A giant, smiling Lego man has been fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort.

Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre tall model, which had a yellow head and blue torso.

For those of you playing at home outside of the land of metric measurement, that’s just over 8 feet tall. That’s a mighty big Lego man.

There’s a link in the sidebar to that story about a giant squid washed up in Tasmania. It was 6 meters long, or close to two and a half times bigger than the Lego man, but I still think the Lego man could have taken it. Now, if it had been a Lego squid…