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Block Party: From Freddie Mercury to Angkor Wat, Amazing Lego Sculptures (PHOTOS)

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From Freddie Mercury to Angkor Wat (and everything from gnomes to sock monkeys in between), the number of things you can build with LEGOS is apparently limitless, and so is the fun supplied by the designers included in Mike Doyle’s ‘Beautiful LEGO,’ an eyepopping collection of ‘builds,’ as they’re known to their creators, some of whom labor hundreds of hours to produce a single work.

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From Freddie Mercury to Angkor Wat (and everything from gnomes to sock monkeys in between), the number of things you can build with LEGOS is apparently limitless, and so is the fun supplied by the designers included in Mike Doyle’s ‘Beautiful LEGO,’ an eyepopping collection of ‘builds,’ as they’re known to their creators, some of whom labor hundreds of hours to produce a single work.

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Doc Edgerton (2010), by Tom Simon

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“Fried Chicken!” (2011), by Iain Heath

© Iain Heath
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World Trade Center & 9/11 Memorial, New York (2012), by J. Spencer Rezkalla

© J. Spencer Rezkalla
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Rearing Stallion (2011), by Tim Goddard

© Tim Goddard
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Victorian on Mud Heap (2011), by Mike Doyle

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Rotary Phone (2012), by Chris McVeigh

© Chris McVeigh
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Bradley the Blue Jay (2012), by Thomas Poulsom

© Thomas Poulsom
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Reproduced from "Beautiful LEGO," by Mike Doyle, with the permission of No Starch Press.

© 2013 by Mike Doyle

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