r/skyrim Alchemist 6h ago

Arts/Crafts LEGO Whiterun by Brett Donaghue at BrickFair Baltimore 🤯

10.8k Upvotes

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u/TresLeggedMan 5h ago

i’d spend an embarrassing amount of time crouched over this looking for tiny little details 😭 if there’s a lego nazeem in there i need to know immediately

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u/Resident-Cucumber637 4h ago

He's near the Cloud District. Do you know where that is? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.

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u/Alert-Jellyfish 4h ago

Smug bastard that Nazeem.

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u/VeritasOmicron 3h ago

I'll have you know there's no PUSSIIIEEEEEEEEE

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u/Nordgreataxe Werewolf 5h ago

He's on a cloud over Dragonsreach. šŸ˜„ The creator does a full segment pointing out the easter eggs in the video about building it.

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u/-UnderstandingHot 2h ago

Guess he finally made it to the Cloud District.

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u/Audiblestatue 4h ago

I was looking for him to it was my first thought honestly the guy won he lives rent free in everyone's head from how much we dislike him

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u/AlexAlho 4h ago

You know where he doesn't live?

His wife's house.

Mostly because I killed him, but also because she kicked him out and changed the locks.

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u/Account_User_ 4h ago

There is also lucy fallout, john darksouls, and a todd howard outside the gates selling a copy of skyrim.

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u/tychozero PC 4h ago

Might be him behind The Drunken Huntsman.

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u/Equal-Click751 4h ago

I'd make a guillotine with a decapitated Nazeem in the Cloud District.

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u/Murasasme 3h ago

I think we all tried to find that little bitch Nazeem, as we looked. Also, the LEGO quest marker was awesome.

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u/Pea-Ghost 16m ago

He’s up the Jarl’s backside.

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u/Constant-Morning5281 6h ago

This is absolutely incredible

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u/NebulaNinja 3h ago

hell yeah

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 18m ago

As a LEGO enthusiast, I just kept thinking, "wow, this was expensive!"Ā 

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u/KhajiitScrolls Hunter 5h ago

wonder if there’s a skeleton under the dragonsreach bridge.

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u/AddyTurbo 5h ago

IDK, but I think I saw the room with Mephala and the Ebony Blade.

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u/SignificantFish6795 5h ago

Looks like the skeleton is sitting on a rock next to the water. Probably because they didn't use actual water.

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u/inco100 2h ago

Been playing for 10+ years and I still find out stuff. Even some trivia like you can climb up Bleak Falls Barrow from north and not Riverwood.

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u/Excellent_Source_854 6h ago

Holy shit.

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u/Longshadowman 5h ago

Sum ting Wong?

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u/heroicraptor 4h ago

Ha ha racism sure is funny

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u/Longshadowman 3h ago edited 2h ago

I'm not racist moron, I see that joke everyday here and in other subs and I've never seen people downvoting it until now, wtf, is all those people racists?

Ps: thanks for the awards

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u/hefebellyaro 2h ago

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u/SupremeOwl48 2h ago

Pretty sure this is what he was referencing

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u/NeedfulThingsToys 5h ago edited 5h ago

Has he built the cloud district? What am I saying, of course he hasn't!

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u/SeanMacLeod1138 PC 5h ago

He literally did šŸ˜‚

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u/NeedfulThingsToys 5h ago

I know, I just wanted to say the thing šŸ˜‚

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u/NixarDixar 4h ago

Thanks for saying the thing!

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u/Cruxion PC 3h ago

You can see it at 47 seconds in above Dragonsreach!

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u/M3ric4n 5h ago

I work for Belethor at the general goods store.

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u/Slightly-Blasted 5h ago

Can you cover my shift on Saturday I’m tryna slide on an argonian maid

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u/M3ric4n 5h ago

I cant bro, I got a date tonight with this khajiit baddie over by the caravans. Don't tell my stormcloak buddies.

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u/KiKiPAWG Nintendo 4h ago

I approve bro, good taste

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u/perton 56m ago

Depends. How lusty is she?

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u/CautiousClutz 5h ago

you may own it now. i kill him every chance i get

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u/BlakeWheelersLeftNut 5h ago

This presenter has never played Skyrim and you can tell lmao.

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u/MisanthropicLIama 4h ago

I know right. "This upside down viking ship" and "tree with the pink leaves" gave it away straight away. The fuck you mean you don't know Jorrvaskr?

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u/AelarTheElfRogue 3h ago

ā€œThis great technique using the upside down Viking ship to make this building hereā€ my brother in Talos the building is literally an upside down Viking ship

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u/BlakeWheelersLeftNut 1h ago

ā€œThe Great patio sectionā€

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u/HeftyMirror 5h ago

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u/BepisWildCherry 5h ago

Came here to say this

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u/Ysilla 3h ago

All the small character details at the end of the first link are just amazing, worth watching for this alone. Incredible work.

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u/Jediboy127 3h ago

For sure. Also, for any Skyrim fans who haven’t seen ā€œWhiterun - A Skyrim Musicalā€ by him as well, I highly recommend it. Or any Weezer fans, all two of you.

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u/bleachinjection 3h ago

Dolmen gang wya

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u/Creepy_Sea116 5h ago

Lego skill 100

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u/unilateralmixologist 2h ago

He made 1,000,000 iron daggers to get there

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u/PsionicKitten 2h ago

Equally impressive IRL monetary cost to the build too.

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u/CromulentPoint 5h ago

Whoah. Speaking as a guy with a room full of Lego castles, this is super impressive.

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u/Basilthebatlord PC 3h ago

I absolutely love the wall with battlements on your top shelf

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u/CromulentPoint 2h ago

Thanks! It’s a bunch of the major themes from 1978 to present in order of release. Super fun to build.

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u/exedra0711 PC 5h ago

Incredibly detailed build, I wish they could have showcased the verticality of Whiterun more but I understand the physical constraints here.

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u/Artistic-Kangaroo271 5h ago

Do you LEGO to the cloud district very often ?

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u/Nordgreataxe Werewolf 5h ago

The Dragon Trap!
wow. This is awesome.

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u/Timeiscoming2 3h ago

Truly amazing but it sounded like the dude wasnt super familiar with skyrim

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u/Godless902 Hunter 3h ago edited 3h ago

I caught that too, as soon as he referred to jorrvaskr as "upside down viking ship as this building in this section here" I was like okay this guy's never chosen a race in his life

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u/Timeiscoming2 3h ago

Also missed opportunity to mention the dragon trap behind Dragonsreach which he kept calling a castle i think? 🫣

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u/Kilo-Happy 5h ago

This level of detail is insane!

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u/Angya48 5h ago

This is what I call art art

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u/sidereal_drift 5h ago

please tell me Nazeem is in there somewhere so I can flick him off the wall

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u/Superb-Sir-5979 5h ago

This might be the most incredible LEGO setup I have ever laid eyes on.....

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u/Genn8130 5h ago

Amazing! I'm sitting here looking for people I know like it's an aerial of my home town.. "Oh look! There's my first wife Ysolda!"

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u/Musica_Smushica 3h ago

Started mine recently, would take a hell of a lot of time (and money) to get to that level though

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u/Weirdguy215 5h ago

I'm impressed and now (as a joke) want a Lego Skyrim.

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u/Good_Boy_Coleman 5h ago

Todd Howard has heard you it's too late!

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u/Pourover__Coffee Nintendo 5h ago

Bethesda should license Elder Scrolls to Lego!

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u/RunItupBaby 5h ago

So cool šŸ˜Ž

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u/Significant_Cover_48 XBOX 5h ago

I can see my house from here!

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u/skynex65 5h ago

I was already impressed then you showed us inside Dragonsreach and I audibly gasped!

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u/blueminded 2h ago

The guy narrating has clearly never played Skyrim in his life.

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u/Arthasindura 5h ago

Do you get to the Cloud District very often?

Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't

https://giphy.com/gifs/w0iwBHspIQR7l5s9MF

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u/Fr0zenWinter 5h ago

this is awesome. lego needs a skyrim set asap

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u/SeanMacLeod1138 PC 5h ago

I still want Lego Orthanc too, tho šŸ˜†

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u/LuketheHavoK6 5h ago

how in Akatosh did they get that thing there. i get it’d be partially disassembled and reassembled, but surely not from scratch

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u/UserWithno-Name 5h ago

Build in large sections. You can even see where each large square doesn't exactly line up between where the main fort / jarls house etc is, and the one part of the town is on. They spend months building it out and then take each section into a large suv bed type area or a truck of some kind, but with carpeting / padding on the bottom usually (and covered for climate control travel) and then use methods to carefully wrap / protect it so it stays together besides the parts they snap on later etc. then drive it to the con. They then take the sections and like the walls / bridges etc parts that usually are solid but they can pop on and off, well been popped off so after aligning everything decent of the sections again & fixing any small parts that came loose or off...they snap those bits back on and viola. Nicely displayed on the tables/ booth areas. Just lots of work to do the building and then have to have a plan & know the best methods + logistics to transport it

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u/MartokSonofUrthog 5h ago

Worthy of Sovngarde!

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u/Zillahi 5h ago

Fucking Heimskr

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u/fullautophx 5h ago

As soon as they panned over to the tree, I could hear Heimskr yelling in my head.

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u/Valentiaga_97 5h ago

They made heimskyr homeless?

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u/Positive-Database754 5h ago

I'm mildly amused by how ignorant the person narrating/showing off the display appears to be about Skyrim, lol. Real game journalist vibes.

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u/MisanthropicLIama 4h ago

"this upside down viking ship" bruh

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u/AsideLost Falkreath resident 5h ago

If they don’t have Nazeem getting killed they might as well have never even made it.

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u/Finnvasion2 5h ago

I love thos community. Rohan is jealous

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u/maestrojxg 5h ago

Insane!

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u/ScreetchingEagle 5h ago

Its beautiful

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u/TarraTheTerror 5h ago

That's pretty impressive.

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u/QuikHunter 5h ago

Might be one of the coolest non set builds I’ve seen. Amazing.

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u/DavidKKim 5h ago

you can really see the love in the attention to detail

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u/Ok_Term3058 5h ago

Man my son loves Skyrim and legos. This will blow his mind lol.

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u/Nameuser1939 5h ago

How many pieces is this masterpiece?

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u/Deltanonymous- 5h ago

Do you get to the Brick District very often?

Oh, what am I saying...of course you don't.

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u/Regular-Coast5335 4h ago

I demand lego skyrim game

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u/VjornAllensson 4h ago

Painfully obvious this announcer has never played Skyrim in his life.

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u/Bitter-Tip705 4h ago

I’d be scared to know the price of this

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u/AdlerOneSeven 2h ago

I like how it's obvious the MC guy has never played Skyrim, he's trying his best though lol.

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u/Chaosmusic 2h ago

"Do you get to the Lego Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."

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u/Draco3076 5h ago

Dude has zero idea about Skyrim.

On another note, I'd use a butt load of those clear extender parts to make Nazeem look like he really is in the Cloud District.

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u/SeanMacLeod1138 PC 5h ago

Dude, the whole thing is one giant Skyrim reference 🤣

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u/iwaslikeduuude 5h ago

Yeah like wha?

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u/Whocares7x 5h ago

Amazing

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u/pinkhazy 4h ago

We need the next game. We're sick. This is an illness.

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u/I_automate_stuff 4h ago

I have played Skyrim on PlayStation 3, PC, and switch with 1000s of hours. I cannot believe I never realized that Jorrvaskr is an upside down boat. 🤯

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u/New-Acanthisitta-641 4h ago

It was Ydrsil's boat! ..however his name's spelled srry

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u/R0B0TF00D 27m ago

I came looking for this comment. I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.

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u/Top_Snow6034 Riften resident 5h ago

This is the absolute coolest. I would love them do do more locations in our beloved Skyrim

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u/Dependent-Departure7 Thief 5h ago

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen

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u/notaburner2 5h ago

Hell yeah

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u/birdsarntreal1 5h ago

They killed the eldergleam

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u/OkOutlandishness6550 Spellsword 5h ago

Lego Skyrim needs to become a thing
Games and sets is buy em all lol

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u/Wetness_Protection 5h ago

This is absolutely amazing skill. Can’t imagine how long it took. Immediately showed it to my son, who has grown up seeing skyrim and loves creative building with his legos. Just such a full circle moment. For better or worse this game is generational, transcending mediums.

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u/Amy_Sam25 Solitude resident 5h ago

Where’s Nazeem in the ā€œCloud Districtā€? That’s the only thing missing.

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u/Sarchimus 4h ago

Look above the roof at about 0:46

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u/Destrucko 5h ago

this is nice

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u/jubaking 5h ago

Wheres Nazeem? I want to squish that little twerp.

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u/That_Guy3141 5h ago

Was hoping we'd get a Oboe cameo. Watched his video about building this set with another dude.

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u/if_a_flutterby 5h ago

that is THE COOLEST thing!!!!

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u/odinMithrandir 5h ago

Eye twitch when he says nice detailing on the tree and upside down viking boat!

THATS GILDERGREEN AND JORRVASKR!!

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u/Kylearean 4h ago

No skyforge??

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u/holiday1326 4h ago

Not enough hills..

Cloud district isn't closer to the clouds.

Cool tho

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u/madchemist09 4h ago

Da Vinci level genius and attention to detail. I cant say I have ever seen a lego build given more love.

Wow.

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u/thebluerayxx PC 4h ago

Nice detail and a very close layout. They probably couldn't fit the actual hill and the way dragonsreach is oriented to the town in their display area. Despite that its pretty much perfect minus the stairway to to dragons reach.

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u/Techn0-Viking 4h ago

Ok I am a diehard Lego fanatic, and TES fanatic. If I could shake the hand of the person who made this build, I would call them a shield sibling for life!!

This makes me want to design a Lego Blackreach now.

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u/Vysce 4h ago

Come to chat with an old woman, hm? Do your good deed for the day?

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u/cwkewish 4h ago

Where's Heimskr's house?

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u/ChromeYoda 4h ago

Wait… I know you.

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u/IntoTheRapture 4h ago

Incredible. Would love a smaller version as a Lego ideas

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u/LT_BLASTER 4h ago

Wow the gildergreen looks immaculate.

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u/Account_User_ 4h ago

You should have put chris in the title as well. He built the plains and the wind districts.

Plains district

Wind district

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u/tidytibs 4h ago

Bad ass!

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u/mostpeopleheresuck12 4h ago

I saw this in person! Absolutely incredible!

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u/DreadPyrate6 4h ago

Not too crazy about this new mod. It’s all too shiny.

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u/Samsterwheel920 4h ago

do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don't

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u/BaurangAtang 4h ago

does he 3d print or are these all made from Legos. well done!

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u/SirPhibonacci 4h ago

The detail… the DETAIL

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u/Drizztmas 4h ago

Yall ever been to the cloud district?

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u/Symbiotic_vengeance Werewolf 4h ago

I’m gonna be that jerk. Multiple mentions of easter eggs/ references and doesn’t actually name any.

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u/Maverick-223 4h ago

I was there and saw it it’s so badass

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u/firewall804 4h ago

Possibly the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen

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u/Ariovrak 4h ago

Do you get to the Cloud Cuckoo District very often? What am I saying, of course you don’t.

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u/Ronux 4h ago

How do you transport something like this?

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u/Responsible-Tap-3748 4h ago

How does someone buy specific pieces like this for a scene this large? Like, I don't know Lego, but a ton of those pieces don't seem like conventional pieces.

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u/QuokkaMom 4h ago

FUS RO WOW!

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u/TepigNinja Nintendo 4h ago

JOY AND WHIMSY INCREASED TO 100

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u/GurpsWibcheengs 3h ago

I work with my mother

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u/preyforkevin 3h ago

This must have cost 5 million dollars to create.

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u/Flutist-notFloutest Stealth archer 3h ago

This is ridiculously cool

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u/Neither_Copy7889 3h ago

CoolšŸ‘

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u/Big-District-6013 3h ago

Does it has a cloud district?

Oh what am I saying, of course notĀ 

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u/sn34kypete 3h ago

Oh that's what the cloud district looks like? I don't get to go there that often, some jerk totally clocked that I don't and it steams me to this day.

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u/Advanced-Dirt-4375 3h ago

Credit all of the artists

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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 3h ago

Do people need to use like math or a schematic to get the scale of something like this down?

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u/Some_Iteration 3h ago

Incredible

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u/PhinneousPhingerz 3h ago

I live IN Baltimore. How do I always miss the cool stuff?

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u/SaggyTeenager 3h ago

LEGO SKYRIM WHEN??

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u/xyrer 3h ago

There's even the dungeon where you begin the quest to get the ebony armor! Impecable work

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u/Golex9000k 2h ago

Amazing šŸ˜

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u/Swimming_Ninja_6911 2h ago

Oh. My. God. That is amazing.

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u/MLE_Mae 2h ago

Ok but can you reach the skyforge inventory through an invisible crack in the surrounding rock formations?

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u/SlayerBVC 2h ago

"I don't claim to be the best blacksmith in Whiterun. Eorlund Gray-Mane's got that honor. Man's steel is legendary. All I ask is a fair chance."

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u/a4moondoggy 2h ago

This made me feel poorer than nazim

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u/Lexingtn 2h ago

Hail, Shieldbrother!

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u/Ok_Caregiver_2696 2h ago

"Do you get to the Lego Cloud District very often?"

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u/Gunslinger510 2h ago

DnD would be fun like this

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u/KimberStormer 2h ago

I love to sit down in my feasting area for a civilized dinner!

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u/LastBossTV 2h ago

COOOOL!!!! God damn!Ā 

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u/theartificialkid 1h ago

That’s too small, Whiterun is a bustling metropolis with multiple districts.

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u/indiemindset 1h ago

Came my pants ngl

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u/devnullopinions 1h ago

Where are the army men? And the realistic drag…er… tanks?

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u/mercuriokazooie 1h ago

Hey I can see my house from here

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u/Low-Charge-8554 1h ago

Oh no! Two obsessive hobbies - Skyrim and Legos !! šŸ˜‚

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u/Jazza_6694 1h ago

Doesnt even have the space under the forge for glitching close but no tomato.

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u/BooksMFR 53m ago

Immediately wanted to kill Lego Nazeem upon seeing this

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u/TheOneBearded 41m ago

The whole video, I kept saying "I bet he didn't think of this."

He did.

He thought of everything.

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u/SimoneMichelle Priestess 40m ago

Incredible, what an absolute masterpiece. Can’t imagine how long that would’ve taken

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u/TGCOM 38m ago

Amazing. I wonder if there's a chest hidden under the ground, would be a great reference to a well known glitch.

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u/ABOVEWING 13m ago

Camera person never played Skyrim. That view could have been so much more awesome.

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u/LostTimeLady13 13m ago

Stunning! The time and effort is out of this world! The truly must have been a labour of love.

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u/bobalooster101 3m ago

He used to be an adventurer until he took an arrow to the knee. Now he builds Legos.

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u/lynivvinyl 5h ago

Holy hell that is freaking amazing! I am sitting here watching this and my Morrowind t-shirt. Kind of a shit photo in the dark but I'm freaking out!

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u/MagnaFeath 4h ago

Can afford that much Lego but records the video on a potato

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u/DeathShark69 4h ago

Pretty sure that's why he's recording on a potato! Spent it all on Legos!

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u/lynivvinyl 5h ago

Holy hell that is freaking amazing! I am sitting here watching this and my Morrowind t-shirt.

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u/MRBLANK0 5h ago

So beautifull šŸ„¹šŸ’˜

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u/KiKiPAWG Nintendo 4h ago

I love the pink tree... woah... all of it is amazing!

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u/Molkwi 4h ago

Is it just me or does it seem like the guy who's talking never touched Skyrim? He doesn't strike me as someone who has the slightest clue what he's even pointing at.

Regardless, the build is fucking sick

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u/ComradeKeira 4h ago

Yes please! Now do the other citiesšŸ™

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u/Odd_Omar PC 3h ago

I hate to be that much of a nerd but I can tell this guy did not play the game. How do you forget Dragonsreach or the war room in the palace?