Top 10 Crazy Lego Creations

10.
The Entire Kennedy Space Center
In addition to serving as one of the ten field centres for NASA, the Kennedy Space Centre
is also the main launch site for manned spaceflight in the United States.
Due to the sites heavy historical value, and the fact that many LEGO ‘master builders’
were big fans of the space program, The Kennedy Space Center was chosen to be the inspiration
for a large scale LEGO project.
Built to celebrate the operation of the Kennedy Space Center for more than 50 years, the model
was constructed at LEGOLAND in Florida out of more than 740,000 individual LEGO bricks,
which in total stand over 6 feet high.
It’s features include the launch pad, space shuttle, assembly hangar, and the world famous
Rocket Garden, a collection of decommissioned rocket bodies held in the visitor's’ section
of the Kennedy Space Center.
9.
Huge Steampunk Crawling Town
Steampunk has often been the theme of LEGO builds both large and small.
Without intention, children often build steampunk styled creations in their playing, because
the technologically themed basic LEGO pieces lend themselves more towards machine and mechanics
than to electronic styles.
The creator, Dave DeGobbi, calls the style and design “Eco-Punk”, in an effort to
draw attention to the ecological aims of the build, which are to bring some publicity to
the environment in today’s society.
The piece, which is constructed out of numerous different sets and types of LEGO, is completely
functional.
The wheelbase that the entire town sits on is fully movable and maneuverable, which demonstrates
the full intent of DeGobbi, which is to showcase the Crawler Town as a model of a possible
future where the planet has been devastated by fossil fuel use.
8.
A Full Size LEGO House
When given LEGO as children, most people wind up trying to make houses or towns for their
newfound toy people to live in.
One person who took this to the extreme is famous British television host and one of
the presenters of Top Gear, James May.
James May built his LEGO house on a vineyard with the help of over 1,000 volunteers to
promote his at the time upcoming show, James May’s Toy Stories on the BBC.
May had originally planned on giving the complete, life sized house to LEGOLAND, but the theme
park refused the building, saying that it would cost more to move the structure than
it was worth.
May and the volunteers used more than three million bricks to construct the house, including
furnishings, a working sink, and a house cat.
James May had been under the impression that LEGOLAND was going to use the house in a display
at their location, but was surprised the day before they were to take the house away by
LEGOLAND telling him that they could not take the house due to the static nature of the
creation.
7.
Six Foot Tower of Mordor With the Eye of Sauron
Brickworld is an annual convention for adult fans of LEGO to showcase their creations and
ideas to likeminded individuals, and is generally held in the United States.
At the Brickworld convention in 2011, a man named Kevin Walter designed and created a
six foot tall replica of the Dark Tower of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings books and
movies, including the iconic Eye of Sauron, which glowing brightly at the top.
This creation garnered immense attention due to its picture perfect proportions and accurate
scaling when compared to the original.
This is no easy feat, and as such, this level of detail is rather uncommon even in the professional
building world.
This focus on realism and accuracy made Walter’s version of the tower stand out among all of
it’s competition.
6.
LEGO Sandcrawler from Star Wars
Since many of LEGO’s fanbase in the modern day is composed of adults, LEGO has broadened
their brick inventory to include more technical and computer based styles of bricks.
One of these expanded types of LEGO is called Technic, which is made to enable more mechanically
complex creations by having different types of joints, rods, and wheels to use.
Jarren Harkema and Calvin Hartley are fans of both LEGO and Star Wars, and decided to
combine their two passions in the creation of a Sand Crawler from Star Wars Episode IV.
Composed of more than 10,000 bricks and stretching an impressive three feet, the Sand Crawler
weighs in at nearly 30 pounds of bricks and mechanics.
The most impressive part of the creation is that it is fully functional, capable of moving
and opening just as the one in the movie does.
5.
Simpsons’ Springfield Entirely in LEGO
In 2014 LEGO announced that they would be releasing LEGO minifigure versions of The
Simpsons for people to build with.
While many Simpsons fans built generic or bland environments and sets for these new
figures to inhabit, at least one Simpsons fan chose to go all out.Matt De Lanoy built
the entirety of the main section of Springfield, the Simpsons home town, out of LEGO for the
figures to occupy.
By starting with only the most important and most shown buildings in the show, De Lanoy
was able to slowly grow the model he was creating.
While it is not completely accurate to the show, since there have been thousands of buildings
seen on the show and De Lanoy only has limited room to build in, it is the most accurate
to individual buildings.
De Lanoy takes care to make each building as close to exactly accurate as possible.
The result is a much more compressed version of the city that still feels like Springfield
from The Simpsons.
4.
Complete Recreation of Hogwarts Castle
Alice Finch is a stay at home mom who one day decided to recreate the castle from Harry
Potter, her favourite book and film series.
She prepared by viewing each movie, reading each book, and even going to England to take
part in the official tour of the castle used for filming.
During all of this, Mrs. Finch made careful and detailed notes regarding everything from
wall placement, to door locations, and even where specific paintings had been in relation
to parts of the castle not shown in the movies.
With her notes in hand, Finch and her family spent the next year building a recreation
of the famous landmark castle brick by brick.
After construction was finished, the brick total was well over four hundred thousand
bricks.
The final result is considered to be one of the most accurate models of Hogwarts ever
made.
When presented at BrickCon in 2012, it took home two awards and showed the world that
even a film location as magical as Hogwarts could accurately be mapped.
3.
Recreation of a Volvo CX90
Volvo is a well known automotive company that is most famous for its exceptional safety
record and general care for consumer health.
They teamed up with LEGOLAND California to create a life sized replica of a car that
Volvo made, which would then be kept at LEGOLAND’s California’s location as a permanent display
in order to attract both LEGO enthusiasts and fans of Volvo.
After some deliberation, LEGOLAND’s Master Builders chose to build the 2004 make of the
Volvo XC90, which has been one of the company's most popular selling models since it was introduced
in 2002.
In the building of the model, LEGOLAND also changed the name of its well known Driving
School for children to have the Volvo name, lending weight to its safety record.
The exact number of bricks has never been publicly released, though expert estimates
have placed the number at or around 500,000.
2.
United States warship USS Missouri
Jim McDonough is a LEGO creator, as well as both a fan of naval history and a reputable
source for facts on the subject of naval ships and events.
He is known in the LEGO community for his large scale models of naval ships.
In 2012, he began construction on a faithful 1 to 40 scale recreation of the USS Missouri,
and finally finished in 2015.
McDonough was inspired by the lasting power of the USS Missouri, with the ship having
fought in World War II, the Korean War, and even Operation Desert Storm.
Today she is a museum ship at pearl Harbour, an attack that the Missouri survived.
Though McDonough refuses to release the exact number of bricks he used in the creation of
the ship, the dimensions are known.
It sits at four and a half feet tall, three feet wide, and twenty four and a quarter feet
long.
Though an impressive feat, McDonough was beaten by barely a week for the biggest recreation
of the USS Missouri, though that one is less detailed in its interior.
1.
A 114 Foot Tall Tower
Many LEGO structures are exact models, scale replicas, or otherwise dedicated to real life
buildings and landmarks.
On the other hand, very, very few LEGO creations have ever aimed to be landmarks or independent
structures in their own right without an outside inspiration.
The most notable of the second group is the world record breaking tower constructed by
LEGO Engineers and local fans in Budapest, Hungary.
Standing at one hundred and fourteen feet tall, that's nearly thirty eight metres, the
tower is the tallest LEGO structure ever built.
Constructed out of 450,000 bricks, it uses less bricks than other LEGO creations, but
it sure uses them effectively.
The tower was carefully designed and supported to avoid a catastrophic failure.
With the peak of the tower, a Rubik’s cube built in Hungary, soaring over most other
nearby buildings, this LEGO creations succeeded in making its own mark outside of just being
a recreation of something else.

Top 10 Crazy Lego Creations

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