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Lego R2-D2 Minifig Mod Adds Sound And Light

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder via FBTB via Brothers Brick]

Knitted Lego Minifig Will Replace My Teddy Bear

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Oh Lego Minifig, you were perfect in your plastic symmetry and Mona Lisa smile before. But now that you’ve been knitted, I just want to hug you. Unfortunately, you can’t buy this right away. You’ll have to do it yourself:

Some Assembly Required is a pattern that will enable you to make an adorable toy that can be taken apart and put together again. The head, torso, and legs are independent pieces, so you could make multiple pieces in different colours and they would be interchangeable.

I’ve included a tutorial on boxes and edges so you can make nice crisp corners. The tutorial isn’t necessary to make the toy, but it may be helpful.

OK, people from Etsy, I’m too lazy. Go knit! [Fight Knitting Club—thanks Kimberly]

Star Wars Lego Minifig USB Flash Memory Keyrings

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:30:00 +0000

The Force is so strong in these Star Wars Lego Minifig flash memory keyrings that it can actually give Lego Yoda a three-stud stiffy. That’s a D17 in real world penis sizes.

You can get this reconverted original Lego minifigs in 2GB and 4GB sizes, for $US60 and $US70 respectively, both running at USB 2.0 speeds. [Etsy via ChipChick]

All the Lego Star Wars Minifigs in History

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:30:00 +0000

If you liked our exclusive Lego minifig graphic timeline and you are a Star Wars fan, you will love this gallery with all the Lego Star Wars minifigs manufactured since 1999.

These minifigs are part of the limited edition poster that Lego has published as part of their 10th anniversary celebration of Lego Star Wars, one of their most successful Lego universe. Unfortunately, the poster is not longer available. Fortunately, Lego is going to publish a 10th anniversary book which will be available for everyone.

Lego Battleship Yamato Is Biggest Lego Ship Ever

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:10:06 +0000

Like its real counterpart, this Battleship Yamato is the biggest Lego ship ever constructed. At 6.7m long, it took 6 years and 4 months to complete by one of our Lego contest winners. [Updated]

Lego Watchmen Minifigs Are Not Official but They Are Officially Amazing

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:40:00 +0000

Watchmen, you know you have made it when you got yourselves re-imagined as Lego minifigs. Too bad Dr Manhattan is wearing his speedo instead of flashing his five-stud-long peepee. [Brothers Brick, Watchmen@io9's w/spoilers]

Short Round and Sean Connery’s Papa Jones are My New Favourite Lego Minifigs

John Mahoney — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:25:05 +0000

The new Indiana Jones Lego sets are awesome. Not only do they adorably recreate several classic scenes from the three non-retarded Indy flicks, they’ve evolved the minifig to new heights: Short Round heights.

That’s Short Round there on the right in the top photo, next to the beefy Egyptian Luftwaffe Nazi that gets diced up by the propellers at the end of Raiders.

And here’s Connery, in the back of the biplane, before haplessly shredding the rudder with his machine gun. Oh Dad.

You can recreate all of those scenes, along with the heart-removal from Temple of Doom (KALI-MA), the Venice Canal chase with the fez-wearing Brotherhood of Grail protectors, and the old-timey Shanghai car chase from the beginning of Temple of Doom, where you can find the aforementioned Short Round (note the half-length legs).

All of them are being released in August, and they are 100% cooler than Lego Star Wars. [Toy Fair 2009]

Lego Snowman Has All His Naughty Bricks Frozen Too

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:40:00 +0000

We have seen the Lego Minifig in many places, from playing on the beach to getting drunk pretending to be human. We never saw him frozen. [Brothers Brick]

Minifig Fashion Statement, The T-Shirt

Mark Wilson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:40:00 +0000

If you think it’s difficult to get dressed in the morning, just imagine the anatomically induced wardrobe complications for a LEGO minifig.

This shirt, Identity Crisis, is available in its first printing for $IS16. It’s not officially licensed or anything, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume that much of Giz’s readership has already donated their fair share to the fine folks at the LEGO Group. [Fuzzy Ink via Geekologie]

Lego Pole Dancer Actually Dances, Turns On Ogres Like Me

Jesus Diaz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:40:12 +0000

Lego Middle Earth brewery? Check. Lego beer, check. Drunk Lego knights and peasants, check (me included). Glowing Lego ogres, check. Half naked Lego pole dancer that actually moves her booty around? ASFFGGAGADGAFGDH!!!

Gizmodo reader Andrew sent us pictures of his Lego brewery in the middle of a river. It’s quite beautiful on its own, but really, after coming from a long nightout in Madrid with one too many whiskeys, what makes this a winner is the naughty naughty motorised minifig pole dancer. Time to get the Mindstorm NXT special set out. [Classic Castle]