Lego structures.

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I did happen to see something about a small town (probably in Europe somewhere) that set the world record for the tallest LEGO structure ever built. Although I don't remeber the height they reached, it was very tall and required the use of a tall crane to assembly the upper sections. It was definitely a group project with probably hundreds of participants.

Have you tried a web search? This will probably be mentioned somewhere.

- John Eric

The Ultimate Lego Book (1999) says the tallest tower was built in 1982 in Talinn, Estonia. It was 82 feet (24.91 meter) tall. It was built by 6000 fans.

For those who are interested ...here are the rules for LEGO tower records:

1.The tower must comprise only standard bricks. 2.The structure should measure 2 square meters (approximately 6 sq ft) at the base and the bricks must be added individually. 3.The tower need not be solid throughout, but it should be strong enough to be totally stable when free-standing. 4.There are no restrictions on the shape, the number of bricks used (although this should also be given), the time taken in construction (although a maximum of 24 hr is advised) or the number of people involved.

A new record attempt is announced for this year in LEGOLAND Carlsbad, California, USA (see:

Below are some more record claims. I am planning to publish a list of LEGO records in a new record list at (where already some other unusual reocrd list for things like balloon modelling or Rubik's Cube are published.) Contributions to this LEGO record list are very welcome (to snipped-for-privacy@recordholders.org): biggest constructions and displays, biggest collections price records ...

And here are the records... bridge: bridge spam: 37 m built in Brandenburg (Germany) near Berlin in the "LEGO Show", a TV show in German's national TV channel SAT1 in 2003

car: made with more than 650,000 LEGO components at Bayer Corporation's exhibit at the National Design and Engineering Show held in Chicago Approximately 15 feet, 5 inches long, 7 feet 5 inches wide and

4 feet 10 inches high and weighs more than a ton.

portrait: built from 36,864 bricks see

logo: made from 180,000 bricks at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia chain:

565 m long, 424'512 LEGO pieces making 2211 chain links made in Wilsau, Switzerland LEGO train track: by The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club in August 2000 at the Center House in Seattle Washington There is a great picture gallery about this event at: underwater LEGO: 11 divers built a LEGO castle from 36,000 pieces in Aufkirchen (Germany)

Best Wishes, Ralf Laue