LEGO.com Parents News : World’s largest LEGO ship

			30 Jan 2007 World’s largest LEGO ship is sailing around the world. ”I can build that – with LEGO bricks!” It all began one day when Malle Hawking watched a documentary on Discovery Channel, featuring the large aircraft carrier, ’Harry S. Truman, CVN 75’. Fascinated by the ship, the IT consultant from Munich, Germany, went to his basement and found his old LEGO bricks. He had not used them since the age of 15 but now he needed all of them – and many more. And all of a sudden he had gained a great hobby that makes him relax from a stressful job.
	Malle Hawking, now 36 years old, was lucky enough to get a copy of the documentary, shown on TV, and he also found around 25 pictures of the aircraft carrier on the Internet. That was his building instruction! The final result is impressive. A true copy of the original ship, filled with military planes and busy mini figures, is now ‘sailing’ around the world. It has already been displayed at several fan exhibitions, and this week Malle Hawking has put his ship on display in the LEGO Idea House in Billund where it can be seen until June 21. It is then being transferred to Brickworld 2007 in Chicago, US, and later on to the US naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, where ‘Harry S. Truman’ is based. [photo: Malle Hawking (right) was assisted by Jan Beyer from Community Development (at the back) and designer Jamie Berard when putting up the model for display in Billund.]

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