LEGO released some nice sets themed around The Hobbit films when they were released, but those were tiny compared to this.
Master LEGO builder Michal Kazmierczak built this colossal beast using no less than 120,000 bricks. Fifty-five-thousand of them went just into the outside gates and the battleground at the foot of the Lonely Mountain. After that area was finished, Kazmierczak turned his attention to the interior, aka the Dwarven kingdom of Erebor.
Erebor is best remembered from The Hobbit trilogy for its enormous treasure of gold and gems. It was also where Smaug the dragon slumbered for many years before Thorin and his company returned to Erebor to reclaim it. It was the end destination of the quest that Bilbo Baggins got wrapped up in alongside 13 Dwarves and the wizard Gandalf the Grey.
One assumes that Kazmierczak is a big fan of Peter Jackson's movies, because he invested seven months into piecing his LEGO Erebor together. It appears to be made at something close to true Minifigure scale, so the finished model is almost seven feet tall and nearly six feet wide and weighs just over 286 pounds. It towers over its creator, as you can see in the photo below.
This is not the first time Kazmierczak has blipped our radar. He impressed us last October with his huge LEGO Mustafar, based on the locale of the climactic lightsaber battle in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. That build, as big as it was, only required half of Erebor's total bricks.
See more photos of LEGO Erebor on Kazmierczak's Flickr account.
Via: The Brothers Brick
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