.
When a Lego building set is so big and complicated
that you can't move it anymore,
well that's where I draw the line.
But of course there are builders out there
who think bigger is better,
such as the team that built
this ridiculously huge replica
of the Queen Mary 2 cruise liner.
Constructed by German artists Klaas H. Meijaard
and René Hoffmeister in 2009,
the famous boat which sits in Lego dry dock
is 6.9 meters long and weighs 870 kilograms.
It took the artists over 1200 hours,
with additional help,
to complete the Queen Mary 2,
and required over 480,000 pieces of Lego.
It's considered to be the largest Lego ship in existence
and had to be constructed right in
the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg, Germany
where it's still on display today.
Am I the only one that just wants them
to seal up all the cracks
and just see how far it'll go?
It might end up like the Titanic,
but it might be fun.
Number two is the tallest Lego tower.
At four p.m on June 21st, 2015,
Italian TV and radio personality Alessandro Cattelan
placed the final piece on a world record breaking
30 meter tall Lego structure.
The structure was built in Fabbrica del Vapore,
an art complex in Milan, Italy.
The sky scraper was constructed by over 18,000 people,
most of them children at a five day event
that was bringing awareness and support
to the Urban Oasis and the World Wildlife Fund.
For every centimeter the tower rose off the ground,
Lego offered seven euros to the project
which helps protect and preserve the planet.
In total,
over 500,000 Lego pieces were used
with many forming flags, words,
or even colorful images.
In addition to the money given by Lego,
the event brought the message
that every brick added was needed,
just like small positive actions
that can lead to a better world.
Now I know what you might be thinking.
These people are crazy.
Half a million Lego pieces?
It can't get any bigger.
Or can it?
And number one is a full sized Lego house.
Yep a full house.
My god.
James May, host of BBC's Top Gear,
teamed up with the Lego group and nearly 1,000 volunteers
to build a two story fully functional house out of,
brace yourself for this,
3.3 million Lego bricks.
Built in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, England,
the structure was 6.1 meters high
and had a working toilet, sink, shower,
and possibly the most uncomfortable bed
anyone has ever tried to sleep on.
On September 18th, 2009,
May actually spent the night in the house
for his TV show James May's Toy Stories.
But shockingly,
instead of the building being shipped
to the Legoland in Windsor,
just like everyone thought it would be,
Legoland declined to ship it
when they found out it would cost
over 50,000 pounds to do so.
With nobody to take with it,
the house was destroyed six days later on September 24th.
On the bright side,
the Lego was donated to charity.
On the not so bright side,
they destroyed a whole house that was just amazing.
It took so long baby.
Why'd you do that?
So that was the 10 most mind-blowing things
people built out of Lego.
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Going to buy some Lego stuff.
La, la, la, lala.