Comments on: James May’s LEGO house destined for ruins

By: Brady G

Brady G — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:08 +0000

http://dornob.com/free-legos-no-sale-sad-saga-of-the-full-scale-lego-house/
Full story! Really clears things up.

By: Hurricane

Hurricane — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:40:18 +0000

Why not just have a thing where people pay $20 and can take as much of it away as they can in one load.

By: Brickwares

Brickwares — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:46:42 +0000

Yup, stupid publicity stunt, stupid end. The house looks terrible, no style at all. If this was done right, it would have been built at Legoland, by Master Builders, and done right. Then people could wander through it.

Why even do this? Is the guy a fan of Lego? Or just an attention whore?

I’m guessing the latter.

By: A Most Serious AFOL

A Most Serious AFOL — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:19 +0000

Maybe Lego would have followed through with taking the house if it wasn’t a butt-ugly, rainbow warrior, box.

By: Ryan H.

Ryan H. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:42:08 +0000

^At least some parts would have to be, no? The sink and toilet and roof would leak otherwise.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:10:49 +0000

Ultimate horror: Was the place glued together?

By: Tristan Amaya

Tristan Amaya — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:39:40 +0000

WHAT!!! What a waste a bricks!
LEGO…. how could you bring such a disgrace upon yourself!

And hacked to BITS with a chainsaw is not a very honerable death for our beloved LEGO…

By: Jai

Jai — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:24:38 +0000

A functional LEGO toilet?! How?! Also, wow. Also also, I hope they used smooth tiles for the seat. :D

It seems like they could just leave the house there and declare open season on it for anyone that wanted to take the bricks (Or maybe they did, and that’s what they mean by “If no one collects it by 8am on Tuesday”). Or did they glue everything (I guess they probably would have… although that would have increased the building time, wouldn’t it?)?

By: Peppermint_M

Peppermint_M — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:22:51 +0000

@ Benjamin P: He’s a TV presenter, not an actor (Top Gear? the one who isn’t short, a non-believer in ducks or Clarkson?) it says right there in the article…

I think it’s a bit sad that they are tearing it down but one had to wonder what they were going to do with it. I am more concerned about all the donated Lego that they didn’t use (like moon moulded baseplates!).

I think they quite probably will move it elsewhere, it is too big a publicity stunt and both Lego and the vineyard would suffer a negative backlash if it was simply torn down.

By: Tac

Tac — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:17:21 +0000

Why don’t we just hack him to bits with a chainsaw and then live in the house!

By: Benjamin P

Benjamin P — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:34:58 +0000

You mean to say that this actor, who I assume has uber-amounts of money, didn’t pay for it himself?

What a waste too, to be hacked away like that. (I like that one comment about donating the brick.)

By: David4

David4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:26:04 +0000

LEGO really is a truly stupid company.

I’d like 3 million bricks to waste… sheesh…

By: Daedalus

Daedalus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:23:37 +0000

That’s such an obvious idea it probably never occurred to them.
A shame.

By: David4

David4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:48:43 +0000

Why didn’t they just build it at LEGOland to begin with?!

By: Gammaj4

Gammaj4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:24:48 +0000

Only if the explosives make it separate into individual clumps of bricks like in all those Star wars videos.