If you want to get technical about it, the title of the Guinness World Record is "Tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks." But let's be honest: There's no need for the non-branded lingo (unless K'Nex is planning a skyscraper I don't know about). We're talking about the biggest damn Lego tower in the world, which Lego Italia built this summer. It stood at 35.05 meters tall, or about 114 ft and 11 inches.

This world record is like a slow-paced game of Jenga, in which the title creeps a little higher and a little higher each year. A 2013 tower made it to 112 ft, 11.75 inches. Lego Store Budapest built a tower last summer that soared to 114 ft, 0.5 inches. Next year's winner will presumably top 115 feet.

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The slow climb is a bit boring. Let's build a Lego Tower of Babel and keep on building it until it crumbles into a sharp pile of angular hubris. Dibs on not cleaning it up.

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Source: Guinness World Records

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