@zsleek7: Lego is the toy that can be anything. If you were in the mood for a spaceship, Lego would happily oblige. If you wanted a jet, a car, a robot, a movie diorama, a miniature city, Lego would never falter. It IS the ultimate toy.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

wow those are dope 'business cards', who needs a rolodex when you can have a little city in your office with everybodys 'business card' strategically placed where you can find them easy.

gusnyc.com

that one looks like me, and i don't work for lego!
expect that i don't wear an all red jumpsuit with a white apron. ever.

drewheyman

The subtitles are wrong..

:

Danish - "Det forstod jeg ikke"
=
UK with DK Grammar - "That understand i not"
UK with UK Grammar - "I didn't understand that"

Later
Danish - "Forstod du det?"
=
UK with DK Grammar - "Understand you that"
UK with UK Grammar - "Did you understand that?"

malu05

i still don't understand giz's obsession with legos lol

zsleek7

Can you imagine an entire legion of "meselfs" on your desk?

halfkorean

"because everyone seems to be smiling and having fun while working"

They make LEGO blocks, how do they not have fun.

LoganSix

The sad thing is, everyone that works at the Mega Blox building is an Asshat...

Chromeo

Screw your crappy Rolodex holders and business card binders. Thud speaks wisdom.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@Mooby: @SonOfMagicFact's MBP is falling apart. *grumbles*: Are you kidding, if I got one of these it would be a proudly displayed artifact on my desk!

Thud

I can't understand anything other than the words "very unique". Can we get some subtitles?

DeanOfAllTrades

@Mooby: perhaps, but it wont get lost or be destroyed if had it in your pocket when you cleaned them ^^

Thizizmyname

Or keep in a card case.

SonOfMagicFact's MBP is falling apart. *grumbles*

Those are tough buisiness cards to file in a Rolodex.

Or scan into a computer.

Mooby

Why is it some of us can't see the video? Xp with IE here and all I see is a little square with a dot in the center as a place holder for the video I assume.

PocketLint

@Uberdude328i: Firefox 3 FTW!

...although there is major suckage in having to switch back and forth between browsers (must keep IE 7 for business reasons).

ps61318

Video's busted...

Uberdude328i

So far from Jesus trip I've learned that LEGO:

1) Is cloning stormtroopers.
2) Has built a Deathstar.
3) Provides "security" for the entire area.
4) Has a Mr. Stevens that runs catering.

Honestly, I'm starting to get a little nervous.

92BuickLeSabre

@suburbancowboy: Try Firefox. Apparently there are problems with IE7.

jesusdiaz

Business opportunity right there. Lego, open a website where I can create a custom "me" business card with my name and info on it. M&M's did it. Moo does it. I would buy that!!!!

M.A.S.

I am seeing the Eddie Izzard dubbed video, but I don't even see a placeholder for the other video.

suburbancowboy

I want.

Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes

WIN!

RemmingtonShowdown

@GeekyNerdGuy: It's because they are made of figs that fall off the fig tree before they have time to fully mature (and are therefore useless for other common fig purposes such as fresh fig, dried fig, fig newton, or figgy pudding.)

92BuickLeSabre

Why are they called mini-figs? Is it because they're small compared to most everything else on Earth or are there big-fig Legos somewhere?

GeekyNerdGuy

@gusnyc.com: Yeh, seriously! It's like a meatspace Second Life! And it'd be a lot cooler than the real Second Life...

grendyll

jesus is having a legogasm for how many days now?

vinchbr

Why do I see Lindsy trying to get one made for herself now?

Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes

@GeekyNerdGuy:
Because they're smaller than the old head-and-shoulders maxi-figs. Way back when, people were just a stack of bricks, but then sometime in the 70's they came out with figure-toppers. You got a 2x2 brick with shoulders and a neck hole. There were a small assortment of heads that would fit into the neck hole, along with hairpieces or hats that would attach to a stud on the top of the head (they were all slot-mounted so you could rotate them forwards and backwards over the top of the head). Arms consisted of a series of round hinged pieces that were more suited to making an octopus than a human, and the hands were a ball-jointed wrist with a 1x1 round plate on the end. You can see what the heads and hairs/hats look like here.

@Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes:
She can, though at a minimum $2 per torso (plus whatever it costs to add the legs/head/hair) they'd get rather expensive if she plans to give them away. There's a guy named Tommy Armstrong who runs a website for brick engraving. Most LUG/LTC members just have stacked 1x8 brickbadges from him, but he offers minifig torso engraving as well.

Purple Dave

I hear they are making a life-size Verne Troyer mini-fig...

ps61318

@Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes: Heck, I'm making some for myself out of my old figs as soon as I get home!

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

I don't know why, but I really enjoy the LEGO/Eddie Izzard mashups people have been doing. I saw last night there's a mashup of the "Do you have a flag?" bit with LEGOs that I'll need to watch!

blitzkrieg999

@Purple Dave: I had no idea. Guess I should learn some Lego history. By the way, found this while looking for more examples.

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GeekyNerdGuy

Like personal "Miis" made of Lego you can carry with you. Thats svelte.

CutePuppyz

What amazes me is that all the lego staff are of a uniform height and have remarkably similar facial features. It must make production of the mini-figs really easy when all you have to alter is the text and the hairstyle.

ultim8fury

These are too cute! But I can't see having them as a business card unless i worked for LEGO and I have *no* idea how they'd fit my last name on it unless the make the font super tiny! Also, even if I worked there I doubt they'd let me use a flesh toned mini-figure, because blonde does look not so good on the yellow. AND before Purple Dave comes screaming at me, this is LEGO's *Official* reason as to why there are so few blonde wigs.

@GeekyNerdGuy:

Oh that is one the figures that used to come in the technic sets, they are very , I have a few of them, one that looks like he is Locutus.

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

Are they hiring? Seriously.

sansovino

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: As long as it had a tasteful, yet tantalizing top on, I think they would let you have it. Mine would require Austin Powers-esque chest hair, though, and a sinister goatee.

@ultim8fury: They also have a permanent smile on their faces. Perhaps it IS the happiest place on Earth.

Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes

Denmark, here I come! I can just imagine outfitting mine with Star Wars gear and setting it to battle with the co-worker I inevitably will have a problem with.

pearl

I think my P1i could cope with scanning the information off these business cards

ichi1

@GeekyNerdGuy:
LEGO history is a good thing...but you're not missing out on much with the maxi-figs. Seriously, the body from the shoulders down was just whatever you could build from basic bricks. Typically it'd just be a stack of 2x2 bricks (different color for the pants) with a 2x3 brick for the feet. And the large size would have made it a lot more costly to expand the range of availale headgear. In other words, no way we'd have Star Wars and Batman maxifigs.

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M:
I'd never actually heard that before, but it does make sense. Not a fan of the pink fleshtone myself, so I've borrowed someone else's solution of taking a yellow Sharpie marker to any affected Batman minifigs (not the ones I keep with the original sets, mind you...just the ones I use for display purposes). Truthfully, tan doesn't work so well for blonde in its own right. Yellow or the very rare (and discontinued) Light-Yellow would be more appropriate, but either would look several kinds of freaky on a yellow minifig. They already ran into that problem when they made the old Classic Space minifigs with yellow spacesuits (I can't find it anymore, but there's a great shot out there of one of them in a tattoo parlor with a black bar over his crotch).

Purple Dave

Is there a website or a store where I can customize my Lego mini-figs and have it look like me? I want to create my mini Lego self.

knottydon

@knottydon:
Yes.

Purple Dave

@Thud: No, no, no! Believe me! That'd be totally orsome!. I was simply being a cheeky monkey. ^_^

SonOfMagicFact's MBP is falling apart. *grumbles*

best.business.card.ever.

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