Barack Obama Inauguration on View in California's Legoland in Carlsbad, CA

CARLSBAD, Calif. --Legoland California is always coming up with something fun. This time around their creative design department took on the momentous presidential inauguration with a tribute that utilizes their popular U.S. Capitol building display, adding some festive celebrating of the first Afro-American president in U.S. history.

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Until Memorial Day, May 25, Legoland park guests can witness the 56th quadrennial Presidential Inauguration on the steps of the Capitol in Miniland U.S.A., thanks to the work of master model designers who have spent weeks recreating the historic scene depicting Barack Obama taking the Presidential oath of office. Obama, his family, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden and his wife Jill, President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynn, along with former President George Bush Sr. and Barbara Bush have all been created out of hundreds of LEGO bricks. More than one-thousand mini-figures in all were created in an effort to depict what the real inauguration in Washington D.C. might look like.

Other ceremony participants in this unique display includee: Aretha Franklin, Oprah Winfrey, John Williams, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo-Ma, Gabriela Montero, Anthony McGill, the Unites States Marine Band, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Dr. Rick Warren. Master Model Designer Gary McIntire said it was challenging to create people and have them recognizable in such a small format. For Barack Obama, his red tie and height made him stand out; Michelle Obama's style of her dress gave her away. Picking out known people such as celebrities and major politicians was the goal of the creative studio at Legoland where  20 Model Builders pitched in to create the scene. Details such as porta-potties were included to make the view as realistic as possible.

Miniland U.S.A. is comprised of more than 22 million LEGO bricks in scenes that depict  Washington, D.C., New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Francisco, Daytona, New England and the Southern California coastline.