Bear Grylls, Zara Phillips and Sir Ben Ainslie pose by the new Land Rover Discovery in
front of a world record-breaking Lego Tower Bridge structure.
Credit: Land Rover
To launch its New Discovery car, automaker Land Rover set a new world record with the largest Lego sculpture: a replica of London's iconic Tower Bridge.
Using 5,805,846 individual pieces, the 43-foot-high (13 meters) Lego construction beat the previous record by 470,646 bricks, according to Guinness World Records. In fact, the bricks used to build the Tower Bridge replica would stretch almost 200 miles (320 kilometers) if laid end to end — a distance that's equivalent to going from Tower Bridge in London to Paris. [Gallery of Wonders: The Weirdest World Records]
"This is an epic, outstanding build that absolutely captures the imagination in a way we haven't seen before," Emma Owen, Lego UK and Ireland spokeswoman, said in a statement. "With Lego bricks and some imagination, you really can build anything!” https://www.livescience.com/56322-largest-lego-sculpture-tower-bridge-replica.html
