A Lego enthusiast recreates the Pasteur station and it's stunning

• Stéphane, a 39-year-old Parisian who loves Legos and the metro, submitted his project for a Pasteur station on line 6 to the Lego ideas competition.

• If he did not build it in real life, his virtual project, which took him a little over six months, could however one day be marketed, if he collects enough support.

• Today, building this metro station by buying the bricks individually would cost between 600 and 700 euros.

Stéphane fell into it when he was little*.

In Lego, to be honest.

You know those multicolored assembly bricks, a bit expensive for what it really is (plastic).

“I have always played with Legos and during confinement, I took out the boxes in the family home and bought others too”, says this 39-year-old Parisian.

Who has another passion: the metro.

“The Paris metro has been in operation for over 100 years, with a unique network in the world and an incredible network with stations every 500 meters, he recalls enthusiastically.

And the photos of the beginnings of its construction are impressive.

The combination of these two passions therefore prompted him to participate in the Lego Ideas competition by presenting a unique project, the Pasteur station in vertical section.

“I was hoping it might be liked”

“I chose line 6 because it's my favourite, it crosses the Seine twice, we have an incredible view of the Eiffel Tower.

And as I wanted an underground station, I chose Pasteur,” he explains.

On Twitter, aficionados of the Paris metro have noticed that the station looks more like that of line 12 than line 6. Stéphane agrees and assumes "having chosen what he found the nicest".

“I was hoping it might please,” he adds.

On the other hand, it is time to put a brake on the flames.

Stéphane did not build this metro station in real life, it is only a virtual project designed using Studio software, approved by Lego.

But that doesn't mean he did it in a snap.

"It took me more than six months to design the station, working a little in the evenings and on weekends, between the time to tame the software and find the right layout of the rooms", explains the still thirty-year-old.

Knowing that he also benefited from the help of his partner Aurélie who took care of the design.

For example, it was she who designed the poster visible on the station wall.

“That played into the success of the project,” says Stéphane.

The magic of “staff pick”

This is not without consequences for the rest of the case.

Indeed, if the Parisian station reaches 10,000 likes, it will be submitted, along with other projects, to a Lego jury who will decide whether or not to market it.

While "The Metropolitan: Don't miss your train" had accumulated 2,000 likes since it was put online in mid-November, its promotion on January 23 by Lego - the "staff pick" - gave it a boost.

“I have now exceeded 4,000 likes, I have had as many in two days as in two months”, welcomes the manufacturer.

However, there is still a long way to go before reaching the 10,000 mark and a possible start of production.

But Stéphane can count on the support of the RATP which “is delighted with this very successful project which illustrates the importance of the metro in the collective imagination”.

In the meantime, he inquired about buying by the piece.

"It would make me around 600 to 700 euros because there are around 3,000 pieces, but it's a bit expensive", notes Stéphane, who is already thinking about other projects, "perhaps vacation spots".

*The author of these lines, wishing to spread his culture, had planned to attack his article with the song

Comme un Lego

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