--- title: Taylor Swift Legos: Legoland U.K. Displays Giant Portrait description: It's made of 38,400 individual Legos canonical: https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-27T13:26:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:26.676Z og:title: Look at This Giant Portrait of Taylor Swift Made of Legos og:description: It's made of 38,400 individual Legos og:url: https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090fb7274b011572/698851c15f570f4249b1baaf/taylor-swift6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1464 og:image:height: 824 og:image:alt: In this handout photo provided by Legoland, Kitty Baker, age 5, looks up at Legoland employee Pete Goodchild as he puts the finishing touches on the mosaic of 'Celebrity Best Friend' Taylor Swift at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015 in Windsor, og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Look at This Giant Portrait of Taylor Swift Made of Legos twitter:description: It's made of 38,400 individual Legos twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090fb7274b011572/698851c15f570f4249b1baaf/taylor-swift6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Look at This Giant Portrait of Taylor Swift Made of Legos > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=ffcaec31-e936-43dc-8580-b2eb4ff60cb0&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds [Watch (HLS stream): 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8) (0:35)  _Published 2014-12-11. 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds_ by [Alex Heigl/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl/People Contributor May 27, 2015 1:26 PM UTC  In this handout photo provided by Legoland, Kitty Baker, age 5, looks up at Legoland employee Pete Goodchild as he puts the finishing touches on the mosaic of 'Celebrity Best Friend' Taylor Swift at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015 in Windsor, England. In this handout photo provided by Legoland, Kitty Baker, age 5, looks up at Legoland employee Pete Goodchild as he puts the finishing touches on the mosaic of 'Celebrity Best Friend' Taylor Swift at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015 in Windsor, England. Mikael Buck—Legoland/Getty Images by [Alex Heigl/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl/People Contributor May 27, 2015 1:26 PM UTC Everyone knows how much [Taylor Swift](http://www.people.com/people/taylor%5Fswift) [loves her friends](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-bad-blood-music-video-in-out-burger). Now she has a whole parkful. The Legoland Windsor Resort in the U.K. recently conducted a poll of its visitors to see which celebrity they’d most want as their best friend, and T. Swift won out, beating her own good buddy Ed Sheeran, as well as U.K. celebrities like Zoella and Ella Henderson. The 8’4″ x 12’7″ Lego mosaic was constructed [this past weekend](http://www.legoland.co.uk/PageFiles/3742/2015/JOIN%20THE%20LEGO%20FRIENDS%20BIG%20BUILD%20AT%20THE%20LEGOLAND%20WINDSOR%20RESORT.pdf) with the help of guests, who used 38,400 individual bricks in 600 sections, aided by park employees. Sure, it’s good, but is it “[15-ft., 250,000-brick _Millennium Falcon_](http://www.people.com/article/father-daughter-re-create-jurassic-park-lego-paul-hailee-hollingsworth)” good? Or $100,000 [_Jurassic Park_](http://www.people.com/article/father-daughter-re-create-jurassic-park-lego-paul-hailee-hollingsworth) remake good? Or [_Golden Girls_](http://www.people.com/article/lego-golden-girls-goes-viral) good? Point is, it’s a crowded field here at Legoland. Step up your game. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-lego-mosaic-legoland-windsor) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/"},"headline":"Look at This Giant Portrait of Taylor Swift Made of Legos","datePublished":"2015-05-27T13:26:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:26.676Z","description":"It's made of 38,400 individual Legos","url":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","U.K.","Lego","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090fb7274b011572/698851c15f570f4249b1baaf/taylor-swift6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090fb7274b011572/698851c15f570f4249b1baaf/taylor-swift6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In this handout photo provided by Legoland, Kitty Baker, age 5, looks up at Legoland employee Pete Goodchild as he puts the finishing touches on the mosaic of 'Celebrity Best Friend' Taylor Swift at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015 in Windsor,","caption":"In this handout photo provided by Legoland, Kitty Baker, age 5, looks up at Legoland employee Pete Goodchild as he puts the finishing touches on the mosaic of 'Celebrity Best Friend' Taylor Swift at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015 in Windsor,","creditText":"Mikael Buck—Legoland/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/","name":"Look at This Giant Portrait of Taylor Swift Made of Legos"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","description":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/I8WlXTNY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T16:58:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3897602/uk-lego-taylor-swift/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```