Neuschwanstein Replica by Thilo Schon

Although I have visited Neuschwanstein since 2009 and thought at that time of building it out of LEGO bricks, the American Robert Carney set the bar too high by using over 52500 pieces. I gladly decided in 2015 to purchase the building instructions of the German Thilo Schon’s project. He created a version of over 4300 LEGO pieces.

 

Out of respect for its creator, I’ve decided to follow his design as much as possible and the changes I’ve made are fairly neglectable to the scale of the entire project, nevertheless, I do consider them improvements. These would be as it follows: the ornaments and the small round balconies from the entrance gate, the knight’s statues along with the lion from the roof, the bas-relief (of St. George killing the dragon). Other changes consist in replacing some of the rare LEGO bricks, and therefore expensive, with some similar ones which are elusive due to their same color and shape. These replacements have risen the number of necessary LEGO bricks to 4588.

 

The final cost of the project was 1600 euros. I have to mention that, besides my personal contribution, I have also been helped by Rolland Olajos, Tibor Nagy and the Lithuanian friend of mine, Lukas Volskevicius. They all have helped me to bring the project to a successful end and I would like to give them a special thanks.