Some of the biggest and best LEGO world records.
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in the first bag of the set you're just building out the skeleton for the ship and it's a little
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bit hard to tell the front from the back and in one of the steps i forgot to rotate the set around
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and I ended up placing a bunch of pieces in the wrong direction and then I had to go back and undo
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all of those pieces. In that moment I actually felt really worried about completing the record
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and I was wondering if I should restart since I'd only been about 30 minutes into the build at that
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point. I really liked Star Wars as a kid and one thing I really liked from the movies was how
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impressive the spaceship designs were such as the Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer
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I also collected a lot of LEGO and to this day I still enjoy building LEGO in my free time
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So when this Millennium Falcon set came out a couple years ago, I knew I had to get it
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So I saved up for it and when I finally got it, I came across a video that Guinness World Record made on the previous record attempt
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And I thought to myself, hey, it'd be pretty cool to beat that record. This was my first time building the Millennium Falcon, but before I attended the record, I did want to do some practice runs and tried
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practicing with some of the smaller LEGO Star Wars sets that I had like the AT-AT which took me a
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little bit over an hour and that gave me a lot of confidence for the actual record attempt
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But before that I also did some research on some of the past record holders and looking
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into some of the strategy that they had into building LEGO Fast. The entire building process was actually really fun
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and I think the LEGO designers did a fantastic job of making this giant build an enjoyable process
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I really enjoyed LEGO to begin with, so once I started this build, I kind of locked in and I was in the zone, and before I knew it, the seven and a half hours was over
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One thing though is that my fingertips and my back did hurt a lot at the end of the build
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so if I ever attempt a record like this again, I'll probably want a standing desk or a better setup
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Now I keep the set on display next to my desk so I can look at it all the time
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My name is David Aguilar, I'm 22 and I hold the record for being the first to build a
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fully functioning prosthetic Lego arm. I was born with Poland syndrome, it's a genetic disease that affects only one person out of 20,000
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At first, it might feel like it's not useful, but I use it every day on different things
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like working, doing stuff at the gym, building LEGO. And when I was young, I suffered from bullying from some of my classmates
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And, yeah, I can say it was pretty hard being the different one
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Four years ago, I was laying in my bed and I was kind of bored, so I took a look at my
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room and I saw this Lego helicopter that was sitting on my desk and I decided to dismantle
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it. Every single brick was used to make my first prosthetic out of Lego Technic. It's
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very simple actually. Once I pull my elbow up, the fingers closed, because there are
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some airline headphones that I wanted to reuse and give them another purpose. And the mechanism
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is as simple as this, I don't need something very fancy working like mechanically, just
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to move the simpler part of the prosthetic which is the front and then right here, as
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I told before, there's this like mountain that fits into my hand valley and when I close
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this little screw, you can see the whole section fits to my arm as tight as possible and once
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Once I start hearing like a click, okay that means that there's no more room inside and
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the prosthetic can be stilled and I can move it on my own
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The only limitation that I had with my first prosthetic was that I only used one Lego set
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and this is why I don't have this challenge anymore because on my computer I designed
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my prosthetics in a digital software called Studio and after that I can order the bricks
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and I can build something that I had on my computer a few weeks ago
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My name is Tomáš Kasparík and the record is the world's largest Lego Ferris wheel
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I was actually inspired by the London Eye. I wanted to build something that moves from LEGO
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something from real life that is big, but doesn't take too much parts
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So the Ferris wheel was the obvious choice. Well, the designing actually took me a few months
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to figure out the technique, the frame can be put together and stay stable But after that the building took only about a month for two Because this is actually the second version and the smaller one was like the prototype that I tested everything on
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This one has 40,000 parts. It works the same way as the wheel on the bicycle
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from the center there are strings and there's tension in those strings so it's all stretched
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and doesn't fall in and cannot go out the frame I mean. So that's how it holds all together
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This is the largest thing that I ever built and I was able to take it to many shows so I was very
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happy that I was able to do something like this. I like to build. I like to tinker you know create
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something and I like to create stuff that children will like, that children will enjoy
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So I guess that's my inspiration to bring smiles to children's faces
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Reactions from people. Some people, there were some girls that basically dropped their jaw and kept it down for like
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five minutes. Guys usually shake their heads that it's impossible and I don't know, other reactions, well, amazement
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It feels good to hold the Guinness World Records title and I don't think anyone will beat me very soon
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because this was really, really difficult to build. I do have advice for people, start small
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because if you start big, then you spend a lot of energy and a lot of effort and it may not work out
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I'm also working on some secret stuff that I will not encourage you in just yet
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The actual Colosseum is a spectacular building. For a normal person back in the day, they've hardly seen a building that was over a story high
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and to be confronted with such an amazing piece of engineering that's almost 200 meters wide, that's 50 meters tall
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It was unprecedented up until today. My name's Rok. I'm a senior designer at the LEGO Group
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and I designed the LEGO Colosseum. So during the process, when I was adding more and more detail to it
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the piece count just grew bigger and bigger, and so it slowly evolved into the biggest LEGO set of all time
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The original building could house over 100,000 spectators, at least that's the assumption we have today
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But it also had a retractable roof that's very rare even today
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And we have shown that in the Lego model. There are a number of corbels at the outer ring of the facade
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which shows where the masts were being hoisted, which would hold up the roof
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While the original Roman Colosseum was brightly colored, It was painted bright red, blue, black, as well as white
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It's, of course, been weathered under 2,000 years under the Roman sun
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So the LEGO version actually provides more color in order to show the shadow lines
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to better accentuate some of the details. There are a lot of challenges in building a set this big
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First of all, it has to stand when you lift it up. So the way it's designed is that it has a very strong base
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but the superstructure is only connected on a few points, so it's a bit like modern bridge building
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When you pick it up by the base, it allows the rest of the model to flex on top of it
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which means that it doesn't exude the forces so that it would crack. There are no new elements in the build
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to actually show the versatility of the LEGO system. The columns themselves are built with a minifigure candle piece
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turned upside down, and on the Ioniq columns, on the second row
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I used a minifigure roller skate to surface volutes on top of the column
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I'm truly satisfied that it's a full 360-degree model. There's been utmost attention given to every aspect of it
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so no matter how you turn it, you're always looking at a perfectly detailed LEGO set
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The Colosseum has 9,036 pieces, and as of November 2020, it's the largest LEGO set ever
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my five-year-old self would be really proud of the adult that got to design this amazing Lego set
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