It’s great when toys fit neatly into a box or bin and can be easily put away, but what if some classic toys were built to fit on entire street blocks and not table tops. Here are a few recent examples of childhood favorite games and toys expanded to a real-life scale.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its release, a life-size version of Candy Land was constructed on the famously curvy Lombard Street in San Francisco. There were costumed characters and teams of real kids in brightly colored shirts following the path as a card master called out colors. And of course, at the end, there was a beautiful candy-themed cake. Each block measured 14 feet long and 12 feet wide, and matched the same color sequence of the original playing board.
[Candy Land on Lombard on SFist.com]
Offbeat Earth has a really cool post about a British man who is constructing a real, two-story house out of LEGO bricks. It has a working bathroom (no word on a kitchen) and is being built in a beautiful vineyard. I know I loved building LEGO houses as a kid, but I don’t think I’d want to live in a real one (wouldn’t it be hot?).
[(LEGO) Brick House at Offbeat Earth]
Check out this life size version of the board game Mouse Trap created by Mark Perez. It’s billed as a “hand-crafted, 18 piece 50,000-lb. interactive KINETIC SCULPTURE set atop a 6,500-square-foot, 2,000-lb game board.” The game also includes a Vaudeville-style show, original musical score, acrobatics and other delightful spectacles.
[Lifesize Mouse Trap at LifeSizeMousetrap.org]
