Lego house!!! No, really--a LIFE-SIZE Lego house

Okay, this is way cool. My favorite TV guy (see sig) is doing a show about toys (coming to the BBC in the fall--coming to my 'puter right after that, as soon as I can get my hot little hands on a torrent), and making all these life-size things out of creative toys. A bunch of volunteers made an entire house of of Lego, which he stayed in for a couple of days (a working Lego toilet--?!)

But now they're going to TEAR IT DOWN because the UK Legoland says they can't afford to transport it there. Idiots.

Wanted to post a couple of pics from this slide show http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/james-may-lego?imageNo=0 but the TG site won't let me. Here's one, mid-build, boosted from the Daily Mail. But check out the slideshow--all the stuff people made (including a Lego version of the guy's cat!) is amazing!

I suppose they can be disinfected. It would be a shame to waste them.

I think they said they used more than 3 million bricks for the whole house. I don't know if that includes the fun stuff like the cat (REALLY well done) and other accessories that "decorate" the interior.

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Oh, and I love James May as well. Top Gear for the win!

Someone took a great deal of time to get the...er...details just right.
:rofl:

James May rules. I love that guy. :applause:

And just because it's still cool. :D

He was on Jonathon Ross a couple weeks ago and I didn't think it had been even started yet.

The Top Gear site says they're at least trying to save the thing.

I love Captain Slow as well, and your sig is one of my favorite quotes ever (and I've stolen/modified for my own use, with due credit of course).

I saw it online something like three weeks before it aired on BBCA, so they had that much more time to work on the house. I think they started the Lego house shortly after basking in the glory of the plasticine garden at the Chelsea Flower Show and before they worked on the Meccano bridge in Liverpool in earnest, so that would have been...what...maybe mid-July?

I am SO impressed with what James accomplishes on his own. He's always been my favorite TG guy (I enjoy his low-key sense of humor and his general air of befuddlement), but lately he's really been coming into his own.

Hey, check your PM--I've got a link you might enjoy but I don't feel like "exposing" to the general public.

Oh, this is really too much. According to an article in the Sunday Daily Mail, Legoland has its panties in a wad and is refusing to take the house, not because it's too expensive to move (their excuse), but because they're miffed they weren't asked to help build it. But that was the WHOLE POINT--that volunteers, including KIDS being encouraged to play and use their imaginations again, be the key builders of the house, as a participatory event. Sure, they insist if they had helped, they could have created a "movable" structure, but it sounds like they just wanted the publicity of having their paws in the event from the get-go.

Again, I say: Idiots (the Legoland folks).

So they're going to take a chainsaw to the house on Tuesday if someone doesn't step forward. But the house (or even the dismantled Legos, if it comes to that) has to stay in Britain, according to contractual agreements with Lego. x(

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html