Saturday, September 26, 2009

Lego Yankee Stadium

This is a scale model of Yankee Stadium built completely with Lego. Sean Kenney is a full-time "professional kid" who uses LEGO toys to build anything and everything you can imagine.

For years, his artwork, models, and children's books have inspired kids to create great things themselves.
Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Using over 45,000 LEGO bricks, a Manhattan gradeschooler and I have built a sculpture of Yankee Stadium over the past three years. It is 6 feet wide and 5 feet long, built to an approximate scale of 1:150.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks



Interview with Sean
4-minute video from Major League Baseball Entertainment News



Stadium tour (Part 1)
4-minute video from Major League Baseball Entertainment News



Stadium tour (Part 2)
4-minute video from Major League Baseball Entertainment News



Details


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The building is built to look as it does to this day, including all of the modifications that were made over the history of the building (above).


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The stadium is populated with over 1,700 little "microscale people". (Above)


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The scoreboard is made using over 1,000 "light saber" rods, laid on top of each other so that only the round ends are showing.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Can you figure out what all the scoreboard ads are for?


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

An elevated train line runs alongside the stadium. It has a microscale New York City subway train and lots of traffic and crowds on the street below.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The elevated New York City Subway station behind the stadium. (With MetroCard machines!)


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Underneath the elevated train tracks.




Close-ups


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The seating behind the dugout opens up to show the Yankee's locker rooms.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

"Monument park" (above) includes placards and monuments to famous Yankees players, like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Lou Gherig.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The invisible man watches the game from the upper deck.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

A mime in the park across the street.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Baskeball in the park across the street.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

The Simpsons head to the game.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

What's this, inside one of the walls? A crazy man with a giant chansaw, aaa, run!!


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Hidden behind in a secret compartment inside the stadium walls is The Manager's Throne Room.


Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Some micro-scale New York City buses and a taxi.


Working on the stadium

For three years, a Manhattan grade schooler and I built the stadium together. We began work in February 2006, working every weekend until it was complete in July 2009. The pictures below were taken during the course of 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks


LEGO Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium built with LEGO bricks



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