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[Guy Bagley]

And one of my ( with some help) latest builds


https://www.facebook.com/DFDSGroup/posts/1134964529913101

[Bob K]

Awesome build Guy.  Well done to the staff of DFDS and Lego.   
I doubt if you will be able to get that into the Black Park car park for next Sundays Regatta.

[BFSMP]

INCREDIBLE!!!

How many bricks went into making that, Guy.

Jim.

[imsinking]

      I was looking at the wrong video . . . I thought it was the ships parked at the berths    was wondering if they were floating . . . .
Bill

[Guy Bagley]

just over 1 million bricks in it !

[Martin (Admin)]

Interesting build Guy, was it a deliberate choice to make parts of the hull deliberately 'over jagged'?
 I.e. the Logo, the Maltese cross, is much 'smoother' the the funnel or especially the bow....

[Kipper]

If that is going to be driven on British roads, I hope you glued all the bricks together, or it will be 1 million plus seperate bricks if it comes via Lincolnshires roads. 

[Guy Bagley]

Majority of blocks were made by Dfds staff, it was part of their 150 years celebration,  they made giant blocks out of standard lego  bricks, we then build the ship from these bigger blocks hence the jagged appearance....the bigger block is 4 times bigger than a classic 8 stud brick...


The cross and logos had to be made in smaller bricks to fit the branding guidelines as they're registered marks...


The ship is unglued with only a few structural bits bonded... And it will tour Europe and Dfds locations by truck, it will be in Blythe soon for the tall ships event and of course it will be in Dover at some point


For more details on it and where it will be look at the Facebook pages, it also shows how the ship came together and all the rules you have to comply with to get a Guinness world record

[Kipper]

For more details on it and where it will be look at the Facebook pages,

Is the info available anywhere else?

I don't partake of Facebook (or Twitter for that matter), I find they are overcrowded with moronic selfie taking youngsters who post gibberish. 

[BFSMP]

I don't partake of Facebook (or Twitter for that matter), I find they are overcrowded with moronic selfie taking youngsters who post gibberish. 

I think that's probably what our parents and adults thought of us when we were young teenagers, lol.

Jim.

[Guy Bagley]

kipper, i think if you trawl DFDS website there must be a link somewhere, theyre really  celebrating their 150 yrs in business

[Guy Bagley]

https://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/our-record-breaking-lego-ship

[Kipper]

Thanks for the link Guy, unfortunately it gives a couple of the main locations it will visit, but then refers the reader to it's facebook page. 

[Guy Bagley]

i know it will visit dover and london in 2016....