LEGO World Records

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World Records: Tallest Lego Tower

Venue	Height		Bricks	Date	photo: the 28.21 m tall LEGO tower built at LEGOLAND California in 2005 (source: LEGO Group press release) cool books: The Unnofficial LEGO Builder's Guide by Allan Bedford order at amazon.com from the UK: order at amazon.co.uk The Ultimate LEGO Book order at amazon.com from the UK: order at amazon.co.uk
Milton Keynes (Great Britain)	13.1 m	43 ft	100,000	25-08-1980
London (Great Britain)	15.01 m	49 ft 3 in		29/30-10-1985
Munich (Germany)	16.97 m	55 ft 8 in	180,000	14/20 Aug 1989
Tel Aviv (Israel)	18.15 m	59 ft 6 in	221,560	May 1990
Vienna (Austria)	18.7 m	61 ft 4 in	183,000	Oct 1990
San Franzisco (USA)	19 m	62 ft 4 in		1990
Cascais (Portugal)	19.7 m	64 ft 7 in	250,000	February 1992
Auckland (New Zealand)	19.90 m	65 ft 2 in	248,756	22/23 Feb1992
Dübendorf (Zürich) (Switzerland) ?	20.61 m	67 ft 7 in	500,000	4/8 Aug 1992
Budapest (Hungary)	21.14 m	69 ft 4 in		May 1993
Brussels (Belgium)	21.36 m	70 ft		26/27 Jun1993
Göteborg (Sweden)	21.63 m	71 ft		Aug 1993
Hongkong	21.91 m	71 ft 11 in		4 April 1994
La Belle Etoile (Luxemburg)	22.13 m	72 ft 6 in		4 Sept 1994
Madrid (Spain)	22.41 m	73 ft 6 in		7-10 Oct 1994
Tåstrup (Denmark)	22.67 m	74 ft 4 in		27 July 1995
Seoul (South Korea)	23.l41 m			1996
Nice (France)?	23.66 m	77 ft 8 in	300,000	1997
Hohenwestedt (Germany) ?	23.95 m	78 ft 7 in	367,700	16 Aug 1997
Moscow (Russia)	24.66 m	80 ft 11 in	387,903	14-19 July 1998
Tallin (Estonia)	24.91 m	81 ft 9 in	391,478	18-21 Aug 1998
Rostov (Russia)	25.71 m	84 ft 4 in		May 2002
Yekaterinburg (Russia)	26.19 m	85 ft 11 in		June 2002
Oostende (Belgium)	26.70 m	87 ft 7 in		Aug. 2002
Legoland Günzburg (Germany)	26.92 m	88 ft 4 in	500,000	12-15 Sep 2002
Legoland Billund (Denmark)	27.22 m	89 ft 4 in	500,000	June 2003
Albergen (Netherlands)	27.44 m	90 ft		May 2004
Legoland California, Carlsbad (USA)	28.21 m	92 ft 6 in	500,000	17-21 Feb 2005
Sønderborg Ringrider-festen Sønderborg (Denmark)	28.48 m	93 ft 5 in		10 July 2006
Legoland California, Carlsbad (USA)	28.74 m	94 ft 3 in	465,000	24-28 May 2007
Toronto (Canada)	29.03 m	95 ft 3 in		17-22 August 2007
Legoland Windsor (Great Britain)	29.26 m	96 ft	500,000	2-5 May 2008
Vienna (Austria)	29.485 m	96 ft 9 in	500,000	2-5 October 2008
Nasu Highland Park (Japan)	29.70 m	97 ft 5 in	430,000	31 March-3 April 2009
Munich (Germany)	29.97 m	98 ft 4 in	500,000	1 - 4 Oct 2009

World Records: Longest LEGO construction

Venue		Length		Bricks	Date
Prague (Czech Republic)		578 m	1895 ft	1,500,834	31 May 1998
Legoland California, Carlsbad (USA)	PHOTOS	610.8 m	2004 ft	1,679,100	8/12 July 2000
Legoland Billund		632 m	2073 ft		2001
Auckland (New Zealand)		646 m	2119 ft	1.7 mio	July 2001
Brügge (Belgium)		670 m	2198 ft
Legoland Günzburg (Germany)		676 m	2218 ft	> 2 mio	25 July - 16 Aug 2002
Southland Shopping Centre Melbourne (Australia)	PHOTOS	1014.8 m	3329 ft	> 2 mio	21/22 Sept 2002
Bangkok (Thailand)		1052 m	3451 ft	2,477,140	27 April 2003
Albergen (Netherlands)		1383 m	4537 ft	2.5 mio	May 2004
Montreal (Canada)		1398 m	4597 ft	ca 3 mio	8-15 August 2004
Singapore Expo Hall (Singapore)		1410 m	4626 ft	2,890,580	December 2004
Shopville Le Gru,Grugliasco (Italy)	PHOTOS	1578.8 m	5179 ft	2,901,760	13 February 2005

Largest permanent LEGO Installation in Minifigure Scale

The largest permanent LEGO installation in minifigure scale (approximately 55:1) is the LEGO Millyard Project at SEE Science Center in Manchester (NH, USA). The project was built using ca. 3 mio bricks and 8,000 minifigures at an area of 200 sq m [2,200 sq ft]. It took more than 10,000 person hours to complete it.
More information can be found at the NELUG site and cool pictures are available from NELUG and from Brickshelf here and here.

Largest LEGO Image

The largest LEGO image has been built by about 250 children at the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum in Bellaire, Ohio (USA) in October 2007. The image of a LEGO tractor tailer (designed by Brian Korte) measured 13.61 m [44 ft 8 in] x 5.95 m [19 ft 6 3/8 in]. No less than 1.2 mio bricks have been used.

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The previous record was a logo measuring 7.72 m x 10.4 m (25 ft 4 in x 34 ft 1.5 in), at The Franklin Institute Science Museum on 22 August 2001 in Philadelphia (USA) by over 2,500 people. The logo of the X Games host city Philadelphia was constructed from 180,000 bricks.

Largest LEGO Car

Built in Chicago, and using more than 650,000 LEGO components, the LEGO Group's designers worked for 1,500 hours to design a life-size LEGO Super Car, and the company's model builders and technicians spent a further 4,000 hours assembling it. Though the life-size version of the LEGO car is 10 times bigger than the set sold in stores world-wide, it uses 500 times more LEGO elements. The LEGO Super Car is approximately 4.72 m (15 feet 5 inches) long, 2.28 m (7 feet 5 inches) wide and 1.24 m (4 feet 10 inches) high, weighing more than a ton, making it the biggest LEGO car in the world.

Largest LEGO Ship

Led by René Hoffmeister (Germany), visitors of the science museum phæno in Wolfsburg (Germany) built a 7.29 m long container ship from 400,000 LEGO bricks in October 2009. (photo: phæno)

Previous records:
It took Klass Meijaard and René Hoffmeister (Netherlands) 1,200 hours to build a 6.90 m long Queen Mary 2 replica. The ship weights 870 kg. Since 2008 it can be found at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg (Germany) DETAILS and FOTOS
A model of the Nimitz Class Carrier USS Harry S. Truman, CVN 75, measuring 4.52 m (length) x 1.37 m (width) x 1.22 m (height) was displayed at the Skaerbaek 2006 event in Denmark. The model weighs over 160 kg. It was built in over one year by Malle Hawking from Munich (Germany) from more than 300,000 bricks. FOTO
A 3 m (10-ft) long 1.2 m (4-ft) wide replica of a sleek, navy-blue Chris-Craft speedster was built by Nathan Sawaya in January 2005 at the Seattle Boat Show.

Largest LEGO Bridge

The largest LEGO bridge was a 37 m (122 ft) long bridge built on 26 October 2003 at the Cargo Lifter hall near Berlin (Germany) for a TV show dedicated to LEGO.

The widest free span -14 m (46 ft) - had a 20 m long bridge that has been constructed from 16 September - 5 October 2008 at Science Museum Phaeno in Wolfsburg (Germany) from 80,000 bricks. The previous record [about 12.5 m] was for a model of the Gibraltar railway bridge built by Bart Efdé, Benny Efdé and Marco de Vries from 650 kg of bricks.
Ted Michon of the Southern California LEGO Train Club has built a 4.5 m (15 ft) operating LEGO train bridge. The double decked, 4 tracked, working suspension bridge measures 576 studs from anchor to anchor and has a main span of 384 studs measured tower to tower. PHOTO

Longest LEGO Train Track

The longest LEGO train track measured 1019 m (3343 ft). It was built by The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club in August 2000 at the Center House in Seattle Washington. Here is a great picture gallery about this event.

Longest LEGO Train

A LEGO train with 127 carriages was pulled by two locomotives at the First German Lego Train Club meeting in December 2000 at the airport in Braunschweig (Germany) PHOTO1 | PHOTO2 | PHOTO3 | PHOTO3

Largest LEGO Castle

A castle measuring made from over 1.4 mio bricks and 2100 figs has been built at the Toy and Plastic Brick Museum in Bellaire, Ohio (USA) in 2008.

Tallest LEGO Crane

The tallest crane is a almost 6 m (20 feet) tall scale model of a Liebherr LR-11200 1000 ton Crawler built by Alvin Brant. PHOTOS
Alvin has also built another 6 m-tall model of a Terex-Demag CC-8800-1 TWIN. PHOTOS1 | PHOTOS2 | PHOTOS3

Underwater LEGO Construction

11 divers built a LEGO castle from 36,000 pieces in Aufkirchen (Germany)

Longest LEGO Chain

The longest LEGO chain was built by 700 children in Willisau (Switzerland) on 7 September 2003. It was 565 m (1854 ft) long, had 2211 chain links and was made from 424,512 LEGO bricks.
(photo source: obs/UB LEGO Switzerland AG)

Biggest Statue

The biggest construction ever made from LEGO bricks is a statue of Sitting Bull in LEGOLAND Billund (Denmark). It is 7.6 m tall and contains 1.5 mio bricks. It has been designed by Bjørn Richter.

Largest LEGO Portrait

The largest LEGO portrait was a 3 m x 3 m (10 ft x 10 ft) mosaic of a portrait made by LEGO artist Eric Harshberger for the TV Show Ripley's Believe It Or Not! in Los Angeles in 2003. It was a portrait of the TV show's host Dean Cain.

Largest Display of Minifigs

LEGO employees at LEGO UK head office in Slough assembled an "army" of 35,310 Clone Trooper mini-figs in six and a half hours in July 2008. PHOTOS

Largest Set

The largest commercially available LEGO set is the Taj Mahal set (set # 10189), containing 5922 pieces. Once completed, the model is 51 cm [20 in] wide and 41 cm [16 in] tall. The previous record holder was theUltimate Collector's Millennium Falcon (set # 10179) with 5195 pieces. The model is 84 cm [33 in] long, 56 cm [22 in] wide and 21 cm [8 in] tall.

Fastest Time to Build the Imperial Star Destroyer (Set 10030)

(The team is limited to 5 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:42:43 hrs	BricksWest, Carlsbad, California, USA (team of 13)		February 2003	Click here to order the Imperial Star Destroyer at amazon.com.
1:17:33 hrs	1000steine-Land 2003, Berlin, Germany		5 July 2003
1:14:52 hrs	BrickFest DC (USA)		August 2003
1:13:25 hrs	Erik Amzallag, Jean-Louis Bergamo, Sybrand Bonsma, Hans de Vlieger, Hein-Jan Kemperman, Didier Malon, Dirk Plug, Mark van der Horst, Casper van Nimwegen, Rick Zonneveld (Netherlands) at LEGOWORLD 2003	PHOTOS	October 2003
1:09:22 hrs	Brickfest PDX in Portland (USA)	VIDEOS	14 February 2004
1:02 hrs	team from Germany
0:54:21 hrs	New England LEGO Users Group (NELUG) at Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough, Massachusetts (USA)		30 October 2004

Fastest Time to Built the Technic Mobile Crane (Set 8421)

(The team is limited to 5 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:55:15 hrs	Bruno Kurth, Tobias Reichling, Jürgen Lüttgen, Gerhard Auer and Joe Klang at 1000steine-Land 2005 in Berlin (Germany)		Juni 2005	Click here to order the Mobile Crane at amazon.com. (From the UK: order at amazon.co.uk)
1:48:14 hrs	Brickfest 2005 (USA)		August 2005
1:36:29 hrs	Jan Albert van Ree, Robert Griebl, Malle Hawking, Dominik Gerlach and Tobias Reichling at Bricking Bavaria 2005 in Kirchheim (Germany)		Oct 2005
1:19:02 hrs	Maico Arts, Martijn Boogaarts, Erik Gusting, Ben Fraters and Dirk Plug at Legoworld 2005 in Zwolle (Netherlands)	PHOTO	24 Oct 2005
1:10:46 hrs	Bruno Kurth, Holger Matthes, Dominik Gerlach, Tobias Reichling and Christian Krützfeldt at the annual meeting of the "1000Steine" community in Frechen (Germany)		7 January 2006

Fastest Time to Built the Technic Tow Truck (Set 8285)

(The team is limited to 5 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

2:09:42 hrs	1000Steine-Land in Berlin (Germany)		Aug 2006	Click here to order the Tow Truck at amazon.com. (From the UK: order at amazon.co.uk)
1:31:44 hrs	Dominik Gerlach, Tobias Reichling, Bruno Kurth, Anders Gaasedal and Casper (Germany / Denmark) at Skaerbaek 2006	PHOTO	30 September 2006
1:15:09 hrs	Maico Arts, Martijn Boogaarts, Gerrit Bronsveld, Ben Fraters and Dirk Plug (Netherlands) at Legoworld 2006 in Zwolle (Netherlands)	PHOTO	21 October 2006

Fastest Time to Built the Eiffel Tower (Set 10181)

(The team is limited to 6 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:20:56 hrs	Christian Küpper, Lukas Fritsch, Marco Tagliaferri, Heiko Baum, Stephan Elster (all Germany) and Peter Vingborg (Denmark) at 1000Steine-Land in Berlin (Germany)	25 Aug 2007	Click here to order the LEGO Make&Create Eiffel Tower set at amazon.com.
1:15:32 hrs	Tobias Reichling, Bruno Kurth, Dominik Gerlach, Thomas Wesselski (all Germany), Caspar Bennedsen, Lasse Deleuran (both Denmark) at LEGO Fan Weekend in Skaerbaek (Denmark)	30 September 2007
1:14:49 hrs	at Legoworld 2007 in Zwolle (Netherlands)

Fastest Time to Built the Millennium Falcon (Set 10179)

(The team is limited to 7 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

2:53:27 hours

Bruno Kurth, Tobias Reichling, Holger Matthes, Jan Katanek, Ewald Full (all Germany), Casper van Nimwegen (Netherlands) and Caspar Bennedsen (Denmark)
1000Steine-Land in Berlin

25 August 2007

Click here to order the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon set
at amazon.com.

Fastest Time to Built the Taj Mahal (Set 10189)

(The team is limited to 3 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:47:09 hours

Marcus Klein, Christian Krützfeldt, Bruno Kurth (all Germany), Thomas Muskovich (Austria), Tobias Reichling und Thomas Wesselski (both Germany)
at LEGO fan weekend in Skærbæk, Denmark

27 September 2008

Click here
to order the LEGO Taj Mahal set at amazon.com.

Fastest Time to Built the Volkswagen Beetle (Set 10187)

(The team is limited to 6 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:03:05 hours

Jürgen Bramik, Bruno Kurth and Tobias Reichling (all Germany) at Lego Fan Welt in Cologne, Germany

9 November 2008

Click here to order the LEGO Volkswagen Beetle set
at amazon.com.

Fastest Time to Built the Death Star (Set 10188)

(The team is limited to 6 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

2:34:26 hours

Maico Arts (Netherlands), Hans de Vlieger (Belgium), Eugene Gerner (Netherlands), Tom Klimek (Germany), Bruno Kurth (Germany) and Dirk Plug (Netherlands) at LEGOWORLD 2008 in Zwolle (Netherlands)

Oct 2008

Click here to order the LEGO Death Star set
at amazon.com.

Fastest Time to Built the Grand Carousel (Set 10196)

(The team is limited to 5 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:32 hours	Skaerbaek 2009	26 September 2009	Click here to order the LEGO Grand Carousel set at amazon.com.
1:24:11 hours	Maico Arts, Martijn Bosgraaf, Peter Dijkstra, Eugene Gerner and Dirk Plug (Netherlands) at LEGO World 2009	23 October 2009

Fastest Time to Built the Technic Crane Truck (Set 8258)

(The team is limited to 5 builders. No presorting of pieces is allowed.)

1:20 hours	Skaerbaek 2009	27 September 2009	Click here to order the LEGO Technic Crane Truck set at amazon.com.
1:13:50 hours	Maico Arts, Peter Dijkstra, Eugene Gerner, Sas Pieterse and Dirk Plug (Netherlands) at LEGO World 2009	24 October 2009

LEGO MindStorms Records

Records for LEGO MindStorms constructions can be found at the LEGO MindStorms Book of Records.

Great Ball Contraption

The largest Great Ball Contraption, a construction where footballs and basketballs move through a sequence of modules, has been assembled at BrickFest 05. See here for details about the construction and here for photos.

Longest Distance Thrown by a Medieval War Machine

The castle contest at Brickworld challenges the LEGO builders to construct a model of a catapult or trebuchet that fires a "missile" made of LEGO bricks. The distance record is 11.76 m [38 ft 7 in] and was set by Jeffery Viens (USA) with his trebuchet construction called "The Flinger".

Largest Legoland Park

The largest Legoland Park is Legoland Windsor with a surface of 60.7 hectares (150 acres).

The largest LEGO Event

The largest LEGO event is LEGO WORLD in Zwolle (Netherlands).

Other Record Breaking LEGO Constructions

Christmas Tree: 9 m (30 ft) tall, diameter 5 m (16 ft), more than 245,000 DUPLO-bricks, weighting 6.3 tons (including the steel construction inside), December 2003, two identical trees have been constructed, One has been placed inside the CentrO shopping centre in Oberhausen, Germany, the other one had a prominent place next to the entrance of LEGOLAND California, Carlsbad (USA)
Stadium: 5 m x 4.5 m x 1 m (16 ft x 15 ft x 3 ft), 1:50 scale model of the Allianz Arena in Munich, built in 4,209 working hours from 400,000 bricks, LEGOLAND Germany, 2005
Menorah: 2.75 m (9-ft) high, 2.40 m (8-ft) wide, made from 6,000 bricks, Freehold Township, New Jersey (USA), December 2003
DNA molecule: 12 m (39 ft) tall, Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen (Denmark), November 2003
Free standing flag: US-flag measuring 3.60 m x 1.80 m (12 ft x 6 ft), built from 127,624 blue, white and red bricks, Southern California LEGO Train Club, Orange County Fair, 15-17 July 2005 DETAILS
Model of a LEGO brick: 6 m x 3 m x 2 m (20 ft x 10 ft x 3 ft), weight: 1.5 tons, made from 1 mio bricks, LEGOLAND Germany, 1-9 September 2005
Noah's Ark: built by 152 school children at Harvest Bible Chapel in Elgin, Illinois, USA, 3.6 m [143 in] long, 0.6 m [25 in] wide, 0.3 m [13 in] tall, ark and rainbow were made with over 30000 bricks
Trebuchet: Flinger 2.0, length: 1.3 m [50.5 in], width 0.5 m [20.25 in], height 1.9 m [74 in], built by Jeffrey Viens (USA) from more than 5,000 bricks

World's tallest LEGO Christmas Tree
(source: CentrO Management GmbH)

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