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Ancient Italian Walls Repaired With Lego Bricks

Posted by timothy on from the best-of-old-and-new dept.

Ubuntukitten writes "When some walls in Bocchignano near Roma started to erode, the perfect solution was found in Lego bricks (although some look suspiciously like Duplo bricks to me). FTA: 'At first I thought it would be a complicated procedure to fit the pieces, But as it turned out, the bigger plastic pieces were compatible with the smaller ones, and the Lego held itself in place without any glue whatsoever.' I like the effect. It's like the scene has been created on the holodeck but a few holoemitters are broken ..."

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  1. Call me old-fashioned by hahafaha · · Score: 3, Informative

    Am I the only one who thinks this is rather appalling? I mean, these are beautiful, ancient relics, now completely defaced.

    1. Re:Call me old-fashioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      its a wall. just about every wall in all of europe is some kind of ancient relic.

    2. Re:Call me old-fashioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      If this were an "official fix", then yes I'd agree with you.
       
      But it's just some jackass artist trying to get noticed. And he got himself in the Telegraph. Mission Accomplished.
       
      It even says in the article that they aren't glued in and are utterly temporary. Relax.

  2. Re:without any glue whatsoever by pieisgood · · Score: 3, Informative

    He meant to the wall its self, not other lego bricks.

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