How Long Does It Take to Build a Lego Set

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The new LEGO Art World Map is the largest individual LEGO set ever made. It contains a whopping 11,695 pieces - that's 2,605 more pieces than the Titanic in second place and 4,154 more pieces than the Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon.

Measuring at over 25.5 in. (65 cm) high and 40.5 in. (104 cm) wide, the world map can be wall mounted or displayed on a shelf.

The kit comes with a soundtrack, so you can enjoy an audio world tour as you build while oceans can be customized to give the map a twist and landmass sections can be moved to refocus the map on 1 of 3 sections of the world. The world map costs a reasonable $249.99 / £229.99 / 249.99€, which means the price per part is around 2 cents/per brick - albeit almost all of them are single studs.

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The LEGO Titanic is on sale now.

LEGO's second largest set ever is the 10294 Titanic - a huge 9,090 piece ship faithfully recreating the original Titanic to 1:200 scale. It measures 4 feet (1.35m) in length making it the longest LEGO set ever released.

The LEGO Titanic includes all the features of the original ship - from the ship's bridge to promenade deck to the swimming pool; and it can be split in to three sections allowing you to view a cross-section of the interior with the grand staircase, boiler room and more.

Please note: like the original, this ship does not float.

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The LEGO Architect Colosseum contains 9,036 pieces making it the third largest set on our list, and the largest LEGO architecture set.

Designed to mimic the incredible architecture of the original Roman amphitheatre, the completed model is over 10.5 inches (27cm) high, 20.5 inches (52cm) wide, and 23.5 inches (59cm) deep. You're going to need a large cabinet to display this masterpiece!

Every detail of the model amphitheatre stays true to the real-life Colosseum – including having 80 'ribs' in the spectator stands and the three different shades of brick to replicate the different columns and ageing of the Roman landmark. The Colosseum build experience matches the same process as the original, with the modern "wooden" arena being the last part to be placed on the LEGO model, as it was in real-life back in the 1990s.

The Colosseum is the ultimate build for fans of LEGO, Roman Architecture and/or bargin hunters costing $549.99 / £449.99 / 487.39€.

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The LEGO 75192 Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon is the biggest LEGO Star Wars set on our list - but it is no longer the biggest LEGO set ever. It does, however, still hold the crown for the most expensive LEGO set ever released costing US $799.99 / £649.99 / 799.99€ - jointly with the Star Wars UCS AT-AT below.

At 7,541 bricks this LEGO Millennium Falcon is a giant when built measuring over 84cm (33 inches) long and 56cm (22 inches) wide and 21cm (8 inches) high.

With that kind of scale to play with, it's no surprise that the LEGO Millenium Falcon is also impressive in it's accuracy to the iconic Star Wars ship containing a greater level of external detail than any Millennium Falcon LEGO set ever has before. You can even configure the model to both classic and modern Star Wars styles and pilot the ship with either a young or older Han Solo.

In the Falcon's interior you'll find several sections such as the main hold, the rear compartment, the top gunnery station and the cockpit.

To summarise, the LEGO Millenium Falcon is a ginormous and brilliant set that will take you around 24 hours to build. So prepare for it to take several days, but know you'll have a lot of fun doing it.

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The second biggest LEGO Star Wars set is the LEGO AT-AT Walker UCS which contains 6,785 pieces and measures 24.5 inches (62 cm) tall and 27 inches (69cm) long.

The AT-AT can be opened on one side to reveal the interior cockpit and body; where it can house an army of 40 minifigures.

At $799.99 / £699.99 / € 799.99, it holds joint first for the most expensive LEGO set ever released.

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The massive Hogwarts Castle measures over 22 inches (58cm) high, 27 inches (69cm) wide and 16 inches (43cm) deep. Recreating a landmark as big and grand as Hogwarts, this set is a micro-scale version of the school with an assortment of microfigures to fit inside.

The castle contains the Great Hall; moving staircases; classrooms for potions, Defence against the Dark Arts and other rooms from the series.

When it was released back in 2018, it was the second largest set ever, but it has since fallen to a still impressive sixth. It is also the biggest LEGO Harry Potter set. It costs US $399.99 / £349.99 / 399.99€.

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The Taj Mahal contains an impressive 5,923 pieces. The set does an amazing job in recreating the ivory-white marble mausoleum.

Taking roughly 25 hours to build, the finished model is an impressive 20 inches (50cm) wide and 16 inches (40.6cm) tall which means you'll need to find an extra special place to display this special model.

The Taj Mahal was originally on sale between August 2008 and May 2011 - where it held the title for the biggest LEGO set of all time. It was re-released in December 2017 with the addition of 1 piece - a brick separator - and improved instructions.

Whilst available, it retailed for US $369.99 / £299.99. You'll now have to look to eBay to secure your copy.

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The LEGO NINJAGO City Gardens is the eighth biggest set on our list, and the biggest of the three LEGO NINJAGO modular sets.

Based on the LEGO NINJAGO TV series, this three tier ninja set measures 29" (73cm) high, 17.5" (44cm) long and 13" (33cm) wide and includes an ice cream shop, noodle house, museum, zen garden, Ninja control tower and student apartment.

It retails at US $299.99 / £274.99 and comes with 19 minifigures including a Golden Wu mini-figure to mark the tenth anniversary of LEGO NINJAGO. The set connects to the LEGO NINJA City and Docks also featured on this list to make your NINJAGO world even bigger.

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LEGO Harry Potter makes a second entry at the top end of our chart with this superb recreation of Diagon Alley.

The set includes Ollivanders Wand Shop; Weasley's Wizard Wheezes for all your silly supplies; Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor; Scribbulus Writing Implements stationery shop; Flourish & Blotts book shop and Quality Quidditch Supplies where you can pick up a new broomstick.

Measuring over a metre long, Diagon Alley can actually be separated in to four individual buildings that can be configured in any order to make the alley of your dreams. The bright colours and varied shops ensure that this whole build will be interesting from start to finish!

Diagon Alley is $399.99 / £369.99 and available right now.

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The Camp Nou stadium is the largest LEGO stadium set of all time.

Camp Nou is the stadium for football/soccer team FC Barcelona.

The set captures the whole stadium - from the pitch, to the players' tunnel, VIP entrance and press section; and even has a tour bus outside!

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Before 2017's Millennium Falcon there was already a rather large replica of Solo's "piece of junk". Weighing in at 5197 pieces, until 2017 this set was the definitive version.

The ship was the first Falcon to be built to minifigure scale and as so is over 33 inches (84cm) long, 22 inches (55cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) tall. It comes with Han, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan, Luke and Leia minifigures to help you save the galaxy.

When it was on sale between 2007 and 2010 the set sold for US $499.99 / £349.99 but now it can be seen for around $3500 on eBay.

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LEGO's NINJAGO The Movie has spawned some awesome sets including this one - the NINJAGO City. This beautiful brightly coloured city **sits over 3-levels **all connected by a sliding elevator.

On the lower level you'll find a traditional fish market and house, together with a calming bridge over a stream and fishing boat. The second level contains a fashion store, comic book store and seafood restaurant. The top floor contains Lloyd and and Misako's apartment, together with a rooftop sushi bar and a radio tower.

With a terrific level of detail and lots to play with, this set should appeal to fans of NINJAGO and big LEGO builds alike.

Unfortunately, this set is no longer available after being discontinued back in December 2019. When it was for sale it cost US $299.99 / £259.99 / 299.99€. Nowadays, a new boxed set on eBay sells for around twice that price.

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Recreate your own opening sequence to Star Wars: A New Hope with this authentic LEGO replica of the Imperial Star Destroyer, complete with a to-scale version of the Rebels' Tantive IV starship to chase down. This is the fifth - and biggest - attempt from LEGO at producing a Star Destroyer - not that the other versions were small.

This mighty starship includes swivelling guns, a tilting radar dish, huge engine exhausts, intricate surface detailing and more grey bricks than you could ever imagine.

You'll need a fair bit of space to display this model as it measures over 17" (44cm) high, 43" (110cm) long and 26" (66cm) wide when placed on its stand. You'll also need a fair bit of cash for it's whopping US $699.99 / £649.99 price tag!

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The iconic Ghostbusters firehouse HQ was faithfully recreated in LEGO for this mega-sized 4,634 piece set. As well as the red bricked building, the set comes with detailed interior and 9 minifigures: the 4 Ghostbusters (Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore) as well as receptionist Janine Melnitz, and Peter's neighbours Dana Barrett and Louis Tully. Spook-wise there's a Zombie Driver and the Library Ghost; as well as Slimer and two other flouresent ghosts.

The firehouse features a hinge which allows creators to look/play inside and provides just enough room for the ECTO-1 (sold separately) to fit.

The set is unfortunately now retired from the LEGO store.

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The first of two London builds on the list, this set shows off London's most iconic bridge complete with a working drawbridge. The final build is over 40 inches (101cm) long and 17 inches (43cm) high, so expect it to take some serious shelf space - though the set can be taken apart in modules for transportation.

The bridge wouldn't be complete without some vehicles to drive across it, so this set comes with a black London taxi, red double-decker bus, green car and, er, an iconic yellow truck.

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If LEGO studs are your thing, then LEGO's new Art collection has you covered with this Harry Potter crest selection.

With this set, you can build a tile mosaic picture of the Hogwarts crest of your choice – Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. The studs for all four crests are included so you can later rebuild it into a new crest or collect all 4 sets to create the ultimate Hogwarts crest.

The crests retail for US $119.99 or £114.99. Which works out at 2.8 cents per brick! Bargain!

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More recently, LEGO have released another London tourist spot in to their collection - the Elizabeth tower aka Big Ben. The tower is over 23 inches (59cm) tall and comes with amazingily detailed clock faces with movable hour and minutes hands.

It'll cost you $249.99 / £179.99 / 219.99€ to pick up from the LEGO store.

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A social experiment from LEGO - The LEGO Art Project allows you to create up to 9 separate pictures on one canvas.

Of course, to be able to give you the option to allow your imagination go wild the set needed to include a lot of bricks, so here you'll find over 4000 pieces so you can create whatever you want!

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LEGO introduced new roller coaster pieces to their product lines toward the end of 2017, and produced this massive roller coaster set just in time for the summer of 2018.

Measuring over 20 inches (53cm) high, 34 inches (88cm) wide and 16 inches (41cm) deep, the roller coaster set contains a fully functioning chain-lift roller coaster with 2 trains - each with 3 train cars.

Yours for just $379.99 / £299.99 / 329.99€. Plus you can motorize the roller coaster for just a little more money with the LEGO Power Functions M-Motor.

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2019's Liebherr R 9800 Excavator takes the crown for the largest LEGO Technic set with 51 more pieces than previous Technic giant, the Rough Terrain Crane.

This creation is a replica model of the real Liebherr Excavator and is powered by 2 advanced Smart Hubs with 7 motors. Hooking up to an app on your smartphone, the crane comes to life allowing multi directional driving and rotation; and control of the boom, arm and bucket.

It measures over 15 inches (39cm) high, 25 inches (65cm) long and 10 inches (27cm) wide and costs $449.99 / £399.99.

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This crane measures over 39 inches (100cm) high, 25 inches (66cm) long and 10 inches (26cm) wide in working position, and over 10 inches (27cm) high, 29 inches (76cm) long and 7 inches (20cm) wide in driving position.

It cost $299.99 / £229.99 before it was retired earlier this year.

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The magical Disney Castle is the largest Disney LEGO set at 4043 pieces and comes complete with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy and Tinkerbell minifigures.

The detailed set replicates the iconic Cinderella Castle found at the Walt Disney World Resort with each room within the castle referencing different parts of Disney's rich and varied past.

You can make your own dreams come true by exchanging US $349.99 / £299.99 / 349.99€ on the online LEGO store.

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The first Death Star on our list is the most recent one released from the LEGO Group. Essentially a re-release of 10188 (#22 on our list), the 2016 revision of the Death Star has a few new additions which increase the brick total by just 87 bricks.

The newer set includes Darth Vader's TIE Advanced Fighter which has been updated with more pieces and more details have been added throughout the set. It also comes with updated minifigures using the latest printing techniques, and boast the record for the LEGO set with the most number of minifigures.

The LEGO Star Wars Death Star retails for US $499.99 / £409.99 / 499.99€ which is considerably more than the original cost, but with that model now in retirement this is your cheapest option when it comes to needing a LEGO Death Star playset in your life; and you too can own the biggest LEGO Death Star in the world!

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Assembly Square is the 12th set in LEGO's modular building range and to celebrate the modular themes 10th year, this addition is the biggest one yet.

Assembly Square comprises of a bakery, florist's shop, a café, a music store, photo studio, dental office, dance studio and an apartment with access to a rooftop terrace with barbecue. It's a stunning model with lots of detail and 8 minifigures with a variety of occupations to occupy the shops plus a baby figure.

You can purchase the Assembly Square modular set now for US $279.99 / £179.99 / 239.99€.

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With 3,957 pieces, the LEGO Home Alone set is the biggest in the LEGO Ideas range so far.

As well as the openable McCallisters' house, the set includes 5 LEGO minifigures - Kevin McCallister, mom Kate McCallister, crooks Harry and Marv and neighbour 'Old Man' Marley.

The bricks are divided into bags following the movie's plot, so you can relive the story as you build during the holidays.

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The third largest LEGO Technic model in this list is the Bucket Wheel Excavator containing 3939 pieces.

The Bucket Wheel Excavator comes with an array of motorized functions, including forward and reverse driving, moving conveyor belts, working boom with revolving bucket wheel, and a rotating superstructure.

It cost $279.99 / £189.99 / 229.99€, although you can expect to pay slightly more for it now it has been retired.

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LEGO's first(?) soccer/football stadium model is now the second largest stadium on the list. Filled with historic details and a perfectly kept pitch, the stadium is likely to be a centerpiece in any Manchester United fans' home.

The model is a 1:600 replica model of Old Trafford and measures 6.5 inches (18.5cm) high, 18 inches (47cm) long and 15 inches (39cm) wide.

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The latest LEGO Technic set is the LEGO Cat D11 Bulldozer which can be controlled from the LEGO CONTROL+ app.

This replica measures over 10 inches (26 cm) high, 22 inches (57 cm) long and 14.5 inches (37 cm) wide.

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This LEGO Star Wars Death Star set was one of the longest available LEGO sets ever produced - available for an astonishing 7 years from 2008 to 2015. And it has now been surpassed by the slightly bigger set 75159.

The set originally cost US $399.99 / £274.99 / 419.99€ and due to it's re-release as an improved model, the original doesn't fetch as much as you might expect on auction sites.

If you'd like to learn about more of the biggest LEGO Star Wars sets, check out our top 10 list.

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The LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man Daily Bugle set is the largest Marvel superhero set on our list and contains a cast of 25 classic characters from the Spiderverse.

Measuring at over 32 in. (82 cm) high, this 3,772 piece recreation of the Daily Bugle office block spans over 4 floors filled with authentic details from Spider-Man's history.

The set contains a whopping 25 minifigures bring life to the set including Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Ham and Spider-Gwen; villains Doctor Octopus, Venom, Green Goblin, Peter Parker, Mysterio, Sandman; and other characters such as Blade the Vampire Hunter, J. Jonah Jameson, Black Cat, Daredevil and Punisher. The set costs US $299.99 / £274.99 / 299.99€

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How Long Does It Take to Build a Lego Set

Source: https://thecollector.io/features/the-30-biggest-lego-sets-ever

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