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    Entries tagged “LEGO

    LEGO     cameras     Polaroid     design     photography    
    LEGO Polaroid OneStep Rainbow camera by powerpig
(watch gif of instant photo)
    lego     books     bookshelves    
    words     LEGO     typography    
    design     apple     nostalgia     computer     LEGO    
    LEGO     animation     film     history     toys     video     business    

    The LEGO Story is an animated short film about the The LEGO Group’s 80 years of history and the Danish founder’s hardships before making wooden toys (and later plastic toys and the first bricks).

    (via Mashable)

    DIY     LEGO     food     fun     toys    
    LEGO burger and ketchup dipped fries
(parts list to make D.I.Y. Burger ‘n Fries via Chris McVeigh/Powerpig)

    LEGO burger and ketchup dipped fries

    (parts list to make D.I.Y. Burger ‘n Fries via Chris McVeigh/Powerpig)

    installation     nature     Australia     LEGO     brands     unusual     flowers    
    Giant LEGO forest with garden flowers in Australia

“LEGO is celebrating 50 years in australia with an array of installations across the country, with the most recent set up in the rural town of Broken Hill, New South Wales. residents of the outback locale were surprised to wake up to a life-size forest made up of 15 four-meter high pine trees and flower sets recreated to a 1:1 ratio of the original pieces, and then supersized to be 66 times bigger…” —via desigboom

    Giant LEGO forest with garden flowers in Australia

    “LEGO is celebrating 50 years in australia with an array of installations across the country, with the most recent set up in the rural town of Broken Hill, New South Wales. residents of the outback locale were surprised to wake up to a life-size forest made up of 15 four-meter high pine trees and flower sets recreated to a 1:1 ratio of the original pieces, and then supersized to be 66 times bigger…” —via desigboom

    LEGO     Olympics     toys     UK     sports    
    Team GB LEGO Minifigures
In honor of the London 2012 Olympics games, LEGO is releasing 9 special edition figurines just for the UK market in July. The athletic characters include the Brawny Boxer, Stealth Swimmer, Relay Runner, Judo Fighter, Tactical Tennis Player, Flexible Gymnast, Wondrous Weightlifter, Horseback Rider, and the Agile Archer.

(via Toysnbricks)

    Team GB LEGO Minifigures

    In honor of the London 2012 Olympics games, LEGO is releasing 9 special edition figurines just for the UK market in July. The athletic characters include the Brawny Boxer, Stealth Swimmer, Relay Runner, Judo Fighter, Tactical Tennis Player, Flexible Gymnast, Wondrous Weightlifter, Horseback Rider, and the Agile Archer.

    LEGO 8909 Team GB Olympic athletes

    (via Toysnbricks)

    colors     fun     lego     legos     spaces     design    
    Die Legowand, wall divider made with thousands of LEGO bricks by Npire
(via Fubiz)

    Die Legowand, wall divider made with thousands of LEGO bricks by Npire

    (via Fubiz)

    lego     cute     charity     BBC    
    likeable:

cute LEGO® Pudsey Bear with proceeds going to BBC Children in Need
(via doc18)

    likeable:

    cute LEGO® Pudsey Bear with proceeds going to BBC Children in Need

    (via doc18)

    Lego     Legos     architecture     art     design     homes     unusual     victorian    
    perfectly spooky, beautiful LEGO Victorian style mansion
With 100,000 unaltered LEGO pieces, Mike Doyle constructs the striking black & white Victorian on Mud Heap. This is the third architectural home in Doyle’s Abandoned Houses series.
The artist shares fascinating “The Making Of…”  and “Work in Progress” posts on his blog which highlight the meticulous craft involved in building the structures.
The first three LEGO MOCs in the series are available as limited-edition glicée prints through Bumble and Bramble, including Three Story Victorian with Tree and Two Story with Basement
(first discovered via Brothers Brick)

    perfectly spooky, beautiful LEGO Victorian style mansion

    With 100,000 unaltered LEGO pieces, Mike Doyle constructs the striking black & white Victorian on Mud Heap. This is the third architectural home in Doyle’s Abandoned Houses series.

    The artist shares fascinating “The Making Of…”  and “Work in Progress” posts on his blog which highlight the meticulous craft involved in building the structures.

    The first three LEGO MOCs in the series are available as limited-edition glicée prints through Bumble and Bramble, including Three Story Victorian with Tree and Two Story with Basement

    (first discovered via Brothers Brick)

    culture     england     humor     lego     legos     weddings     weird     Royal    
    With meticulous attention to detail and approximately tens of thousands of bricks, Buckingham Palace is reimagined with LEGO. The Royal Wedding, LEGO-style, includes Kate Middleton, Prince William, the Queen Mother, guards, and A-list guests (including Sir Elton John with new baby, Victoria Beckham expecting a baby) with a careful eye for fashion and placement…
“…The Royal Wedding scene including crowd, guests and balcony took model  makers over 30 hours to build using 10,000 bricks. Each Miniland figure  took one hour to build and contains 30 – 40 LEGO bricks. Buckingham  Palace itself features 160,000 individual bricks and was built on a 1:50  scale and took 550 hours to build…” —press release from Legoland
The display will be on view at Legoland Windsor themepark’s Miniland attraction.
(detail image above from Getty/via Daily Mail)

    With meticulous attention to detail and approximately tens of thousands of bricks, Buckingham Palace is reimagined with LEGO. The Royal Wedding, LEGO-style, includes Kate Middleton, Prince William, the Queen Mother, guards, and A-list guests (including Sir Elton John with new baby, Victoria Beckham expecting a baby) with a careful eye for fashion and placement…

    “…The Royal Wedding scene including crowd, guests and balcony took model makers over 30 hours to build using 10,000 bricks. Each Miniland figure took one hour to build and contains 30 – 40 LEGO bricks. Buckingham Palace itself features 160,000 individual bricks and was built on a 1:50 scale and took 550 hours to build…”
    press release from Legoland

    The display will be on view at Legoland Windsor themepark’s Miniland attraction.

    (detail image above from Getty/via Daily Mail)

    Totoro     characters     lego     legos     fun    
    Miyazaki’s Totoro character made with Lego bricks by Iain Heath

    Miyazaki’s Totoro character made with Lego bricks by Iain Heath

    Lego     Legos     products     funny    
    lego     legos     design     packaging     logos