You received’t imagine What the entire World’s LEGO Bricks might construct (Infographic)

August 19, 2015

Of all the crazy stuff we’ve accomplished right here at the Movoto blog, one of the crucial in style has been the “LEGO My house” calculator, which permits you to find out how many LEGO bricks it could take to construct a scale model of your house. We’ve been looking to give you a fitting practice-up for a while now, however nothing seemed suitably epic enough. that is except our PR guy, Nick, requested a query: how many Lego bricks were made?

turns out it’s greater than 474 billion because the Danish toy maven began cranking out the modern model of the bricks in 1958 (a bunch that’s increasing via 36 billion per 12 months). How’s that for an completely mind-blowing statistic?

Given my ongoing obsession with all issues blocky (hiya, have you considered our Tetris and Rubik’s dice calculators?), I determined to find out simply what will be constructed with all these bricks. What did I in finding? neatly, i’m hoping your brain’s still in one piece, because you’re going to wish it to course of what I’m about to drop on you. through the use of all the LEGO bricks ever made, you could construct:

2,972 of the White house in DC
588 of the Taj Mahal
200 of Buckingham Palace
seventy four of the Empire State building
66 of the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building)
1 nice Pyramid of Giza

Or, if a number of small buildings are extra your thing, you have to construct:

forty six,032 median sized (2,169 square foot, two-story) houses

That’s sufficient homes to house nearly 122,000 individuals, or the inhabitants of cities reminiscent of:

after all, these can be some beautiful noisy cities, what with all that plastic growing echoes and clacking when you walk. You’d also have a little problem with heating in the wintry weather, until you wish to have to end up with a rainbow-coloured puddle for a house.

maintain reading for more on the method that lead me to these figures—in case your grey matter nonetheless isn’t obliterated, that is.

well-known locations in Plastic

For the White home, Empire State constructing, Buckingham Palace, and Burj Khalifa, I was ready to make use of the mathematics we already labored out for calculating the LEGO bricks wanted to construct a constructing according to sq. photos and the selection of floors. here’s how that labored out:

Burj Khalifa: 7,067,231,a hundred seventy five bricks
Empire State building: 6,325,329,353
Buckingham Palace: 2,350,135,986
White house: 158,783,167 bricks

The Taj Mahal was trickier as a result of it’s octagonal, and while it handiest has two floors, they’re no longer same old (10 foot) peak. in fact, the constructing is set 560 feet tall together with its trademark dome. I figured out the square footage for the octagonal major constructing (312,882 sq. ft) and determined to go with an outstanding sphere for the roughly a hundred and fifteen-foot diameter, spherical dome. the amount of that (796,328 cubic toes) would require eleven,148,592 LEGO bricks to construct. the rest of the constructing would require 790,877,374 bricks. All advised, a 1:1 scale LEGO Taj Mahal mausoleum could be made out of 802,025,966 bricks.

the good Pyramid used to be solely completely different, since it’s largely solid. in this case, I had to figure out its volume in cubic toes (88,286,667), then use our earlier calculations of what number of LEGO bricks make up a normal 2 1/4 x 4 x 8 inch brick (5,026), then what number of of these would match into a one cubic foot of house (14). That gave me roughly 444 billion LEGO bricks, about 30 billion underneath the number I needed to work with—lovely close, when you’re engaged on this scale.

We built This city

After I’d recreated some well-known structures, I determined to go larger-scale. That supposed multiple constructions, and because we’re all about homes here at Movoto, I figured nothing may be extra becoming to observe up our authentic Lego home story than a LEGO metropolis.

This grew to become out to be beautiful easy in comparison with calculating the bricks required for something like the Taj Mahal, on the grounds that we already knew what number of Lego bricks it might take to construct an average 2,169 square foot, two-story dwelling (10,079,829). the use of the 472 billion determine of all LEGO bricks produced to date, I calculated that forty six,826 homes may be built with them.

provided that the newest U.S. Census data says the typical collection of folks living in a house is 2.6, these properties would house 121,747 individuals. The 2011 Census projections state that Roseville, CA is on the subject of that size (all of the cities i mentioned at the prime of the article are shut, nevertheless it’s the closest).

So, Roseville, when you ever to find yourself and not using a position to remain, just give some LEGO Maniacs a call. the houses they’ll have the ability to build it’s possible you’ll no longer be probably the most relaxed or fashionably hued, however they’ll be giant Lego houses—and even LEGOLAND doesn’t have any of these.

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