As if this wasn’t cool enough, check out this awesome life-size model of Pixar’s racing legend, built from over 250,000 bricks weighing in at nearly a ton…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaQ_ptflWLs
They also have another cool Behind the Bricks video showing the construction of a life-size Jack Sparrow model that was created out of LEGOs for the Pirates 4 toy line premiere earlier this year. Hopefully these will become part of a larger series as Disney expands its relationship with LEGO – I’d love to see some behind the scenes footage of the construction of the new models around the LEGO store that was just remodeled at Downtown Disney (although I’ve specifically avoided looking at any pictures online because I really want to see them in person first!).
Even though I’m not sure that I’d have the design skills for it to be able to craft something like one of these in 3D, I always thought it would be cool to work as a LEGO Master Builder to bring these sorts of giant-scale creations to life. I’ve played around with their online designer that lets you create and then order your own set, and it’s kind of neat … again, for the design literate! … but even just getting to help put one of these things together based on somebody else’s design I think would be a real treat!
I keep telling myself that one day I want to really dig in and try making something from scratch on my own – maybe a medium-size-ish Bart Simpson figure or something. You know, start small so that by the time I’m ready to retire, I’ve worked up to where I can take up the entire garage working on my life-size LEGO Stegosaurus or something…