My youngest was turning six and all he wanted for his birthday was Super Mario Bros (Wii). I decided to wrap it in a rather unique way. I went to the brick wall at the Lego store intending to fill a large brick bucket with equal parts red, white and green bricks. Unfortunately they did not have a very good selection of white bricks. They had all the 1×3’s I could carry and nothing else. So, I went light on the white and got more of the red and green. You will need an assortment of sizes. 1×4’s and 1×2’s make up most of it. You’ll need some 1×1 and 1×2 pieces as well to fill gaps and increase strength.
Three 4×6 plates
Add a row of bricks making sure you lock all of the base plates together.
Keep adding rows overlapping seams whenever possible for strength.
Here’s where I tested for fit. I was quite happy.
When I got to the point where it was just past the top of the CD case, I had 1 row more of the green than of the red, so I pulled the bottom off and added another row of red.
Finally capped it off with more base plates.
It was a very unique and fun wrapping job. He was fooled and upset that all I got him was some plain old Lego bricks. I had to coerce him into taking it apart. When he saw the game inside he flipped.
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