<![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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" ?

RatBastard

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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!

dd1177

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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.

TheCapt

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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.

Jeff_McAwesome

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> Try the 1d shapes. Those are the really hard ones.

bombastinator

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> as opposed to 2D lego shapes?

Fierock

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> If you're smart enough to make 3D shapes out of Legos, you should probably be doing something else.

loutang82

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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*

bombastinator

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> @Corydorf: You're my hero.

The Sword Master

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> @terranaut. My Firefox RSS reader works good with this page.

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

coach

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> We can only hope and pray some suicide bombers from Mechano don't try and fly a lego plane into it!

God bless Legos!

Ben

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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.

Corydorf

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> I assume

Corydorf

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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 ;)

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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!

mushaboom

]]> <![CDATA[Arrrrgh: Pirate Ship Mast World's Tallest LEGO Tower]]> 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...

Neil.Will

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