Author Topic: If you could live in a real life city made out of all LEGO's, would you do it?  (Read 3406 times)

actualy, if it looked like this
then i might live in one.

That'd be magnificent if a real city like that existed made out of LEGO bricks, but I'm just fantasizing. D:

If only there was a universe.. consisting of all bricks..

OH I know what it's called!! Blockland!

That'd be magnificent if a real city like that existed made out of LEGO bricks, but I'm just fantasizing. D:

If only there was a universe.. consisting of all bricks..

OH I know what it's called!! Blockland!
never heard of it, link?


Only if lego floors were soft

Home renovations would be easy and I could smash down people's houses, hm...
maybe

The LEGO home that I posted on the original post I heard sold for £500,000, I know it's pretty weird how anyone would pay that much for something with a weak structure. And yes, the home is in Britain.


Only if lego floors were soft

I don't thnk that you'd want them to be cushion-E though, it'd be weird to walk on.

I don't think that Lego buildings would be that unstable.

If it was really to happen, bear in mind that it's not going to consist of walls that are just 2 studs thick.

Iagine your regular foot thick walls for interiors, and larger 3 foot thick exterior walls.
And then think of what the walls would be made of.
Overlapping Lego blocks in a criss-crossing design. With enough bricks stuck together and providing support due to overlapping, then it could easily be quite resistant to quite a lot of natural pressure.

A wrecking ball or sledgehammer would probably get through, but I think it would survive some considerable windspeeds.
The plastic is also resistant to water, although Lego isn't water-tight so there's a good chance that water could seep through tiny gaps.
In the winter, that would likely cause problems when ice forms. That could quite possibly cause water within the walls to freeze and expand, breaking the bricks or entire wall.
For the same reasons, plumbing (if also Lego) could also be difficult if water can't be transported very well.

A big problem also arises when you consider thievery.
Unless Lego Houses are glued/cemented together, it would be very easy for people to physically steal parts of your home.
You could climb to the top of a house and simply pull off the top-most bricks.
Which would mean someone could expose your house to flooding or whatnot, or simply steal your walls/roof, or break in quite easily.


I'm also not sure at what temperature Lego bricks melt, but I wouldn't imagine it to be unbelievably high.
Which could mean you'd have a lot of difficulty in cooking, if fires could cause the place to melt.
Not only would that result in ruining your walls and whatnot, but being plastic, it would release Carbon Monoxide, which is deadly.
In most house-fires today Carbon Monoxide can build up quite quickly, but in a house-fire in a Lego house, it would be very rapid.

And I suppose also of note is how difficult it would be to clean.
Dirt getting trapped within studs or in the tiny gaps between smooth-plate bricks would be quite difficult to clean using conventional means.
Steam cleaning would probably be effective, but steam-cleaners aren't always very maneuverable so that raises it's own difficulties in cleaning some areas.
And with a difficulty to clean comes a rise in disease, as things like E. Coli spread other such bacteria.

Does real life have a max brick limit?

Does real life have a max brick limit?
Depends how much money and/or oil you have.

I would move in a Lego city if there was, Plumbing, jobs, and electricity.



i think this is it
http://www.blockland.com/
  she stares into my soul
« Last Edit: August 28, 2013, 10:18:55 AM by xbox 360 fan »

Hey, at least it's not a spammy all red life-size house.

I don't think that Lego buildings would be that unstable.

If it was really to happen, bear in mind that it's not going to consist of walls that are just 2 studs thick.

Iagine your regular foot thick walls for interiors, and larger 3 foot thick exterior walls.
And then think of what the walls would be made of.
Overlapping Lego blocks in a criss-crossing design. With enough bricks stuck together and providing support due to overlapping, then it could easily be quite resistant to quite a lot of natural pressure.

A wrecking ball or sledgehammer would probably get through, but I think it would survive some considerable windspeeds.
The plastic is also resistant to water, although Lego isn't water-tight so there's a good chance that water could seep through tiny gaps.
In the winter, that would likely cause problems when ice forms. That could quite possibly cause water within the walls to freeze and expand, breaking the bricks or entire wall.
For the same reasons, plumbing (if also Lego) could also be difficult if water can't be transported very well.

A big problem also arises when you consider thievery.
Unless Lego Houses are glued/cemented together, it would be very easy for people to physically steal parts of your home.
You could climb to the top of a house and simply pull off the top-most bricks.
Which would mean someone could expose your house to flooding or whatnot, or simply steal your walls/roof, or break in quite easily.


I'm also not sure at what temperature Lego bricks melt, but I wouldn't imagine it to be unbelievably high.
Which could mean you'd have a lot of difficulty in cooking, if fires could cause the place to melt.
Not only would that result in ruining your walls and whatnot, but being plastic, it would release Carbon Monoxide, which is deadly.
In most house-fires today Carbon Monoxide can build up quite quickly, but in a house-fire in a Lego house, it would be very rapid.

And I suppose also of note is how difficult it would be to clean.
Dirt getting trapped within studs or in the tiny gaps between smooth-plate bricks would be quite difficult to clean using conventional means.
Steam cleaning would probably be effective, but steam-cleaners aren't always very maneuverable so that raises it's own difficulties in cleaning some areas.
And with a difficulty to clean comes a rise in disease, as things like E. Coli spread other such bacteria.

I think that you'd probably have to have some sort of mobile kitchen outside. I'm not even sure how air conditioning would work in a house made out of LEGO's. It would be impossible to get the ventilation to work, I bet.

You can make the floors out of tile bricks to protect your footsies.

I think that you'd probably have to have some sort of mobile kitchen outside. I'm not even sure how air conditioning would work in a house made out of LEGO's. It would be impossible to get the ventilation to work, I bet.
Ventilation would be quite possible, I'm sure.
Atleast in houses.

Modern ventilation is still very much just on the level of having gaps to the outside.
Ventilation shafts would work fine.
Beyond that, a use of say, Technic Lego and Lego Mindstorms could easily create working fans and whatnot.


But central heating would be seemingly impossible, without risking the melting of lego bricks.
Maybe a boiler outside with pipes running through would be effective, but I'm not so sure.
The problem of leaking Lego pipes comes into play again.

It seems that a Lego House might not have any facilities that are required, beyond ventilation and lighting.

But it could probably be done, depending on how much you stick to the scenarios involved.
Are we going 100% Lego bricks for everything, or can we use a mixture of Lego and other materials?
Glass would be nice for windows, since clear Lego would likely act like a greenhouse. Metals for the use of pipes and certain furniture (like surfaces near cookers and boilers), and other non-Lego plastics for similar items.