MOC Highlights

TheOrcKing · July 4, 2016

3 hours ago, Zelgazra said:

Endless supplies of bricks, these folks must be made of money or have some sort of sponsorship.... or be incredibly proficient resellers? Crazy cool.

I can vaguely imagine the amount of capitol taken to undertake even one-tenth a portion of these builds which makes collaborative projects sound more reasonable well as the experience of doing something together with friends or at least persons of similar interests. There is the Pick-a-Brick wall at the nearest LEGO store option that these builders may be quite accustomed with getting the most out of filling those plastic cups down to a science. While still costly in the end, this bulk buying is more effective than buying sets at retail bringing up another point where like most of us they may also purchase a lot of discounted kits.

Phil B · July 4, 2016

I realize it's a collaboration and all that, but seeing a display like this made by "normal" (more like exceptionally avid) AFOLs and not employees at LegoLand.... I always just find it shockingly impressive how many bricks they have. Like the tan cheese slopes.... how many thousand of them are being used on the tan snails alone? Just the snails are tens of thousands of bricks, then the full modular sized castles on top of them, then the entire massive scene in the middle.... Astounding and impressive. Legoland is the only other type of place you could go to see that scale of building going on. Endless supplies of bricks, these folks must be made of money or have some sort of sponsorship.... or be incredibly proficient resellers? Crazy cool.

These people likely use the LUGBrick program where LUG members can, once a year, place large brick orders directly from LEGO. Not (yet) a LUG member myself so I don't know all the fine details, but that's likely how these quantities were achieved.