New mural landmark in Bedminster as Six Sisters celebrates Bristol s women street artists
It s Bedminster s version of San Francisco s Painted Ladies
THE BIGGEST STORIES ACROSS BRISTOL IN YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
SIGN UP
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
A celebration of Bristol’s women street artists has finally been completed - in the heart of the city’s spiritual home of graffiti art south of the river.
San Francisco s Painted Ladies have an unlikely neighbor in Legoland
FacebookTwitterEmail
A shot of Legoland in Southern California.Steve Haggerty/TNS
When recreating a country with 20,000,000 LEGO bricks, there s bound to be a few mistakes. The master builders at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif., created Miniland as an ode to America, including buildings from Washington D.C., New Orleans, and, of course, San Francisco.
However one intrepid Reddit commenter noticed that the LEGO interpretation of San Francisco, while very cool, mashes up both the best and one of the worst features of San Francisco architecture.
The Painted Ladies alongside Alamo Square Park are perhaps the perfect buildings to be LEGO-ized: iconic, colorful and childlike. However in Miniland, they share a backyard with a building that could only be a further polar opposite if it were topped with the eye of Sauron. It s not the Salesforce Tower (thankfully), but the Painted Ladies neighbor is nearly as egregious: