Of Lego Cities and Billionaires

From Kickstarter:
CONTACT 1: A 200,000 Piece LEGO Masterwork


Via Atlantic Cities:

No one, I repeat, no one can do LEGO like Mike Doyle can. His Halloween-themed LEGO sculptures used approximately 130,000 of the famed plastic bricks to build large models of crumbling Victorian houses. Now, Doyle is back with a larger and much more ambitious project: Contact 1, the first entry in a series of thematically-linked works that celebrate “terrestrial contact events, spiritual beings and unique worlds.” Wait, whaaaa?

Doyle’s series will shed light on more elevated states of beings through the manically detailed, impressively constructed cities he has and continues to build. With Contact 1, he’s built an imaginary city of near Minas Tirith-like scale, complete with pixelated towers, forests, and waterfalls....MORE 

Is it any wonder that last month Bloomberg was reporting:
Lego Builds New Billionaires as Toymaker Topples Mattel

Lego A/S, the Billund, Denmark- based toymaker famous for its colorful building bricks, has minted three new billionaires as the company’s revenue soared 25 percent last year.....MORE

Finally, the song Bill Gates' kids sing to him (I'm not kidding):