全世界最高的樂高積木塔 11-Story LEGO Tower Is Officially the World’s Tallest

全世界最高的樂高積木塔
11-Story LEGO Tower Is Officially the World’s Tallest

全世界最高的樂高積木塔共有50萬個樂高，重達一噸，高近113英尺(約11層樓高)，費時2個月，終於在本週一大功告成，也破了之前106英尺高的金氏世界紀錄。由於規定不能使用黏著劑，所以必須用金屬圓柱和纜線固定，但過程還是萬般驚險。參與者來自當地學生，幾乎整個暑假都在堆樂高，但他們表示能創下世界紀錄，就是最酷的暑假作業。

Brick by tiny plastic brick, the students of Red Clay School District toiled for months to assemble sections of a tower comprising over half a million LEGOs. After several days of what Delaware Online describes as “painstaking engineering,” the LEGO brick tower was complete, an improbable “toy” edifice soaring over John Dickinson High School near Wilmington, Delaware flaunting colorful layers of pumpkin orange, electric green and light royal blue.

“Wow. Just — wow,” said Ralph Storner, one of the students who helped build the tower (via Delaware Online). “You know when you’re talking about a world record it’s going to be big. But seeing it now, it’s really cool.”

All told, the tower weighs nearly a ton and stands nearly 113 feet tall, making it the tallest structure composed of toy bricks ever assembled, according to the Guinness Book of World Records (the prior record-holder was a 106-foot tower built in Prague in 2012). The bricks were pieced together in sections by students over the past several months, then those sections were stacked by contractors who’d volunteered to help out, constructing the tower around a metal cylinder and using tension cables to keep it from tipping over.

While the number of feet in a story varies, it’s generally around 10 (think room height plus space for floor and ceiling), allowing the school district to reasonably claim the tower is around 11 stories tall.

Why — aside from fleeting Guinness record notoriety — enlist a bunch of students to build an 11-story-tall LEGO tower at all?

“We want kids to get a message out of this,” said district superintendent Mervin Daugherty. “One kid could never put this together. But when we all work together, when we’re all a team, we can do something that people probably thought would be impossible.”