World’s tallest LEGO tower

Posted by Spooky
May 8, 2008

This toy tower brings back memories…

If you’re lucky enough to be living near Legoland Windsor, in England, than you’ll be able to examine this toy wonder in person. It may look pointless but this baby climbed its way into the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Tallest LEGO tower. The former record was of 96 feet but the Legoland Windsor tower measures a whopping 100 feet. It was built to resemble a Viking longboat mast, to mark the inauguration of the land of Vikings attraction in the theme park, but also to celebrate 50 years of LEGO.

The tower was built by children, one 20 cm portion at a time, portions that were then lifted by a crane and it took almost half a million LEGO pieces to build. The tower is held in place by wires.

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Comment by Alex on May 9, 2008 @ 5:05 am

damn.

that is awesome

i’m so jealous

Comment by Jimbot on May 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

screw it! im going to build one in my backyard

Comment by Christoffer on May 10, 2008 @ 1:00 pm

Impressive construction, but it look really stupid with all those random colours everywhere xD

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