The VW Beetle's iconic silhouette presented a serious design challenge for LEGO. However, the Beetle is the classic car most requested by LEGO fans, so designer Steen Sig Andersen took three weeks to craft his interpretation of its rounded profile from angular LEGO blocks. picked by cactushair 1 year ago tags lego volkswagen beetle volks |
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In the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Centre on Potsdamer Platz stands a Lego giraffe. Most of the time it has a 30cm long penis also made of Lego. On four occasions the penis has been stolen by tourists... picked by pocksucket 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Love Steampunk? Adore Legos? Steampunk and LEGO? It may seem an incongruous combination being that LEGO is plastic and Steampunk harkens back to the age of brass & wood. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 2 comments edit related share arts |
Five Millions pieces of Lego: $3,000 12 comments edit related share entertainmentCar repair: $500 Indiana Jones Hat: $50 Re-enacting an Indiana Jones scene with a giant Lego boulder: Priceless picked by doggylives 2 years ago |
Visitors to Legoland Windsor yesterday helped set a new world record for the tallest tower made of Lego bricks. 1 comments edit related share plime.comThousands of children and their families helped put the final bricks in place to complete the monster structure, which stands nearly 100ft tall. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago |
This Flickr set by a guy called Mike Stimpson features recreations of famous photographs in Lego, with links to the original for each. Pretty damn cool if you ask me. picked by doggylives 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share arts |
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The come in all shapes, sizes, colours and designs. But just how are they made? They're not, it turns out, made out of thousands of even smaller Lego bricks, which in turn are made out of millions of even teenier Lego bricks, as I once thought! picked by brightoncub 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A LEGO Mindstorm NXT kit can be bought, by you, at a LEGO store. In it are a bunch of funky looking LEGOs, three motors, and four sensors (one each for touch, light, ultrasonic, and sound). So if you had all that, could you build a robot that solves Rubik’s Cubes? The answer is, "Yes, you can." picked by muppet 12 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Zombies have inspired representations in art, music and claymation YouTube videos. However, we're pretty sure there has never been a scarier vision of the zombie menace than the LEGO Zombie Apocalypse. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share arts |
This giant Lego Nintendo DSi is definitely bigger than life and is more than enough to be a source of inspiration for gamers, geeks, Lego fans and all Nintendo freaks out there. Good thing we got some personal answers (below) from the maker Sean Kenney, because such a project could raise a lot of questions. picked by cactushair 8 months ago 2 comments edit related share entertainment |
A gent named Mark Borlase with a lot of time on his hands had the good sense to build a 5’ X 10’ diorama of the Empire Strikes Back Hoth battle out of 60,000 LEGO blocks. Borlase spent about $3,000 and four years of construction on this sweet baby, which also contains 50 LED lights that illuminate the Echo Base hangar, motorized AT-AT wenches, and a fully operational hanger door. picked by punthe 11 months ago 2 comments edit related share entertainment |
Here's the story: My 6-year-old son and I built this in 2003, using an HP Pavilion. It took about a month and $80 in bricks. There are no screws or glue — everything is held together with Lego bricks. 4 comments edit related share plime.comCool video in article picked by Doggylives 3 months ago |
Top Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey - but one made entirely out of Lego bricks in the middle of Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking. 2 comments edit related share plime.comOn Friday, more than three million Lego bricks were delivered to the vineyard in preparation for the task. picked by Bingo 4 months ago |
We have seen some amazing LEGO aircrafts in the past, but this F-14 Tomcat has to be the most awesome LEGO plane to date. In fact, it's so technically complex—most parts, including cannons, swing wings, landing gears, brakes, flaps, air intake doors, are electric and pneumatically controlled—that builder Jeroen Ottens got a dream job in Denmark as a Technic designer. picked by sandossu 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
To continue in my awesome Lego set posts, that last being Futurama Legos. Now I introduce you to this custom Ghostbusters, Ecto-Mobile, and Slimer. I love stumbling upon these. picked by muppetmaker 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share technology |
Because the casing of the phone is made from colorful Lego blocks that can be snapped into place and replaced with bricks of other colors when users become bored of the hues. picked by suebe 10 months ago 5 comments edit related share technology |
A selection of Eddie Izzard sketches, recreated in lego, very funny! picked by DAVEthefish 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
A one-of-a-kind official LEGO version of Mead's "Spinner" flying car from Blade Runner. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share arts |
In what is without a doubt the coolest Lego project seen in a long while, builder Ricardo Oliveira has built a Lego movie theater, complete with a tiny 24 fps projector. The biggest surprise was that the thing actually worked. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Mystery today surrounded a giant Lego man which has washed up on a beach after apparently floating all the way from the Netherlands. 14 comments edit related share plime.comCheck out the giant's translated site (from Dutch) here. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago |
Some of the most recognisable album covers of all time have been recreated in Lego by model-making music fans. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share entertainment |