Apr 10
Titanfall has earned more than its fair share of fans, one of whom has recreated the game’s EVA-8 Shotgun entirely out of LEGOs. The shotgun is incredibly similar to the … Continue reading
Apr 10
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Apr 04
If you want to play LEGO Game of Thrones, you wish or you die. Nah, you go to Citizen Brick. The company that’s harvesting the fruits of LEGO’s refusal to create an adult line of toys has a series of minifigs with the awesomely bad title Dragon Sword Fighter Force. The familiarity is strong with this Force.
Heavily inspired by the characters from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO’s adaptation of said literature, the minifigs come in four separate packs with three toys each or as one big bundle of 12 toys. That’s not all – if you buy all 12 minifigs at once, you get a bonus minifig that looks like Mr. Martin himself. Though to be fair there are millions of men who look like Sir Typesalot.
Betray your browser and head to Citizen Brick to purchase the Ga– Dragon Sword Fighter Force minifigs. Each three-pack costs $55 (USD). The 12-pack bundle won’t save you any money because it costs $220, but at least it’ll come with Sir Types A.A. Lot.
[via GeekAlerts]
Mar 30
Love music and LEGO? Then you’ll wish you did what LEGO-building extraordinaire Adly Syairi Ramly did with his set of blocks and twenty famous bands that you probably know by name and face: immortalize them using nothing but LEGO bricks.
You can check out the rest of them in the gallery below. Adly’s work includes well-known musical acts from the Beastie Boys to the Beatles. Personally, the one he did for The Smiths is my favorite. Which is yours?
[via LikeCool]
Mar 29
LEGO Metroid Concept: Mother Brick
Posted in: Today's ChiliProposals for LEGO video game sets haven’t met much success, but that’s not going to stop fans from hoping. One of the newest proposals on Cuusoo is for a Metroid set. It was submitted by lizardman, who kept his proposal simple: a Super Metroid-themed set featuring Samus Aran, her arch-nemesis Ridley and her gunship.
Ridley is undoubtedly the star of the set, being much larger than a minifig – to reflect how he and Samus matched up size-wise in most Metroid games – and fully poseable. Lizardman also said that the gunship will have a detailed interior. Sadly he forgot to include a spare head for Samus with her helmet off.
Roll up into a ball and vote for lizardman’s Metroid set on Cuusoo.
[via GoNintendo]
Mar 28
If you work in HR and you start receiving LEGOs with resumes, blame – or thank – Leah aka Pastlightspeed. The Redditor and aspiring intern wanted to stand out to prospective employers, so she made a LEGO version of herself along with matching packaging and a pamphlet. I guess she’ll be known as LEGO Leah wherever she gets hired.
It’s not in these pictures, but Leah said she also wrote assembly instructions that also highlighted her skills.
Want to outdo Leah? Try submitting a life-sized 3D printed statue of yourself. Or try using a Raspberry Pi to make a gadget that reads your application out loud in seven languages. Or try sending a first-person virtual reality game that simulates your typical day at work. Don’t forget to send an Oculus Rift dev kit as well so your future employer can play the game. Speaking of which, you can also try to get bought by Facebook. That should get people’s attention.
[via Reddit]
Mar 27
LEGO Unveils Simpsons Minifigs
Posted in: Today's ChiliSimpsons fans will be happy with this news. LEGO just announced this line of LEGO Simpsons minifigs which will release on May 4th to coincide with a special Simpsons LEGO episode on FOX.
They are $4 each. All of your favorites are here with their accessories. They look pretty awesome, with some super detail. Sadly, you can’t get the set as a whole. The figures will come blind-bagged, meaning that you don’t know who you’re getting. I hope I get Itchy and Scratchy so I can make my own demented cartoons.
I’ll probably end up getting Millhouse or Ralph Wiggum and then since I’m too cheap that will be it. Oh well. Wait, there’s no Comic Book Guy?
[via Geekologie]
Mar 26
Love LEGO? What about Kit Kat bars? If you love both, you’ll be happy to learn that the marketing team for Nestlé’s Kit Kat candy bar brand has created a custom LEGO set. That’s right, your favorite candy and your favorite toy are now one. All is right with the world.
This set lets users build Kit Kat bars, but that is not all. They hid extra minifigs inside the bars, and even included a bunch of extra designs that they came up with using the same pieces. In other words, it is just like a real LEGO set. And it comes in an official-looking box too.
Unfortunately, the set isn’t available in stores, and was just created as a promotional stunt for the brand.
[The Brick Fan via Fanboy via Neatorama]
Mar 26
Here you have them: The rumored Lego Simpsons minifigs in all their glory! 16 of them, including Itchy and Scratchy with deadly weapons! Even the Simpsons themselves look better than the ones in the house set,
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Mar 19
I think the greatest thing to happen in the LEGO realm is the Cuusoo site where people can submit their own LEGO designs and if those designs get enough votes, they can become official building kits. This is how we ended up with the awesome Back to the Future and Ghostbusters LEGO sets.
We know that LEGO has cleared any legal hurdles to making Doctor Who kits, and what may well be the coolest kit we have seen has turned up on Cuusoo and needs your votes to go into production.
The kit was designed by a man named Andrew Clark and he did a great job. The set includes a TARDIS and control room, K9, and a Dalek. The designer has also proposed a number of minifigs, including two doctors, two companions, a weeping angel and a cyberman.
The project needs 10,000 votes for consideration. Go vote now!
[via Nerd Approved]
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