Netherlands Town of Limmen Claims Tallest Lego Tower

(June 7) -- How tall is tall? That's the question Lego aficionados in Munich; Oslo, Norway; and the small Dutch town of Limmen are trying to answer as they vie for tower-building supremacy.

Over the weekend, Lego lovers in Limmen planned to use more than 1 million Lego bricks to construct a tower that would reach nearly 100 feet skyward and, they hope, topple the Guinness world record, currently held by Munich at 98 feet 4 inches.

It's not yet clear if the Dutch tower reached its planned apex, and a Guinness spokesperson told AOL News that "we may need to have an independent surveyor there to take measurements of the structure."

"We send guidelines that need to be followed by the organizers in terms of what evidence we need, especially if there's no judge there," the spokesperson added.

And even if the Dutch tower reached its goal height, Lego builders in the Netherlands must wait for the results of a group of world-record contenders in Oslo, who in April reportedly assembled a Lego tower that reached a height of 99 feet 2 inches.

Guinness officials say they may reveal this week if the Oslo tower beat out Munich's 2009 construction, which used half a million bricks to take the title.

It goes without saying that the competition between Lego tower builders is fierce.

A man measures a tower created from lego bricks in the Dutch town of Limmen, northwest of Amsterdam, on June 6th.

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A man measures a tower created from Lego bricks in the Dutch town of Limmen on Sunday.

Previous Lego tower record holders include Toronto; Hong Kong; Moscow; Sydney; Seoul, South Korea; London; Tokyo; and Munich.

Back in 1980, builders in Great Britain used 100,000 pieces to construct a 43-foot-tall tower. Since then, the number of bricks -- and the height of the towers -- has soared, with Oslo's Lego architects putting 500,000 bricks into their spire, which climbed nearly 100 feet into the sky.

And though the builders behind every Lego tower are striving to achieve an elusive world record, height is merely one way to measure their creations, according to Andre Koopman, chair of Limmen Ludiek, which sponsored the four-day construction of the Dutch Lego tower.

"We want to show the rest of the world that a small town like Limmen can do great things," said Koopman, according to toymania.com.