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Miller Park made from Legos

Thousands of Legos were used to build this replica of Miller Park. (WISN photo)

By Tiffany Griffin

(CNN) — They were everybody's favorite building blocks when they were kids. But did you actually ever build anything all that big with LEGOS?

One big kid is getting a lot of attention after recreating Miller Field, a baseball stadium in Milwaukee.

"Right now we just have the Brewers against, we'll say the Boston Red Sox," said Tim Kaebisch.

And the home team is looking good, before a television audience, with a man at the plate. Grab a seat in the house that Tim built.

“I never thought it would turn out this elaborate and detailed," he said.

Kaebisch has been creating things since the age of 4. Now, at 22, this engineering student at MSOE has pieced together a modeling marvel.

"I consider it one of my greatest accomplishments," he said.

It’s a LEGO version of Miller Park.

"I've been working on it since 2001."

Nearly seven years and seven versions later, it's time to play ball.

To get it right, Tim went to the real Miller Park over and over. He dissected every detail and modified his model.

There's the clock tower at the main gate, the lights that really light up, and it's just another day at the ball park for the vendors.

"And there's a lot the camera can't see,” said Tim.

For example, people enjoying a meal at TGIFridays. Just above, the view looks pretty good from the 300 Club and over the dew deck appears to be sold out. Behind those windows in the distance is the press box. And if weather closes in, so does the roof.

"The roof takes about a minute and two seconds to open or close and the outfield panels that are on the bottom take about a minute and 45 seconds and after I got the building done, it took me another month or so to figure out how to motorize the roof itself because it was pretty difficult to figure out,” said Tim.

This personal project is now a tourist attraction.

Tim has no idea how many hours and he won't say how many LEGOS he used — that's a secret because of a contest.

The cost he puts at a couple thousand dollars.

So why go through all this?

"Basically most of my childhood I built small cities and I kind of got bored and my space was limited with those, so I ran out of different configurations that I could think of, so I basically decided to build a building that functioned and Miller Park was the best example I could come up with for that,” said Tim. “I never thought it would turn out to be this good looking, so I'm very happy with it."

He's a Brewers fan with his very own field of dreams.

The LEGO stadium even includes concession stands and a janitor's closet.

It's now on display at a Milwaukee library.

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