Master Lego builder James Pegrum chronicled over 4,000 years of British history, beginning with the building of Stonehenge to Maggie Thatcher’s first day at 10 Downing Street, all with Lego. From Boudicca to Guy Fawkes, these are iconic moments in the history of Britain as only Lego could show them.
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We’ve shared LEGO Transformers made by New York-based artist Baron von Brunk before
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Not too long ago, a couple of MIT scientists asked themselves a lofty question: "Can you 3-D print an airplane?" It didn’t take long for them to realize that 3D printing anything on that scale was impractical. But 3D-printing thousands of small, Lego-like building blocks? That could work.
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They said it couldn’t be done. Well, it happened. Sorta. For the rock bottom price of $250 this custom-made Breaking Bad Lego set could be yours! The set comes with over 500 bricks and three minifigs! Seriously, it doesn’t get much better than a super-cute Lego meth lab.
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Why buy when you can rent, especially if you don’t have much to spare?
This is true for houses, DVDs, even luxury bags – and now it’s true for LEGO. Sets range in price from a couple of bucks to hundreds of dollars, so if you’re the type who builds a lot but then gets bored with the set after a while, then you might want to consider Pleygo.
Pleygo is a LEGO rental service so you can build to your heart’s content. Think of it as a Netflix-like service for LEGO sets, in case you’re having difficulty understanding the concept.
There are three rental subscription tiers: Fan, Super Fan, and Mega Fan. They go for $15, $25, and $39 a month, respectively. You can get small to medium sets under Fan (up to 250 pieces), large sets (up to 500 pieces) under Super Fan, and up to huge sets (up to 5400 pieces) in the Mega Fan tier. Once you’re all paid up, Pleygo will send your first set to play with.
When you’re done with it, just sent it back to them and they’ll send you another one to have some fun with. They offer free shipping and they don’t charge for lost pieces. And if you’re worried about dirty LEGO blocks, then you’ll be pleased to know that they clean and sanitize the sets in between uses.
You can sign up for Pleygo here, and check out all of their available sets here.
[via Geekologie via Oh Gizmo!]
One of the most devious enemies in the DC Comics universe, or even in the history of comics, would be the Joker. A simple premise, really, an ordinary person who has gone insane, and loves death and destruction for the sake of it without any reason, only to be stopped by the Batman time and again, is someone whom we can identify with. After all, you can never quite tell just when you are going to snap, are you? Hence, instead of living without any direction in life, you might want to have a constant reminder each morning for you to maintain your sanity, and you can do so with the $29.99 LEGO Joker Minifigure Clock.
Being an officially licensed DC Comics collectible, the $29.99 LEGO Joker Minifigure Clock will come in the classic Joker look, although this time around, he will not pull any kind of deadly pranks on you, but rather, there is a large and friendly digital clock which is located right in the minifig’s stomach so that you can not only keep to the time each morning, but also acts as an alarm for other moments in your live. The arms and legs can be posed, allowing the minifig to sit or stand, all 8” of it.
[ LEGO Joker Minifigure Clock copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
It’s a sordid tale of greed, power and Lego. Last Monday, Thomas Langenbach, a successful tech executive (and Lego fanboy) struck a deal with prosecutors and pled no contest to burgling tens of thousands of dollars worth of bricks and hiding them in his $2 million dollar home.
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Behold the evil Segacon “Gearhead” and his minions Supersonic and Knucklepunch. Baron Von Brunk created these awesome LEGO Transformers from scratch and they look amazing.
When not in robot mode, this guy transforms into a SEGA Game Gear handheld, and even has two Sonic games inside (Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Blast).
Gearhead has battery blaster rockets attached to the shoulders and a shotgun cannon powered by Chaos Emeralds. He fully transforms without having to remove parts and converts back and forth easily.
The two minions are pretty awesome too. At first glance you might think that he used an actual Game Gear to make this, but these it’s all LEGO with some custom labels attached. Amazing work, Baron!
Flickr member/playboy/billionaire Jonas aka Legopard made this funny alternate take on Batman and his secret headquarters. As with many LEGO builds, Legopard’s Steampunk Batcave rewards those who give it a closer look. The wooden Tumbler is hilarious.
Then there’s sir Bruce Wayne, with his tophat, cane and cape. Like a pimp.
Build a steam-powered computer and head to Legopard’s Flickr to see high-res versions of the images.
[via The Brothers Brick]
Have you heard of Chris McVeigh before? Well, he happens to be an author, illustrator, and photographer, all rolled into one, and even better is his latest effort that will see famous characters from the universes of Star Wars, Transformers, and Futurama being brought to life with the help of LEGO – which would once again underline the unique manner where such building blocks that used to remain under the domain of kids’ toys being used in such a creative way, opening up new worlds of possibilities along the way.
McVeigh used the LEGO.com Digital Designer, which is a free consumer CAD tool that enables him to bring his pieces to life. According to McVeigh, he gained inspiration to work in this direction after a friend decided to work on 4×6 marker sketches of popular characters. After mulling over the possibilities, McVeigh himself sketched Wolverine using nothing but LEGO pieces instead of a pen. How else would you make use of LEGO pieces in an artistic manner, and do you think that such attempts will eventually end up in a museum of modern art somewhere around the world?
LEGO Bricks Used To “Draw” Popular Characters original content from Ubergizmo. 
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