Alright say it with me, loudly: NERRRRRRRRD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually I love legos and I even spent a Friday night leading my nephews and niece around the latest LegoFest in Chicago; so I’m actually a huge dork too.
But this guy is transcendent. Paul Janssen, and his 1/100 scale version of college football cathedral Ohio Stadium. The lego version of the 105,000+ seat stadium resides in the basement of his Dublin, Ohio home.
According to Sportress of Blogitude:
Janssen spent over 1,000 hours over the span of two years to create the 8-foot by 6-foot model of The Horseshoe, and it is an exact replica of the 100,000 seat plus stadium in Columbus. Well, as much of an exact replica as something can be when constructed out of one million Legos.
Janssen is a president of an Ohio lego club and according to the Columbus Post-Dispatch, who provided the lovely pictures here. According to Amy Saunders’ Post Dispatch piece:
No cutting, gluing or painting was involved in making the replica, the scale of which is about 1/100.
The 42-year-old began plotting his work in 2005, three years after he was hired as an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State University.
Growing up in the Netherlands, where the Danish-made interlocking blocks are especially popular, Janssen loved building Lego trains in his youth but took a hiatus from the hobby until moving to the United States a decade ago.
Having three children of his own – ages 10, 8 and 3 – became an excuse to buy new toys. The family’s basement – aside from a washer, dryer and a kitty-litter box – is now consumed by containers of Legos stacked nearly from floor to ceiling.
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