--- title: Watch 'The Matrix' Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos description: A Reddit user re-created The Matrix's famous lobby-fight scene with plastic Legos in late March canonical: https://time.com/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/ author: Sabrina Toppa article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-23T08:32:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:53.311Z og:title: Watch 'The Matrix' Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos og:description: A Redditor spent at least 160 hours on this video. og:url: https://time.com/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7b4f3e3f72c3ba7/698784ae3c16395b3b4525fc/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-4-25-51-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2041 og:image:height: 1148 og:image:alt: Lego Matrix Lobby Scene og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch 'The Matrix' Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos twitter:description: A Redditor spent at least 160 hours on this video. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7b4f3e3f72c3ba7/698784ae3c16395b3b4525fc/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-4-25-51-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch _The Matrix_ Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Mar 23, 2015 8:32 AM UTC  by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Mar 23, 2015 8:32 AM UTC _Matrix_ franchise aficionados and Lego geeks can revel in a new YouTube re-enactment of the famous lobby-fight sequence from the original 1999 sci-fi action film. Shot scene-for-scene with Legos plastic toys, Reddit user Snooperking animated every minute detail from Trinity running up walls and Neo cartwheeling while volleys of plastic bullets knock cubic chunks out of the walls. On [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2zwd5b/i%5Fremade%5Fthe%5Flobby%5Fscene%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fmatrix%5Fshot%5Ffor/), Snooperking said he toiled for approximately 160 hours to re-enact the iconic scene over three months. “I could only do like up to two hours a day before I got sick of it and had to play Battlefield,” Snooperking said. He selected the complex fight sequence to challenge himself to improve his animation skills, after creating a [_Star Wars_ Lego video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfWrh1scZU&feature=youtu.be) in 2014. To get a sense of the sheer patience required to reconstruct the _Matrix_ scene with plastic Legos, Snooperking also offers a [behind-the-scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqwbqgGiYm4) video. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/"},"headline":"Watch The Matrix Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos","datePublished":"2015-03-23T08:32:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:53.311Z","description":"A Redditor spent at least 160 hours re-creating this scene","url":"https://time.com/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","reddit","Appreciation","Videos","YouTube","video","Fans","Legos","tribute"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7b4f3e3f72c3ba7/698784ae3c16395b3b4525fc/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-4-25-51-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sabrina Toppa","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7b4f3e3f72c3ba7/698784ae3c16395b3b4525fc/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-4-25-51-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lego Matrix Lobby Scene","caption":"Lego Matrix Lobby Scene","creditText":"","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/3753658/matrix-legos-lobby-fight-scene-youtube-video/","name":"Watch The Matrix Lobby-Fight Scene Re-Enacted With Legos"}}]}] ```