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Contact 1: Incredible Space Age City Made From 200,000 LEGO Bricks

04/03/2013
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    <a href="http://inhabitat.com/alice-finch-creates-amazing-hogwarts-replica-from-400000-lego-bricks/" target="_blank">LEGO master</a> <a href="//mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Mike Doyle</a> is at it again with his fantastic <a href="http://inhabitat.com/10-foot-tall-replica-of-the-trump-tower-made-with-65000-legos/" target="_blank">LEGO architecture skills</a>. For his latest project, the designer used over 200,000 <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/lego/">LEGO bricks</a> to create a sprawling Sci-Fi city called Contact 1! Meshing Doyle’s love of <a href="http://www.lego.com/" target="_blank">LEGO</a>s, extra terrestrials and fantasy, the five-foot-high by six-foot-wide complex of futuristic towers is also available as an archival print over at his <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikedoyle/contact-1-a-200000-piece-lego-masterwork" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a>.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikedoyle/contact-1-a-200000-piece-lego-masterwork" target="_blank">Contact 1</a> is the first project in a series that will imagine the creativity and beauty of intelligent life forms throughout the universe.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    The futuristic metropolis took a whopping 600 hours to complete, and Doyle is offering detailed instructions on how to assemble the 200,000 piece masterpiece to raise funds to create the rest of the series.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    <a href="http://inhabitat.com/north-americas-first-lego-hotel-opens-this-spring-in-carlsbad-california/" target="_blank">LEGO fans</a> can support Doyle’s Kickstarter campaign for perks like downloadable instructions, archival prints of the masterpiece, or even DIY starter kits.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    Contact 1 towers over an extra-terrestrial foreground in a land Doyle calls Odan.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    The fantastical space-age city was inspired by spiritual and meditation centers from ancient cultures, and it features a myriad of turrets that stretch towards the stars.
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  • Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City
    Doyle wowed us in the past with his masterful skills by building a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/incredible-decaying-victorian-home-made-from-110000-lego-blocks/" target="_blank">decaying Victorian home from LEGOs</a>, and now he's taking his craft into the future with this beautiful Sci-Fi series.
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Mike Doyle Contact I LEGO Sci Fi City

LEGO master Mike Doyle is at it again with his fantastic LEGO architecture skills. For his latest project, the designer used over 200,000 LEGO bricks to create a sprawling Sci-Fi city called Contact 1! Meshing Doyle’s love of LEGOs, extra terrestrials and fantasy, the five-foot-high by six-foot-wide complex of futuristic towers is also available as an archival print over at his Kickstarter campaign.

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