This week, Sarasota, Florida is hosting a festival of outdoor chalk art. Artists are welcome to come on Sunday to exhibit their abilities on a section of pavement. Registration and materials are free.

The minifigs in this amazing image made by an artist who is so far unknown to me look like they’re about to walk off.

Link and Festival Website -via Nerd Approved

Finnish photographer Vesa Lehtimäk captures amazing images of Star Wars LEGO minifigs in action. His winter scenes from the planet Hoth are particularly striking because the snow looks so realistic. Don’t scoff at the stormtrooper pictured above. Ski troops are useful.

Link -via Walyou (warning: auto-sound)

The Juno spacecraft, after a planned launch in August, will travel to and then orbit the planet Jupiter. On board will be three LEGO minifigs representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Jupiter is holding his traditional lightning bolt, Juno a magnifying glass to represent her search for truth, and Galileo holds a globe and telescope. Link -via DVICE | Photo: NASA

YouTube user Keshen8, whose work we’ve previously featured, is back with a second helping minifig-on-minifig mayhem. In an interview, Keshen8 described how he creates these scenes rather quickly:

Q1) How long on average does it take you make a film?
A) It really depends. My second “Dark Knight Trailer in Lego” only took one day, I actually released it the same day as the actual trailer came out, so if I really push myself then I can get things done really quickly. My sets also don’t take that long to make, I usually use cardboard because of a lack of building blocks, I seem to have a surplus of mini-figures though, I don’t know how that happened. The Lego Ultimatum on the other hand took a long time, I’ve had a few people saying how easy it is doing a shot for shot remake of a scene, but when it comes to something like Bourne it’s quite time consuming: getting the shot set up, moving/rebuilding the set to fit the frame, moving the Lego men just right to fit the one or two second shot, converting human martial arts into rigid Lego movement, and all the while physically moving your camera and set frame by frame to get the handheld effect. I can’t really say how long it all takes, because there are so many factors that come into play.

via Great White Snark | Interview

LEGO has come up with the follow-up of their popular Minifig keychain LED flashlight: here are the Policeman, Fireman, and Construction Worker City Key Light from the NeatoShop. Please take a look at our current selection of neat LEGO stuff – they’re the perfect geek gifts: Link

The popular LEGO Minifig Head Lamp, a clippable LED flashlight shaped like the iconic LEGO minifig, has got exciting update: we’ve now got the Fireman, Policeman and Construction Worker Head Lamps over at the NeatoShop. Check out our line of LEGO lights: Link

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.

Link via Make

Here’s a fun (and quite affordable) keychain for the LEGO lovers in your life: the LEGO Key Light shaped like a minifig: Link

See also: LEGO Dynamo Torch | LEGO Head Lamp

Need illumination and your hands free at the same time? LEGO minifig to the rescue! New at the NeatoShop: LED flashlight shaped like LEGO minifig (complete with posable legs) that can clip onto a headband, shirt pocket, backpack and so on.

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Link - via larryfire

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