Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2011/06/30/man_turns_lego_into_barad_dur_replica/
Lego lover builds big Barad-dûr replica
Tower record?
Posted in Personal Tech, 30th June 2011 10:13 GMT
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. ®