There's A Giant American Flag Made Out 100,000 LEGO Bricks

♫ Everything is awesome, but especially this flag. ♫

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Keely Flaherty
Keely Flaherty
BuzzFeed Staff

To celebrate the opening of the Innovation Wing at the National Museum of American History, LEGO built the world's largest LEGO American flag.

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More than 15,000 museum visitors helped create the 9.5-by-14-foot flag, using more than 100,000 LEGO bricks.

Steve Ruark / AP Images for LEGO

The flag stands at 9.5-by-14-feet, weighs 546 pounds, and took 16 hours to design to design.

Steve Ruark / AP Images for LEGO

Here's LEGO master builder Chris Steininger placing a brick on top.

This time-lapse shows 11 hours of Old Glory's assemblage.

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♫ Everything is awesooooome! ♫

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