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A Lego Segway Is as Ridiculously Wonderful as You’d Expect

Lego whisperer Simon Burfield has a knack for taking the plastic building toy well past the limits of what it was intended for. His specialty is building rideable creations including a full-sized wheelchair, and now a rather brilliant Segway clone. https://gizmodo.com/worlds-first-lego-electric-wheelchair-can-support-a-two-5930584 It can easily support his weight, and even turns with a pivoting handle. The…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Population Growth and Climate Change Explained Using Lego

There’s seemingly no limit to the power of Lego, and in this video Hans Rosling uses it with great panache to explain the problems of population growth and climate change. They’re two of the biggest, most complex subjects we currently face on this planet -but somehow Rosling manages to make it all seem extremely straightforward.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Impressive Build of an Inverted Lego Roller Coaster

Finally! A roller coaster that doesn’t discriminate against the height-impaired! This feat of engineering was accomplished by Dutch Lego enthusiast, Luc2000. The build features a five-cart inverted roller coaster that fits ten minifigs in each car with four minifigs “staffing” the ride. The most amazing part of the project has to be the half corkscrew.…

Tech News Tatiana Danger

This Gigantic Building Will Be Lego Paradise on Earth

Lego has been creeping its way into the architecture market for years now—see their Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright models for reference—but they’ve steered clear of building full-scale buildings based on the modular plastic bricks. No longer: today, the company unveiled designs for a visitor center that will open in 2016. And…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Lego Must Make These 80s TV Show Cars ASAP

I’m eagerly awaiting for Lego to release the official Back to the Future sets—note to Billund: you should make the RC model too—but I want more. I want all my childhood remade using Danish bricks (never mind that most of my childhood was actually made of Lego bricks). I really want all the sets above…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Lego unveils Ewok Village set for all your Lego Ewok massacre needs

Yub and nub, my friends. Lego will release a massive, almost-2,000-piece Ewok Village set this September. It’ll run you $250, is over a foot tall, and will include a speederbike, 15 minifigures (some of which have reversible faces with different expressions — angry Leia is amazing), and an Imperial helmet drum kit. Best of all,…

io9 Rob Bricken

A new Yoda Lego adventure and the premiere of SheZow!

This week in the world of cartoons, we are treated to the premiere of SheZow, an Ice King kidnapping on Adventure Time, and we get the first of three Lego Yoda Chronicles specials! TMNT is delayed for a couple of weeks, while Ultimate Spider-Man and Gravity Falls continue their unusual hiatus. Ultimate Spider-Man is currently…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Only Lego Set You Will Enjoy Destroying More Than Building It

I guess this had to happen sooner or later: Lego’s latest and greatest Star Wars megaset is not an awesome spaceship, a short astromech or a moon-sized metal ball that makes death. No, my dear friends, this $250 1,990-piece set is the Ewok Village. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-new-gigantic-lego-imperial-shuttle-5565333 https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-lego-r2-d2-is-the-lego-set-you-must-get-this-5894057 https://gizmodo.com/3-800-piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-leg-5018137 For that price, you get to build “a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Electronic Bricks Means the Future Of Lego Is Even More Wonderful

At Sony Computer Science Laboratories’ recent open house in Tokyo, the company gave the public a glimpse of some of the innovative research its team has been working on. Including a project called Toy Alive: a joint venture between Sony and Lego to develop microchip-embedded bricks that add a new level of electronic interactivity to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds

We wholeheartedly approve of this recent trend of perfect 1:1 scale Lego creations. First, it was the Lego X-Wing which tipped the scales as the largest Lego creation ever assembled. And now it’s this smaller—though no less fantastic—full scale Lego T-800 Terminator model built by Martin Latta. https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-full-scale-lego-x-wing-is-the-largest-m-509484787 All-in-all the endoskeleton gobbled up some 15,000…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

How to Build Your Own Angry Birds With Lego

Angry Birds fans, you billion-strong horde of avian slingshotters you, here’s your opportunity to create your own feathered mascots out of Lego bricks. Just use these step-by-step YouTube tutorials. And make some pigs too. Extra points to whoever creates an entire level with a working giant slingshot.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Lego’s Opening a School In Denmark

You don’t realize it at the time, but once you find yourself studying at a place of higher learning, you really miss your younger school days where playtime was actually a part of your daily routine. But imagine what life must be like for students of a school that was built and funded by Lego.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History

This is truly unbelievable: Lego has built a 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing fighter using an astounding 5,335,200 bricks! It’s as big as the real thing, capable of fitting the real Luke Skywalker—and Porkins. As you can see in these exclusive Gizmodo images and video, it reproduces the official $60 Lego 9493 X-Wing Fighter.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Most Impressive Lego Terminator Arm You’ve Ever Seen

Skynet comes across as a resourceful artificial intelligence. After all, if it’s clever enough to send someone back in time to wipe out an enemy before they’re born, it’s not hard to believe it could see the potential in Lego Technic when it comes to building an army. Particularly when we’ve just shown it how.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The World’s Longest Lego Railway Includes 2.5 Miles Of Track

It’s not quite as exciting as free-falling from the edge of space, but a group of 80 Lego enthusiasts in Denmark, led by Henrik Ludvigsen, now hold the Guinness Record for the world’s longest plastic toy train track—an honor that will certainly look fantastic on a resume. https://gizmodo.com/first-head-cam-video-of-supersonic-space-jump-5951725 Inspired by his own impressive collection of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What Can We Build with All the Lego Bricks in the World?

Since 1958, 472 billion Lego bricks have been made. And even though most of those bricks are hardly bigger than your finger, 472 billion of anything is a ridiculous number. So what could you build with all the Lego bricks in the world? Surprisingly a lot. Like 74 Empire State buildings a lot. There really…

Tech News Casey Chan

A colossal 150k-piece Lego homage to the Battle of Helm’s Deep

Wish you had $20,000 to create this Lego masterpiece? Me too. This impressive recreation of the epic battle of Helm’s Deep took four months, 150,000 bricks and 1,700 minifigs to build. It’s about 90% finished and weighs around 160 lbs. If Tolkien was alive to see this, I believe he’d weep with joy (and probably…

Tech News Tatiana Danger

This Lego Mashup of Volkswagen and Star Wars Works Surprisingly Well

Well, it was only a matter of time before someone mashed up an icon of German engineering with an icon of the Galactic Empire. Semiotically speaking, there’s something hilariously appropriate about this hack by Craig Callum, a Denmark-based LEGO design lead who gets to dream up new sets for a living. On the top, we’ve…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Holy @#$%, Lego is making a steampunk line

AAAAAAAAAA. Lego. Steampunk. Official. Coming in July. We have pics and info. AAAAAAAAAA. The line will be part of the Lego Master Builder Academy, specifically “Level 4,” titled “Invention Designer.” Like all the Master Builder Academy “Levels,” there will be three separate kits with 13 different designs to build. Here are the official details: •…

io9 Rob Bricken

I Want These Daft Punk Lego Minifigs More Than Their New Album

Daft Punk’s next official album, Random Access Memories, drops in just over a couple of weeks which might as well be an eternity for die hard fans. But while I’m as excited as anyone for the duo’s next outing, I have to say I’m even more excited by these unofficial Daft Punk Lego minifigs. Created…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Lego Segway Is as Ridiculously Wonderful as You’d Expect

Population Growth and Climate Change Explained Using Lego

Impressive Build of an Inverted Lego Roller Coaster

This Gigantic Building Will Be Lego Paradise on Earth

Lego Must Make These 80s TV Show Cars ASAP

Lego unveils Ewok Village set for all your Lego Ewok massacre needs

A new Yoda Lego adventure and the premiere of SheZow!

The Only Lego Set You Will Enjoy Destroying More Than Building It

Electronic Bricks Means the Future Of Lego Is Even More Wonderful

A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds

How to Build Your Own Angry Birds With Lego

Lego’s Opening a School In Denmark

This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History

The Most Impressive Lego Terminator Arm You’ve Ever Seen

The World’s Longest Lego Railway Includes 2.5 Miles Of Track

What Can We Build with All the Lego Bricks in the World?

A colossal 150k-piece Lego homage to the Battle of Helm’s Deep

This Lego Mashup of Volkswagen and Star Wars Works Surprisingly Well

Holy @#$%, Lego is making a steampunk line

I Want These Daft Punk Lego Minifigs More Than Their New Album

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