The original specifications for Lego from their 1958 patent filing. Pretty detailed specifications for the basic Lego brick. Via Man Made
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Lego In Space
A pair of teenagers in Toronto constructed a homemade weather balloon that they then released into the sky with a few Lego accessories – including a Lego Minifigure. After a bit over 90 minutes up at an altitude of around 80,000 feet, their balloon came back to earth but not after taking several photos of [...]
Analysis of Lego Pricing Over The Years
Over at Geek Mom, an interesting analysis of the pricing of Lego sets over the past 40 years or so. Looking at the pricing on a “price per brick” point of view, the average cost has actually been trending down. As it turns out, after going up in the 70′s and 80′s, the average price [...]
Lego Escher
Seriously awesome Lego replicas of M.C. Escher’s gravity defying drawings. The above is a Lego depiction of his 1953 work “Relativity”. A few more are on the Daily Mail article linked below. How cool is this?!? via the Daily Mail
Lego Tower of Orthanc
Some Lego builders took a project to epic proportions and built a scale mini-figure Lego model of the Lord of the Rings Last March of the Ents and the Tower of Orthanc . How big? I’m glad you asked. The tower breaks 7 feet tall and the full display is over 8 feet in diamater. via Brothers [...]
Lego Plants vs. Zombies
Lego Plants vs. Zombies…created by my 8 year old son. I’m not sure what is more impressive: this Lego creation or him reeling of with 95% accuracy the names of each of the plants in the game just by looking at the images.
Tallest Lego Tower
The tallest Lego tower has been built in Brazil. It surpasses the previous record by close to a foot. Appropriately, it was built and displayed in the parking lot of a mall in Brazil, symbolic of the usual trek between the car and the mall’s Lego store by extremely happy kids and parents asking “Seriously? [...]
Inception Scenes Using Lego
It would be really cool to recreate the street bending scene from Paris using Lego. Via Amusing Planet
Living In A Lego House
A video of a reporter who visits an amazing full size house made completely out of Lego. Via Holy Kaw!
Fix It With Lego
Artist Jan Vormann has traveled the world fixing old and crumbling buildings with Lego bricks. The gallery on the Telegraph’s website includes photos from buildings in NYC as well as Italy and Amsterdam.
Lego Star Wars Droid Control Ship
A guy named Paul Yperman spent the past two years constructing a scale model of the Star Wars Droid Control Ship from scratch, using schematics he found in a Star Wars Cross Sections book in a bookstore. He found a software on the Internet that helped him figure out the orb in the middle and [...]
Why The Internet Rocks – Reason 4504
Recently, my 6 year old son acquired an old Lego set from the Star Wars line – the old Millennium Falcon set from 2004. Problem was that it was acquired from a school thrift sale, meaning the set was used, it was in a brown box and not in the original packaging, and the instructions [...]
