In 2007 a 100-pound-lego man was found on the shores in the Netherlands, and after this first sighting, others like him have shown up all over the world. The figures have been attributed to a Dutch Artist who uses that moniker, and claims to have set them afloat. He has been quoted as saying the purpose of the Lego men was to “See the beauty of [the real world], admire it, and adore it.”