Okay, so technically not LEGOs but instead BRXLZ, but you get it.
This took roughly 13 hours over 3400+ pieces, mostly because the instructions are terrible and a mistake on page 4 may not show up until page 11, so partial rebuilds were required.
I do recommend this if you've already bought every other Tech memorabilia, it makes a great center piece among the whiskey and nachos.
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That looks pretty neat. I see the ads for those things and never know how they'll come out. How big is it?
Maybe like 13 by 6 flat, and 4 inches tall.
Can't comprehend, can we get a picture with a banana for scale?
speaking of replica stadiums
Man, it kills me that the Danbury Mint never went back to refresh the models it put out about 15 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the Lane Stadium I have, circa 1999, but man it would be nice to have an updated version with the West Stands suites and press box as well as the SEZ and expanded NEZ.
I'd be miffed that the turf doesn't look like the picture on the box.
It is going to take every ounce of self-control in my body not to buy this and buy a textbook instead
That text book is gunna look like shit sitting next to your TV tho...
Yeah, not really going to help the game day experience.
If it keeps the TV stand level, I'll allow it.
This just reminded me...where did you wind up? I remember your thread asking for advice on whether to stay in state or what, but I don't remember you saying where you were going.
And oh yeah, you'll definitely get more money on the stadium resell vs textbooks, but why would want to resell it?
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Ah, I remember now. I swear, my memory is 💩.
Good luck!
Beautiful but isn't it missing the upper portals on the East stands? (I say that 'casue my season tickets are right next to one of the upper portals.)
Watch it with the p-word.
If it didn't take 13 hours to build, I'd be looking into this.
Forget the time $80 is too much
For that price, should include the Hokie Bird, and grass should be green.
But I still like it. But I could imagine admiring it in the box and not getting it assembled.
Yea, it's not cheap, but to be fair I've probably spent more on less as far as Tech gear goes.
I bought my wife the Washington stadium a few years ago, same company and everything.
She still hasn't put it together.
Yea, I had it since the beginning of July, but made a pledge I had to have it done by BC kickoff. It turned out to be me far more work than I had thought.
I first bought the Redskins (is that word allowed?) helmet by the same company. Was both fun and a PITA to build because it doesn't have a solid base like the stadium does, so it often crumbled in my hands. When I saw the Lane Stadium version...HAD to get it. Was making solid progress on it, but being an adult got in the way. Still haven't finished it, so that's probably why the BC game went the way it did. Sorry for the bad karma guys!
Which makes me think...it's still not done for ODU tomorrow. Ohhhhh SHIT!
You're such an AFOL!
I've been waiting to use this acronym: Adult Fan Of Legos
No joke, a dude in Raleigh spends $10k+ at the Crabtree Lego store annually and takes the entire staff to Angus Barn a few times a year as a thank you.
AFOL indeed.
How is the quality of the pieces? I remember many times being frustrated as a kid because the knock-off LEGOs (even Mega Blocks, the most common ones) never quite fit together as well as LEGOs always did.
If they're pretty good, I'll probably pick this up to stick between my LEGO Tardis and my LEGO Millennium Falcon.
The quality is fine, it's just very small, probably 60% the size of standard LEGOs, so your fingers can get pretty damn tired putting it together, and pulling them apart when needed isn't much fun either. Other than that they are really nice.
Could you use a Lego tool to separate the blocks?
Not if they're 60% the size of regular LEGOs
It actually came with an appropriately sized tool, so yes, but it was still a pain in the ass to use sometimes.
Ohio State now uses this to generate donations for Heart and Vascular research. $20 donation allows you to build a mini-figure that gets displayed in the stadium for a season. They also had a higher priced option where the professor that built this stadium would custom build a mini-figure based on a photo submitted by the donor. Last I read the stadium had generated over $500K in donations.
what a fantastic trolling opportunity: sneak in and build the scoreboard to show 35-21...
Inspiration for a project for next year's season, thanks!
Back when he built it there was an article that talked about all the statistics involved with it. Number of pieces, number of hours, cost, etc. They made my brain hurt, even as a Lego Fanatic.
Scale is 1:120
Can seat approx. 6000 minifigures not counting standing room
Roughly 1 million pieces to complete
Cost was approx. $120K even with buying bulk directly from Lego
Yes, yes.
Also, they are trying to trademark the word "The", and their transfers get waivers for immediate playing time.
Still, we beat them that time...
Very cool. Mini LancerHokie is Lego-obsessed and also thought it was awesome 😁
I would like for this to hold my whiskey and nachos
My wife bought me this set as a Christmas gift, and just got through Step 3 last night. I can't agree more - the instructions are terrible! Can anyone offer details about the error on page 4 that does not become obvious until page 11? I would really like to avoid that rebuild headache.... Thanks!
I just completed this last month as an early Christmas present. Surprisingly, there didn't appear to be any obvious technical errors on the booklets part.
That doesn't mean there won't be cursing.
They put zero effort into making lines of separation between pieces clear (it may not be as obvious when you did the football field, as those pieces are flat. But any plane using pieces with stubs instantly becomes a frustrating puzzle. You have to use the process of elimination almost constantly, as all sides of a piece are not always evident as line breaks are sometimes hidden by a uniform layer of overly-detailed stubs.
I eventually focused on figuring out where to place those 3-stubbed corner pieces.
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If you can figure out where these things go, you can typically figure out what the rest of the pieces in the area are.
Another giant source of frustration is their coloring scheme. They use white, 2 gray colors and black. They're all deceptively easy to confuse with the next shade brighter or darker from the instructions. Since you're squinting just to figure out what size and shape each piece is, you're probably going to put a wrong colored brick pattern in at some point. (And that's probably going to happen on the facades of the West and South stands).
Third, there are so many pieces in each step that it's easy to leave a piece off. Most of the time these are easily caught in the next step, but not always so forgiving. The East and West stand bleachers are easy to mess up with the weird aisle pattern, and was probably the culprit in more than half of my mistakes throughout this whole thing.
Lastly, in the later steps, the 3D instructions sometimes seem to indicate that you started your foundation pylons in the wrong spot. Be prepared to flip backwards step-by-step a lot to verify you started in the correct spot.
Thanks, Brockman! I've assembled dozens of LEGO sets, and I will never again complain about the clarity of their instructions. The graphics for this set are so appallingly bad I'm not sure words are enough.
I decided to move forward with Step 4 & found that the quantities for a few of the brick types was off. I made the actual build match the picture, so I hope I'm not short somewhere else down the line.
Appreciate the response!
Maybe the OP can slow dow the video up top and you can figure it out from there.
I didn't see any errors, but because the coloration and lines of separation are so bad the whole thing might as well be an error. I do highly recommend getting a good magnifying glass to double check what it even is the instructions are showing. Also attacking each level increase one stadium side at a time helped. Also two people doing this at the same time to double-check each other's work made it much easier. That and pre-sorting all the pieces by type, which this is near possible to do otherwise, helps a lot.
I put it in my amazon cart...but somehow it didn't make it to under my tree. Just a lump of coal...again.