This. Is. Awesome. It’s a 1:40 replica of U.S.S. Intrepid as it looked in 1945, complete with working elevator and 42 aircraft also made out of Lego. According to an article in today’s Metro, modeler Ed Diment of Waterlooville, England, spent 600 hours over nine months making the model (with help from wife Annie and friend Ralph Sabelsberg), which is 23 feet long, weighs 500 pounds and contains 250,000 Lego bricks. I am staggered.
I suspect that that kit won’t be available by Christmas.
On the one hand, that’s astonishing work. On the other hand, it’s not very attractive looking.
I prefer this smaller one made a few years ago.
This will sound a little weird, but it almost looks smaller than I’d imagine. I know how big those Lego figures are, and it seems from the pictures like a few thousand of those, plus the hangars space for the planes, would make for pretty damned cramped living conditions.
(According to Wikipedia, the crew compliment was 2,600. So, not as bad as I figured, but still a tight squeeze.)
The real Intrepid is now a museum in Manhattan. So that guy should see if they’ll buy his Lego model, for display on the actual ship. Perhaps he could at least recover the building cost.
Folding wing Corsairs, too. Beautiful.
If they displayed it on the flight deck, then he could add a miniature version of the model on the flight deck of the model, and a miniature miniature version on the flight deck of the miniature, and so on. 
Now they just have to watch for Dr. Cockroach building a Lego atomic bomb to knock it out.
Believe me We have been in touch with the museum. Maybe they need a bit of encouragement.
Ed and I are very keen to have it on display over in the USA.