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Arrested Development Made of Legos

Each year at Chicago’s Brickworld event, adult fans of Legos come together to share and display their own Lego creations. At Brickworld 2011, designer Matt De Lanoy unveiled a specially designed and incredibly detailed Lego replica of everyone’s favorite cult-sitcom: Arrested Development. De Lanoy’s custom-built Arrested Development Lego set includes every member of the Bluth family and the model home they live in. It does the beloved series additional justice by offering a surprising level of detail and accuracy: Tobias is in full-on “blue himself” mode, GOB is riding a Segway with his black puppet Franklin, Lucille is clutching a...  read more

Insanely Complex Lego Device

This incredibly intricate Lego device, similar to a Rube Goldberg device (which performs a simple task in a complex way), creates an endless loop for miniature plastic soccer and basketballs. We can’t even imagine how many little Lego pieces are involved in this. Or how many little Lego men died in the construction. ’ Okay, that was lame. Apologies. Just check it out below:...  read more

Death Metal LEGOs

Everyone knows LEGOs are awesome, but this video shows just how hardcore LEGOs can be. Fueled by heavy metal, these little badass blocks of plastic are spreading anger, destruction and basically just raising hell in their own little LEGO world....  read more

The 2011 Best Picture Nominees Get Lego-ized

Every year after the Oscar nominees for Best Picture are announced, people flood the interwebs with their parodies of the films. This year, not only is there an incredible lineup competing for Best Picture, but there are also some incredible parodies. Our favorite so far comes from Alex Eylar (via Defamer). Alex has melded his love of film with his love of Legos, and the result are hilarious recreations of some of the most intense scenes in each of 2010’s best-picture contenders (notice the small yellow arm in third image). Below are our favorites. For more Lego parodies, visit Eylar’s...  read more

The 40 Best Robots of All Time (Fictional and Real)

Yesterday, the word "robot" celebrated its 90th anniversary, first appearing in Karel Capek's play R.U.R.. What better way to toast the machines than with a list of our favorite robots—past, present, future; real, fictional and Daft Punk.  read more

The Royal Tennenbaums and 19 More of Our Favorite Pop-Cultural Legos

In 2008, Lego designer and kindergarten teacher Dave Kaleta posted an inspired creation to MocPages, a Lego design sharing site: the iconic characters of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, in teeny-tiny plastic lego form. An inexplicable two years later, his intricate set (including Margot Tenenbaum’s wooden finger and Richie Tenenbaum’s bird-handling right-hand glove) has been picked up and highlighted all over the internet, in places such as Hipster Runoff and Craziest Gadgets, drawing attention to Kaleta’s work and the whole genre of character Legos....  read more

Thanks to Internet, Legos meet album covers

This just in: Legos are still awesome. The Lego Miniman is turning 30, and what better reason to celebrate? Sure, people have done cool things with Legos before now. Very cool things. But before reading this news item, you probably had no idea that denizens of teh intrawebz would create... ...  read more