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Brickworkz LEGO mosaics : Blog : We Got the Guinness World Record! We Got the Guinness World Record!I pulled into town around 4pm and got settled in quickly. Dan had a room filled to the brim with Lego parts. Lego pieces in piles, some sorted by color, some in boxes, some poured out over the tables. It was more Lego than I’ve ever seen in one place. I got to work on assembling the design, working mostly on the complicated elements. Since I had designed a Brickworkz logo, I wanted to take care of designing the airplane pulling the advertisement.  The scale of this project was beyond comprehension. Sure, I didn’t have to build it all, but even designing the thing was tedious. It took more than several hours a day for a month to compile the 525 instructional pages for the mosaic build. In a normal Lego mosaic, you can illustrate flowers by adding a few colored Lego pieces to a field of green. With this project, the flowers were 20 studs tall, and they were meant to just be a background afterthought!
It took Dan and his team a long time to build, and for 36 hours, I was in the trenches with them. When the doors opened the next Saturday to all the children, the project really took on a life of its own.  To fill the space of the truck’s trailer, the kids got to decorate their own baseplate with the spare Lego parts laying in the many many piles of brick and plate spilled on the floor of the build area.
The lighting wasn’t great in the gymnasium, where the Lego mosaic lay, but I captured the weekend’s activities on video, regardless. We took photos along the way and I got some great shots of Dan standing by the project to give a sense of scale to the whole project. Later this week, the mayor of Bellaire, Ohio will come in to officially measure the mosaic and we’ll submit the project to Guinness for our application. Play well,  Posted by Brian Korte on September 30, 2007 What do you think? Let us know! « Previous: Records are meant to be broken. | Home | Next: Painting and Preparations for 8th and Main » TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: |
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