James May Building House Entirely From Legos

By Mark Lorenz on September 25th, 2009

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In a story that is absolutely mindblowing to my 8-year-old self, James May, host of Britain’s longest-running shows on Britain dealing with cars, is building a full-sized two story home, entirely from Legos. Entirely from Legos. ENTIRELY. Over three-million bricks are being used to construct the thing, and over 1,200 volunteers have been helping him out by constructing giant bricks out of tinier ones. And the house is entirely made from Legos, which means Lego furniture, even Lego toilets. A plumber is being brought in to make the Lego toilets operational, and capable of flushing. With tiny Lego handles. After the house is constructed, May will LIVE IN IT. You hear that? He’s going to sleep on a bed of Legos, with Lego pillows, and god knows what else.

Which begs the question, who is the man sorting all the Lego bricks? Why is it that it’s not more of an issue? Jesus christ, it used to take me two to three weeks to build a lego house, and those were the tiny ones, without working plumbing, and with the Dragons that you only had to snap the wings onto. I can’t imagine what it’d take to build an actual house. Probably genius, that’s what. Genius.