Infographic: LEGO CU
CU As You’ve Never Seen It
“Hit the Bricks,” a 12-by-17-foot LEGO®model of campus, opened Dec. 6 at the Heritage Center in Old Main. Designed and built by the Colorado and Wyoming LEGO®User Group, the display takes up most of a room. This is a model with a sense of humor, reflecting CU in reality and hyper-reality — Ralphie and Ralphie’s handlers, cyclists, slackliners, trees by the hundred, plus spacecraft and a dinosaur dig on Norlin quad. Mind the shark in Varsity Lake.Fast Facts
 | Made of more than 500,000LEGO® bricks |
 | Nearly 1,000 visitors attended the exhibit's opening day |
 | Nine builders worked on the exhibit over seven weeks |
 | The bricks were shipped from eight countries |
 | Shows 250 bicycles and 150 trees |
Photography by Patrick Campbell