@GiltProto:
@GIZisGOD:
They totally cheated. This should be called "World's tallest guywire supported pole clad in Legos"

jarque

Did someone yell Jenga?

tehronin

Not only cables but I think there is a pole inside too.

GIZisGOD

Cables? Are you using cables? There's no using cables in Lego tower building!

GiltProto

LEGO, Leg Godt, Play Well...

Well Played?

GIZisGOD

Why???? Isn't this why God confused our languages? Crap like this shouldn't be built.

Rabid Penguin

That has gotta confuse a ground-dwelling creature's vanishing point!

I like the quilt-like patches on the side. Makes me think of what I could build with some neon LEGOs, hmmmm!

Torley

The 6 year old in me is freaking out!!!!!

j4sk868

Aw man I was into it until I found out about the pole.

Guy wires I'd expect, but THAT!
I don't think so.

strider_mt2k

Using wires in lego tower building is like using steroids in baseball.

male roof blower (CFB)

well, if you can use a pole, and guy wires - pretty much the sky's the limit isn't it?

I mean, really, how hard is it to build a tower with a pole in the middle, and support wires holding it up?

Could you see a record for the worlds tallest building with guy wires on it?

tidybowl

Now I see a noble NASA goal: in zero g, a LEGO tower could very tall indeed.

We put a man on the moon, dammit!

scarbrtj

that shouldnt even count... whats the highest tower without metal in it?

daversW

Or or surround Gizmodo's editor for a Lego Lam!

I said, a Lego....is this thing on? Check twoo!

strider_mt2k

@male roof blower (CFB): Why not surround a blimp in legos and say you built a lego blimp. Why not glue legos to your car and say you built a lego lambo. This is the most blatant case of false advertising I have heard since "The Never-Ending Story". Someone call Lionel Hutz, or if he's not available, Miguel Sanchez, and possibly Dr. Nguyen Van Falk as an expert witness.

Git Em SteveDave

Plastic = Lego
Steel = Not Lego

james-42

Reminds me of Kino no Tabi prequel:
[www.veoh.com]

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

I don't care how they did it. That much LEGO is orgasmic!

LindsayJoy

@tidybowl: only because people who actually have something better to do, well, they'd give up and do something useful after a few minutes of plastic-quilting around a pole.

was the toronto lego tower free-standing, or did they guy-wire it too?

rimplestultskin

@strider_mt2k: * simultaneous groan and chuckle *
And how long have you been holding that one in, just aching for a Lego story, waiting patiently for the right moment? Lego Lam indeed. I guess we're just lucky one of the Giz folks isn't named after a frozen waffle.

bosskev

Get ready for the next extreme sport, Lego tower base jumping.

BigDogues

They need to do a totally unsupported lego tower and see how high they can do it.

maven2k

@strider_mt2k: He's here all week folks! Try the veal!

Git Em SteveDave

huh. i used to live in windsor and went to legoland when my brother was a little kid - must have been about twenty years ago now. cool to see it's still around and kicking.

abates25

At some point, the weight of the legos above would crush the legos below. It will be interesting to see what that limit is.

Gary_7vn

Boss.

SpeedyGonzalas

@LindsayJoy: er, wow, someone's excited.

But what if they did it by killing pandas?

Step666

@maven2k: Yeah, but when they finally do make a tower without a hidden support column, keep this clown away from it.

+ Watch video

bosskev

Using cables is cheating.

bms

interesting.. the possibilities... the dreams...
a competition for highest unsupported tower...
then.. just maybe.. there could be a competition for lego bridge span - y'know like engineer school where you get judged on far you can span without central support, how much load it can carry, and how light the bridge structure is that did it..
then there could be a competition for biggest self-supporting dome by inside diameter..
then there could be a competition for making lego bob-sleds and then racing them...
then there could be a competition for lego dodgeball - no wait...
- - this sounds like the brazen call for Lego Olympics - to be held in Copenhagen on the anniversary of the date of the first lego set...
Gizmodo - sponsor it and make it so...

designguybrown

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atomx

I like how in numerous places people obviously started getting creative, but then thought "aw, fuck it" halfway through and just went back to random blocks.

Hunty

It's all about being safe. The guy wires are there to keep it from toppling over and the pole is for stability in the wind, I'm sure. I don't think you could even do something like this without SOME sort of safety measure in place.

BigDanInTX

haahaa-Nonsense ---> it can be done... no wires, poles or other 'safety' features....
-simply splay the base (y'know like a pyramid - fat at the bottom and narrower going up) so that you've got stability and lateral support.
-pour some type of mortar-goop (with high compressive strength) into each block to fill the air-holes so that the bottom blocks don't crush (but still won't glue them together - because that would be cheating)-- and there you go - we could build way-higher than 100-feet ---

though of course it would take more lego blocks than had ever been produced (because of the pyramid-type shape) - but hey - its a damn good cause.

designguybrown

@LindsayJoy: also the compressive stress those little bricks are taking at the bottom

AWESOME

flyboy

I see where all our petroleum resources have gone...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@designguybrown: Can someone do the maths on this? There's a shitload of brick out there.

Sculptor_Dan