With the basic dimensions set, I now had to plan the terrace on a brick-by-brick level.įortunately, there is a really awesome builder tool for modeling LEGO constructions like this called LEGO Digital Designer. Having 10 of these rows vertically would give me place for 150 minifigures, a width of about 50 cm (~20 inches) and a height of about 25cm (~10 inches). So I decided to rather go for height and ended up with a construction that would accommodate 15 minifigures (60 LEGO units) in a horizontal row. 50 minifigures in one row would result in a horizontal dimension of 1.55 meters (61.02 inches), which was way more than I had had in mind. So I decided to do plan and build a custom LEGO terrace.īefore starting with the actual construction and design, I did some quick calculations to get a better idea about the size of the final terrace and the number of bricks that would be required.Īs I needed to accommodate about 100 minifigures, I decided to leave some headroom and plan for about 150 minifigures.įor each minifigure I accounted 4 x 3 horizontal LEGO units and vertically I assumed that 2 LEGO units would be enough so that the individual rows of the terrace could stand out.Īs 4 horizontal LEGO units account for 3.1cm (1.22 inches), trying to place e.g.
Something like a shelf, or a terrace in a football stadium.Īnd I figured that the only appropriate construction for housing my LEGO minifigures could be ….
What I was really looking for was a kind of exhibition area which could hold many (ideally all) of the minifigures. Unfortunately, this is just a drop in the bucket and does not really scale well for 100+ minifigures. I already tried to come up with clever ways of exhibiting these minifigures - built custom picture frames and mounted them on the wall. That said tough, IMHO the actual problem is not the addiction collection habit itself, but rather the question of storage, since these minifigures really deserve an appropriate place where they can be exhibited and admired. Since apparently the first step to recovery is admitting that you to have a problem, I hereby officially admit that I might have the tiniest addiction problem when it comes to collecting LEGO stuff. OK, I guess this LEGO minifigures situation is officially out of control.
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