Lego builder and Zelda superman, Joseph Zawarda spent an insane 2 and a half years building the Hyrule Castle from the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The19-year old recently unveiled his massive creation at Virginia’s BrickFair this August. The lego castle is so huge it takes two cars to move it.


A few specs:

The roof design was the most difficult, because he had to figure out how to make the blocky lego bricks look curved.



Zawarda spent considerable time on the vegetation, because he wanted to make it look “as organic as possible.”



Some of the pieces for the towers came from the lego castle sets, as well as some technic pieces.



He had to bricklink lots of pieces from Scandinavia.



It breaks down into 40 pieces, and is a pretty solid build to transport.

The most difficult part was the top roof piece.

Beyond the Brick (my favorite youtube channel) has a fantastic interview with the builder, and some great shots of the build:

To see more of Zawarda’s Zelda-inspired builds visit his Flickr page.

For reals, the detail on this build is absolutely mind-blowing:




I spy Princess Amidala!