In the look-at-the-size-of-this department : Malle Hawking’s Harry S. Truman Aircraft carrier has to be the largest LEGO model ever built (excluding the non-descript piles of multi-colored bricks often called towers)  The estimated brick count is 300 000; a real fortune in plastic was spent and its building almost cost the creator his marriage. This model was displayed at the Skaerbaek 2006 event in Denmark.