All Blog Posts Tagged 'lego' (31)

Though this amazing LEGO Batcave, made of 20,000 parts, was first unveiled at Emerald City Comicon in March of 2012, it was only four days ago that it was written about on The Brothers Brick, a blog for adult fans of LEGO. (The project has since gone viral.) Created by Carlyle…

Leave it to LEGO to kick off the Halloween season with a fun and spooky statue! In their first-ever-all-night building event, LEGO got New Orleans' local residents to work together with LEGO Master Builders to create Lord Vampyre, a 10-foot tall vampire sculpture made of 150,000 bricks. Set against the backdrop of Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Lord…

Team USA gymnast McKayla Maroney recently became a huge Internet meme when she was caught on camera with a sour-looking smirk on her face after being awarded the silver metal in the women's vault final. There's now even a Tumblr blog called McKayla is Not Impressed where one can check out some hilarious photos of…

Though the Lego Colosseum still stands as the most impressive Lego creation we've ever seen, this Lego Olympic Stadium is right up there. Made entirely out of Lego bricks and minifigures, this London Olympic Stadium-inspired creation took four people two…

Can't get enough of 3D street art? One of our favorite art crews, Planet Streetpainting, was recently commissioned by Warner Bros. to create one that would help generate buzz for their upcoming video game…

Wow, the level of detail in this is amazing! Certified Lego builder Ryan McNaught has created the world's first Lego Colosseum. Using 200,000 Lego bricks, the model is presented in cross-section with half in its present day ruined form and half as it was when Rome's original Colosseum was built, circa 80 AD. Made for the University of Sydney, it's currently on view at…

Imagine walking outside your door and seeing this! Who wouldn't rub their eyes in disbelief? A life-sized LEGO forest has sprung up in the Australian outback, in a small, isolated mining city called Broken Hill. Residents woke up to a surprise as they witnessed 15 13-foot tall pine trees and 15 flower sets "growing" on their barren red soil. (Back in April, a similar LEGO forest delighted tourists…

While artist Mike Doyle's spooky Victorian LEGO house will go down in the books as one of the coolest LEGO creations we've ever seen, we're pretty sure we'd never be able to make something even remotely close. Well, now we don't have to. Enter the first official LEGO Haunted House! This…

How fun! To celebrate the upcoming London 2012 Olympics, LEGO will be releasing a new set of minifigures! The Great Britain Olympic team has been immortalized with their own figures which include a brawny boxer, a stealth swimmer, relay runner, judo fighter, tactical tennis player, flexible gymnast, wondrous weightlifter, horseback rider and agile archer. Each comes with a gold medal and…

Visit South Korea right now and you'll be able to see the tallest LEGO structure in the world! The 105-foot tower was constructed at Seoul's Olympic Stadium, to mark the 80th birthday of the Danish company. It took 4,000 children 5 days to build the tower with the help of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark who had the honor of placing the final brick. If you can believe it, half a million bricks were used. (Just looking at it makes me feel…

After we wrote about Valentino Fiadini's mini Lego rooms that look like life-size locations, we saw his work spread around the web on sites we love like…

If you thought Legos had no place in fine art or photography then you haven't seen these intriguing photos by Sao Paolo, Brazil-based Valentino Fialdini. For his latest exhibition, the photographer showed off a set of empty, bright and sometimes colorful rooms and corridors all made with Legos! With sun streaming through windows and shadows cast in just a certain way, it…

A crafty mom named Holly Ramer, who runs Stitch-Craft, took a picture of her son Parker's Star Wars LEGOs and then created these Valentine's Day cards out of them, popping in mini colored glowsticks where the light saber should be. She was inspired by this other Star Wars Valentine's…

Taking 250 hours to make and using 120,000 plastic bricks, Ryan McNaught just recently created the tallest Lego model in Australia. Standing 5.7 meters high (or 18.7 feet), it's of the Saturn V rocket that in 1969 launched Apollo 11 and delivered humans to the moon for the very first time. Look closely and you'll see that this impressive creation comes complete…

Artist Bruce Lowell recently created a very scrumptious looking piece of Lego art! It's a Lego donut, made using four 90° curves. Doesn't it look good enough to eat? Love the little sprinkles.

"This is the third of a few MOCs expanding upon the idea of the Lowell Sphere," he says. "See also:…

This past October, Legoland Florida opened to the public, targeting families with children ages 2 to 12. With about 50 million bricks used, it is the fifth and largest Legoland in the world with 50 attractions in 10 themed areas.

According to Legoland Florida Master Builder Jason Miller, two of the biggest construction projects at the park were a brontosaurus…

Standing more than 40 feet high at London's bustling St Pancras International Station is a Christmas tree made completely out of Lego bricks! Artist Duncan Titmarsh of Bright Bricks, the UK’s only LEGO Certified Professional, with the help of local primary school students and members of a local Explorer Scouts unit, took more than two months to construct this amazing work of…

After one picture of a LEGO street painting was posted on Reddit, the Internet took over, making it a sensation online. Created for the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Florida, this amazing mashup of Legos and Terracotta warriors is magnificent in every sense of…