Tag: Lego
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LEGO Builds A Full Scale, Drivable Replica of a Bugatti Car Using 1,000,000+ LEGOs
If you’re a fan of LEGO and a fan of fast cars, then LEGO has a dream announcement for you: “With Lego Technic you can build for real,” the Danish toy company said. To prove it, they created a full-scale, drivable replica of the $3,000,000 Bugatti Chiron, and it’s probably the coolest LEGO creation ever.…
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LEGO Tape Lets You Turn Anything Into A Lego Surface!
Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you’ve just spent hours building. You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr…
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Teacher Uses LEGO to Teach His Students Mathematics!
If you were like us when you were at school, numbers didn’t come easy. Times tables? Gah. Algebra? Eek. Calculus? Forget about it. However teacher Alycia Zimmerman has come up with an ingenious method of engaging her students while at the same time teaching them mathematics. Using LEGO, Alycia is able to explain fractions, adding and subtracting,…
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LEGO Creates Slippers to End 66 Years of Stepping on LEGO Pain!
Let’s face it, unless you’ve lived under a rock all your life, you are well aware of the searing pain associated with standing on a piece of LEGO. Fortunately, there is now a way to protect yourself from these domestic minefields: LEGO, working together with French advertising agency Brand Station, has invented anti-LEGO slippers! It…
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Incredible Animal Sculptures Made Out of LEGO!
One of our greatest memories as a child was opening up the latest LEGO kit we were given and feverishly put it together. One of our worse memories (of course!) was stepping on a stray LEGO piece. Yeeeoooouch! Fully grown adult and LEGO superstar Sean Kenny is a self-proclaimed ‘Professional Kid’ that makes a living creating things…
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The Chipmunks Strike Back in This Playful Star Wars Photo Shoot
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Well not that long ago and in the backyard of artist Chris McVeigh‘s parent’s house, a whimsical series that pairs adorable chipmunks with tiny toys from Star Wars was created. Called Chipmunk Adventures, the photographs show these plastic action figures interacting with the small creatures in fun and…
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A LEGO Wedding Cake Brings a Couple’s Childhood Fantasies to Life!
While most people opt for a traditional wedding cake, one UK couple celebrated their nuptials an edible LEGO creation that their guests would never forget. This creative confectionery, prepared by Cupcakes by SJ – a London-based family who loves to bake for friends and relatives -features colorful, hand-molded LEGO bricks, several LEGO workers who are rolling fondant to cover…
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LEGO Takes on Fifty Shades of Grey! (safe for work)
The long-awaited Fifty Shades of Grey movie finally hits the cinema screens on 13 February, just in time for Valentine’s Day. If you’re mad keen on seeing the movie and are looking for a taster before it’s out, Lego has worked its magic to produce their own trailer based scene for scene on the original. Lego + Fifty Shades? We’re not…
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Yummy Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi!
Illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate LEGO bricks. Chocolate is first poured into precisely designed moulds that after cooling can be popped out and used as regular LEGOs. It’s hard to determine exactly how functional they are, it seems like he had success in building a number of…
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Photographer Uses His Daughter’s Lego to Recreate the Works of Banksy!
A photographer has used his seven-year-old daughter’s Lego to recreate the works of street artist Banksy. Jeff Friesen has recreated many of the mysterious street artist’s iconic works from the plastic bricks. The 42-year-old from Halifax, Canada, used his daughter June’s Lego to complete the project he calls Bricksy. Each scene takes Jeff about a day…