It’s pretty amazing how piles of colorful plastic bricks can build wonders when they are attached together. Lego was first introduced by Lego Group in 1949 and have been everyone’s favorite ever since. What we are going to show you today are some Lego models you don’t get to see often, not available for purchase in the neighborhood stores for sure. They are complex, massive and definitely jaw-dropping. If you are a Lego fan, this is something you would not want to miss. Here’s a collection of 35 incredible Lego Mega Construction, large in scale but built to its finest details. Full list after jump. Kennedy Space CenterOccupying 1,506 square feet and made up of 750,000 lego bricks. This massive construction took more than 2,500 hours to build. Church of Christ A view from the balcony looking toward the chancel. There’s seating for an 80-member choir under the mosaics. The roof over the chancel and mosaic alcoves is glass. Aircraft CarrierAircraft carrier lego model in minifig size by Harry S. Truman.
Starship: OSS PontbriandCreated by Jeff Pelletier, this flagship of Omicron Space center is created down to the every little bit of details; 270 stud ship, 105 crews each with a bunk, 4 levels of fully finished interior. LEGO TableThe table consists of 22,742 pieces clicked together with traditional lego construction techniques (no glue), a 136mm grommet is located in its centre. It sits on a polished Stainless Steel square hollow section structure built by B.A. Engineering of Prussia St and is topped with a 10mm sheet of toughened glass manufactured by Action Glass. Legoland DeutschlandLegoland park located in Gunzburg, Germany. Crawler TownThis machine has several playable features include functional powered treads for movement , full suspension and front and rear steering. LEGO Sport CityThe LEGO Sport City display was built by the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group (HKLUG) to help promote the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Lego AllianzAn amazing replica of Allianz Arena in Berlin using just Lego.
Mona Lego MosaicMona Lego Mosaic, created with 30,000+ bricks. It’s 45+ pounds and 6 feet by 8 feet. Full-Size Lego House The world’s first full-size Lego house – including a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed – using 3.3million plastic bricks built by James May. Lego Montmartre Montmartre in London Legoland. Lego Airport This amazing Lego airport was showcased in LegoCity, at Senayan City, Indonesia. Lego Airbus A380Made at a 1:25 scale-9.5-foot long, 10.5-foot wingspan, 3.2-foot tall—the Lego A380 uses 220 pounds (100kg) of bricks. Giant T-rexGiant T-rex created with little Lego pieces in Lego Imagination World 3. Lego DragonLego dragon outside the Lego store at disneyworld in Florida. Lego Obama Presidential Inauguration A display depicting Barack Obama’s inauguration in Legoland California. Mt. Rushmore Replica Nathan Sawaya created my rendition of the Gutzon Borglum’s most famous sculpture, otherwise known as Mt. Rushmore.
Christ StatueA 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus that had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks at a church in Vasteras, Sweden. Queen Mary 2The Queen Mary 2 in Legos. Nintendo DSi This LEGO sculpture of the Nintendo DSi was on display at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center in New York City Engagement PortraitA couple decided to commission a LEGO portrait based on an engagement photo that they had taken prior to their wedding. Yankee StadiumUsing over 45,000 LEGO bricks for a sculpture of Yankee Stadium. It is 6 feet wide and 5 feet long, built to an approximate scale of 1:150. Polar BearThis Lego bear sculpture contains over 95,000 LEGO pieces and took over 1100 hours to construct together. Times SquareThis model of Times Square is over 5 feet wide, 4 feet tall, and contains over 20,000 LEGO pieces. It took about 300 hours to build. Lego 2004 Volvo XC90A replica of Volvo’s award-winning SUV, the Volvo XC90, was constructed of LEGO’s famous modeling bricks.
World’s tallest Lego TowerThe 94.3ft-high pirate ship mast was made with 465,000 bricks, breaking a previous record of 93.43ft set. Lego PharoahThe 16-foot (4.9-meter) replica of an Egyptian king is the biggest Lego structure ever created, with 200,000 individual pieces and a weight of more than one ton. Micro Mythicos MicropolisA Mmicro Mythicos Micropolis was in a display case at Legoland, San Diego. Lego Eiffel TowerLego Eiffel Tower in Legoland. Lego Octopus Stained GlassThis project killed most of 1×1 black brick, 1×2 trans blue brick, and all of 1×1 neon-green cylinders.It's 2017, and it's hard to imagine a world in which Lego didn't exist. From its ubiquitous bricks, to its theme parks, to the host of media tie-ins, via video games, movies, comics–and more! – Lego is the biggest toy brand on the planet.In this post we've celebrated the Lego legacy (a Legocy, no doubt!) by presenting you with some of the greatest models ever built. So sit back and enjoy, as we showcase the very best in Lego art, from both certified Lego professionals and some amateurs whose love for Lego knows no bounds.
Kicking off our Lego art examples is this brilliant Batman Batarang, which crash landed in London recently to mark the release of the Lego Batman movie. Made from 35,000 lego bricks, it took the team at Bright Bricks 225 man hours to build, with broken pavement, smoke and lights (all non-Lego based) completing the scene of destruction. Lego Albums is a project by Harry Heaton, an artist who recreates iconic album covers using the little bricks. The finished products resemble low-resolution pixelated versions of album art, but are nonetheless brilliant. This replica of JME's Integrity album is definitely one of our favourite. Check out Heaton's collection to find yours. Everyone loves the Simpsons, but veteran Lego artist Matt De Lanoy clearly loves them more than most. Just a few months after the release of the official Simpsons Lego set, he's recreated the entire town of Springfield in coloured bricks, including the Kwik-E-Mart, Moe's, Krusty Burger, the nuclear power plant and more.
This image only shows one corner of his creation – see more on his Flickr page.Professional Lego artist Warren Elsmore broke records in March, with an exhibition of 72 Lego models. Attracting over 50,000 visitors, with 2,000 on the busiest day, the likes of the Olympic Park and St Pancras Station in London and the Forth Bridge were on show. His Las Vegas strip also proved hugely popular.Korean Lego artist Jin Kei has given life to one of the giant four-legged mammals from Salvador Dali’s painting 'The Elephants'. At 32 inches, the artist added his own steampunk twist with mechanical accessories, making for a seriously impressive piece of Lego art.The Creative Bloq team was extremely excited to learn that Back to the Future Lego was a thing. Our excitement then prompting us to then search for BTTF Lego fan art, which is when we came across this 19th century train by G Russo.Currently featured on the Lego Cuusoo website, Russo is keen to get his design developed into an actual Lego set.
And he's gone all out to try and ensure that happens, adding fine details including two side panels that fold open to reveal an overhead door, some foldout steps, and various controls, levers, pipes, and wheels for controlling the train.The talented team at Brickworkz create the most amazing custom Lego art work. posed of over 20,000 Lego bricks, the cool mosaic currently resides at legal office of William Ellyson in Richmond, Virginia.This Lego aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman has got to be one of the most impressive creations on our list, in terms of size and detail. The 200,000 brick, 4.5m long, 350-pound aircraft carrier comes complete with electrical lights as well as moving elevators and radar dishes.The epic sculpture, built by German Lego fan Malle Hawking, also includes a half submarine and a mini gunboat on the side.After discovering the Lego Factory and latest Lego Digital Designer software recently, artist Simon C Page was become hooked on Lego art design. And this Lego framed rainbow is his first creation.
Created out of 3,029 bricks, there are over 200 1x1 pieces of each of the 16 colours used throughout. Page comments on his website: "It has took me over six hours to put together and wasn't easy - stacking nearly 50 1 x 1 piece end to end nearly 50 times across, all the time keeping to a strick colouring pattern."Project 'Build Up Japan' was sponsored and curated by the legendary toy brick makers and encouraged school children to build imaginary structures - with the result of a Japan that they wanted to see.With a little help from their parents and a few Lego officials, children across Japan were able to create their country the way they wanted it. The total number of Lego bricks used was a jaw-dropping 1.8 million!How cool is this? This isn’t a child-sized toy set: it’s actually a life-sized LEGO forest in the Australian Outback! It’s made up of 15 pine trees, and 15 flower sets, all 66 times bigger than their design toys counterpart – making the trees a whopping 4m high.The iconic toy brick company built this amazing creation in Living Desert State Park, a 2400ha reserve more than 700 miles west of Sydney, as part of its 50-year anniversary celebration.
Last year, the UK's only certified LEGO technician Duncan Titchmarsh built this huge advent calendar sculpture. Made up of approximately 600,000 bricks, the installation was unveiled in central London's Covent Garden shopping area.Each door was opened at 4pm every day in the lead up to Xmas day. The presents behind each were also cool Lego creations. An awesome way to celebrate the festive season.Take a trip to Disney World in Florida and you'll find this awesome Lego sea monster, Brickley. The cool character is made out of 170,000 LEGO bricks, stretches a whopping 30 feet and weighs half a ton!The brilliant sculpture is one of many found in Downtown Disney at the LEGO Imagination centre. Other models include a Transformer, giant models of Woody and Buzz Lightyear and the Seven Dwarves.Paul Hetherington - known in the Lego world as BrickBaron - had already given a sneak peek to this incredible creation, by showing off the lower structure full of mermaids, oceans and ships. Little did we know that it would actually play as part of a much larger sculpture featuring the God of the sea.
Poseidon was built for the Vancouver Lego Club's Mythology exhibit at the Surrey Museum; taking place from July until September 15th. The attention to detail is astonishing: we don't know if we'd have the patience to build something as impressive as this! You can see more photos of Poseidon, as well as Paul's other work on his Flickr page.This stunning sculpture was created by Bram Lambrecht using LSculpt - a program which converts a triangle mesh into an LDraw file. Like the sphere generator, the generated model consists of a surface of 1×1 plates oriented in whichever direction provides the best detail.We love that Bram has taken the time to create not only the body and branch but the shadow too. It's these details that make certain Lego sculptures stand out from the rest. You can see more of Bram's work on his official website.Although created in 2009, this huge Mario sculpture still deserves a mention. Crafted by brick layer Dirk Van Haesbroeck, it took him just over two weeks to finalise the plumber.
Mario is comprised of 30,000 LEGO bricks with the pedestal containing another 12,000. This video showcases the 160 hours of work in just over a minute.Once the sculpture was finished, it was auctioned off on eBay in aid of Ronald McDonald, a Dutch organisation that arranges proper housing for relatives of hospitalised children in the vicinity of clinics. It sold for an impressive $5100. You can see more of Dirk's Lego art on his Facebook page.Despite its short run on television almost ten years ago, fans of Firefly and film Serenity still express an intense love and passion for the Joss Whedon series. One such fan decided to build the ultimate homage to the sci-fi show with a replica of the ship Serenity.Adrian Drake used around 70,000 Lego pieces and the project took 475 hours over the course of 21 months. The ship itself weighs an incredible 135 pounds due to the intricate details Adrian has included. You can more of Adrian's stunning Lego art on his website.What can we say about Nathan?
Well, first off he's one of the, if not the biggest Lego artist around. Counting himself as one of the world's certified Lego professionals, when he's not jetting off around the world showcasing his artwork in prestigious galleries, he's at his studio creating the next array of Lego art masterpieces.Here, the pop-up book is a celebration of Waldo H. Hunt - ''the king of pop-up.'' It's created entirely out of Lego (which is handy for this list) and is based around a poem Nathan wrote himself. You can see the said poem across the pages of the book, which we think is a lovely touch.See more of Nathan's incredible work at his personal website. Or just go to number 2!We could compile this entire list with Nathan's creations but we'll treat you to just two. 'Crowd' has been trawling the United States for quite some time thanks to Nathan's popular exhibitions so you may have seen it before.Inspired by the throngs of people walking the streets of New York, 'Crowd' also gives us a sense of George Orwell's 1984 with its watchful eye.