Lego fan spends 600 hours building 5ft-high alien city out of 200,000 bricks Design director Mike Doyle, from New York, started 'Contact 1' last August He takes his creations apart afterwards because of the cost of Lego Now he wants fans to support him to build more cities through donations A Lego fan built a 5ft-high alien city out of 200,000 bricks in an eight-month labour of love. Mike Doyle, from New York, spent 600 hours creating Contact 1, which is 6ft wide, since coming up with the idea last August. The project started out as a large castle that then spread out to become a sprawling hilltop city called Odan, complete with tall towers, bridges and space ships hovering above it. Contact 1, an alien city, is 5ft high and 6ft wide, complete with tall towers, bridges and space ships Mike Doyle planned to make a castle but his final creation was a sprawling hilltop city called Odan Mr Doyle, pictured halfway through the building process, wants fans to support him building more cities After capturing his work on camera, Mr Doyle dismantles his projects because of the cost of Lego. The design director, whose previous Lego efforts include abandoned homes, said: 'I have been using Lego for almost three years now as an art medium. My pieces reflect my current state of mind and interests, so this one is about spirituality, which is my greatest interest. Through studying different forms of spirituality, I came across the connection to UFOs, which until now I had always thought stuff like that and ETs was just silly nonsense. It took eight months of painstaking work to assemble the Lego alien city Mr Doyle has already raised nearly £3,000 in donations from fans keen to support him as he builds more cities Our media trivialises UFO and ET phenomena as silly tabloid fodder. Movies often demonise the idea through attacks to Earth so that was my thinking behind this. Now Mr Doyle is asking for fans of his work to donate through fund-raising site Kickstarter so he can buy enough Lego to create more cities, that celebrate 'extra-terrestrial contact events, spiritual beings and unique worlds'. He has already raised nearly £3,000 ($4,400) in donations.