- I choked on a Lego when I was younger. So recording this video wasn't traumatizing at all. (mock sobs) Lego's have been popular
with kids for decades, even more so lately with
the release of Lego movies. But it's not just kids that enjoy them. In fact, adults now do too. Except some of them go a little too far with their creations. Here are the 10 most mind blowing things people built out of Lego. Number 10 is Jesus. Holy Lego. On April 12th, 2009, members of the Oensta
Gryta Protestant Church in Vaesteras, Sweden unveiled a divine project
that they'd completed after 18 months of work with
the help of 40 volunteers. The project was a large Lego Jesus, and was fashioned after
a sculpture in Copenhagen called Christus by Danish
artist Bertel Thorvaldsen. A crowd of 400 Christians attended the statues introduction on Easter Sunday to get a good look of the children's toy interpretation of the holy idol. This fully white Jesus statue
stands 1.8 meters tall, and is made of 30,000 Legos, many of which were donated. Colored blocks were
still put to use inside of the statue's solid inner layer. Meaning that this Jesus is filled with colorful rainbows at it's core. Secret rainbow Jesus. That has a nice ring to it. Number nine is the Lego Mona Lisa. Painted in 1503 by Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa is
considered his masterpiece, and is one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. In 2007, artist Nathan Sawaya created an exhibit called the Art of the Brick where he put many original,
and recreated works, on display. Including a version of the painting. This Mona Lisa is a full scale replica made of 4,573 pieces of Lego. While her pixely eyes may not follow you in the same way that the
original oil painting does, it's detailed enough that
if seen from a distance, you might actually mistake
it for the real thing. But this wasn't even it's first replica. In the early 2000s, Lego artist Eric Harshbarger built a more detailed version
with over 30,000 pieces. It measured 1.8 by 2.4 meters, and weighed around 20 kilograms. It was appropriately dubbed the Mona Lego. Oh this is cool. Also some people, way too much time on their hands. Number eight is a polar bear. Featured in the Philadelphia zoo, this incredibly lifelike polar bear stands out as a true achievement in both art and engineering. Constructed meticulously
by artist Sean Kenney and five assistants, the bear statue took
over 1100 hours to make, all of that occurring
in less than two months. Something tells me these
people did not sleep much. The team used over 95,000 Lego pieces to cover a metal wire frame
that formed the bears body. It was installed on a platform at the zoo sitting just above a lake to show the isolation the bear was in. Kenney claims to have spent two full days simply trying to get the
bears facial expression right. The look that he was going for was a combination of confused, sad, frustrated, and worried. As the animal was standing on an ice flow representing the fact that polar bears are an endangered species. Here's a little tip for you, that look is called a frown. Very complicated, I know, but try it. It works. Number seven is Brickley the Sea Serpent. In Lake Buena Vista across from
the Lego Imagination Center in downtown Disney Orlando, Florida lives a friendly looking creature that is incredibly completely
made out of Lego bricks. Brickley the Sea Serpent is a green and yellow snake-like construct with a dragon's head
that makes it resemble what many say the Loch
Ness monster looks like. This happy statue was built in 1997 using over 170,000 Lego bricks by the team at the imagination center. Stretched out, Brickley would be over nine meters long. However, he seems to enjoy weaving up and down, exiting the water a total of four times. Though he was apparently the first, Orlando's Brickley is no
longer the only version of the Lego serpent as he's become an icon
at flagship Lego stores in places like Chicago,
New York, and even London. Okay Brickley is a clever name, but personally I would have
chosen the Brickness Monster. Has a nice ring to it. Number six is a Lego pharaoh. On February 18th, 2009, people traveling along
the River Thames in London got a big surprise when a 4.9 meter tall colorful Egyptian statue
came floating along carefully transported on a large boat. The pharaoh took five months to construct with each of it's 200,000 Lego pieces placed by the hands of
four different modelers. Okay we've got a giant pharaoh to make. How many of us are there? Four. This is gonna take a while. It was built in the Czech republic and transported by truck and boat over 2,245 kilometers to get
to it's final destination, Legoland Windsor in Berkshire, England where the structure now
stands as the centerpiece of the parks Kingdom of
the Pharaoh attraction. In total, the statue of toy bricks weighed over 1,000 kilograms. So if you've ever wondered how much 200,000 Lego bricks formed into the shape of an Egyptian king weighed, now you know. Personally that was a question that kept me up many a nights. So I'm just glad I learned. Number five is a car. In 2004, Swedish car manufacturer Volvo teamed up with Legoland
in Carlsbad, California to promote safe driving in a wholesome Lego kind of way. The project was to create a Lego car. A full sized replica of a Volvo XC 90 SUV. The blocky blue SUV was
created by Lego's team of master model builders. It's made up of 201,076 Lego pieces, and weighs 1,331 kilograms with every bit of the
car, except for the tires, becoming Lego-ized. Upon it's completion, it sat at the entrance of Legoland in full view of the park's yearly 1.3 million visitors. Unfortunately since Lego
windshields are not transparent, Lego door handles don't open, and Lego engines have no
internal combustion functions, the car's not drivable. But if the opportunity every arises, it certainly would make an excellent car crash spectacle. Although I would not want to be the guy that cleans that crash up. Oh lord. Number four is the Lego Sport City. Lego Sport City is a
huge intricately designed sports complex and resort, which was built by the
Hong Kong Lego Users Group. The massive landscape, which measures over three
meters by 7.9 meters was built as a promotional piece for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, and took around 100 hours to complete. The city includes replicas
of the national stadium, the national aquatic center, the beach volleyball stadium, and the Olympic village. All of these buildings, along with the scenery between them, are comprised of over 300,000 Lego bricks and 4500 uniquely assembled Lego people. The aquatic center even
has internal wiring, and a fluorescent lamp to give the big blue building a nice glow. Man these people are just going all out. Next thing you know, they're just going to build
a cruise ship out of Lego. That's next? Number three is the Queen
Mary 2 Cruise Liner. When a Lego building set
is so big and complicated that you can't move it anymore, well that's where I draw the line. But of course there are builders out there who think bigger is better, such as the team that built this ridiculously huge replica of the Queen Mary 2 cruise liner. Constructed by German
artists Klaas H. Meijaard and René Hoffmeister in 2009, the famous boat which
sits in Lego dry dock is 6.9 meters long and
weighs 870 kilograms. It took the artists over 1200 hours, with additional help, to complete the Queen Mary 2, and required over 480,000 pieces of Lego. It's considered to be the
largest Lego ship in existence and had to be constructed right in the International Maritime
Museum in Hamburg, Germany where it's still on display today. Am I the only one that just wants them to seal up all the cracks and just see how far it'll go? It might end up like the Titanic, but it might be fun. Number two is the tallest Lego tower. At four p.m on June 21st, 2015, Italian TV and radio
personality Alessandro Cattelan placed the final piece on
a world record breaking 30 meter tall Lego structure. The structure was built
in Fabbrica del Vapore, an art complex in Milan, Italy. The sky scraper was constructed
by over 18,000 people, most of them children at a five day event that was bringing awareness and support to the Urban Oasis and
the World Wildlife Fund. For every centimeter the
tower rose off the ground, Lego offered seven euros to the project which helps protect and
preserve the planet. In total, over 500,000 Lego pieces were used with many forming flags, words, or even colorful images. In addition to the money given by Lego, the event brought the message that every brick added was needed, just like small positive actions that can lead to a better world. Now I know what you might be thinking. These people are crazy. Half a million Lego pieces? It can't get any bigger. Or can it? And number one is a full sized Lego house. Yep a full house. My god. James May, host of BBC's Top Gear, teamed up with the Lego group
and nearly 1,000 volunteers to build a two story fully
functional house out of, brace yourself for this, 3.3 million Lego bricks. Built in Denbies Wine Estate
in Dorking, Surrey, England, the structure was 6.1 meters high and had a working toilet, sink, shower, and possibly the most uncomfortable bed anyone has ever tried to sleep on. On September 18th, 2009, May actually spent the night in the house for his TV show James May's Toy Stories. But shockingly, instead of the building being shipped to the Legoland in Windsor, just like everyone thought it would be, Legoland declined to ship it when they found out it would cost over 50,000 pounds to do so. With nobody to take with it, the house was destroyed six
days later on September 24th. On the bright side, the Lego was donated to charity. On the not so bright side, they destroyed a whole
house that was just amazing. It took so long baby. Why'd you do that? So that was the 10 most
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