Lego builds model of Rio as Danish Olympic gift
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Published: 2 Aug, 2016 CET.
Updated: Tue 2 Aug 2016 14:35 CET
Denmark has given a million-brick Lego replica of Rio de Janeiro to the Brazilian city as it gets ready to host the Olympic Games later this month.
The model, which took 50 professional Lego builders a year to make and contains an estimated 930,000 pieces, includes all Rio’s iconic monuments together with the stadiums, hotels, beaches, boating areas, spectators, and athletes that have come with the games themselves.
"Three different countries were involved in creating all of the icons that are seen here,” master builder Paul Chrzan told Reuters. "We did create 25 different icons of Rio - they are all visible here.”
Chrzan said the builders had had to use ten different scales in order to fit the monuments into the five metre by six metre space.
The gift was developed as a partnership between the toymaker and the Danish government.
Lego has also built models of Vinicius and Tom, the mascots for the Olympics and Paralympics out of bricks for the event. It is the first time Olympic mascots have ever been built out of Lego.
For Lego geeks, here are some videos showing the builders at work.
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The model, which took 50 professional Lego builders a year to make and contains an estimated 930,000 pieces, includes all Rio’s iconic monuments together with the stadiums, hotels, beaches, boating areas, spectators, and athletes that have come with the games themselves.
"Three different countries were involved in creating all of the icons that are seen here,” master builder Paul Chrzan told Reuters. "We did create 25 different icons of Rio - they are all visible here.”
Chrzan said the builders had had to use ten different scales in order to fit the monuments into the five metre by six metre space.
The gift was developed as a partnership between the toymaker and the Danish government.
Lego has also built models of Vinicius and Tom, the mascots for the Olympics and Paralympics out of bricks for the event. It is the first time Olympic mascots have ever been built out of Lego.
For Lego geeks, here are some videos showing the builders at work.
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