{"id":12850,"date":"2013-05-24T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2013-05-24T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T00:39:16","slug":"150000-lego-bricks-1700-figures-160-pounds-1-helms-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/art\/150000-lego-bricks-1700-figures-160-pounds-1-helms-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"150,000 LEGO bricks, 1,700 figures, 160 pounds, 1 Helm’s Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who doesn’t love LEGO? As a child with a strong sense of imagination, and a tendency to be happy enough staying indoors on a rainy day, LEGO was a door that allowed me to enter into an infinite number of other worlds. My time with LEGO and my time discovering Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings<\/em> didn’t quite intersect, but they’re both formative parts of my childhood and adolescence. Hell, I have a LEGO set of Gandalf’s carriage, from the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> sitting on my desk at work right now.<\/p>\n

Based on the layout of Helm’s Deep featured in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation, this 150,000 brick set piece is astounding. The artists<\/a>, who go by the names Rich-K and Big J, apparently, nail the atmosphere and scale of the conflict of one Lord of the Rings<\/em> most iconic scenes. At the time these photos were taken, the model was about 90% complete, with an estimated four months worth of work. The time, money and personal investment that must have gone into this project is impressive.<\/p>\n

More photos of this LEGO Helm’s Deep can be found on the artist’s MOCpages post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who doesn’t love LEGO? As a child with a strong sense of imagination, and a tendency to be happy enough staying indoors on a rainy day, LEGO was a door that allowed me to enter into an infinite number of other worlds. My time with LEGO and my time discovering Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1285,38,643,145,144,354],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-fantasy","tag-helms-deep","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-lego","tag-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n