{"id":229592,"date":"2025-09-15T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:34:15","slug":"cal-poly-student-creates-italian-riviera-inspired-lego-set-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229592\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Poly student creates Italian Riviera-inspired LEGO set \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

What began as a childhood hobby turned into something much bigger for Oregon native Alex Sahli.<\/p>\n

Sahli, a junior studying computer science at Cal Poly, has been building LEGO sets<\/a> his entire life. His first set belonged to his mom, originally purchased in 1981.<\/p>\n

“[It’s] what got me hooked,” Sahli told NBC affiliate KGW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He’s assembled everything from the DeLorean from “Back to the Future”<\/a> to the Titanic to the Saturn 5 rocket.<\/p>\n

One of his most recent assemblies didn’t come with instructions.<\/p>\n

That’s because the Italian Riviera-inspired playset was something Sahli designed and submitted to LEGO. <\/p>\n

\"\"Italian Riviera LEGO set. Designed by Alex Sahli. (LEGO Group)<\/p>\n

In anticipation for a trip he had planned to Italy’s Cinque Terre, Sahli began creating the LEGO set in 2022 based on his research of the region.<\/p>\n

Once finished to his liking, the Italian Riviera village model was sent in to LEGO designers for consideration and received the necessary 10,000 votes to be approved for production. <\/p>\n

Sahli was surprised the 3,251-piece set was such a hit. He thought it was a cool idea but was “worried they wouldn’t approve it.”<\/p>\n

The LEGO design team helped Sahli perfect the final product to include the regions famous vibrant house colors and to feature a small figure of Sahli holding a camera \u2014 another one of his hobbies.<\/p>\n

\"\"The set includes a figure of Sahli holding a camera (LEGO Group)<\/p>\n

Three years after submitting his original designs online, Sahli’s LEGO creation is finally being sold in stores and online worldwide for $299.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What began as a childhood hobby turned into something much bigger for Oregon native Alex Sahli. Sahli, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,21951],"class_list":{"0":"post-229592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-trending-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115210228773963388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}