{"id":1791202,"date":"2021-06-03T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791202"},"modified":"2021-06-03T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:00:37","slug":"legos-11695-piece-world-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/06\/legos-11695-piece-world-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego\u2019s 11,695-Piece World Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lego\u2019s recently announced world map<\/a> is 104 cm by 65 cm (41 \u00d7 26 inches) and has a staggering 11,695 pieces. Part of the Lego Art series aimed at adults, it\u2019s built basically pixel-by-pixel, and comes with pin pieces to mark locations once it\u2019s finished.<\/p>\n

Lego says that you can customize the oceans in any number of colours or patterns, but it seems to me, based on the building instructions<\/a>, that there\u2019s nothing stopping you from doing the continents completely differently as well. You\u2019re not physically limited to the three choices the instructions give you: Europe and Africa in the centre, the Americas in the centre, or Asia and Australia in the centre. You could do a different map projection, or even a different globe. But that\u2019s the point of Lego, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s available as of this week for US$250\/\u20ac250\/\u00a3230\/C$350; it\u2019s already out of stock at the online store<\/a> but may be available through other channels. [Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lego\u2019s recently announced world map is 104 cm by 65 cm (41 \u00d7 26 inches) and has a staggering 11,695 pieces. Part of the Lego Art series aimed at adults, it\u2019s built basically pixel-by-pixel, and… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[27,338],"class_list":["post-1791202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-memorabilia","tag-lego","tag-world-map","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806071,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/02\/legos-new-globe\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791202,"position":0},"title":"Lego’s New Globe","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 February 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"If Lego\u2019s 11,695-piece world map was not enough for you\u2014and believe me, I understand\u2014then they have something else for you: a 2,585-piece globe that\u2019s 40 cm (16 inches) tall, comes with glow-in-the-dark labels, and costs US$200\/C$270\/\u00a3175\/\u20ac200. 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