Internet Salutes New Lego World Record

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By Fran Berkman2013-08-20 22:44:32 UTC

Lego nerds rejoice, you have a new shrine at which to worship.

A 112-foot 11.75-inch Lego tower, completed on Monday, just set a new Guinness World Record for the tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks. Students and staff at the Red Clay School District in Delaware engineered the tower, which soared past the previous record of 106 feet 7 inches, according to Guinness adjudicator Michael Empric.

The record-setting tower is made from more than 500,000 bricks and weighs almost a ton, Delaware Online reports.

Photos of the plastic spire reached the front page of Reddit, with thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments. Another Redditor, who apparently worked on the projected, posted a celebratory message to the /r/Delaware subreddit, where it reached the top spot with 27 upvotes and no downvotes as of Tuesday evening.

"This effort towers above the previous record-holder, the Czech Republic, whose 106-foot Prague tower, now seems positively Lilliputian," the post by user Grumpynachos reads.

At the apex of the tower sits a small red schoolhouse, which resembles the Red Clay School District's logo, as recounted on the district's Facebook page. Here's a photo looking up from the base of the impressive structure, which the district posted on Facebook.

The district wrote on Facebook that the Lego tower will remain intact until Thursday morning. For more on the construction project, check out the following video from the Red Clay School District's Facebook page.

Image: Facebook, Red Clay School District

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