Duplo Burj Khalifa
This past Sunday Isaac and Dad both woke up with a lego itch. We had long talked about getting a tower up to the ceiling fan in the Sun Room, but on Sunday we decided to walk the walk inside of talk the talk.
This was a true collaborative effort. Dad showed Isaac how to stack piece and then once the stacks were big enough and plentiful enough, Dad joined them together and the put them on the base of the tower.
We worked like this for about an hour until we were finished. Isaac and Dad are proud to present the tallest Lego tower we have ever built, standing around 7 1/2 feet tall when you remove it from the lego table itself:
It actually went into the fan blades themselves. Surprisingly it was pretty sturdy, but Isaac was so fascinated by it he refused to play anywhere else. After a few beep beep accidents at the base of the tower, Dad decided to take it down. Good thing too because it was HEAVY.
Here is the cool thing though, as tall as this was, the real Burj Khalifa is much, much taller, even proportionately speaking (go watch the video, it is really awesome and bombastic with a ridiculous fireworks show at the end, RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!). If the Burj Khalifa was reduce to Lego scale (i.e. minifig scale) it would still be 66 feet tall. That is WAY taller than this baby was.
This was a true collaborative effort. Dad showed Isaac how to stack piece and then once the stacks were big enough and plentiful enough, Dad joined them together and the put them on the base of the tower.
We worked like this for about an hour until we were finished. Isaac and Dad are proud to present the tallest Lego tower we have ever built, standing around 7 1/2 feet tall when you remove it from the lego table itself:
Here is the cool thing though, as tall as this was, the real Burj Khalifa is much, much taller, even proportionately speaking (go watch the video, it is really awesome and bombastic with a ridiculous fireworks show at the end, RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!). If the Burj Khalifa was reduce to Lego scale (i.e. minifig scale) it would still be 66 feet tall. That is WAY taller than this baby was.