Lego lover builds big Barad-dûr replica
Tower record?
Some folk have got too much time on their hands. Then again, sometimes those people deserve to be applauded for their efforts.
Like this guy, a dedicated Lego fanatic who whiled away the final months of 2010 building this incredibly detailed Barad-dûr replica out of roughly 50,000 Lego blocks.
Source: Kevin J Walter
Its creator, Kevin J Walter, spent two and a half months constructing the masterpiece, trying to capture as many details as possible with just images and a collectable model to work from. He did have the help of 15 other people over the course of the tower's construction, though.
Source: Kevin J Walter
"The ultimate challenge was just a small part of the tower—the two small towers on the corners with their hexagonal shape—I needed over two weeks of continuing tries and fails, before I got the final solution for it," Walter, told ArsTechnica. He had an eye for the tower since he first saw Lord of the Rings.
Source: Kevin J Walter
Even though the model won an award at Brickworld 2011, Walter now plans to dismantle it. Lego bricks are expensive after all and if you have a look at Walter's Flickr page, you'll see he's quite the Lego expert. No rest for the wicked. ®
COMMENTS
V.Impressive
Having looked at mine (sorry my son's) Lego bricks I have no idea how he's managed to get those curved walls. Everything I (sorry my son) builds is full of right angles..??
As a side note I bought myself (sorry my son) a Lego Mindstorms kit a few years ago. If you haven't discovered this yet then you (sorry your kids), will love it.
Lego versus Playmobil
I'd always assumed that future IT workers could not grok Lego and that's why they ended up with the simpler Playmobil, leaving Lego to the software-engineers-to-be.
It also explains The Register's fascination with the inferior stuff and their stuffy comments about expensive Lego bricks.
I see...
I see yooooooo. ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h what you did there!
Re: Very impressive...
You'll be amazed at how Lego has expanded the range and type of bricks since, say, the early 1980s.
There's a whole heap of angle-connection bits in my nipper's kits that I never had in my day.
@Mystic Megabyte
"Let me guess, you bought your wife a bowling ball :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_the_Fast_Lane "
No, she got the '00' gauge Hornby train set.
