This larger-than-life flying bee is over 4 feet long and has a 6 foot wingspan! The sculpture contains 16,383 LEGO pieces and took 4 weeks to design, build, and glue.  It is designed to hang from the ceiling!

Spin the bee!
Press play, below, to see a 360-degree spin of this giant creepy LEGO bee 🙂

 

Building it

The sculpture took over 160 hours to design, build, and glue by my team and I. My assistant, Ji Yoon, took my designs and spent nearly 4 weeks assembling the sculpture

Because the bee needed to be suspended in mid-air, we put a steel rod through his body and attached a small eyelet through the top of his back. But more importantly, we needed to make sure the weight was perfectly balanced! … If his head was heavier than his rear, he would hang nose-first to the ground.  So we built compartments in the head and rear, designed to hold lead weights built into the sculpture.

 

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
GIANT BEE!