This morning Lego confirmed a special Simpsons series will launch in 2014. The announcement has already sparked some controversy from certain members of the Lego fan community. Most complaints concern the "age-appropriateness" of The Simpsons, to which the world responds with "Eat my shorts!"
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The latest Lego Mindstorms set is totally mind-blowing. You can command 5 different model robots with WiFi, bluetooth or smartphone. The programming capabilities are endless. We’ve reached out to Lego, but so far no official statement on whether the EV3 comes preprogrammed to obey Asimov’s Laws of Robotics.
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Rejoice, for today, the Lego Back to the Future set has officially gone on sale. For $35, you can get your very own DeLorean time machine along with minifigs of Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Great Scott!
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This is so fun. Amazing Lego artist Nick Desimone recreated famous movies and TV shows using Lego bricks. The minimalist style of his work will sometimes make you second guess yourself but Desimone’s art is such a perfect imagination of the movies that you’ll eventually see what he wants you to see.
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Russian Lego fan Egor Karshiev recently won the Lego Co-Creation Challenge, ‘You Design it, We Make it’. His prize? Lego
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Even if you haven’t seen one in person, you’re probably at least familiar with the concept of a scratch-off world map—it hangs on the wall, you scratch off each country as you visit it, etc. But Lego Cuusoo user TPNK came up with a brilliant, far more tactile version made entirely out of—you guessed it—Lego pieces.
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That’s the premise of Crawler Town, an entire town mounted in a gigantic platform that looks pretty much like an enormous version of NASA’s crawler
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Kinja user David Pickett claims the Spider-man vs Doctor Ock short below is technically one of the best Lego stop-motion animations ever, probably tied with the one above—Star Wars: The Han Solo Affair. But there are many more, including the ones in our old Lego animation contest. What’s your favorite Lego stop-motion?
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The space shuttle Enterprise, has a new baby brother. A fully-detailed, 1/35th scale replica of the prototype orbiter. Today, Ed Diment, Lego "Master Builder," unveiled his latest model at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. It’s on display this weekend ONLY, so get off your ass and check it out!
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As the world collectively recovers from the global pandemic that will forever be known as "Royal Baby Fever," many are wondering what to do with the empty, gaping hole left in their lives. Fortunately, Lego is here to help us pick up the pieces.
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