Continuing on from my previous post (recap: I like Lego, and think Chris's HS is dumb).
THIS is Manchester High:
After considering carefully what would be involved in ACTUALLY recreating this school in Lego form, I'm forced again to conclude that Chris is a complete fucking idiot. Why?
1) The exterior of the building consists of (basically) three colors. Three VERY COMMON colors in the lego world.
2) These pieces are available in bulk from Lego stores and can be purchased online. You can get a giant bucket of them for about $20.
3) Most of the school is ONE STORY, making it fairly easy to rebuild to scale, and not requiring the entire roof to be lifted up to access the interior.
Chris's design is needlessly large, needlessly complex, NEEDLESSLY EXPENSIVE and, to reiterate, not very original. After realizing how he could have done a much better project with far less expense, I'm really, really unimpressed by this.
He just wanted to build a fantasy world for Tomgirl Chris and his Gal-Pals... which is fine if that's what he wants to do... but there's NO REASON anyone else should be slightly interested in this, least of all his former HS classmates.