2024-04-30T19:19:55-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/102865833/building-wes-anderson-s-grand-budapest-hotel-out-of-50-000-legos Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-06-27T15:02:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8s/8s1nt70usfpruuaf.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Hardcore Wes Anderson fan and Lego model designer Ryan Ziegelbauer, in reverence to the director's most recent film, <em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em>, has made a miniature replica of the Hotel completely out of Legos.</p><p>Over the course of 575 hours, Ryan and a team of eight model builders designed and built the hotel, using more than 50,000 Lego bricks sourced from Lithuana, Poland, Latvia, Germany, Italy, and 14 U.S. states. Sadly, the film's cast was not replicated in the model.</p><p>Watch Ryan and his team put the model together in blazing stop-motion below:</p><p></p>