What can you do to honor a guy with more gold medals than anybody else in history? You could start by recreating the entire 2008 Beijing Olympics out of Legos. Michael Phelps, with his iPod and myriad Facebook friends, may not be as excited about the considerably lower-tech Lego tribute, but anybody with his degree of focus and ambition has got to appreciate the effort here. I mean, I could be wrong, but over there on the imported sand, isn’t that the bawdy Misty May-Treanor inviting the sweat-stained George W. Bush to give her a smack on the ass (which he, in an unusually smart judgment call, declined)? Pictures via everywhere. The following text is from The Telegraph:
The “mini sports city” contains all of the most recognisable venues at this year’s Games, including the National Stadium – nicknamed the Bird’s Nest – and the Water Cube aquatics centre.
More than 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people were used to create the display, which is on show until the end of the month.
Tennis, table tennis, beach volleyball, football, sailing and windsurfing are among the dozens of other sports featured in the replica, which measures 8m x 3m.
There is also an equestrian arena and accompanying stables in which Lego horses and cared for by their Lego trainers.
And it is not just the sporting venues that have been lovingly recreated. The tower blocks of the athletes’ village, which will be home to 16,000 competitors over the course of the Games, have also been reproduced.
The Olympic Lego exhibition, which was created by the Hong Kong Lego User Group, is on display at Grand Century Place in Hong Kong until Aug 31.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Wheres the Lego smog?