Lego

Thorin’s Company looks marvellous as Lego figures

Finnish Lego fan Pate-Keetongu over at Cyclopic Brickshas spent almost two years crafting these awesome Lego ‘action figures’ of the cast from The Hobbit trilogy – and they look absolutely fantastic. The 15 models, one for each of Thorin and his dwarves, as well as Bilbo and Gandalf, took a total of 580 days to…

Lego is now the biggest Toymaker on the Planet

Lego’s long been beloved across the world – but a monstrously successful year for the Danish company has now seen them overtake Mattel as the biggest toymaker by sales in the world. The company’s first-half results, released last week, showed a sales increase of 11% – bolstered by the huge success of The Lego Movie…

Lego Batman takes to the streets on this brilliant R/C Technic Batpod

Polish Lego fan Sariel‘s created an outstanding bit of vehicular design with this teeny Batpod from The Dark Knight – not only is it made entirely out of Lego and Technic pieces, it’s fully powered for R/C control and flashing lights too. It’s not the first time Sariel has crafted RC Technic vehicles from Christopher…

Lego Academics Twitter Account Illustrate Life in Academia

With over 34 thousand followers, it’s likely that you’re already following the excellent Lego Academics twitter account, which’ll celebrate its one-month anniversary next week. If you aren’t, you should. The account was created by archaeologist Donna Yates, who uses the new women of science LEGO sets as playful images to accompany painfully true descriptions of…

Artist turns Lego’s ‘Friends’ dolls into badass superheroines

Lego’s Friends line has been met with plenty of success, but it came under a lot of fire when it launched for conforming to female stereotypes. Artist Jon Lazar decided to change that with his Lego Super Friends project, taking these shopping-loving, cute-animal-crazy dolls and turning them into comic book heroes. For the month of…

The futuristic jets, humans, and Star Wars designs of Stephen Chang

Stephen Chang tells me he loves to think about how the future will weave technology into humans. He has done a lot of cool art so far and I’m sure he’ll get far. If he doesn’t, that’s fine: He got his design for the Rogue Shadow ship—from the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed—turned into…

The Best Part Of The LEGO Ghostbusters Remake Is The Simpsons Cameo

Surprise Simpson! MonsieurCaron has crafted yet another LEGO opus, this one recreating a small segment from the first Ghostbusters film and injecting it with a pantload of LEGO characters. It’s real cute.

Lego’s Amazing New HQ Is Finally Underway (And You Can Build Your Own)

Lego maniacs have another pilgrimage destination to add to their list: The brand’s new “experience center” broke ground in Billund, Denmark yesterday. As you’d expect, the building itself looks like it’s constructed from a pile of Lego bricks. And thanks to a new Lego Architecture kit, you can start building your own version at home…

You Guys, Somebody Made LEGO Out Of Chocolate

Japan-based illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi, apparently unsatisfied with regular old plastic LEGO, has gone and designed a mold for casting LEGO bricks out of chocolate. The bricks appear to be at least marginally functional. Enough to snap together into the designs seen here, anyway, until they melt. More importantly, of course, they’re edible. See…

The Simpsons‘ Springfield Made Entirely Out Of Legos!

Lego artist Matt De Lanoy has re-created The Simpsons’ city of Springfield entirely out of Legos! And the attention to detail is sensational. Behold Town Hall, the Power Plant, the Blocko store, Moe’s, the Church, Krusty Burger and the Kwik-E-Mart. Collection of images from Matt De Lanoy’s Flickr Gallery, and he’s also included a video…

This cyborg arm is the first step to a badass Lego mech suit

At some point in your nerdy childhood, you surely imagined what it would be like to build an entire exoskeleton out of Lego. How much fun would that be to have a Lego creation you could actually climb inside and drive around?! Well, award-winning Lego enthusiast Diavo Voltaggio is well on his way to that…

Why Being A LEGO Superhero Is Actually A Pain In The Ass

Being a LEGO minifig superhero may look like fun in The LEGO Movie and the LEGO videogames, but a series of comics from Pictures in Boxes reveals that it’s actually pretty tough. This is just one of a series of LEGO DC-themed comics from Pictures in Boxes; head over to the comic’s Tumblr to see…

Two more summer Lego movies are coming

Hollywood Reporter just got word that Warners is planning two more Lego movies to open the summer season. That’s great! We’ll just have to wait until Memorial Day 2018 and 2019, respectively, to see them. As we previously heard, the second Lego movie will hit theaters on May 26, 2017. Further installments will come on…

These Smart, Bendable Bricks Could Build Truly Flexible Robots

These may look like Lego pieces, but don’t be deceived: the smart building blocks are made of flexible plastic and stuffed with fluidics channels and electronics, designed to build simple, adaptable robots in double-quick time. The basic 6×9 stud blocks are 3D-printed using a soft and flexible plastic—a type of elastomer—and can be easily trimmed…

Lego trains are the worst value sets in per-brick pricing

Exhaustive analysis into the price of Lego bricks has revealed that parents of children who like both Lego and trains are getting the metaphorical brick in the sole of the foot treatment—with train sets bucking the trend and costing more than their less thrilling equivalents. According to Wired, the base cost of a Lego set…

Just how much do you pay for a single Lego brick? Over at Wired, they’ve broken down the cost of the different types of Lego to figure out what you pay for a single brick — and just how much that changes depending on the box’s theme. (Hint: Whatever you do, steer clear of the…

The Lady-Scientist Lego Set Is Now Available!

After much anticipation, and more than a little prodding, Lego has added three female researchers to its cadre of scientific minifigs. The “Reseach Institute” playset features an astronomer, a paleontologist and a chemist, and a range of badass accoutrements (like Lego dinosaur fossils!) specific to each specialty. Via Lego: The Research Institute has everything that…

Guardians of the Galaxy looks even more fun in Lego

Rocket Raccoon and company are ready to fight galactic threats in theaters this Friday, but the Lego tributes are already rolling in. This particular 30-second spot transforms the Guardians of the Galaxy into brick-sized replacements. Famous YouTube Lego lover Forrest Whaley takes all the credit for this one, as he continues to display an impressive…

And Now, The Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer in LEGO

We’re into the last push of promotion for Guardians of the Galaxy, and just when we thought there couldn’t be anymore, we have this: the LEGO trailer. Made by Forrest Whaley, and sanctioned by Disney, the first thing you notice is that it’s essentially a shot-for-shot remake of some scenes from the real trailers. The…

A Lego Pirate Is Sacrificed To A Colossal Wave In The Name of Science

Rogue waves are a little-understood phenomenon of ocean dynamics. The colossal swells, which seem to appear out of nowhere in otherwise calm seas, were reported for centuries before their existence was confirmed in 1995. To better understand them, scientists have recently taken to modeling the strange swells with wave tanks and Lego. FYFD’s Nicole Sharpe…