LEGO builders are some of the most creative people on the planet. They can take tiny bricks and other small pieces of plastic and create their version of some of the most iconic architectural wonders in both the real and fictional worlds.
One such LEGO builder recently used his imagination to create a replica of Arkham Asylum, the hospital for the criminally insane from Batman fame, with a level of detail that fans will undoubtedly appreciate.
This Arkham Asylum is by an Australian LEGO builder known as Dayton, who used 18,000 pieces to put together his creation, which he unveiled at Brickvention 2016, an Australian LEGO convention. The piece features a front yard with guards and the Batmobile, and if you look closely enough, you'll see Batman and Catwoman hanging around on the roof.
Inside the asylum are five rooms and seven cells, as well as many doctors and guards. Robin and Nightwing are there, too. Most impressively, though, is Killer Croc's cell, which uses LEDs to light it up. Of course, the usual Batman villains are in their prisons here, too, including the Joker, Harley Quinn, the Riddler, Mr. Freeze and the Penguin.
Dayton even included the sediment layers of the ground on the sides of the asylum. It's this level of detail that makes the entire build so impressive.
This video shows some of those details up close:
The LEGO Arkham Asylum took over a year of planning, and then another three months of getting all the right parts and putting it together.
"I feel this was the milestone for me as a builder as this is something I have wanted to build for years now and I am so happy with how it turned out, almost everything I wanted to put into the moc was built and included, some of my favourite parts of the Moc are Killer Croc's Cell (See Youtube Video) the Maximum Security Wing (Underground Cells)," wrote Dayton on Flickr. "The whole interior turned out pretty good and I really like what happened [with] the whole roof and clock part of the building. I've been building Batman mocs for 3 years now and I think this is my Best Batman Moc so far."
