Largest Lego Model of Titanic in the World

2020-10-21

 A 10-year-old boy from Reykjavik, Iceland (Brynal Karl Bigisson) has built the world's largest Lego model of Titanic.

The model is 8 meters long and about 1.5 meters high, using a total of 56,000 Lego bricks. The project took 11 months and more than 700 hours. The model has previously been exhibited in Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Germany, and can now be seen at the Titanic Museum in Kinfall, Tennessee, USA.

Brynall is an autistic boy, and building the Titanic model changed his life and helped him escape the "autism fog". He chose Titanic because it was "very unique, and the first ship I ever discovered." At the time, he was obsessed with trains, but when his grandfather Ogmundsson went fishing on a boat, he changed Brynall’s interest, sparking his interest and appreciation for boats.

 

The project was completed with the help of the boy's engineer grandfather Ogmundsson and his mother BjarneyLudviksdottir.

Ogmondsen reduced the original ship design of the Titanic to Lego size and calculated the number of LEGO bricks needed to create the model. When he first started building the model, Brynall was shy and barely spoke. His mother, Victi, encouraged her son to plan and talk about his ideas together. She helped him write letters, make YouTube videos and talk to strangers. Therefore, he could get all the Lego bricks that the model needed, and his family and friends donated money to help him.

Brynall spent more than 700 hours often in the period of leaving school. He was frustrated but he refused to stop when the stern of the model collapsed twice.

 

"As the months passed, something amazing was happening," "I noticed he was starting to shine", Brynall's mother said.

He said the experience has helped his autism. "Even though I will still be autistic and will always be autistic, I have trained myself to be as normal as possible - whatever normal means," he told to the museum in an interview.

"I feel very grateful for that," Bringal said of the experience. He told the museum: "I understand better today, not only that the model is appealing, but also that my story and how the whole process helped me come through the fog." In the process of building the Lego model, Brynall understood his goals and tried to accept autism.

Now, Brynall says his Lego days are over and he hopes to become the captain of ship one day.