Those ingenious Danish manufacturers of plastic bricks aka The Lego Group have recently launched their latest must-have model. It is no shrinking violet, standing over 10.5 inches tall and 20.5 inches wide and 23.5 inches deep and consists of 9,036 pieces. It has just been recognised by Guinness World Record as the largest commercially available Lego set, smashing the previous record of 7,541 pieces set by their replica of the Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon.
This whopper is based on the Roman Colosseum, although some liberties have been taken by the design team led by Rok Zgalin Kobe to make it look as it would have done when construction of the real thing was completed in 80CE. They have also added extra colour, as the fierce Roman sun has taken its toll on the original, “to show some of the shadow lines and better accentuate some of the details”, Kobe explains.
It retails at $550 and takes around 30 hours to complete. That should keep the little horrors quiet and the good thing is that it doesn’t matter if you lose some pieces. .It just adds verisimilitude to your structure.
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