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Working Lego Model of the Earth, Moon, and Sun Is Remarkably 97 Percent Accurate

Few Lego builders are as masterful at combining model-making and engineering as Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks. His latest creation, a miniature Lego Orrery depicting the moon orbiting the Earth, and both of them orbiting the sun, not only works, it’s also 97 percent accurate. Because Allemann was limited to the gears and other components…

The Next Lego Minifigures Collection Features Your Favorite Disney Characters

To date Lego has released 15 different series of blind-bagged Minifigures for eager fans to grope before buying. But the collections featuring licensed characters like The Simpsons have easily been the most popular, so Lego’s newest series features characters from countless Disney properties. The image above was posted by a Eurobricks forum user who claims…

A Clever Star Wars fan Figured Out How to Build a Tiny Rolling BB-8 Using Only Lego

There is no shortage of fan-built Lego BB-8s across the internet, but Mark Smiley and James Garrett have managed to build a tiny one that actually rolls, while keeping its head floating on top, using nothing but Lego components available in standard sets. This custom Lego build is very reminiscent of Sphero’s tiny version of…

The New Lego Star Wars Trailer Features a Totally New Kind of Lightsaber 

Correction: The official Lego YouTube put up the trailer, then quickly made it private. Our apologies. We’ve got an unofficial version below for now. The Lego Star Wars brand is blowing up over on Disney XD. It recently started doing Force Awakens shorts and later this year, a new show called The Freemaker Adventures will…

Poe Dameron Stages a Daring Rescue in the First The Force Awakens Lego Short

The first episode of the recently announced Lego Star Wars: The Resistance Rises short series is here, and it’s all about Poe Dameron being dashing, strangely deep-voiced, and a bit of a goofball while he goes on a rescue mission to save Admiral Ackbar from the First Order. Being a Lego short, it’s jam-packed with…

Lego Star Wars Returns to Hoth With This Amazing Playset

There have been rumors of a massive new Star Wars set based on Echo Base from Empire Strikes Back for ages now, but they’ve finally been confirmed: Lego have just announced a gigantic new set jam packed with so much goodness even the smell of Tauntaun insides couldn’t ruin it. Assault on Hoth contains over…

Lego has announced a series of animated shorts set just before Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The first episode of Lego Star Wars: The Resistance Rises, focusing on Poe Dameron rescuing Admiral Ackbar from the clutches of Captain Phasma, airs next Monday on Disney XD after the conclusion of Gravity Falls. Here’s a clip!

A New Animated Lego Star Wars TV Show Will Follow a Family Across the Galaxy

A brand new Star Wars animated series is coming to TV. Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, a full-fledged show blending the humor of the Lego brand and, well, Star Wars, is set to premiere sometime this summer on Disney XD. The show will follow a family named the Freemakers, who (somewhat predictably) build and…

This Lego Paper Airplane Factory Is Wonderfully Over-Complicated

We’ve covered Arthur Sacek’s brilliant Lego creations before, but none have been as wonderfully complicated as this machine that turns a single piece of paper into a folded airplane. The contraption even launches the plane at the end of the assembly line, sending it off on its maiden test flight. Sacek was hired by Elevation…

The New Ghostbusters Lego Sets Have Finally Been Revealed

We’ve got a few awesome Ghostbusters lego sets recently, with the original Ecto-1 and the Firehouse being some of the coolest Lego sets around recently. With the new movie coming out, we’re getting a lot more—and the ladies are looking amazing in Lego form, complete with their own Ecto-1 and ghosts to fight! As revealed…

The New Lego Star Wars Game Gives Us an Official Parody of the First Force Awakens Trailer

Way back in the old days of Thanksgiving 2014, when we got our first ever look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it was inevitably followed up by tons of amazing parody remakes—including the customary Lego versions. But now we have what is essentially an official parody of that first teaser trailer, and it’s amazing.…

How The Iowa Caucus Works, Explained By Lego

We’ve been hearing a whole lot about the Iowa Caucuses, but often with little context about how that process actually works. Vermont Public Radio has put together an entertaining short that explains the process, in Lego. For such an important event, it’s interesting to see just how much negotiation and goes into each meeting, especially…

Every College Dorm Room Needs This Lego KFC Vending Machine

Colleges and universities always provide new students with a list of essentials they’ll need for both their studies and dorm life. But ahead of laptops and shower flip-flops, this Lego KFC-dispensing vending machine should be at the top of the list. Have you ever tried to study, or play video games for 18 hours straight,…

Lego’s First Minifigure in a Wheelchair is Embarrassingly Overdue

Bowing to public pressure, Lego has finally released its first minifig in a wheelchair. The latest Lego figurine was one of several recently showcased at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. Lego’s decision to create a minifg in a wheelchair did not arise spontaneously from the goodness of this company’s heart. In fact, Lego initially resisted requests…

The Curves on Lego’s New Technic Porsche 911 Are Just Perfect

The Porsche is a popular choice for Lego enthusiasts looking to test their modelling skills, but leave it to the toymaker’s official builders to absolutely nail the curves and contours that make the 911 so recognizable on this new Technic set. Zusammengebaut.com’s Andres Lehmann and Jim van Gulik were responsible for these shots of the…

Lego’s New Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator Looks Impressively Monstrous

The 2016 New York Toy Fair doesn’t start until next month, but toy fairs in London and Nuremberg are already well under way. As a result, we’re starting to get sneak previews of what we’ll see in New York in February, including this new Lego Technic excavator that looks astoundingly massive. Andres Lehmann from Zusammengebaut.com…

Google Glass Could Have Been a Brilliant Interactive Lego Instruction Manual

Google Glass is dead, and the company is doing everything it can to make the world forget it ever sold the wearable experiment. It wasn’t a complete disaster, though. The product had occasional moments of brilliance, like this Lego Assistant app that walks users through building a complex model, without the need for a manual.…

65,000-Piece Lego Concorde Reveals all the Plane’s Inner Workings

In addition to wowing us with a heartbreaking 120,000-piece model of the Titanic breaking in two, Ryan McNaught also spent the month of December building an incredibly-detailed model of an Air France Concorde that reveals all of the supersonic plane’s inner workings and details. On the right side, McNaught’s 13-foot long Concorde is a near…

120,000-Piece Lego Model of the Titanic Breaking in Half Is Heartbreakingly Beautiful

Not since James Cameron put Leo and Kate on-screen in his disaster flick have we experienced so many feels for the Titanic tragedy. But Lego Jedi Ryan McNaught also manages to infuse some humor into his 120,000-piece model of the doomed ship breaking in half before sinking. The massive model is peppered with countless Lego…

Last Year’s Best Movies Look Even Better as Lego Movies

Lego once ignored its quirky but passionate fan base, the adult fans who created new worlds out of a children’s toy. But as The Lego Movie showed us, straying from the directions of a given set makes for great fun. Reimagining last year’s best movies as their own Lego movies? Even greater fun. The fantastically…