I really wanted to personalise my room at University a bit more, but as we're not allowed to damage the walls themselves with hooks and whatnot, I had to get creative. And being the geek that I am, I decided that a tribute to the 8-bit era was the way to go.

Using approximately 371 squares of 5x5 card (156 black, 111 dark blue, 74 light blue, 14 white and 16 cream), I recreated Mega Man. I originally planned to do Space Invaders, but I figured our Mega friend would make for a better challenge. As for the card itself, cutting it all to shape/size took roughly around 6 hours or so, but I actually kind of enjoyed it. It was oddly rewarding.



Once that was out of the way and all the 'pixels' were ready, I started the actual assembling.





One hour and 25 minutes later, he was finished.







The final thing measures in at just over a metre and a bit in height, and I'm pretty damn thrilled with the end result. I recorded a time-laspe video of the entire building process to boot, which shows him take shape a lot better (and more awesomely):



So, yeah. That's my new Mega Wall. :3

Oh, and dropping cards out of your hands in a specific order? Deceptively difficult.