Replicas of the Statue of Liberty arm and a sphere in the right arm representing the world. A small replica in lego is situated in Legoland in Billund. A copy is in the German "Heidepark Soltau" theme park, located on a lake with cruising Mississippi steamboats. It weighs 28 metric tons (31 short tons), is made of plastic foam on a steel frame with polyester cladding, and was designed by the Dutch artist Gerla Spee. A green painted replica of the Statue of Liberty can be found near Mulnamina More, County Donegal, Ireland. A replica stands atop the Hotel Victory in Pristina, Kosovo. A 33 ft
Statue of Liberty the Eiffel factory in the nearby Parisian suburb of Levallois-Perret. The change in structural material from masonry to iron allowed Bartholdi to change his plans for the statue's assembly. He had originally expected to assemble the skin on-site as the masonry pier was built; instead he decided to build the statue in France and have it disassembled and transported to the United States for reassembly in place on Bedloe's Island. In a symbolic act, the first rivet placed into the skin, fixing a copper plate onto the statue's big toe, was driven by United States Ambassador to France Levi P.