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The Addis family loves Legos…a lot. As in, this 100,000 brick Santa Dalek isn’t their only massive Christmas creation. Every year they make an equally impressive creation ranging from giant nutcrackers to mail boxes to angels. This year’s Dalek is certainly my personal favorite, but the rest are definitely worth a look.
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Hasbro has created these awesome stop motion shorts to advertise their new line of Kre-O Transformers Sets, their version of LEGOs that come in sweet box sets featuring your favorite Autobots and Decepticons. I guess Megatron was on Santa’s naughty list this year!
–via ComicsAlliance
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This 33 foot tall LEGO Christmas tree was unveiled last week in London’s St. Pancras International Station. It’s made out of 600,000 bricks, features ornaments made out of LEGOs and took over two months to build. Hopefully the children who visit the station won’t be tempted to take the towering plastic tree apart!
If you’ve ever wanted to make your own animation without the use of a computer, a zoetrope is a good way to go. And using Legos to make it is just plain fun. You can see it in action here.
Photographer Kristina Alexanderson has a great project she’s been participating in this year. Every day, she takes a picture of her stormtrooper toy in a different pose. While this picture of the toy with a Lego version of itself is my favorite, her Flickr gallery is filled with image after image of delightful stormtrooper photos.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
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The image is part of a campaign designed by Costa Rican agency TBWA. What other potential Lego creations can visualize from above? I think I found “alien life form.”
Link -via COLT + RANE | TBWA website
This neat scene from a 1979 Danish film “The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders” shows an electronic Lego device that expertly sneaks into a building, making its way up a flight of stairs. I don’t know who the Olsen Gang is, but they sure have some innovative Lego designers.
After the Bronx Zoo lost their cobra earlier this year, they decided to invest in some animals that won’t be able to escape.
Just kidding, the Lego critters are a special art installation, placed just outside the enclosures of their real-life lookalikes. See more pics at the link.
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If you’ve ever played BioShock, then you know just how amazing the setting, which takes place in the underwater city of Rapture, looks. That’s why it’s so cool to see this amazing recreation of the city created entirely in LEGOs. Be sure to click the link for even more amazing detailed photos.
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Andrew Carol’s works a day job as an engineer for Apple, but in his spare time uses his skills to recreate ancient computers out of Legos. See link for video.
Recently, Carol has completed his biggest challenge yet: a working Lego replica of the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses.
BUILD!, by LEGO animators David Pagano and Matt Witham, tells the tale of an ordinary Norse woodsmen. When his axe was struck by divine lightning, it began having a transformational effect on everything the wielder encountered. The animation is set to an awesome soundtrack by Jason Mass.
via Geek Dad | David Pagano’s Website | Matt Witham’s Website
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Ed Diment built a LEGO Minifig scale (that’s 1:40) aircraft carrier modeled after the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11). It will be on display at BrickCon this weekend in Seattle.
Link | Photo: Ed Diment | Previously: LEGO Aircraft Carrier in Water
LEGO artist Keith Goldman crafted an enormous diorama of scenes from the City of 1976 movie Logan’s Run. Above, a Sandman kills a Runner who’s unwilling to accept Lastday. You can view 15 more pictures at the link.
Artist Angus MacLane made Corellian Cheeseburger — a Millennium Falcon-type vessel. Except that it’s a cheeseburger made out of LEGOs.
You can view more images at the link, including a R2 unit that appears to be modeled after the McDonald’s mascot The Grimace.
Link via Super Punch
Etsy seller zeebree specializes in molding crayons into unique shapes. Here’s a picture of a set that she made in the shape of LEGO minifigs. Each is about an inch tall.
The ad firm Grey Group made a series of LEGO minifigs that look as though they’ve received tattoos. They’re advertisements for Pilot brand ballpoint pens. You can view several more images at the link.
Link via Geekologie
LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya had a tattoo artist mark his thumb so that it looks like a LEGO brick:
Every single day, I snap together bricks. Each day I am pressing down on the bumps of each brick to make sure there is a tight fit. And if I press real hard, the bumps leave little marks on myfingers and thumb. What better way to pay tribute to my medium of choice, then permanently inking those marks on to my thumb?
Link | Sawaya Website | Photo: Brick Artist
LEGO artist Justin Vaughn made a diorama of a F-15 dogfight. Other than the illumination on the heads-up display, it’s made completely from LEGO pieces.
The background is tilted slightly. I wanted it to look like our aircraft was turning, but I don’t think I added enough of a slant to make it show very well. And I know it looks like he’s aiming more at the other Eagle than the MiG. Unfortunately I placed the connection points before I figured out that’s how it would turn out in the final frame. So, um, he’s still lining up his shot.
The flares are a couple of Exoforce fiber optic tubes with Lego light bricks on the far end. They worked out better than I expected – I love the lens flare I got with them.
Link via Geekologie | Artist’s Flickr Stream
This is a really creative stop motion video using Legos to play out our arcade favorites. Only 8 bit could look this good in block form.
