230,000 piece Lego city breaks record
Spaceships, castles houses... if you love building things out of coloured bricks well how about a whole city? This incredible build, made of 230,000 Lego bricks has everything you could possibly want. From hours to roads, a beach, an airport and even a dinosaur park! And it has has earned the Guinness World Records title for largest Lego brick diorama (a model representing a scene).
The structure was created in Portugal at BRICKOPOLIS Lourinhã by Parque dos Dinossauros da Lourinhã (PDL) It measures a 70.614 m² - a quarter of a tennis court - and the team used over 230,000 bricks to create the city, including creating 366 vehicles, 176 trees, 2,328 flowers and more.They even included a Big-Ben style clock tower, and a lake that is home to a Loch Ness Monster-type creature.
The creators of this Lego city have really gone to town thinking about the design. They have made sure to include little details that you might see in a real-life city. For example the Lego City Airport is equipped with tiny little lego trailers to take luggage to the plane. Wow - what an incredible creation!
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