{"id":548,"date":"2014-02-06T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/02\/06\/movie-real-estate-does-not-come-cheap-even-in-lego-form\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:54:00","slug":"movie-real-estate-does-not-come-cheap-even-in-lego-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/02\/06\/movie-real-estate-does-not-come-cheap-even-in-lego-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie real estate does not come cheap, even in Lego form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/novelty-real-estate\/lego-movie-homes\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-aS3Ht4-Lue4\/UvO-GIoF2oI\/AAAAAAAAA-I\/v7QOU-kj3Kc\/s1600\/8508642261_a41cb5d2dc_z.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>The Lego Movie<\/i>, hitting theaters this week, is no doubt the result of an elaborate product placement or marketing deal. Still, Legos are very fun, and we can&#8217;t help but be excited whenever we have a chance to play with them. As someone who has been to a Lego retail store and played with the <i>Back to the Future<\/i> set, I can personally attest that few things are more fun than combining movies with Lego.<\/p>\n<p>We tip our hat to real estate blog Movoto for having some fun with this idea. Using a handy algorithm and the work of some enthusiastic fans, Movoto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/novelty-real-estate\/lego-movie-homes\/\">estimated how many Legos it would take to build famous movie homes<\/a>, including everything from the <i>Beetlejuice<\/i> house to Superman&#8217;s Fortress of Solitude. Surprisingly, some buildings such as the palace from <i>Aladdin<\/i> and Howl&#8217;s titular moving castle would cost more when made from Lego. But for the most part, Lego is a much cheaper way to build than brick and metal: you&#8217;d save almost $100 million building Hogwarts that way.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, it would take 286,756,745 Lego bricks to build the American University Library. That&#8217;s $28,675,675 of Legos!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lego Movie, hitting theaters this week, is no doubt the result of an elaborate product placement or marketing deal. Still, Legos are very fun, and we can&#8217;t help but be excited whenever we have a chance to play with them. As someone who has been to a Lego retail store and played with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,355],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}