lego technic
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Lego’s Latest Technic Set Will Let You Move Heaven and Earth
Lego’s Technic line of mechanical construction sets mostly sticks to vehicles—lots of cars, trucks, bikes, even the occasional plane. But while it has dipped into the world of science and space exploration before, its latest addition is one of its best ideas outside of its typical wheelhouse. Within the wheelhouse too, given the spinny nature…
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The LEGO McLaren Formula One Car Is a Fantastic, Fiddly Build That Drove Me Crazy
The LEGO McLaren is a brilliant build, but it comes with some surprisingly fiddly sections that will drive you absolutely crazy.
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12 Fantastically Complex and Mostly Pointless Lego Great Ball Contraptions
There’s a peculiar subset of Lego fan that doesn’t spend their time building perfect replicas of iconic cars or elaborate brick-built model railroads. They instead create Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs, for short: complicated contraptions that do nothing more than move tiny balls from area to another.
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In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, There Are Still Cool Toys
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular roundup of all things good, plastic, and distressingly expensive on the internet lately. This week: McFarlane wades into the world of 40K, Figuarts updates its Wonder Woman figure just in time for 1984, and Lego drops another extremely fancy Technic sportscar. Check it out!