Check out this GIGANTIC hot dog made with 65,000 LEGO bricks!
A LEGO-mad dad has transformed 65,000 bricks into a record-breaking, delicious-looking creation – but don’t take a bite, as it may hurt your teeth!
Tommy Schmidt is a dad of 2 from Germany who has been obsessed with LEGO® since he was a kid like you, and he went on to build the world’s largest LEGO® brick sausage that measures a tasty 2 metres (6 ft 6.7 in) long!
Can you imagine if it was a real sausage? Could you eat the whole thing?
Tommy said: “I have always enjoyed taking on unusual challenges. When the meat and sausage producer Die Thüringer from my region approached me with the idea of building something out of LEGO, we started developing the concept together. It quickly became clear to us that it had to be something big.
“In my home region of Thuringia in Germany, the Bratwurst (sausage) is a local specialty that has since become known around the world. Together with the meat and sausage producer Die Thüringer (where the model can be visited) we wanted to create a tribute to the famous Bratwurst and to our region.”
It took Tommy 6 MONTHS to build the sausage from 65,000 large LEGO bricks, but the whole process actually took closer to a year – WOW.
He said that the model was originally going to be much smaller, but he ended up making it bigger to ensure that wow factor…
Do you think he achieved it?
“During the entire building process, the model stood in our living room and eventually, even my wife got used to it,” Tommy laughed.
“Transporting it, however, was a major challenge. Because of its size and weight, we needed many helpers to move everything safely. From the very beginning, I had to plan the model in such a way that it would fit through our large patio door.”
The giant sausage is in a bun, just like a real hot dog, and has a squiggle of mustard all along the top – so yummy-looking!
Tommy likes building official LEGO sets from time to time, but what he really LOVES is designing and building something from his own imagination…
As a kid, he’d watch with fascination as his dad would build and fix things round the house.
“That always inspired me,” he said. “When he gave me my first LEGO set and I realized that I could now create new things quite easily myself, my love for the colourful bricks was born.
“For me, there is nothing more rewarding than bringing my own ideas to life. Sometimes I plan my models on the computer before building them, and sometimes I simply start building and see where the process takes me.”
Do you like LEGO? Do you build the sets following the instructions or go with your own imagination?
Congratulations, Tommy, you are Officially Amazing!
Now go have a real hot dog to celebrate.