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These Cthulhu LEGO sets will drive you insane with little plastic bricks

It’s unlikely LEGO will ever produce an H.P. Lovecraft-themed line of LEGO sets — what with the cosmic abominations and the creeping madness and unholy geometry and all that jazz —but that hasn’t stopped several intrepid builders from constructing their own eldritch play sets. Here are a dozen scenes inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. Unfathomable…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Desert Town Wakes Up to Find Giant Lego Garden Grown Overnight

The citizens of the desert town of Broken Hill were surprised when they woke up to this surreal scene: giant Lego trees and flowers—66 times bigger than the actual pieces—had grown everywhere overnight. It was the work of Lego, which is setting up installations all around Australia to celebrate its 50 anniversary there. I hope…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Homemade Settlers of Catan board game turns your sheep into LEGO bricks

We’ve seen the venerable “wheat-and-brick-and-yelling board game” Settlers of Catan go gigantic and to the final frontier. Now — in a marvelous act of nerdiness — LEGO sculptor Ryan H. has built a playable Catan board out of little plastic rectangles. Explains Ryan, “I played this every night at Brickworld; I think every game I…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Let’s All Be Happy Lego Didn’t Have Patent Trolls to Deal With in 1958

For the most part, the innerworkings of a Lego brick aren’t all that complex. It’s just a matter of good Geometry, really. But looking at these patent sketches submitted in 1958 (and granted in 1961), make me happy that Lego didn’t have to live in an era where their efforts might be thwarted by a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How Many Lego Bricks Would You Need To Build Your Plastic Dream House?

Inspired by the sheer awesomeness that was Top Gear host James May’s Lego house, the folks at Movoto Real Estate created an online calculator that tells you just how much Lego you’ll need to build your own plastic estate, based on the square footage and number of floors. https://gizmodo.com/take-a-look-at-the-house-made-completely-of-lego-bricks-5344423 But how do they calculate the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Channing Tatum and Will Arnett to play (LEGO) Superman and Batman

Fantasy team-up of the century! The more we hear about Warner Bros’ strange LEGO movie, the more excited we get. And now that the studio is dumping a ton of their trademarked properties into the picture and casting folks like Will Arnett to voice Batman? We’re losing it. Geektyrant reports that directors Phil Lord, Chris…

Movies Meredith Woerner

These LEGO Prometheus models need tiny, smarmy androids

Prometheus has been out for give or take a month, but that hasn’t stopped some intrepid souls from committing the film’s eponymous spacecraft to tiny Danish plastic bricks. Here are Niki Dregant and Andrew Lee’s respective takes on the USCSS Prometheus — both models incorporate the spaceship’s swinging engines, but neither includes miniature, futuristic DVDs…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

You Can Now Build Virtual Lego in Chrome

If you were planning to have a productive start to your work day: forget it. Instead, you’re going to spend hours playing with Lego online, because Google has teamed up with the toy maker to release a simulator which allows you build its bricks in Chrome. The application, called Build, is actually the brainchild of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Classic science fiction moments, recreated as minimalist LEGO dioramas

For a recent contest, LEGO hobbyist site The Living Brick challenged builders to transform famous scenes from science fiction cinema and television into sculptures that require the bare minimum of LEGO pieces. Here’s a round-up of the resulting dioramas — behold such films as Tron, Planet of the Apes, and Return of the Jedi in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lego Breaking Bad Set Will Never Happen But We Want It Anyway

Breaking Bad is one of the best TV series in history. It has drugs, debauchery, guns, bombs, lying, killing and everything in between. Which is why Lego would never ever make a set about it, even if it got a hundred thousand supporters in Lego Cussoo. https://gizmodo.com/nerdgasm-the-official-lego-back-to-the-future-set-is-a-5906074 But that doesn’t mean that Lego Breaking Bad…

Television Jesus Diaz

Anatomy of a LEGO Man

Ever wondered what a LEGO Man looks like on the inside? Wonder no more. Grab your scalpels, people, it’s time for some gross anatomy lessons — minifig-style. These remarkably detailed cutaways are the work of Jason Freeny, a Manhattan-based artist widely recognized for his anatomical interpretations of everything from Gummi Bears to balloon animals. The…

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Hit the Town With a Purse Made Entirely Out of Lego

Many magical things can be formed out of Lego—a Land Rover, a recreation of Game of Thrones, and this adorable purse made out of the brightly-colored bricks. https://gizmodo.com/insanely-detailed-lego-land-rover-even-includes-working-5911665 This unique little piece ($120 at this Etsy shop) comes in a rainbow of hues: green, red, orange, yellow, blue and white, and black. At about nine…

Tech News Leslie Horn

These Portal LEGO sets were too nifty for reality

LEGO’s CUUSOO program allows builders to submit blueprints for just about any plastic brick recreation under the sun. Although most of these designs never get the green light, there are still plenty of fantastic models consigned to the two-dimensional realm, such as these smashing Portal sets. These models come to us from Team Jigsaw, who…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Astronauts Are So Smart They Can Generate Electricity in Space Using Lego

Astronaut Don Pettit has a knack for making life on the space station seem like more fun than you can ever have on Earth. And recently he used the station’s Lego collection for some entertaining makeshift experiments with static electricity. Using nothing more than the colorful bricks and some high-tech looking tinfoil scavenged from the…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

How to Make an Awesome Key Holder Out of Lego

If you’re always losing your keys, you need a regular place to put them. A bowl on a side table works, but is kinda boring, so why not make your own out of Lego? To be honest, it’s not a particularly challenging build: you just need a base plate—choose one big enough to hold all…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What if Inception and 300 were built entirely out of LEGO bricks?

For a class project for Staffordshire University’s Visual Effects and Concept Design degree program, students assembled a series of animated shorts that reimagined Hollywood blockbusters as LEGO worlds (à la the LEGO Star Wars series). These projects were assembled over a period of 12 weeks, and each represents approximately 1,000 hours of work. Behold the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Lego’s Munsters’ House Is Not Really the Munsters’ But Close Enough

I never watched The Addams Family when I was a kid. But I loved the Munsters—with Eddie, Marilyn (swoon), Grandpa, Lily (double swoon) and Herman Munster, father and Apple analyst. That’s why I love the latest (big!) Lego set. It’s the Haunted House. It’s not about the Munsters, but their series Monsters Fighters, but in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This LEGO Star Wars M.C. Escher diorama defines awesome

Here’s an impressive Star Wars sculpture that gives that insanely detailed organ a run for its money. Check out Paul Vermeesch’s take on M.C. Escher’s “Relativity” made out of Star Wars LEGO bricks. This project includes the Emperor at the center of the scene (for thematic purposes), Luke’s runaway hand, and a slot to slide…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

Reiman Gardens, the 14 acre park that serves as entrance to Iowa State University already supports a wide variety of local wildlife. But this summer, the gardens will host another type of menagerie—one made entirely of Lego. As part of the “Nature Connects” exhibit at Iowa State, Certified Lego Builder Sean Kenney and his team…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This is quite possibly the most impressive LEGO fortress you’ve ever seen

This here is “The Voice of Evil,” a massive LEGO diorama built by sculptor Duco Brugman. After he planned this imposing castle for over three years, this 20-kilogram monolith took approximately eight months, countless LEGO bricks, and fifteen meters of light wire embedded under the lava to complete. Keep your eyes peeled for the burning…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

These Cthulhu LEGO sets will drive you insane with little plastic bricks

Desert Town Wakes Up to Find Giant Lego Garden Grown Overnight

Homemade Settlers of Catan board game turns your sheep into LEGO bricks

Let’s All Be Happy Lego Didn’t Have Patent Trolls to Deal With in 1958

How Many Lego Bricks Would You Need To Build Your Plastic Dream House?

Channing Tatum and Will Arnett to play (LEGO) Superman and Batman

These LEGO Prometheus models need tiny, smarmy androids

You Can Now Build Virtual Lego in Chrome

Classic science fiction moments, recreated as minimalist LEGO dioramas

Lego Breaking Bad Set Will Never Happen But We Want It Anyway

Anatomy of a LEGO Man

Hit the Town With a Purse Made Entirely Out of Lego

These Portal LEGO sets were too nifty for reality

Astronauts Are So Smart They Can Generate Electricity in Space Using Lego

How to Make an Awesome Key Holder Out of Lego

What if Inception and 300 were built entirely out of LEGO bricks?

Lego’s Munsters’ House Is Not Really the Munsters’ But Close Enough

This LEGO Star Wars M.C. Escher diorama defines awesome

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

This is quite possibly the most impressive LEGO fortress you’ve ever seen

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