{"id":3401,"date":"2021-10-18T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T04:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:42:03","slug":"building-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2021\/10\/building-legos\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Legos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In order to create larger than life sized Legos, I decided to use Styrofoam to build them, utilizing some of the things I learned last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After establishing the Lego to yard size ratio, I began to lay out plans for the bricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then created a template out of poster board for a standard Lego piece (2 studs by 4 studs), which I could use to help me transfer the dimensions on to the Styrofoam quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From there, I used my hot knife to cut out the foam. After working on a variety of ways to get straight, perpendicular cuts, I arrived at using a 2X4 piece of lumber as the straight (and perpendicular) edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This allowed me to cut out straight-sided Lego pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From there I used Great Stuff to glue on the bottom piece as well as the cylindrical studs (see the Studmaker<\/a> <\/strong>blog post for more info about that process).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once it was dry, I had my first set of full-sized Legos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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