Legend of Zelda's Original Hyrule Map Recreated with 25,000 LEGOs
One creative Legend of Zelda fan has recreated the game's original map of Hyrule using 25,000 LEGOs. While The Legend of Zelda is often a source of inspiration for gamers who are looking to recreate assets in other games, it is not often that these fan homages leave the screen.
Of course, video games and LEGOs are increasingly becoming conjoined in recent years. The popular series of LEGO video games have become incredibly profitable and crossed over with several movie franchises like Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Lord of the Rings. New LEGO sets that are based on video game franchises like Uncharted, Super Mario, and Minecraft have also begun to sprout up. Some players have used LEGOs to build models of places from video games in the past, but none have quite reached the scale of one Legend of Zelda fan's build.
Next: BOTW 2 Should Be The Middle Part Of A Full Zelda Trilogy
Shared on YouTube by creator Ian Roosma (via Kotaku), the video zooms out over a massive recreation of the map, scanning each unique area of the map in detail to show all of the LEGO pieces that went into this painstakingly-detailed recreation. According to the report by Kotaku, the recreation took over four months of designing and building to complete. Roosma was able to source all 25,000 pieces needed to build the map through independent sellers since this recreation needed thousands of copies of the same pieces (like almost 3,000 copies of the 1x1 brown round trunks for trees).
The Legend of Zelda remains one of the biggest sources of inspiration for player creativity amongst gamers. Players of creative games like Minecraft and Animal Crossing have used the tools at their disposal to recreate iconic locations from games throughout
Read more on screenrant.com
