Wired: Lego Fan Creates 250,000 Brick Garrison

mrfootball

Wow! That's a lot of bricks!



Link to Wired Article

winter_zombie

WoW
I wounder how long that tuck him, and how on earth did he get all them grey bricks,ive never sen so many.

Johnnycogs

WoW
how on earth did he get all them grey bricks,ive never sen so many.

That's because this bloke bought them all!!!!!

drdavewatford

Spectacular, and technically impressive, but a bit unnecessarily monochromatic for my liking. It really wouldn't have hurt to have varied his colour palette a little, even just with some dark grey, black and trans clear. Still, at least he didn't wear a grey T-shirt....

brickmatic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerburrows/sets/72157626512173154/

There are brown cliff parts and blue waterfalls and trans blue windows, to be fair. Even some trees. And lots and lots of minifigs in the arena.

drdavewatford

^ You're right, but most of the pics are just a wall of grey.

brickmatic

^ You're right. Sort of like the Death Star or an Imperial Star Destroyer. Close up that is.

andhe

I'm sure one of the writers for the Metro (free UK newspaper) must be a Lego fan as this was featured today as the 2nd page fun/interest story. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/866234-lego-fan-builds-8-5m-long-toy-city-in-own-home. They also featured that giant warship and a number of other lego related articles a week or so after they've done the rounds online.

winter_zombie

WoW
how on earth did he get all them grey bricks,ive never sen so many.

That's because this bloke bought them all!!!!!

how on earth did he afford £45k worth of lego.?????

PaulTR

250,000 pieces!? Wow, I need to go and take a nap! If he's married, I bet his wife and him aren't on speaking terms.

thewerewithal

Come on Paul... would any wife let this guy get away with this? Gotta be single.
I agree with DrDav - it is a bit too monochomatic... very impressive though. I'd like to see the total amount of his bricklink invoices.

SarahIsabella

It looks like he is married - this was his response to a poster who asked about the cost under one of the pictures - "I'm reluctant to calculate. Ignorance can be bliss in this case. Plus it's my defense when the wifey inquires :) I have been stocking up for years in preparation for building. So I don't think it's all that bad when spread out over many years."

MinifigsMe

The Metro article says he's married. He built lifesized lego statues of them for their wedding. He has a room dedicated to this (obviously). The pic in the metro shows the structure spanning a sofa in the room too :)

I'd be surprised if this only cost 45k! It's much bigger then this pic shows.

Halberd777

Yeah I would be interested in hearing what this guy does for a living? Rich perhaps or nothing but legos, still Kudo's to him an awesome job and of course we are all envious.

This guy has to be rich to be still married and have spent over 45k on legos. My wife does not believe in divorce but I think if I told her bye the way babe I bought over 45k worth of legos an instant divorce would happen or she would kill me which in turn kind of constitutes a divorce because I would be dead but anyways.

princedraven

I keep opening this topic, keep checking out the pictures, keep reading the comments, but I still can't 'like' the build...
Thought it may be the mood I was in, but it just doesnt 'work' for me...
Don't get me wrong I can seriously appreciate the amount of work that went into it, and the effort to create it is phenomenal, but I don't like it, far too much grey, and may be a strange thing to say but its far too big, just seems like he has said "right, let me see just how big a model I can create", which is fine, but I think the art of the creation is more important than the scale, and for some reason he decided that the artistic elements (well a large portion of) he would do in grey on grey?!?!

Halberd777

^
Well not everybody is black and white like you some people prefer the Grey areas ok Yeesh.

Actually no that you mentioned it certain elements would stand out better if they were in different colors. Besides I am still angry at that guy for buying all the greay pieces thus making my castles blue and yellow because those colors are cheaper now.

princedraven

haha, must admit I really am not a Grey fan, so guess it was never gonna be 'my thing' :)
I think Blue/Yellow castles are definately the way to go anyway! :)
125,000 yellows, 125,000 blues = quality!

madforLEGO

It looks like he is married - this was his response to a poster who asked about the cost under one of the pictures - "I'm reluctant to calculate. Ignorance can be bliss in this case. Plus it's my defense when the wifey inquires :) I have been stocking up for years in preparation for building. So I don't think it's all that bad when spread out over many years."

Is......Is his Wife.... made of Lego? I mean there is patience with your partner.. but WOW....

RedBrickMarket

Spectacular, and technically impressive, but a bit unnecessarily monochromatic for my liking. It really wouldn't have hurt to have varied his colour palette a little, even just with some dark grey, black and trans clear. Still, at least he didn't wear a grey T-shirt....

Totally agree! All so true.