Behold: Domaster & Tetrawing, heroic Nintendobots! Transforming from Nintendo Game Boy system & Tetris game to robot & bird, and back!
via MOCpages.com.
Domaster & Tetrawing – Nintendo Game Boy & Tetris Transformers!
Lego model of ISS created while onboard the real thing
Lego bricks are beloved all the world over — now they have made it into orbit as part of a joint NASA-Lego educational project. The model of the International Space Station (ISS) was created while in orbit as a way of engaging children as to what it is like living and working in zero gravity.
I’d wager that it doesn’t come back from orbit in one piece.
via DVICE.
The Technic arm
A little less advanced than Luke’s arm, but still incredibly impressive.
www.brothers-brick.com/2012/02/21/the-best-technic-arm-hands-down/
Avengers LEGO
“Marvel’s The Avengers” soars into theaters on May 4, 2012, but thanks to LEGO, you’ll be able to assemble the Avengers whenever you want.
Huge fan of the Quinn Jet! Also, i think that’s the largest Mini Fig that I’ve ever seen. He’ll look good on my desk next to Iron Man and his impossibly large head, which I can only assume means that it’s a mini fig helmet that’s removable, which I can then assume means it’ll be awesome.
via Marvel.com
Ultra-Violet – lego mech
Ultra-Violet
says that it was made with those new sexist lego sets. Luckily you’re not mandated to make a house or a kitchen out of them, but instead can make rockin mechs like this.
via Flickr.
Anime to the MAX
I’m a big fan of the ‘huge body, tiny head’ mech suits. Also a fan of swords, so here you go with both!
Lord of the Rings Lego
Here’s the first look at the upcoming Lord of the Rings Lego figures to be included in the Lord of the Rings Lego sets. Looks for the sets to be hitting stores and online retailers around June 2012.
my goodness Gollum looks awesome.
via Lord of the Rings Legos Revealed | Superheroes-R-Us.
LEGO Star Wars 9492 TIE Fighter
LEGO Star Wars 9492 TIE Fighter
Behold, the standard fighter in the Emperor’s Navy! The TIE Fighter is back, and this time it includes a bunch of figures like the TIE Pilot, the Imperial Office, the new Death Star Trooper, and the new R5-J2. Build a squad of them and crush the Rebel Alliance! 413 pieces. Ages 8 to 14.
I own a version of the tie inteceptor in lego, but it didn’t come with any of those cool minifigs.
via LEGO Star Wars 9492 TIE Fighter – LEGO – Star Wars – Construction Toys at Entertainment Earth.
Welcome, there is one point left on your license
Jean-Phillippe Lajoie Dorval (zwiti) was inspired to build this can by the comic book “Les cercles du pouvoir,” which also inspired the film, The Fifth Element.
via Welcome, there is one point left on your license | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog.
Lego sets just for sexists
Lego sent its team back out to scrutinize girls, starting in 2007. Lego confirmed that girls favor role-play, but they also love to build–just not the same way as boys. Whereas boys tend to be "linear"–building rapidly, even against the clock, to finish a kit so it looks just like what’s on the box–girls prefer "stops along the way," and to begin storytelling and rearranging.
Then there are the lady figures. Twenty-nine mini-doll figures will be introduced in 2012, all 5 millimeters taller and curvier than the standard dwarf minifig. There are five main characters. Like American Girl Dolls, which are sold with their own book-length biographies, these five come with names and backstories. The key difference between girls and the ladyfig and boys and the minifig was that many more girls projected themselves onto the ladyfig–she became an avatar. Boys tend to play with minifigs in the third person. "The girls needed a figure they could identify with, that looks like them," says Rosario Costa, a Lego design director. The Lego team knew they were on to something when girls told them, "I want to shrink down and be there."
The Lego Friends team is aware of the paradox at the heart of its work: To break down old stereotypes about how girls play, it risks reinforcing others.
really? girls wouldn’t play with regular ol’ legos with spaceships, trains, tanks, helicoptors, bears, et al? I find that highly unlikely.
via DVICE.
StarCraft 2 Mega Block Battlecruiser assembled in time-lapse
Check out this one minute and forty second time-lapse of a Mega Blocks StarCraft 2 Battlecruiser picked up at Blizzcon 2011, being put together over six and half hours.
Live-Action/Animated LEGO Movie Planned For 2014
“Lego” has been in development at Warner Bros. since 2008, when the studio began working with the toymaker on a family comedy based on the popular building blocks with Dan Lin and Roy Lee producing and the writing team of Dan and Kevin Hageman tapped to pen the script. In 2010, Warners brought on the “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to write and direct… Warners recently brought on Chris McKay, director of Adult Swim’s stop-motion animation/comedy “Robot Chicken,” to serve as co-director on “Lego” under Lord and Miller.
I have no clue what they could possibly do that would make for an interesting LEGO movie, but then again, I thought Lego Star Wars was going to be stupid, and that ended up being the start of something beautiful…
via nerdapproved.
Anatomy of a Lego Minifig
In the past, Jason Freeny has dissected characters like Mario, and the Stay Puft marshmallow man—but now he takes a peek inside a Lego Minifig.
Man Builds a LEGO Docking Bay Big Enough For The Ultimate Millennium Falcon
If you are familiar with the 10179 Ultimate Collectors edition of the Millennium Falcon, you’ll know that it is one of the biggest sets LEGO ever produced at 33?(84 cm) long by 22?(56 cm) wide and 8.3?(21 cm) tall with over 5000 pieces.
via nerd approved.
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