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Lego Papercraft Crossover Possible With Clever Muji Hole-Puncher

Jack Loftus — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

The Muji hole-punch, with its strategically placed punchers, takes Lego blocks, combines them with paper and makes a whole mess of adorableness. Import from Japan for literally minutes of fun. [Muji via Highs Nobiety via MAKE via Boing Boing]

Knocking Down 117 Toys Balanced On Single Lego Brick

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

How can you make 117 toys stand balanced over one single 4×2 Lego brick? I don’t know, but artist Walter Wick has the answer and he’s made this really cute video about it. [Boing Boing]

Do Lego Constructions Have A Soul?

Jesus Diaz — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:11:28 +0000

“When you take apart a Lego house and mix the pieces into the bin, where does the house go?” Thank you for another sleepless night. [XKCD]

Magic Lego Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:00 +0000

The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. This amorphous Lego volume can magically throw three different object shadows thanks to a program called Shadow Art. See it in action here.

According to developers Niloy J. Mitra and Mark Pauly, Shadow Art is a tool to create abstract sculptures that can cast three different shadows, depending on the angle they are oriented against the light source. These sculptures can be built in the physical world with any material, not only Lego, as well as used in 3D-rendering programs to achieve the same effect. [Shadow Art via bldgblog]

Here Be Lego Dragons

Jack Loftus — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Dragons existed? Well, no, not unless their bones were made of Lego.

Which would have been equally cool, right?! I mean, we discover dragons exist, and then we learn that their magical bones are made from one of the world’s most beloved customisable creations? Nerdgasm, not to mention an epic overhaul of the palaeontology field as we know it.

But sadly, no, this is just the work of Flickr user Necromancer7, who seems to have a completely unsurprising gift for creating dead things that live again in Lego form. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]

The Perfect Lego NES Only Plays Bricked Tetris

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000

This full scale Lego NES reproduction is exactly like the original, complete with video and audio connectors, gamepads with flexible cables made out of solid pieces, pushable buttons, and a working front-loading mechanism to insert the included Tetris cartridge.

Confession: I always thought Mario was pixelated because he was made of Lego bricks himself. [MOCOlympics via Brothers Brick]

The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built

Jesus Diaz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:40:53 +0000

If you have $US3700 handy, you can buy this 180cm tall, 50kg 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan and 175 hours to build over 16 days.

You don’t have to feel like a dorky geek for buying it, because the money will go to charity. So you can feel like a good-hearted dorky geek.

The auction lasts till November 1, and the money will go to the Ronald McDonald foundation in Netherlands, “a dutch organisation that arranges proper housing for relatives of hospitalised children, in the vicinity of clinics”. [eBay via Brothers Brick]

Assault The Lego Wedding Castle, Save The Princess, Save The World

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:20:00 +0000

Showing again that Lego dorks can be loved to the point of marriage, reader Clint Cox has sent his cool Lego wedding cake, in which a heroic Lego minifig assaults the castle to rescue the princess from the eeeviiiil dragon:

Lego Wedding Cake Gallery

Wanted to share this … I am an avid (daily) Gizmodo reader (commenter GarouDiams).

I have played with Legos since I was a little kid. When my wife gave me free reign over my groom’s cake, I knew what I wanted… A Lego castle cake. I still have the manuals and the pieces for the Kings Castle (6080) and Knight’s Castle (6073). I recently got the new King’s Castle Siege (7094), which set the mental gears turning. After a trip to the Lego store in Houston to pick up some individual bricks, I turned over some of my pieces and a sketch of what I wanted: a tiered chocolate cake with chocolate / vanilla icing and an epic battle for the life of an ill-fated bride.

The cake was make from scratch by a friend of the family.

I’m a little disappointed it’s not the classic Lego Yellow Castle, but congratulations to both of you, Clint. Photography by Whitney Lee Photography of Austin, TX

Lego Pop-Up Building Makes My Head Pop Up Too

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:20:00 +0000

Andrew—from The Brothers Brick—says that this Lego Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple leaves him speechless. I have to admit that I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the whole building popping up from a closed box. Magic.

Built with 4500 bricks and weighing almost four kilograms, the Lego Kinkaku-ji Buddhist pop-up temple is truly a marvel of Lego engineering. That’s why these bricks will never cease to fill me with absolute wonderment. [Talapz via Brothers Brick]

The Lego House Is Dead. Long Live The Lego Kitchen!

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:40:00 +0000

I was sad that the Lego house was finally destroyed, but happy to know that its spirit lives in this Lego kitchen, a Scandinavian clusterf—k made with a Swedish IKEA kitchen island and more than 20,000 pieces of Lego.

It may be that I really miss my Lego Timer, but I wouldn’t mind to have this at all. So freaky funky colourful. [Flickr via The Cool Hunter via uuh.. internet]