LEGO 10276 Colosseum proves that Rome wasn’t built in a day
A copy of LEGO 10276 Colosseum at the Gladiator II press junket encouraged media to make the model in a lot less time than it took for Rome to be built.
Director Ridley Scott is currently doing the rounds to promote Gladiator II, with the sequel to his smash hit 2000 movie releasing on cinema screens in the UK on November 15 and the US on November 22.
As part of a recent press junket for the film, media in attendance got to try their hand at assembling a copy of the long-since retired 10276 Colosseum. The 9,036-piece LEGO Creator Expert set recreates the majesty of the Colosseum of Rome and is still one of the largest models ever released.
Designed by Rok Zgalin Kobe and released in 2020, 10276 Colosseum measures 27cm high, 52cm wide and 59cm deep and rests on its own oval display base. The LEGO Creator Expert build echoes similar locations featured in both Gladiator and its sequel, with incredible detail both inside and outside.
As noted by journalist Ali Plumb on X (formerly Twitter) following the Gladiator II press junket, “Someone at Paramount knew *exactly* how to put a smile on my face,” and “there are a lot of “repeat, repeat” steps so I reckon someone just needed the help to be honest.”
It’s not yet known if 10276 Colosseum was left at the media event by the LEGO Group or Paramount Pictures, or if indeed someone was just craftily getting a group of journalists help them out with a particularly repetitive build.
Considering that watching the 148 minute-long movie and asking questions of its cast and crew would have been unlikely to take up more than a few hours in total, we’d like to suspect that the latter may have been the case.
While Rome wasn’t built in a day, it’s unlikely that 10276 Colosseum will have been completed during the junket either, even with an eager army of gladiatorial media types in attendance.
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“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour” is the full expression, if anyone’s interested to know.