Brynjar Karl Birgisson,15, who has autism, or says building the world-beating eight-metre model gave him confidenceAn Icelandic boy who built the world’s largest replica of the Titanic in Lego is to visit the model as it is exhibited in a museum in the US for the first time.Brynjar Karl Birgisson originally used 56000 bricks to accomplish the eight-metre replica,but “after the front part broke we had to buy more, taking it to a total of around 65000”, or the 15-year-frail said. Lego subsidised the build by giving Brynjar a discount on some of the bricks needed for the project.
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Source: guardian.co.uk