Hasta La Gadget!

I am a sucker for cool LEGO projects. If I see one, you bet I will share. I will share even if I don’t know the show or what it is about. Case in point is this LEGO Downton Abbey build that has recently turned up. All I know about that show I learned while watching Iron Man 3.

I watched the movie Emma in the theater with my wife years and years ago. I still haven’t recovered and shun anything that looks remotely English and romantic. The closest I want to come to an English period costume drama is Game of Thrones.

Regardless, this LEGO Downton Abbey build by Eric Stevens looks pretty neat. The builder of the LEGO Abbey even made the characters from the show in minifig form.

This doesn’t look to be one of the more complex LEGO projects we have seen, though the minifigs look like they required a lot of work. I wonder how long it took him to build the Abbey and the minifigs.

[via Mashable via Nerd Approved]

That LEGO Simpsons set we told you about the other day? It is official. LEGO has teamed with Twentieth Century Fox to release this bad boy and now we have more details.

The main thing to take away here is this. Start saving your money now. The first Simpsons LEGO set will be available on Feb. 1st for $199 from LEGO brand retail stores and of course LEGO.com. Plus there will be more LEGO minifigures coming in May – 16 in all. But that’s not all. FOX will be airing a special LEGO episode of The Simpsons in May as well, which will have the Springfield residents in LEGO form.

Bart’s room.

The living room.

The garage.

A view from above.

So start saving your money because LEGO Homer and the gang are on their way. Shut up Flanders!

If you are a fan of both LEGO and The Simpsons, here is some news that will make you say “Ay Caramba!”. You have been waiting for a Simpsons LEGO set for a long long time and one is finally coming. Almost. The first set has surfaced online and it looks pretty sweet.

This Simpsons House set (LEGO #71006) was uncovered by Eurobricks user Carlos S. We may not have any additional details, but a picture is worth a thousand bricks words. We know that it has 2,523 pieces and comes with six minifigs. So you get the Simpsons family plus Flanders. Their pink car is parked in the garage, Bart’s got a skateboard, and it even looks like Maggie might be packing an AK-47.

A release date and pricing is unknown, but it’ll be worth whatever it sells for. Start saving your money now.

[via Gizmodo]

Behold the very first of Lego Simpsons sets! Or at least, that’s Eurobricks user Carlos S claims. There are no details about it except what we can see on this photo of alleged box: 2523 pieces, six minifigs including the full Family plus Flanders. It looks really fantastic and detailed and—apparently—it even opens.

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A lot of people grew up with LEGO. From putting sports cars together to building entire cities, minifigs and big imaginations took center stage during play time.

Tapping into this, artist Dan Shearn has created this fun gallery featuring some of the most iconic characters and movie personalities from the eighties, done up in LEGO minifig style.

Dan describes the project as follows:

This is a personal project based on one of my favourite childhood toys, and now my sons favourite as well, Lego. I love the iconic nature of the mini figure it has endured decades and is now a design icon in its own right. I grew up in the 80′s and played with lego mostly in the 80′s so i decided it would be fun to produce 80 mini figures based on my favourite 80′s icons.

From Rocky to Judge Dredd to the Blues Brothers, it looks like Dan made sure to include some of the most notable characters from that decade. Check out the gallery below for more.

[via The Awesomer]