Hasta La Gadget!

How do you keep track of your camera’s lens cap when you’re shooting? Do you carefully put it back in your camera bag for safe keeping, or, like the rest of us, just cram it into the nearest pocket where it’s occasionally forgotten and lost? Flickr user RawSniper1 does neither thanks to a brilliant lens cap holder hack using nothing but a couple of Lego pieces. More »

This kid is Luka Apps, a 7-year-old kid from Great Britain. Luka got some money this Christmas, which he decided to spend in a shiny Lego Ninjago Ultra Sonic Raider set. Unfortunately, Luka lost one of his new favorite Lego minifigs on a shopping trip with his dad, which made him very sad. But instead of assuming his loss, he wrote to Lego headquarters: More »

For those of you who enjoy the Metal Gear franchise, you might be familiar with a little mech that goes by the name of REX. Well, LEGO builder Rags naRock is also quite enamored of the giant robot, and decided to build himself a LEGO-fied version.

But this isn’t any ordinary little LEGO build. This epic creation has articulating joints, and wheels to move it along the ground. This incredibly detailed version of the bipedal tank has every little detail you’d expect, other than an actual nuclear power source and real weapons. I don’t think LEGO is offering those yet – not even in their Technic kits.

You can see how the different components of this mammoth model move in the video clip below:

While it might not look like it, it cost Rags naRock over $900 in LEGO bricks to assemble this mammoth beast. And if you want to build your own, you can grab the LEGO Digital Designer files here. I ran the parts list through BrickStore myself, and it looks like the bricks alone cost about $918.40(USD), plus the many hours of labor it will take to assemble this beast.

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The prophesied Mayan apocalypse didn’t happen. Mostly because there was no such prophecy. But on the off chance that it did happen, Flickr user Matt Armstrong aka monsterbrick made these post-apocalyptic war horses out of LEGO. The fact that he was able to make them even though he could be dead makes them even more impressive.

Matt made nine horses for hell’s babies to play with, each of them with a design in accordance to their name:

Ride to Matt’s Flickr page for more pictures. These should be Easter Egg items in the next Darksiders.

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Remember the epic shootout sequence on Fhloston Paradise in The Fifth Element? Well, this is it, lovingly recreated in LEGO by builder Matt De Lonoy. Man, I love this movie. Where else are you going to find Milla Jovovich running around half naked with orange hair saying Leeloo Dallas Multipass?

But I digress. The detail on this LEGO diorama is pretty amazing. It looks like he got all of the action scenes from this locale dead on.

I love that he used parts from the LEGO Alien Conquest sets, since the aliens look so much like Mangalores from the movie.

Seriously, what geek doesn’t love this movie? I bet most of you will go watch it again after reading this. I know that’s what I’m doing. And hit the link to check out more images of this awesome LEGO build.

[via Geekologie]