Its Current Residents Won't Stop Smiling and Have These Weirdly Shaped Hands

How sad indeed that a Lego house, built in England for some TV show, is now facing the wrecking ball, or whatever tool you use (usually a pair of hands ripping pieces apart) to dismantle a Lego creation.

James May (at left, with the Benjamin Franklin hair), the TV host SORRY, presenter is sad because no one is interested in buying this two-story plastic-brick house, complete with working shower and toilet (the article doesn't mention whether they're made of Legos, or whether instead of running water you experience a shower of aqua-blue bricks).

Gee, do you think it might be because it's a house made of Lego bricks?

Even the local Legoland is uninterested in shelling out the £50,000 (which is worth something in American currency but I'm too lazy to find out) it would take to dismantle the thing and rebuild it.

That's right: they didn't actually build this abode in a neighborhood — they erected it in the middle of a private vineyard. [And as a commenter points out, it's not all Lego bricks; you can see the wood frame.]

They say it took 1,000 volunteers to build it. You could easily find 10,000 kids willing to tear it apart and rebuild it for free, and you'd get something far cooler than a boring old boxy house...but Mom across England would curse the infestation of loose pieces scattered under all their couch cushions. Read more...