A LEGO Brickumentary Page #4

Hey, Phil, have your

people call my people,

we'll hook you up.

Maybe we can do lunch?

So, this movie set is pretty impressive.

But the master builders

in the Czech Republic

are working on even bigger things.

In Kladno, we produce big models

for LEGOLAND parks and for LEGO markets.

There's a lot of different stuff

we can do.

What people don't know

is we have computer programs

where model builders see the layers.

There is not visible every single brick.

There is steel construction inside.

We are looking forward

to the biggest project we've ever built.

It's secret.

Nobody should know about the project.

So there, this is the interface.

Working with Jaromir on the secret build

is American project manager Dale Chasse.

Okay, so we'll convert all this stuff

from millimeters to inches.

I have the most interesting project

on my plate right now,

than I've had in the whole 21 years

that I've been with the LEGO company.

We're secretly designing and building

an X-Wing fighter, life size.

But what's really cool

about this project is

we're copying one of our sets

that you can actually buy in store.

It's actually the item number, 9493.

And you can build this set at home.

But what we've done is

we've built it 42 times bigger than this.

This is going to be the biggest

LEGO model ever built.

Even we can't believe

this will be a reality.

We have a big team here.

There is a designer,

there is technical developer,

and there is team of model builders

and mechanics.

The beginning of our process is design.

Then in technical development,

it's about designing

internal steel construction.

We have a lot of challenges

in front of us.

We don't have much time

for every single step.

There will be eight tons of bricks used.

So they have to produce the bricks for us

for a couple weeks in Billund.

It's crazy.

The X-Wing is 44 feet

from wing tip to wing tip.

It's 45 feet from bow to stern.

It's 11 feet tall.

It weighs 44,000 pounds.

And took 17,000 hours to build.

Finally the X-Wing model is

ready to cross the Atlantic,

where its adventure will continue.

But we'll get back to that later.

I'm gonna pick up the pieces

And build a LEGO house

If things go wrong

we can knock it down

LEGO was definitely part

of my childhood, it was, uh...

Me and my brother had a big box

filled with everything,

um, just passed down from my parents.

But it was more of the blocks

rather than the sets.

And any time we'd get a set,

it would be like one of the small ones.

And you'd always look at the big kits

in the shops and be like,

"Oh, I want that."

And as soon as

I came into money, I was like,

"What should I buy?

House? Nah. Car? Nah. LEGO."

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