Will Ferrell played an obsessive collector in The Lego Movie where he had built an incredible set up of buildings, settings, vehicles and characters. While the fictional collection took up a huge space in Ferrell's basement, it's absolute child's play compared to the real-life assembly concocted by Simon Pickard.

The master builder doesn't keep his assortment of Lego gear in a basement, he has five sheds in his garden.

Garden Shed Lego

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The 38-year-old estimates he has around a million individual pieces in plastic boxes on hand for whenever he wants to build something extravagant.

Stepping on a single brick can hurt like the heat of a thousand suns, so you can imagine Simon would have to have a pretty good system in place to ensure none of them are left lying on the ground, waiting for some poor soul to tread on it.

The dad-of-five says his wife would probably divorce him if she knew just how much he had spent on Lego products over the years.

He's told the Mirror: "It is ­incredible how much it can cost. I go to the Cardiff Lego store once a month and I don't come away without purchases of up to three figures."

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It's not hard to see why. Check out this intricate world he created, which would have required plenty of individual bricks.

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While some people won't have picked up a Lego set in years, Simon says it's a hobby which has stayed with him for decades. He said: "Lego's about what you put into it. I played a lot of games with Lego when I was younger. As I've grown older, it has ­become much more of a creative medium for me."

Building a simple car or house can be hard enough, but Mr Pickard manages to create his elaborate scenes while dealing with a rare condition that causes paralysis in his left wrist.

He's gearing up to show off his latest creation at a four-day event in Birmingham called Bricklive. Simon has been working for the last four weeks to create a replica of the Monaco F1 hairpin. He said he had to develop a new technique to reproduce the curving road, considering Lego blocks are usually rectangular.

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