You're all geeks, so I can confidently wager that you've spent a fair amount of time building miniature cities with Legos at some point in your lives. I know I did. Not only cities, but spaceships and boats, and forts, and . . . well, you get the picture. But James May, a toy fanatic from the UK (who has his own TV show), built a real house from Legos.
This two-story Lego palace, which resides in the middle of a vineyard, sports a working bathroom, and is covered inside and out with bricks pieced together by 272 Legos. Over three million bricks were used to build the Lego pad, so doing some quick math here — that's over 816 million Lego pieces! Sheesh. I wonder what they'll do with the Legos once James moves out?
Check out more photos of the Lego house when you read more.
Untold
You missed out Car fanatic. His main job is a presenter on Top Gear.
1Your maths is a little over-enthusiastic; my son & I helped with the original "brick build" & were told by the organisers that they had 3.5 million pieces in total.... We've been back to see it this week, it's nearly finished & well worth a look!
2Love James May!
3I agree with DazManCat though--can't believe you didn't mention Top Gear
wow
it looks so good.
4LEGO, NOT LEGOS
5Wooden infrastructure, Meh I thought it was going to be 100% Lego bricks. Still Nifty just not as cool.
6As a previous poster has pointed out, the plural for of Lego is Lego, not Legos.
7There's no such word as Legos numbnutz, it's just Lego
8Sorry about the numbnutz
9Or just LEGO bricks
10umm they are called LEGO bricks, not LEGOs. fyi.
i work with LEGO and i was butchered when i said LEGOs. so...fyi. mr/mrs reporter.
11I think this is a great project with enormous potential and the opportunity has been completely squandered by someone with no sense of design. To build simply a gaudily striped box is a tragic misuse of all those glorious bricks. You could embed any design you want into those bricks, and classic 80's pixelated images immediately suggest themselves, like a Space Invaders game in the nursery. You could do mosaics of great works of art. You could mimic conventional building materials such as brick, stone, or wood. You could add some texture to the surface with vertical or horizontal striations. You could add a lego brick climbing wall. You could choose more elegant combinations of colour. In short, you could make it look like something other than what a 6 year old would build from a tub of random bricks.
12Totally ridiculous!
13I f*cking love James May; he's a genius.
14and the plural, it's LEGO, yo.
I think you all need to just LEGO this whole conversation about lego being its own plural.
15Well I like to give some positive feedback. Considering how many bricks are involved and the time spent, I think a simple design would be all that one could plan unless you had unlimited number of helpers.
16Great idea, its sure to be a Major tourist attraction, and my guess is that you will keep expanding your little abode until oneday its a castle for all to see and praise.
I hope the lego stands the test of time.
Cheers Jeff
Wellington, NZ.
I love James May! This is way awesome. I wonder if The Stig will make an appearance? Haha!
17awesome! but then again James May is awesome... and he works on Top Gear. Which makes him even more awesome! he is awesomeness incarnate. nuff said.
18Very cool, I went and had a look a few days ago and the pictures dont really give the thing justice. Only qualm is that I know the chap in the photos and I think he would have appreciated you asking permission before posting his photo on the internet.
And to igm, if you think you could do better, you can turn up and volunteer so I suggest you go and give some opinions before laying into it.
19He built it in a vineyard? Oz would be proud!
20How do you build a toilet out of lego?
21LEGO House for real? It is and it's cool. Anybody else need one? I know kids who'd be glad to help.
From Page: "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. 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."
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