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@akafaceUS Me staring at my phone, trying to figure out what she did wrong...

"Barcelona finally gave it a building permit, 136 years late. The permit fee alone was €36 million" That's insane, considering all the tourism it drew and will draw they couldn't just give them a permit at no cost 😆 I visited in 96' I'll need to go back and see the finished result i think.

LEGO is about to sell you a $600 replica of a building that took 144 years to build, didn’t have a building permit until 136 years in, and just became the tallest church on earth last month. The real one and the toy version run on the same business model. The leaked set is a LEGO version of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, a massive church designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, who started it in 1882 but never finished it. He was hit by a tram in 1926, dressed so poorly that people on the street thought he was a beggar. He died three days later. Construction kept going for a hundred years. On February 20 of this year, workers finally placed the last piece of the tallest tower, at 172.5 meters (about 57 stories), making it the tallest church in the world. The LEGO version would be 12,060 pieces. That beats every LEGO set ever made, including the World Map (11,695 pieces for $250) and the Eiffel Tower (10,001 pieces for $630). At $600, you’re paying about 5 cents per brick. The release date, July 1, lines up with the 100th anniversary of Gaudí’s death. Here’s the money part. The real Sagrada Familia has never received a dollar of government or church funding. Almost 5 million tourists visit every year, and their ticket money literally built the building. Revenue in 2024 was €134 million (around $145 million), all private. In 2018, the city of Barcelona finally gave it a building permit, 136 years late. The permit fee alone was €36 million, the biggest in the city’s history. LEGO runs on the same engine. Adults buying toys for themselves now make up roughly 1 in 4 toy purchases worldwide. LEGO pulled in $12.9 billion last year (up 12%), and its sales grew twice as fast as the rest of the toy industry. They put out 868 different sets in a single year. A church built entirely by people who just wanted to walk inside it. A toy company is worth billions because adults keep buying bricks. Same fuel.

@TateTheTalisman @LEGO_Group Perhaps buy a load and do a giveaway competition for the Lads of your followers. Get them spread around the World and find the most remote place your fans are holding the model. That would really annoy some people!

Full respect to @LEGO_Group for doing this. Somebody on this team knew exactly what they were doing when they put this together. Exactly the same specific model also, there is only 1 real car on planet earth that resembles this. They know young boys and men see Andrew as a hero even if the media wish to pretend otherwise. Ages 9+. Have fun with young kings.

BREAKING: The ‘r-word’ is seeing a resurgence, per Toronto Star.

@TheTrekCentral Being proud of failure is one of modern societies problems.

🖖 NEW - #StarfleetAcademy Actor Karim Diané Reacts to The Series Ending! Diané played Klingon "Jay-Den Kraag" and said, "I got the chance to create 20 episodes, within one of the most iconic sci-fi franchises of all time" #StarTrek

@DeadDRGuy @MrCenturies @interesting_aIl Get me a cannon.

@LORDLJS @MrCenturies @interesting_aIl Go on, try it then.

So how tf did anyone win

@SandyofCthulhu This poor lad died from someone jamming an Air hose into his ass... nypost.com/2025/11/20/wor…

The worst non-fatal injury I ever saw was from a high-powered paint sprayer. I was at the entrance of the warehouse when they took the guy out. My friend who worked there said the victim had accidentally pressed the sprayer to his thigh, and his leg immediately ballooned up with paint injected into his body. The ambulance arrived 15 minutes later and I never found out what happened to him, but it could not have been good. I had previously seen a man who'd injected his leg with a high-powered industrial air blaster. In his case there was blood everywhere, because his outer skin basically exploded. But I'm told that the paint injury was going to be way worse.

@DeadDRGuy @MrCenturies @interesting_aIl I could take a cannonball to the chest, easy.

@LORDLJS @MrCenturies @interesting_aIl OOOO what a tough little guy you are.

@MrCenturies @interesting_aIl Nerd.

@LORDLJS @interesting_aIl ah yes, a plate from 400 years past the standard of armour shown

@arescoins Neuralink Savings

Thumbs up if you agree?

@tomqimn Thank you x

brits ate with putting x at the end of a message

@schiz04renic British citizen.

what’s your expensive hobby?

@jondelarroz She's fairly accurate to the books description.

Why did they race swap Hermione?

@80s_Kidz How the flashback of this hit me...

It's nearly that time of year when we were traumatised forever😢

@ClownWorld Cancel an old woman? From what? The book club? The retirement home?

Old lady at a Spurs game got secretly recorded from behind. Now people online are trying to cancel her over her text messages.

A message for the trolls who will pop out of their trash cans to take credit & delight in today's Star Trek news:

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@TropesAuthor @jondelarroz I like that explanation!

@LORDLJS @jondelarroz He used the name "Nick Locarno" just so people wouldn't accuse him of being a nepo baby.

Wouldn't it have been cool if they made a Starfleet Academy show?

@OnXShit Dude when she put the skirt over his head...