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LEGO is loved all over the world. You can buy them in kits, sure, but how many little kids sat down with a pile of LEGO bricks and recreated the (although awesome) complex designs on the front of the boxes? Sure, some kids may have, and plenty of older fans have, but part of the fun is the chance to take those bricks and characters and build off of your own imagination!
YouTuber talapz is blowing people away with some especially imaginative and elaborate designs from a Katamari Damacy-like 1078-piece LEGO Sphere to an epic pop-up dragon-slaying scene.
That’s not all, though! talapz has also recreated some LEGO pop-up versions of the most gorgeous and historically significant buildings in Japan. First up, let’s pay a visit to Kyoto’s Temple of the Golden Pavilion, the Kinkaku-ji! This massive creation took around 4,500 pieces.
Next, let’s pay a visit to Nara’s Todai-ji! Formerly considered on of Japan’s Seven Great Temples, this beautiful structure is home to the world’s largest Buddha statue (or Daibutsu). This incredible statue also appears inside, and talapz even captured the beautiful green field and water around the temple. If you’re up to the challenge, plans for recreating this LEGO masterpiece also appear in the second half of the video!
Finally, there’s Japan’s famed Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture’s Himeji city. Built during the 14th century, this castle is loved for representing and capturing classic Japanese castle architecture and is the most popular castle in Japan.
As if just recreating these incredible buildings wasn’t a massive feat enough, designing them in a working pop-up book style makes these all the more unbelievable! Check out more of talapz’s creations on YouTube here!
If you could recreate any building using LEGO bricks, which would you choose?
This is a Tokyo Otaku Mode original article by Jen Smith