LEGO Ideas (formerly Cuusoo) user ‘ysomt’ was inspired by the Avengers film to realise the Helicarrier in LEGO form.
At 217 x 115 cm and using nearly 23,0000 bricks this beast of a model is fantastic, if a little impractical to compile as a set.
Harrumph.
There’s plenty more pictures on the project page.
Two stills from the upcoming (May 4th) LEGO-themed 550th episode of The Simpsons entitled Brick Like Me.
Unofficial Game Of Thrones minifigs (branded as ‘Dragon Sword Fighter Force’ for copyright reasons)
€160 for a set of 12 (with inspired bonus ‘Sir Typesalot’) from Citizen Brick.
Related GoT Minifiggery : Game Of Bricks and Throne Of Bricks
The LEGO CUUSOO site seems to simply your childhood fever dreams made real.
This set from Sam Gras is a perfect example. Straight out of the Batman ’66 TV series, it brings back memories of Saturday morning TV and falling in love with the Batmobile for the first time.
This simply needs to be in Christmas stockings this year.
With the opening of the the Lego Movie this weekend, Bloomberg describes Lego as “the Apple of toy companies — innovative, fiercely protective of its values and hugely successful”.
By 2019, there will be more Lego people than actual people on earth.
Snowy scenes from The Empire Strikes Back recreated using LEGO minifigs and models, baking soda and forced perspective by Finnish photographer Vesa Lehtimäki who started off in 2009 creting dioramas to document his childrens’ toys then turned it into a full scale ongoing art project.
Photographer Brings Movies to Life With Lego and Baking Powder (Mashable)
Previously: Lego On Hoth
LEGO announced yesterday that Brent Waller’s Ghostbusters Cuusoo suggestion is to become a reality.
Watch to the end for other possible contenders.
Melbourne based Steve Sammartino sent out a single tweet:
Anyone interested in investing $500-$1000 in a project which is awesome & a world first tweet me. Need about 20 participants… #startup
— Steve Sammartino (@sammartino) February 29, 2012
He ended up with a 500,000+ piece air powered LEGO roadster built by 20 year old Raul Oaida from Romania.
It seems a little too good to be true, but I’m wishing with all my heart that it is.
There’s more about the project on Super Awesome Micro Project.
Alice Finch, who has previously built a massive LEGO Hogwarts, teamed up with David Frank to build a giant model of Rivendell from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Over 200,000 were used to create the sprawling diorama.
They’ve plenty more photos on Flickr.
A Star Wars LEGO Millennium Falcon cake which won a silver award in the novelty carved cake category at the Galway Bake Fest 2013 in aid of ACT for Meningitis.
Vinny Coyne writes:
My mum made this awesome cake…