New York City, LEGO Style

Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we've done LEGO links to death, but The Brick Apple is in a class all by itself. Between the 5 foot tall Empire State Building, the 50,000 piece Greenwich village or perhaps the best of all: the World Trade Center, from which this quote was taken: 'Actually, sticking together all those little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces would get VERY tedious, and after a while they would really hurt my thumbs. Each floor had over 500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces.' Wow."

Lego and employment

[xactoguy]

Although something like this may seem stupid or pointless at first, if I was an employer, the fact that someone had actually completed something like this would be a big point towards me hiring them. Something like this not only takes some serious drive and commitment to actually bring to completion, but especially with some of the larger models, there had to be some serious planning going into them, both excellent thigns to look for... and on a complete other note, I'm not an employer, lego rocks, and these are some serious awesome lego creations... wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :D

Re:Slashdotted already...

[LoneIguana]

Why dosen't slashdot mirror these pages. I know it has been suggested before, but here is a novel? approach: Slashdot could cache the page before release, then after a story is released it could ping the server every minute or so to see if it has gone down. If it has, then the cached page could be brought up and people would still have access, if the server comes back up the cache would be removed. The caches would also be purged after a couple days or so, when the main wave has passed.

Re:Why?

[butters the odd]

Oh, just love the flame.

This whole project was made in rememberance of the tragedy of 9-11-01. I, for one, never even got to see the WTC in person (never been that far north), and that someone was able to painstakingly recreate it in Legos is amazing.

Re:Lego and employment

[Xzzy]

> wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :

Not a commitment issue so much as a money one. :p

LEGO bricks are not cheap, doing things like this (and not recycling the peices into other projects) has to be one of the more expensive hobbies you could pick.

A 2 second google search reported a price of $40 for a box of 500 bricks, and it was one of those random color/piece collection. $40 times the 100+ floors the WTC had?

That's a lot of disposable income.

Re:Slashdotted already...

[Clever Pun]

Looks like his web server's made of Lego too.

Well, this might be a tad too literal, but hey. A Lego Case Mod [cox.net] is still pretty cool, right? :)

LEGOLAND!

[gutier]

Guys ... there is LEGOLAND. Many of the building are already done, and most are larger than 5 feet tall.

Re:Little Known Fact

[Bombcar]

Not true! The Lego structures at Legoland are held together with glue, but that's because they are outdoors. Southern California Lego Train Club [scltc.org] builds with no glue! See This picture [scltc.org] for an example.

Some "in construction" pictures available at my website. [bombcar.com] (Scroll to the bottom).

Funny thing is, for Duplo you'd need glue. It doesn't stick together as hard as Lego does.

New York is swell, but...

[teamhasnoi]

does it run Linux?

Seriously, I've always been more fascinated by things that aren't 'just' lego sculpture. Try this [google.com], or this [i8.com]

As for buildings and 'industrial stuff, This site [texbrick.com] is pretty nifty, this [amyhughes.org] is rather impressive as buildings go, as well as (w0w) this [building-utopolis.com]. And what the hell am I still doing up?

Empire State Building???

[BTWR]

Um... the Toys R' Us in Times Square in manhattan has had a 20-foot tall Empire State Building Model (as well as Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty and i think another) since they opened in 2001. This 5-foot model, while nice, is not unique nor is it the biggest by far.

At that TRU, they sell the Statue of Libery as a kit. I think it's like $399.98...

My mother is a professional LEGO builder

[Gnavpot]

...and has been so for something like 20 years. Just to put some weight behind my second hand knowledge. (And of course to brag of a mother with an unusual occupation.)

I can tell for a fact that almost all structures build by the LEGO company are glued together - including the structures for indoor use.

Further, the largest ones are internally reinforced by welded steel structures. Sometimes because they have moving parts, and sometimes because they would not be able to carry their own weight (not all LEGO structures are just vertical piles of bricks).

Re:Legos of Mass Destruction

[shaitand]

That's true, obviously now that the terrorists no longer have use for this model he's making it public. This way nobody can catch him hiding it and he can avert suspicion.

*quickly trots out to get a fresh tinfoil hat and crotchguard*