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LEGO Model Of KSC Dwarfs Block-Built A380

We. Want. One.

We really thought this weekend's story about the 1/25th-scale Airbus A380 might be the ultimate aerospace-related LEGO model. Turns out we were wrong -- by a factor of 10.

The 75,000-brick Singapore Airlines A380 is dwarfed by the 750,000-brick model of the Kennedy Space Center. The website gizmodo.com doesn't say where the model was built or by whom... but the video tour is impressive, right down to the tour bus, astronauts in spacesuits, and 6-foot-tall shuttle Discovery on the launch pad.

Other highlights include a 9-foot-long Saturn 1B rocket, and a replica of the vehicle assembly building which measures 6-by-8 feet, by 5 feet tall, and took 50-thousand LEGO blocks all by itself.

The Web site reports the model took 2,500 hours to build. But, as impressive as it is, if you get outside aerospace, there's an even bigger model.

A Gizmodo reader has sent in photos of a LEGO replica of the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, Germany. That one took over 4,000 hours to build, using plans obtained from the original architects. It features 1.3-million blocks, including some special-order translucent bricks made by LEGO just for this project, to allow imbedded LEDs to provide realistic lighting. In the seats are 30,000 LEGO "mini figs," or character figurines.

Kinda makes LEGO's $400 Star Wars Death Star set seem unambitious, doesn't it?

FMI: www.lego.com

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