Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Poor Old Guy...

 An elderly Ontario man was recently turned away from the Legoland Discovery Center in Toronto that he so wanted to visit because of a rather hidden rule that all adults must be accompanying a child. John St-Onge, a 63-year old Lego fanatic, has wanted to visit the flagship Legoland in Denmark, but is unable to due to his failing health. When he learned of the Discovery Center in Toronto, he was delighted, and made the 3-hour trip with his grown daughter Nicole, only to be turned away at the door.

 This is just awful. And stupid. Lego is enjoyed by people of all ages, not just children. Regular Legoland has no such rule as far as my knowledge. All this guy wanted to do was see the exhibits and get some picture references for a build he wants to do. Oddly enough though, the Center does have a monthly adult night, so clearly they recognize that people other than children enjoy Lego, so this policy of theirs simply baffles me.

 Original via CTV

Monday, March 18, 2013

Batman Minifigure Cake


Look at this! This is art! This 3-foot tall cake was made by Mike McCary, possibly for a wedding, who knows, but who cares!? Look at that detail! This is one of the best cakes I've ever seen, and that includes the stuff I've seen the Cake Boss make.

via Design You Trust

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Bioshock Rapture

 Words cannot express... Rapture in all of its grandure. Built by Imagine Rigney (ImagineTM).

via Wildwrap.com

Friday, January 25, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Arctic Plane

 The fourth in blakeydrums' series of micro builds. This one is rather nice.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Lego Marvel Game Announced

 LEGO and Marvel announced today that "LEGO Marvel Super Heroes" will be available Fall 2013 for the Xbox 360, Wii U, Playstation 3, Windows, the Playstation Vita, and Nintendo DS and 3DS systems. The game will feature an original storyline with over 100 unlockable characters to play with.

via Marvel

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Mini Greek Temple

 A miniature Greek temple by blakeydrums, small enough to fit an iPod Nano container. This isn't the most impressive or creative build, but I think it's pretty neat. He mentioned on Reddit that he may start a whole series of builds like this, so that may be worth watching for.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

The Building Blocks of Life

 Reddit user devlinux posted this really neat build to the /r/lego subreddit. The strand doesn't actually code for anything, but it still makes for a rather fun and interesting build.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Life-sized Bag End

 This life-sized Lego version of Bag End was built by 12 employees over a period of 3000 hours. It consists of over 2 million bricks and features working lights (my favorite) and actual smoke from the chimney. I'm not sure what this was built for, but it is incredibly awesome nonetheless.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Lego scale model of NYC

 Not really. But it is really cool piece. This digital render was made by 3D artist JR Schmidt, using maps and satellite data. This should be made. I think it would make for a really awesome build.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Yay! Sonic Screwdriver!

 One of the coolest sci-fi tools ever, from my absolute favorite show. The Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver by Bruce Lowell (bruceywan), effective against just about everything, expect deadlocked seals and wood.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Space Jump Recreated in Lego


 By now you all have probably seen Felix Baumgartner's 129,000 ft. skydive (if not, watch it). This would be that jump, performed by minifigs. Enjoy!

Oh... My... God

 I can't even begin to describe how beautiful this is. Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey spent over 800 hours putting together this Batcave. The cave itself is comprised of over 20000 individual elements, weighs over 100 lbs., and has motorized parts and its own lighting system! These men are gods to me.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

LEGO Wheelchair


 This Lego wheelchair is powered by Mindstorms and can support up to about 200 lbs. (90 Kg). 6 NXT's are used to control the drive motors while a master controls the direction. Each driving NXT has 2 motors and 2 touch sensors for direction, while the master has 4 touch sensors to control direction and 2 motors to switch on the driving touch sensors. Support for Android and Bluetooth is currently being worked on.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

17-Stage Ball Contraption


 This amazing Lego machine, built by Skiyuky, does a very simple task. Moving balls along a complete circuit. That is all it does. But it does that task in such an amazingly cool way. And it's incredibly accurate.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Rivendell - Home of the Elves


 This is... beautiful. This masterpiece is the result of a collaboration by Blake Baer (Blake's Baericks) and Jake Bittner (Bitts and Pieces), which was shown at BrickFair this month.
 Here's a video of set with all its details on display.