Jul 26 2009Full Size House To Be Built With LEGO Bricks
James May, co-host of the British Top Gear television series, is going to attempt to build a full size, two story house entirely out of LEGO bricks.
As part of his BBC series James May's Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking.May will be hosting a building day on Saturday, August 1, when members of the public can help him with the challenge.
The millions of bricks came all the way from the Czech Republic. The house will be life-size with a staircase, toilet and shower.
I would live there. And by live there I mean come home drunk, pass out on the floor, and wake up with LEGO marks all over my face. Then maybe some puking action.
Lego house attempt for James May's Toy Stories [getsurrey]
Thanks to Kieren, who built an entire planet out of LEGO and then ran through it like a leaf pile.
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Reader Comments
1. Gerinych - July 26, 2009 12:23 PM
someone whould make a planet out of legos
2. Slice - July 26, 2009 12:23 PM
FIRST. my second. PLZPZLZLPZLPZP PLOH GOD
3. Gerinych - July 26, 2009 12:24 PM
*should
4. GoGo VicMorrow - July 26, 2009 12:33 PM
You know.. i was the first poster like my third time commenting on geekologie and I didn't make mention.. Is this some sort of really lame ongoing joke or do people really get excited about it?
Every entry generally has a senseless first five comments because of this..
Now on topic.. I'm wondering how many columns there will be on the first floor or how they will reinforce the second..
will it be...
is it... safe?
5. Taylored - July 26, 2009 12:56 PM
I have wanted to do this since pretty much forever. I wonder what the materials cost would be...?
@4:
I assume there would need to be many columns. I would probably have a honey comb type architecture with 4ft diameter spheres... or something like that. I am not a structural engineer or anything, but this looks like it would be an awesome project. I think lego would have to have some serious quality control on the bricks. I have not bought a lego sent in many years, but in my day they did not all fit the same, some were tight, some were loose. This issue would need to be solved in order to have uniform structural integrity. I also wonder about building permits...
6. Tenshi - July 26, 2009 12:57 PM
I too would come home drunk and pass out drunk and wake up with lego marks on my face. However this happens and my house isn't made of legos...
7. MadMonkey - July 26, 2009 1:16 PM
I love James May... he may not be a great driver, but at least he's entertaining :)
8. Anon - July 26, 2009 1:32 PM
Captain Slow has made it to Geekologie!
9. Octopus Pie - July 26, 2009 1:35 PM
Forget about rug burns- could you imagine the marks that you'd get from messing around on the lego floor or the lego bed?
10. Anna - July 26, 2009 1:40 PM
@5... the structural integrity of legos is pretty impeccable. I don't know what ghetto loose legos you were playing with (duplos maybe?) but the margin of error for a lego mold is less than 5/1000s of a millimeter.
11. jordan - July 26, 2009 1:44 PM
mega blocks!
12. GoGo VicMorrow - July 26, 2009 1:48 PM
Why are the legos coming from the Czech Republic?
13. Giant Lenin - July 26, 2009 2:05 PM
I'm helping build that! Can't believe it's on Geekologie!
14. Daisy - July 26, 2009 2:18 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max hit his 100th home run and ran the bases backwards.
15. Joey P - July 26, 2009 2:22 PM
Perfect "Kool-Aid Man" opportunity
16. samwich - July 26, 2009 2:51 PM
lol, I want
17. Kieren - July 26, 2009 3:06 PM
I want my Lego planet back...
geekolgie writer stole my blueprints
18. Taylored - July 26, 2009 3:58 PM
@10
I had lego blocks which had been accumulated over a number of years. From the 60's to the late 90's. That could be the reason for my problems.
19. Emkay - July 26, 2009 4:37 PM
...I just shat bricks...
20. bribios - July 26, 2009 5:06 PM
The house being built in Dorking is too perfect.
21. matt - July 26, 2009 5:09 PM
finally!
22. ikiness - July 26, 2009 5:17 PM
This is epically old news.
23. Kieren - July 26, 2009 6:08 PM
@22
"Frequently Asked Questions
This is old. Why did you post about it?
Probably because we're not as cool as you."
24. Frank Glover - July 26, 2009 11:13 PM
Hmm. Two words: Fire Codes.
25. Melissa - July 27, 2009 1:05 AM
dorking
26. Yeags - July 27, 2009 2:34 AM
I hope they don't have earthquakes over there otherwise it'll end up like that giant ball that Mythbusters made.
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28. geekofan - July 27, 2009 4:31 AM
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29. Legoman? - July 27, 2009 5:36 AM
My question is if he's going to use regular size lego, or custom made jumbo super sized legos?
30. englishman - July 27, 2009 7:14 AM
@ 26
No we don't have earthquakes over here as we do not live on (or near) a tectonic plate fault line
31. Jaded Icon - July 27, 2009 7:23 AM
@ 9
Forget the lego floor or the lego bed, could you imagine the marks that you'd get from messing around with your lego wife or smacking your lego kid?
32. Voiceofsanity - July 27, 2009 8:01 AM
@22 Errr if this is to be done on August 1st 2009 how is it old news?
@14 The picture above is obviously a FAKE!!! as the real house hasn't been built yet!
I'm sorry I thought geeks were supposed to be intelligent?
33. The Insane Man - July 27, 2009 8:15 AM
@32
So what if the picture above is fake? The house haven't even been built yet. TO BE.
34. i need a job - July 27, 2009 8:40 AM
This sounds awesome but very tedious. Back in the day I always had big lego ideas and once I got strated I never had the patience to complete. Finding the elusive three pegger in a haystack of two and fours pretty much drove me to drink which was the gateway to all of my life's problems so I say piss on legos.
Larry
http://www.damnineedajob.com
35. John Davis - July 27, 2009 9:37 AM
Wow, that is truly amazing.
RT
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36. Voiveofsanity - July 27, 2009 10:15 AM
@33 errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm ok now go back and READ my post! I was referring to the comment made in 14 which calls the picture a fake.
Again I ask the question, I thought geeks were supposed to be INTELLIGENT?
37. Jaded Icon - July 27, 2009 11:04 AM
@36
Where do I start.....hmmm....well, lets start with Daisy. Daisy (or noobfishfinder as we like to call her/him) posts FAKE with every GW post. They have been doing this for .......uh.......a long time. If you read the whole comment you would realize that Daisy is not even refering to this photo (she/he only refers to the movie NEVER BACK DOWN) and she/he makes bizzare statements that actually have no revelance to the movie. So, long story short, Welcome to Geekologie! Enjoy your complimentary novelty eagle head.
38. Voiceofsanity - July 27, 2009 11:11 AM
@Jaded Icon LOL well thanks for the welcome =) A warning would've been nice lol
39. Sawa - July 27, 2009 7:02 PM
IS IT SAFE?!
40. julie - July 28, 2009 12:37 AM
what will they do with the house when it is complete?
41. Franz König - July 28, 2009 3:22 AM
jeah LEGO rulez!
42. Madzay - July 28, 2009 4:08 AM
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yse yes and more orgasmic yelling!
43. Garrett Williams - July 29, 2009 12:31 AM
I demand followup when there's a finished product to show! I hope there will be video available online. Surely someone will put it on YouTube, at least.
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46. Legos for Sale - November 11, 2009 1:04 PM
Hope this catches on so that LEGO will be in even greater demand and also more of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOYFrcCy2E Gotta love the Mythbusters!