Ian Roosma has always been passionate about The Legend of Zelda saga as well as LEGO. To decorate a vacant wall in his house, he decided to combine his two hobbies to create a gigantic work: the complete map of Hyrule from the NES game. It took him no less than 25,000 bricks and 4 months of work.
Recently, Nintendo and LEGO have come together much to the delight of fans. Several kits pay homage to cult licenses from the Japanese firm, starting with an NES to build yourself. The manufacturer’s first console has indeed made an impression and its influence is still felt almost 40 years after its release. And for good reason: there are many sagas that have propelled Nintendo to the rank of master having started on the Entertainment System.
Super Mario of course, but also The Legend of Zelda, both of which are also available in the Nintendo Switch Online subscription via the emulator offered. The latter is still anchored in the hearts of the fans of the first hour as he redefined the codes of the genre – even created one all by itself. Ian Roosma is one of them. But Ian Roosma is not only a fan of Zelda, he is also passionate about LEGO. It was therefore natural that he sought to link the two.
25,000 LEGO bricks to recreate the first Zelda
It had been two years since Ian Roosma’s house sported a desperately empty wall. He then wished to decorate it with something having “personal significance” but also enough “complicated” so that it takes a long time to build. It didn’t take him long to find the golden idea: recreate the full map from the first Zelda game, released on NES.
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“Zelda on the NES is particularly nostalgic for me because it was my first open-world game. The developer just drops the player somewhere and you decide where you want to go and what you want to do, that’s the best kind of game”, he explains. A titanic project therefore, which required a certain investment on the part of Ian Roosma.
In fact, it took him no less than 25,000 bricks to achieve it. A considerable figure in particular due to the fact that the budding architect wanted a 3D map, thus applying relief to water points or trees. 4 months later, the map is complete. If Ian Roosma intends to rest a little for the time being, he does not rule out the idea of starting another project: “I don’t have plans for another epic build, but I always think about what could be built with Lego that would have personal meaning to me. »
