Monday, May 14, 2012

South Korea News - World's tallest Lego tower 31.9 meters



The world's tallest Lego tower has been built in Seoul, South Korea. A total of 4000 children were deployed to build a lego tower as high as 31.9 meters by using 500 thousand legos.

As quoted from Dailymail, Monday, May 14, 2012, the success of the construction of the toy tower unveiled Sunday, May 13, 2012 by the Danish Crown Prince Frederik, as part of celebrations for the 80th year that Lego.

The building was built in front of Seoul's Olympic Stadium was beating the previous record made ​​in France last October with the difference only 30 cm.

The tower was built over more than five days by a young contestant. Construction of the tower itself attract the attention of the tourists as much as 30ribu more visitors. Once completed, Prince Fredrerik his way for six days in South Korea, was given the honor to lay the last lego.

Lego tower, first built in 1988 and stands only about 50 feet below. Since then, a record for building a lego tower continues to climb.

A very popular toy was invented by Ole Kirk Chistiansen Danish, who started making wooden toys in 1920. He named his company Lego, the Danish vocabulary 'Leg godt' which means 'play well' or 'play well'. Wooden toy that turns into a plastic toy that is currently spreading around the world. viva