Life Sized LEGO Animals

 Most zoos can be smelly and you can feel uncomfortable walking around and looking at various wild and domestic animals. What's more, the animals are hiding from all the people trying to take pictures and get close.

So, after experiencing the same situations, one LEGO enthusiast decided to take their passion to new levels and create a zoo made entirely of life sized LEGO animals. Have you ever thought about building actual life size animals out of LEGOs?

Currently in Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa lies Sean Kenney’s beautiful traveling exhibition known as Nature Connects. It features 27 life sized LEGO sculptures featuring a number of animals and flowers. These contemporary sculptures are made using almost 500,000 LEGOs, which are then glued together by Kenney and his assistants. The sculptures are also held up using steel frames. The LEGO sculptures take between 60 hours for the smallest and six weeks for the largest to build. Each structure is between 2,300 and 50,000 LEGOs.

Finally, working with the medium like LEGO bricks, brings new and exciting forms to sculptire, dictated by a limited palette, grids, and blocky forms and overcoming these challenges is exciting and rewarding for both the artist and the viewer. Take a look!