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Original Lego Patent

Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 9:22 PM. This post has no comments yet.

The original specifications for Lego from their 1958 patent filing. Pretty detailed specifications for the basic Lego brick. Via Man Made

Lego In Space

Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 11:59 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 10:12 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 at 11:47 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 11:06 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Saturday, July 30th, 2011 at 3:11 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 1:31 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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

Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 1:01 PM. This post has no comments yet.

It would be really cool to recreate the street bending scene from Paris using Lego. Via Amusing Planet

Living In A Lego House

Posted on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at 3:45 PM. This post has no comments yet.

A video of a reporter who visits an amazing full size house made completely out of Lego. Via Holy Kaw!

Fix It With Lego

Posted on Saturday, May 29th, 2010 at 9:19 AM. This post has 2 comments.

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

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 8:31 AM. This post has 4 comments.

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

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 11:47 PM. This post has no comments yet.

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 [...]