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life-size LEGO house
this month british television presenter james may and a group of volunteers have been building a two-storey LEGO house in the middle of the denbies wine estate, in dorking, UK.
james may - image © AP
the life-size house uses over three million bricks and features a staircase, toilet and shower. may said once it was completed he intended to live in the temporary construction for a few days.
more images of the LEGO house can be found over at geek sugar.
the daily mail also have more info on the project .
via neatorama
the LEGO house is the latest toy challenge that james may has undertook as part of his BBC series james may's toy stories. other projects included the world's first plasticine garden, which won the people's choice award at the chelsea flower show, and the world's largest model plane. the show also created a scalextric version of the brooklands 2.75-mile racetrack in weybridge.
AWESOME
ANAL DESTRUCTICUS 08.30.09
I don't think i could live there
gar-gary 08.30.09
wow, first automobile enthusiast, now toy man, is there anything he can't do?!?!
Owned 08.30.09
what a dickwad...imagine how eco poisonous all those plastic bits of shite are...
Phreekoid 08.31.09
that is the coolest thing I've ever seen. And I'm not even kidding.
Rebekah Roberts 08.31.09
Pretty crazy.
Christine Jae 08.31.09
Of course someone has always got to pull their eco bull crap.
Way to go james thats awesome.
You have got to know James and Hamond are going to do SOMETHING.
Way to go james thats awesome.
You have got to know James and Hamond are going to do SOMETHING.
Janssen 08.31.09
Funny, great, fantastic.
One 08.31.09
Lovely piece of art that any kid can play with :D
Lulu 08.31.09
James is a freaking legend.
Scar 08.31.09
what a giant block of shit. gg's england :|
DORKING, UK, LOL 08.31.09
so go so fun, i also want to go >.<
Anakin Siu 08.31.09
Amazinng, awesome, fascinating, incredible, shocking, surprising, wonderful!!!
Fepa 08.31.09
time to grow up and be a f'ing man
michael 09.01.09
What a shameless PR stunt, and a waste of a great concept. Think of what they could've made. Bad architecture, pure gimmick, and bad environmentally. A large plastic hemmoroid juxstaposed the green landscape.
D'grey 09.01.09
news flash : GLOBAL WARMING! you think this helps?
uknown 09.01.09
for me its stupid,this cant be house for normal family ;]
snowboy 09.01.09
It's... wonderful ! May I book one room for me?
:PpPp
:PpPp
PiccoloSocrate 09.01.09
Utterly pointless. It can't function as a house. It doesn't look good. What exactly is the appeal of this project?
Qwill 09.01.09
FAKE, suppose to be build ou of LEGO there is alot of wood. EVERYbody whit enough money can do this.
Sad. 10 points off
Sad. 10 points off
Timmy 09.01.09
This is just for all of the pricks that are just bashing this. How about YOU make a house out of teeny tiny plastic pieces. AND. It's JUST as hurtful as any stucco house to the environment. This is an amazing work! Be grateful that there are some people who are NOT stiff brats that can branch out and make something amazing. The end.
SCTA 09.01.09
I think that if the lego was green and brown only, perhaps it would have been better for the environment. Hang on, brown lego doesn't exist, does it?
Anyway, this is a great idea for job creation.
Anyway, this is a great idea for job creation.
paula 09.01.09
This is very gimmicky and poorly executed. I fail to see any innovation here as the legos act more as a cladding element, rather than forming any type of architecture. The same effect could have been achieved by painting the walls with stripes.
Also, the artist failed to utilize what legos are so great for, that is creating 8-bit geometries (think white stripes vid, or lego-land models), i'm not sure what the intentions here were. total waste of time and money on something completely uninteresting....
Also, the artist failed to utilize what legos are so great for, that is creating 8-bit geometries (think white stripes vid, or lego-land models), i'm not sure what the intentions here were. total waste of time and money on something completely uninteresting....
S/M 09.02.09
Shopped!!!
fccfu 09.02.09
i can feel the pessimism oozing from you knuckleheads. destroy everything with your judgement. enjoy nothing. it is, afterall, what humans do best. you are fools
Michelangelos Epitaph 09.02.09
would live there for a few days?
waste of resources when there is so much real need in the world (one of those needs being real housing)
waste of resources when there is so much real need in the world (one of those needs being real housing)
JP 09.02.09
That's not a toy, at all. Apart from color element no other playfulness revealed. An imaginary marketing extension of the original logo toy function. I dont want to imagine how is leaving in that plastic house under sun exposure.
Lise09 09.04.09
WHATS NEXT? THE LEGO- CITY? (spooky-grandiose)
Michels 09.04.09
surprsing to see what all ppl do to be noticed. eco aside...what a waste of effort and time.
jakarta 09.04.09
I like
Hai 09.06.09
Cool!
MC 09.06.09
Nice one! And for those who think art is about ECO, what are you doing on the computer wasting electricity reading about this?????
Well you should just close your eyes and imagine an exciting life. Preferably somewhere else....
Well you should just close your eyes and imagine an exciting life. Preferably somewhere else....
Peer 09.07.09
i saw it today
i live in dorking
its not as big as it looks
and theres a guard dog
james may is only there once a week
i live in dorking
its not as big as it looks
and theres a guard dog
james may is only there once a week
robert russell 09.07.09
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