Possumblog

You may have seen this before...

...but regular reader and commentor and rocket scientist Steevil sent me an e-mail this morning with some photographs of a church building made out of Lego blocks, and it was absolutely stunning, both in form and in the details.

I did a quick bit of Googling, and in about a minute found that although many people build similar impressive structures, the particular one Steevil had sent to me was created by a lady named Amy Hughes.

I came across my Lego blocks last Saturday when I was cleaning out the garage. I never realized that the old metal lunchbox full of pieces I had back when I was a kid could have ever been used to build something so spectacular. I also like the fact that for the vast majority of the structure, it uses just the plain old regular blocks. Retail store Lego today is all about constructing things from a kit to look exactly like what's on the cover of the box, which seems to diminish the inherent fun in being able to create something entirely from your own mind. I mean, the old sets had guides to help you build stuff, but you could still build all sorts of other things since there no real kit-specific pieces. Oh, well. I guess the new ones sell better.

Anyway, it's a pretty cool site to marvel at, and no, I don't think anyone who does this stuff is whacko. Ms. Amy seems to have gotten a lot of commentary to that effect, but it seems like a perfectly enjoyable and entertaining hobby.