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A News Broadcast Reenacted Olympic Highlights with Lego

Because showing highlights of the Olympics can be quite the political mess of air rights and restrictions and licensing and sponsors and other BS like that, ABC News in Australia decided to circumvent the issue by re-creating the women’s 100m hurdles finals with Lego. It’s awesome. As you may know, Australian Sally Pearson beat out…

Tech News Casey Chan

An epic LEGO recreation of the Ringwraiths’ hunt for Hobbits

For a diorama depicting the Nazgûl hunting some hapless Hobbits, builder Xenomurphy transformed their moment of silent self-preservation into a full-blown nature scene. As Xenomurphy explains of this tableau: There is a certain artistic licence involved when I created a steep slope instead of the little hollow that Tolkien described in his book. But more…

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Seven-foot long minifig-scale Serenity model is a Lego masterpiece [Updated]

Adrian Drake spent 475 hours over the course of 21 months to build this painstakingly accurate model of Firefly’s Serenity entirely out of Lego bricks. The result is this 135-pound, seven-foot long, 70,000-brick beauty that looks especially shiny paired with its minifig crew. Drake debuted his minifig-scale Serenity today at Brickfair in Chantilly, Virginia. He…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Lego Olympic Park Is Just Like the Real Thing

If you’re getting bored of technology making the Olympics worse, maybe it’s time to give up and build your own version of the games out of Lego. Be warned though: if you do, Warren Elsmore has already done it better than you ever will. https://gizmodo.com/technology-is-making-the-olympics-worse-5930187 Elsmore has spent 300 hours creating a miniature version of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

World’s First Lego Electric Wheelchair Can Support a Two Hundred Pound Passenger

It’s not going to get you anywhere in a hurry, but Simon Burfield’s joystick-controlled electric wheelchair is built from the ground up using just Lego. What’s even more impressive is that the chair can carry someone up to 200 pounds in weight, as long as there aren’t any obstacles for it to traverse. Controlled by…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Pixar’s storytelling rules illustrated in Lego

If you haven’t seen the 22 rules of storytelling tweeted by Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats, go read them and then come back. We’ll wait. It’s worth it. Lego enthusiast Alex Eylar helps those rules for telling compelling tales stick to your brain by illustrating 12 of them with Lego minifigs. https://gizmodo.com/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according-to-pixar-5916970 Eylar is known…

io9 Lauren Davis

You’ve Got to Be Crafty to Take Down the Empire With this LEGO Star Wars Chess Set

This whole rebellion business could have been handled with much more savvy than just blowing up home planets and Deathstars. Both sides could have sat down to a friendly no-holds-barred, all-or-nothing chess match with the fate of the galaxy on the line like civilized people. This Star Wars: Return of the Jedi chess set from…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lego Batman Fully Posable Action Figure Is a Must Have

OK people, here’s the plan: get Lego builder mmccooey and beat the crap out of him until he gives us the precise instructions to build his amazing and fully posable Batman action figure made out of Lego. Or just ask him nicely. It can go either way. Lego can use its DC Comics license to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch a Man Child Unbelievably Spend Three Days Sorting 65,000 LEGO Bricks

Our resident Lego lover Jesus Diaz sorted through 5,195 Lego bricks and that gave him back pain. So you got to wonder what this Lego maniac has after unboxing and combing through 65,000 Lego bricks over the course of 71 hours. Are his fingers still attached? Does he see everything in primary colors? Can he…

Tech News Casey Chan

This is how you make Helm’s Deep out of LEGO

If the official LEGO Helm’s Deep play set seemed a twinge minuscule to you, check out builder Daniel Z’s recreation of this epic battle. It’s an excellent companion piece to these miniature versions of the Battle of Isengard and Mordor. You can find more of his tiny fortresses here. https://gizmodo.com/lego-lord-of-the-rings-avengers-and-deadpool-debut-at-5884429 https://gizmodo.com/the-battle-of-isengard-from-lord-of-the-rings-depicted-5845739 https://gizmodo.com/lego-mordor-cannot-be-reached-with-plastic-eagles-5815605 [Via Brothers Brick]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

So How Do You Weigh Things In Zero-Gravity?

With extremely controlled and strict diets, it’s not like astronauts have to worry about gaining too much weight on the space station. But have you ever stopped and wondered how you would actually measure mass in a weightless environment? After all, the entire concept of weight and scales is entirely dependent on gravity. It turns…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

A world with more William Gibson LEGO sets is a world we can live in

When it comes to literary characters to depict in LEGO, you can’t beat Jones, the cybernetic, heroin-addicted dolphin from William Gibson’s 1981 tale Johnny Mnemonic. Explains sculptor Cole Blaq: What does a heroin junky dolphin do in Nighttown? Well I guess dreaming of electric sheep or riding the horse. But hey, what else could a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lego Star Wars Rancor Pit Set Needs a Slave Leia Minifig—Urgently

At last, one of the most iconic Star Wars scenes is out in Lego form: the Rancor Pit set. It will be available next January for $60. The coolest thing: it’s made to fit perfectly underneath their Jabba’s Palace set! The worst thing: no sign of slave Leia minifig yet.

Movies Jesus Diaz

Massive 200,000-Piece Roman Colosseum Is the Most Impressive Lego Architecture Model I’ve Ever Seen

I’m stunned by the scale, accuracy and mind blowing detail of this massive 200,000-piece Lego Roman Colosseum, made to minifig scale. Built for the University of Sydney, it shows both the Colosseum from two thousand years ago and its current state. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-video-how-lego-builds-its-minifigs-5041136 Made by certified Lego builder Ryan McNaught, it is, without a single doubt,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

This scale model of Bilbo Baggins has been confidently standing his ground at San Diego Comic-Con’s LEGO booth, but trouble may be afoot now that he and Gandalf have been discovered by zombie Frodo. Will a Sting made from plastic bricks be of any use in fighting the undead? Photo credit: Lucia Alba.

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch the 152,455-piece Lego Rolls-Royce Engine In Action

Holy bucket of bricks—that 152,455-piece, 677-pound, 6.56-foot-long Lego Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine doesn’t only look insane—it also moves! Watch the most complicated Lego machine in action.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

LEGO Star Trek equipment may not work, but is fascinating nonetheless

Tommy Williamson has done up classic Star Trek gadgets in LEGO — behold adorably nonfunctional versions of the tricorder, phaser, and communicator. All that’s missing is a full-sized wall for Kirk to jump off of and deliver some airborne pain. [Via Technabob]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

152,455-Piece Rolls-Royce Engine Is the Most Complex Lego Machine Ever Built

This is insane. 152,455 Lego bricks, 677 pounds (307 kilograms) and 6.56 feet long (2 meters). That’s how amazing this Lego cut-out of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine is. It has over 160 separate engine components just arranged like the engine that power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Rolls-Royce—who presented their Lego engine yesterday at the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Incredible 2000-piece LEGO Portal gun features motorized prongs

YouTuber ferlessleedr is a LEGO store employee and a Portal fan, so he decided to merge his passions to create this incredible 2000-piece replica Portal gun, which he’s brought to this week’s CONvergence in Minneapolis. With changing orange and blue lights and LEGO Mindstorm-powered prongs, this may be the coolest Portal gun short of one…

io9 Lauren Davis

1,486-Piece B-Wing Is the Most Amazing Lego Set In a Very Long Long Time

Holy Mother of the Minichrist! Check out the new Lego B-wing fighter. It’s simply the best Ultimate Collector Series set since the still unmatched 24-pound, 5,159-block Millennium Falcon, from 2007. The Danish mothership sent us high resolution images and video. Check them out. The video is particularly interesting, with the set designer describing how he…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

A News Broadcast Reenacted Olympic Highlights with Lego

An epic LEGO recreation of the Ringwraiths’ hunt for Hobbits

Seven-foot long minifig-scale Serenity model is a Lego masterpiece [Updated]

This Lego Olympic Park Is Just Like the Real Thing

World’s First Lego Electric Wheelchair Can Support a Two Hundred Pound Passenger

Pixar’s storytelling rules illustrated in Lego

You’ve Got to Be Crafty to Take Down the Empire With this LEGO Star Wars Chess Set

Lego Batman Fully Posable Action Figure Is a Must Have

Watch a Man Child Unbelievably Spend Three Days Sorting 65,000 LEGO Bricks

This is how you make Helm’s Deep out of LEGO

So How Do You Weigh Things In Zero-Gravity?

A world with more William Gibson LEGO sets is a world we can live in

Lego Star Wars Rancor Pit Set Needs a Slave Leia Minifig—Urgently

Massive 200,000-Piece Roman Colosseum Is the Most Impressive Lego Architecture Model I’ve Ever Seen

Has LEGO Bilbo met his match in zombie Frodo?

Watch the 152,455-piece Lego Rolls-Royce Engine In Action

LEGO Star Trek equipment may not work, but is fascinating nonetheless

152,455-Piece Rolls-Royce Engine Is the Most Complex Lego Machine Ever Built

Incredible 2000-piece LEGO Portal gun features motorized prongs

1,486-Piece B-Wing Is the Most Amazing Lego Set In a Very Long Long Time

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