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October 1, 2009

Lego house -- emphasis on the "house"

Your opportunity to buy a house made of Legos -- and by that, I mean an actual house-sized house -- has sadly gone by the wayside. Workers were pulling the British structure apart last month because, like a number of homes made of more conventional materials, this one was buyer-less.

According to the Telegraph, "Plans for Legoland to move it to their theme park fell through because transport costs were too high and despite a final Facebook appeal for someone to take it, no-one came forward."

Number of Lego bricks: 3.3 million.

It was built for James May’s Toy Stories, a BBC series. If the house followed the original plan, its interior sported a Lego shower and toilet.

Geekologie noted the teardown on a post tagged with these pointed categories: "You fools!" and "You should have donated it to Geekologie!"

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Housing humor, Unusual homes

Comments

Is that something like a foreclosure :)

Posted by: lisa | October 1, 2009 4:34 PM

The colors don't match, the colors don't match! *goes crazy*

I never liked it when people mixed and matched all the colors to build stuff.

Posted by: BigDragon | October 1, 2009 8:01 PM

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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