A Lego-mad couple have spent more than 320 painstaking hours and half a million bricks creating an incredible life-sized telephone box in their living room,<br /><br />Catherine Weightman, 60, and Mike Addis, 65, worked in four hour shifts over two months on the stunning eight foot high creation.<br /><br />The realistic model is inspired by a telephone box in their garden and is the latest in their annual tradition of building a massive Lego creation in time for Christmas.<br /><br />The couple will treat the telephone box like a Christmas decoration and will keep it in their living room in Huntingdon, Cambs,. until the festive period is over.<br /><br />It took them around 324 hours to complete the phone box, as they started in the middle of September and finished on December 1.<br /><br />Mike, a retired economics teacher, said: "People normally walk in and think it's part of the living room - then they realise what we've actually done.<br /><br />"It looks very realistic considering it's Lego."<br /><br />Incredible pictures show the Lego creation, which includes a telephone, a bird and a yellow pages book that have all been made from the construction toys<br /><br />But Mike says the hardest thing about building it was making the roof of the phone booth and the fox.<br /><br />He said: "There were different bits that were quite hard - the roof of the telephone box was quite difficult. <br /><br />"Doing the fox was quite hard because it was quite delicate - it looks quite good as long as you don't touch it."<br /><br />The grandparents started creating giant creations out of the toy bricks in their living room for their children around 31 years ago.<br /><br />Over the years, their elaborate designs have including a 21ft replica of the old London Bridge, a life-size polar bear and an eight-foot Victorian dolls house.<br /><br />It will take several months to be taken down so they invite groups of friends who have high-pressure jobs to break up the pieces of the toy bricks.<br /><br />Catherine, who works for Natural England, said: "We treat it as a Christmas decoration and take it down after Christmas. <br /><br />"It takes a whole party to remove it as it takes that long. <br /><br />"We have to knock it down again and then put it into boxes, as there's so much of it."
