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Ohio Stadium aka THE Horseshoe (Official Thread)

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Since it took him nearly two years to construct, why doesn't he donate the piece to the Ohio Union, Wexner or Thompson Library for display? Somewhere where other people can enjoy it (although maybe he wants it in his house to display).

Or he could sell it.
 
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The detail work is amazing. I even see my seats (C deck, row three in front of the tower). :biggrin:

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Thats just... unbelievable. I'd buy that if it were a sale item in my price range.

No way in hell would I have the patience to do something like that even though I'd love to be able to do it. Outstanding work!
 
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dispatch article on the LEGO Shoe...apparently this guy is a OSU professor...makes sense

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2011/01/15/the-shoe-block-by-block.html

The 'Shoe, block by block
Lego hobbyist spent 2 years building model of stadium



Saturday, January 15, 2011 02:50 AM
By Amy Saunders



THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The dome of the rotunda, the Script Ohio looping across the scoreboard video screen, the archways lining the stadium that is shaped, of course, like a horseshoe. In near-exact detail, Paul Janssen created all the curves of Ohio Stadium using 1 million Legos - which, if you remember, are mostly rectangular.
The building is "not square at all, so it was a big challenge," he said. "But it's so much more satisfying if you can accomplish something that's hard."
Janssen recently finished his 8-foot-by-6-foot masterpiece, having spent 1,000 hours over nearly two years building it in his Dublin basement. No cutting, gluing or painting was involved in making the replica, the scale of which is about 1/100.
The 42-year-old began plotting his work in 2005, three years after he was hired as an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State University.
Growing up in the Netherlands, where the Danish-made interlocking blocks are especially popular, Janssen loved building Lego trains in his youth but took a hiatus from the hobby until moving to the United States a decade ago.
Having three children of his own - ages 10, 8 and 3 - became an excuse to buy new toys. The family's basement - aside from a washer, dryer and a kitty-litter box - is now consumed by containers of Legos stacked nearly from floor to ceiling.
Janssen's friends in the Central Ohio Lego Train Club, for which he serves as president, once mentioned in passing the possibility of building an Ohio Stadium replica. But few would attempt such a large and detailed undertaking, member Ben Coifman said.
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