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Largest LEGO Ship - Current world record
1. 3500 children used no less than 513,000 LEGO bricks to built a 7.66 m long container ship from 2-8 August 2010 at JadeWeserPort-Infocenter Wilhelmshaven (Germany).

 
Previous verified claims
1. Led by René Hoffmeister (Germany), visitors of the science museum phæno in Wolfsburg (Germany) built a 7.29 m long container ship from 400,000 LEGO bricks in October 2009.
2. It took Klass Meijaard and René Hoffmeister (Netherlands) 1,200 hours to build a 6.90 m long Queen Mary 2 replica. The ship weights 870 kg. Since 2008 it can be found at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg (Germany).
3. A model of the Nimitz Class Carrier USS Harry S. Truman, measuring 4.52 m (length) x 1.37 m (width) x 1.22 m (height) was displayed at the Skaerbaek 2006 LEGO convention in Denmark. The model weighs over 160 kg. It was built in over one year by Malle Hawking from Munich (Germany) from more than 300,000 bricks.
4. The largest LEGO boat was a 3 m (10-ft) long 1.2 m (4-ft) wide replica of a sleek, navy-blue Chris-Craft speedster. It was built by Nathan Sawaya (USA) in January 2005 at the Seattle Boat Show.
 
 
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