100ft Lego tower (pic)


	100ft Lego tower (pic)

queerty

5-7-2008 3:30 AM

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lego, tower, world, record

queerty says:

How very cool.

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Thousands of children and their families used almost 500,000 bricks to build the structure at the Legoland theme park in Windsor, Berkshire.
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The tower is designed to resemble a Viking longboat mast to mark the opening of the new Land of the Vikings.
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It is yet to officially verified, but the next biggest Lego tower is just over 96ft built in Toronto last August.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7386537.stm"><P>
The Viking mast tower was created over the Bank Holiday weekend with each of the top sections lifted into place with a crane.
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Lego has recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the iconic brick.
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Penny Jenkins, the park's special events manager, said: "We are thrilled to [hopefully] bring the world record to Legoland Windsor after four days of hard work, not to mention nearly 500,000 bricks.
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