Lego master builders show off skills at White House

The assignment for this year's White House holiday display came with a tight deadline. A team of Lego master builders, within 2 1/2 weeks, had to create 56 unique gingerbread houses out of the toy bricks, one for each state and United States territory.

For this group, it was child's play. The seven masters at the US headquarters of Lego Systems in Enfield, Connecticut, had them designed, built from more than 200,000 Lego pieces and in a van to Washington in time for the unveiling.

"We had an all-hands-on-deck kind of thing," said Paul Chrzan, one of the master builders. "We basically gave ourselves a day for each house. And we just built like crazy."