Little did you know that it was actually built over a flagpole, so it isn't a 100% free standing structure. If you look at the top of the picture you can see the concrete top of the pole...

This is ridiculous. In 1998 they built one like this in Estonia and it was about 24.91 meters (81 feet and 9 inches or smth) and now, like 9 years later, they build just 28.75 meters.
I mean, c'mon, make it like 100m!

BTW, http doesn't like ? in urls.

I had to edit out the question mark at the end of sparrow with %3f in the url from your RSS feed redirect to get here ;)

I assume

I assume, of course, that you meant "ninjas getting killed by pirates" since everyone knows that's what ninjas really do.
Plus, piracy is all over the news, and has anyone every heard of ninjacy? I think not.

We can only hope and pray some suicide bombers from Mechano don't try and fly a lego plane into it!

God bless Legos!

@terranaut. My Firefox RSS reader works good with this page.

The real challenge is to build something that tall, without a supporting structure.

@Corydorf: You're my hero.

As for supporting structure I noticed there were guy wires. That may be why they did a pirate ship mast. The tie downs would be appropriate that way.

I always thought pirates got killed by scurvy and syphilis.
*briefly imagines two ninja named Scurvy and Syphilis*

If you're smart enough to make 3D shapes out of Legos, you should probably be doing something else.

as opposed to 2D lego shapes?

Try the 1d shapes. Those are the really hard ones.

That's bullshit. They should have smashed the record. Make a scale replica of the Sears Tower or Taipei 101 or something. Although that would require a few million more Legos.

Am I the only one that thought that the bottom bricks had to be pretty tough to support the weight? I wonder how much they can stand? I know I can stand on a brick and not break it, but this tower has to weigh over 300#'s (yes I know it is spread over many bricks at the bottom). I'm just curious as to what the limit would be.

Is it just me or does anyone else see this as art? I think it's pretty cool but I agree - they should have smashed the record with a taller piece of art!

Ok, maybe I'm dense, buy how and why is this a 'pirate ship mast'? Is there a little pirate ship at the bottom, or is this a case of "this is a mast because we said it is" ?