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Don’t have $300 to spend on Parrot’s AR Drone that you’ll most likely crash into a wall five minutes after take off? Consider Brando’s minuscule alternative. You’ll be sacrificing onboard video cameras and the ability to pilot it with your iPhone, but you’ll be saving yourself $250. More »

The advent of 3D printing is most certainly upon us, and its helped injection molding make the crucial transition from dated tech to a retro novelty. The Roto-a-Matic has recently gone live in toy maker Rotofugi’s store in Chicago, and will create a polyethylene plastic figurine for you in under a minute, provided you feed it a token. Rotofugi and product design company Squibbles INK have given the vintage Mold-a-Rama vending machine a new lease of life, and now they are looking for artists to contribute designs for future molds. Currently a one-eyed dragon designed by sculptor Tim Biskup is on offer for Chicago-based hipsters, but for the wind-averse, a token-to-toy video demo resides beyond the fold.

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First they came for our Buckyballs. Now, or pretty-much-exact-same Zen Magnets are in Uncle Sam’s crosshairs, with a lawsuit from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to boot them off store shelves. The War on Toy Magnets has begun. More »

I think that most of us probably wanted to live in a tree house at some point when we were growing up. I know when I was a kid I wanted to live in a giant redwood like an Ewok so badly that I could barely stand it. A couple LEGO builders named Sean and Steph Mayo (aka Siercon and Coral) have designed what they called the Faerie Forest out of LEGO, and it reminds me of that forest on Endor that I dreamt of years ago.

The tall, thin trees with the LEGO homes around their trunks are very cool. When you look at the first image of the entire scene from a distance, it’s very hard to tell all the intricate work that went into the design.

Once you look at the close-up images and see how much work was put into each of the tree houses and the river, it’s even more impressive.

The scene is filled with tiny fruit trees, gardens, and lots of little people living out their Minifig lives. I wonder how long it took the duo to build this enormous LEGO diorama.

[via The Brothers Brick]