LEGO world records

[Angeli]

I've seen some records online, but I always see the same ones, who has most sets, most unique minifigs etc.

but I would like to know more: who has most amount of minifigs, who has most amount of bricks (person, not firm), who has built the lartgest mosaic, largest Castle diorama, largest Steampunk diorama and so one

So, who has most amount of minifigs?
Who built thew largest minifig diorama of any theme?

[Murdoch17]

Doesn't Guinness World Records have a website? You could try searching there... either that, or Google 'LEGO World Records - largest pirates display', or whatever you're looking for.

Those are my suggestions, though I would be willing to bet most of the questions you asking about are not tracked records.

Edited August 14, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Angeli]

14 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

Doesn't Guinness World Records have a website? You could try searching there... either that, or Google 'LEGO World Records - largest pirates display', or whatever you're looking for.

Those are my suggestions, though I would be willing to bet most of the questions you asking about are not tracked records.

of course, I did all that before asking here.
I mentioned, there are some records, like person who has most unique minifigs - but who has most amount of minifigs? and so on.

[Murdoch17]

12 minutes ago, Angeli said:

of course, I did all that before asking here.
I mentioned, there are some records, like person who has most unique minifigs - but who has most amount of minifigs? and so on.

As I said, these records are probably not tracked / kept, which is why no info is available. Sorry.

[Angeli]

which is why I asked people to tell me what they know on this subject.
What they heard, and with so many AFOLs, I am sure I will get all the info in no time.

19 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

As I said, these records are probably not tracked / kept, which is why no info is available. Sorry.

 

[ukbajadave]

1 hour ago, Angeli said:

...I asked people to tell me what they know on this subject...

I currently hold the world record for most Lego pieces kept in my spare bedroom if that helps?

[Angeli]

43 minutes ago, ukbajadave said:

I currently hold the world record for most Lego pieces kept in my spare bedroom if that helps?

that is impressive. How much do you have? Irony aside, of course, only weak use irony, and AFOLs aren;t weak, they are creative :)

[Agent Kallus]

Yeah I always find the problem with Guinness world records is that they're really just the highest recorded, I'm sure at least half of them haven't been bested by unaware parties.

That said, there should be a way to get some of these numbers for at least a substantial slice of Afols. Most of the more online Afols log thier collections online on Brickset. Personally my Brickset collection probably is massively unreported as I do forget sometimes and I only log while sets not the loose bricks and figures that quite possibly outnumber the sets I own.

But @Huw Millington and the team at Brickset probably have some interesting statistics on there. Brickset user with the most minifigs, most popular set of each year, collectable Minifigure owned by the least members, biggest collections by theme and so on.

[Angeli]

15 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

Yeah I always find the problem with Guinness world records is that they're really just the highest recorded, I'm sure at least half of them haven't been bested by unaware parties.

That said, there should be a way to get some of these numbers for at least a substantial slice of Afols. Most of the more online Afols log thier collections online on Brickset. Personally my Brickset collection probably is massively unreported as I do forget sometimes and I only log while sets not the loose bricks and figures that quite possibly outnumber the sets I own

Thank you :)
Brickset is good for sets, but, for example me, I have some amount of sets, not more than few hundred, and most of them are small and medium, but I have around 6000 kg of LEGO bricks, with around 40.000 minifigs, mostly in castle gear, one of my favorite LEGO themes. Now, that 6000 kg or those 40.000 I know it is a lot, but how far is it from the one that has the most?

I also have around 200 dioramas built, in diferent sizes, alive in this very moment, surface of around 2500 baseplates (48x48) - how that compares with the one that has the most?

I always tried to compare to get sense of how actually much that is, but when I spoke with guy in Serbia who was suposed to have next biggest amount of bricks, he didn;t had more than coupl hudred of kg - I expected at least 2 tons, by the way he was talking.

who has the largest acquarium made from LEGO bricks (but everything, not real sand and animal made from LEGO here and there), who built and how big it is, the largest castle diorama, both firm and AFOL(s), largest spaceship (I've built 5,1m long Millenium Falcon, for example, I have seen some SW ships that are 7m long :D I believe in Australia - my next moc is 12m long Warhammer 40k ship - will it be the longest? I can easily make it meter two larger, if it would mean world record - and so on :)

[Dursagon]

I tried going for the worlds largest castle by making one 14 baseplates wide by 36 baseplates deep. It was a group effort with a group I use to belong to using project support with very limited amount of unique parts. My smallest castle fit on a 6x6 plate.

I started a different castle that has larger modules and I'm designing it in Studio currently. It too is 14 baseplates wide but I haven't settled on the depth. I felt like going more for a nice layout with internal buildings and other things inside a set of massive walls than for just sheer size. With the castle being modular, I could go much bigger using multiples of the same sections of walls. If I wanted to add a mote that goes around 3 sides, that would add 4 more baseplates to the width. I just limited the mote right now to the front side.

As for other stats, I have over 3000 sets as I've been collecting Lego since the 70's. I never had a dark age. I have 6 shelving units that have 5 shelves each which hold 60 bins that are those Ikea Vessla bins, full of sorted bricks. Aside from that, I have an additional set of 10 bins that are 95 qts each full of unsorted and several 100's lbs of loose bricks. And finally, I have 8 grocery bags filled with Technic bricks that I recently got from a school that was shutting down their Lego robotic classes.

With minifigs, I have almost 5k of them.

[Angeli]

31 minutes ago, Dursagon said:

I tried going for the worlds largest castle by making one 14 baseplates wide by 36 baseplates deep. It was a group effort with a group I use to belong to using project support with very limited amount of unique parts. My smallest castle fit on a 6x6 plate.

I started a different castle that has larger modules and I'm designing it in Studio currently. It too is 14 baseplates wide but I haven't settled on the depth. I felt like going more for a nice layout with internal buildings and other things inside a set of massive walls than for just sheer size. With the castle being modular, I could go much bigger using multiples of the same sections of walls. If I wanted to add a mote that goes around 3 sides, that would add 4 more baseplates to the width. I just limited the mote right now to the front side.

As for other stats, I have over 3000 sets as I've been collecting Lego since the 70's. I never had a dark age. I have 6 shelving units that have 5 shelves each which hold 60 bins that are those Ikea Vessla bins, full of sorted bricks. Aside from that, I have an additional set of 10 bins that are 95 qts each full of unsorted and several 100's lbs of loose bricks. And finally, I have 8 grocery bags filled with Technic bricks that I recently got from a school that was shutting down their Lego robotic classes.

With minifigs, I have almost 5k of them.

that is impressive :)
I also never had dark age :)

when you say baseplate, is it 32x32 or 48x48?

My largest diorama is 12x12 (48x48) (or 18x18 32x32), but that being said, I also have, built and exhibited at the same time: another 12x12 (all my measurements ar ein 48x48) castle diorama, one 12x6, three 1x2 diorama, one 2x4, five 4x4 dioramas, and three 8x4 dioramas, all generci castle stuff - which is 550 baseplates under castle stuff, so if I was to connect them on table (and I built them so they can be connected), it is 23x24 (48x48) base plates large castle :) with at least 10 towers that are over 2m tall :) (2.4m is my standard height when I build tall) - or around 9x9 m, or 81 m2 :D

It would be a lot of logistical effort to gather those dioramas from events, and pain to produce so many tables, but if that would be world record, I would make an extra effort to  do it :) But I don;t know what is the largest castle diorama in the world :)
Plus I am building another 8x4 diorama in this very moment (actually, it will be 2x8, but two levels:) AD&D, with all the new stuff coming from TLG, inspiaring me :)

Do you have pictures of that large castle that was part of project support? (btw, second best support from TLG, right after PBB (boxes:)

[Dursagon]

Oh, Sorry. I go by the 32x32 baseplates.

Edited August 15, 2024 by Dursagon