Your Lego® set guide World's largest LEGO Store to open in Leicester SquarePosted by TheBrickPal, 12 Sep 2016 09:00 The UK's new flagship LEGO Store in Leicester Square will open on November 17th. The new landmark store will be the biggest LEGO Brand Retail Store in the world, the 37th LEGO store in Europe and cover 914 sqm total area over two floors. A LEGO Big Ben, made from more than 200,000 bricks, is currently being built brick-by-brick and will dominate both levels of the store. The LEGO store version will also feature a working clock face, which will be illuminated at night. The store will also boast a LEGO retail environment, exclusive product sets, hands-on building areas, building demonstrations and a Pick & Build Brick Wall. “We want to inspire and develop children across the globe through creative LEGO play experiences, and our LEGO Brand Retail stores allow children, parents and fans to explore the many different LEGO products while getting a truly unique and immersive experience of the LEGO brand," said Loren Shuster, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at the LEGO Group.
"I am looking forward with excitement to November 17th, where children and parents are invited to experience a world beyond their imagination as they venture for the first time inside the new store. I am sure that the unique brick-built symbols of London featured in the store will excite fans worldwide as well as in the UK.” Also exclusive to the Leicester Square store is the new LEGO mascot, Lester the tea-drinking LEGO Minifigure. Return to home page »Fisherman Spent 3 Years Building Massive 24-Foot Long Lego USS Missouri8/28/15 11:55am Jim McDonough is truly a master at his craft. He likes Lego, boats and naval history. And when these passions combine, magic is made. McDonough’s epically huge, ridiculously well-detailed Lego navy boats are the stuff of legend. For the past three years, the Scottish fisherman has been building the 1:40 scale replica of the iconic WWII vessel. The USS Missouri is an Iowa-class battleship that fought in the Pacific Theater, notably at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and where the Japanese formally surrendered to the United States.
She also fought in the Korean War, after which she was decommissioned. Then in the mid-80s was reactivated and provided support during Operation Desert Storm. She’s been decommissioned since 1992 and is now a museum ship that you can visit at Pearl Harbor. I used to teach on base there and visiting the Missouri was always pretty damn remarkable. At last its just about finished a few pieces and rigging but until i have a better place to display it,it will have to do. nearly 3 years building this one,10,000s of parts,as for size it now stands 4ft 6 inches high.3ft wide and a massive 24ft 3 inches long,not counted the studs LOL.The stern crane is motorized,and the bridge has lights as you have seen in my other updates.it was a struggle to get the turrets to sit with the weight of them but bricks on their side worked well in the end,this is the ww2 version with as many guns as it had at the wars end, big thanks to Raymond Drum who gave me the idea to build this and his vast knowledge has been most helpful as
has all your comments and advice in the past,Also Michael K who,s missouri was very hepful to building this one.i could post 100s of photos of this as its my most detailed and biggest by far.hope you all like it,planning the saratoga cv3 in the near future which is around the same size as this, - MOC PagesAnd boy, is this baby HUGE! Its length means it sticks out of his garage but it is just one of many Lego creations by McDonough - others include a 4.3m Japanese destroyer and a 3m Japanese military transport. He’s also built a Star Wars X-wing fighter. McDonough had thought his version of the Missouri would be the largest Lego-built ship in the world, but American Dan Siskind has pipped him with a 7.8m version of the ship. - Stuff.co.nzHere’s Siskind’s ship: And for your viewing pleasure, here’s an interview with Siskind by our buddies over at Beyond the Brick:Ooh, now look at this super adorable photo! The ship is so impressive it caught the attention of the Battleship Memorial itself:For his next project, McDonough is going to build a model of the USS Saratoga.
And McDonough’s models are all build without glue:“I don’t use glue and everything can be taken apart,” The Scotsman quoted him saying. “If you go to Legoland it’s all glued together, which to me is cheating because anyone can glue stuff together.” Images via The Daily MailYou’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best sets in the web. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.world’s largest LEGO: star wars X-wing starfighterall images courtesy flashpoint presented in new york city’s times square, the LEGO star wars X-wing starfighter has been introduced as the company’s largest model built to-date. measuring 11×43 feet with a wingspan of 44 feet, the 1:1 scale model is constructed 42 times larger than the #9493 star wars set currently available for children. put together in the LEGO model shop in kladno, czech republic, the replica incorporates over five million bricks, weighing just over 45,000 pounds (including steel infrastructure).
an international team of designers, builders, engineers, mechanics and logistics experts spent over a year bringing this full-scale spaceship from brainstorm to reality using the same bricks and elements featured in the general LEGO retail collection. the LEGO star wars X-wing starfighter has been introduced as the company’s world’s largest model built to-date the model measures 11×43 feet with a wingspan of 44 feet the replica incorporates over five million bricks, weighing just over 45,000 pounds an international team of designers, builders, engineers, mechanics and logistics experts spent over a year bringing this full-scale spaceship to reality the 1:1 scale model is constructed 42 times larger than the LEGO star wars set #9493 the unveiling in new york city’s time square LEGO bricks used: 5,335,200weight: 45,979.61 pounds (including bricks and steel infrastructure)height: 11 feet / 3.35 meterslength: 43 feet / 13.1 meterswingspan: 44 feet / 13.44 metersconstruction time: 17,336 hours (about 4 months) construction location: kladno, czech republic
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