Designer builds 'The Last of Us' out of 20,000 Lego bricks

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Fans anxiously awaiting the sequel to The Last of Us can instead look to Lego builder Tim Schwalfenberg.

Schwalfenberg built a Lego diorama of the 2013 Playstation game, spotted by Kotaku, that covers an entire city block of the game's dystopia.

The 100-hour, 20,000-brick project shows The Last of Us's Ellie and Joel surrounded by junk and overgrown grass.

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Playstation debuted a trailer for the game's long-awaited sequel last month. There's no release date yet, so let the Lego version tide you over.

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Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.

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