How many playing cards does it take to build Beijing’s Bird’s Nest?

Actually, make that the Bird’s Nest, plus the rest of Beijing’s flashiest Olympic venues.

Yup, in playing cards.

The answer? 140,000.

Check it out:

And it seems the card-stacker in the top video isn’t the only one into teeny tiny models of the Olympic Village.

Here’s the whole thing – right down to the sailing venues – in Lego: