Hope you and yours had a great holiday weekend!  Here’s what made Lego news in the past few weeks:

• That scale model X-Wing fighter, made from more than five million Lego bricks and which recently landed in Times Square, is on its way to LEGOLAND California.   (The Huffington Post)
• Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of the founder of the LEGO Company, will open a school in the company’s hometown of Billund, Denmark.   (Mashable)
• The “Mr. Gold” minifig, randomly inserted into the Series 10 collectible packs, is fetching as much as $1,000 on the secondary market.  And to think just seven years ago, $1,000 would’ve bought you not one but two UCS Millennium Falcons.  And those didn’t even come with minifgs.  (Yahoo!)
• Someone made it happen: here’s LEGO Voldemort vs. LEGO Gandalf.  (Geekosystem)
• An awesome breakdown of what you can build with the 472 billion LEGO bricks made since 1958.  (Gizmodo)
• When Finland met Denmark: make your own Lego Angry Birds.  (Brothers Brick)
• Our favorite toy company and NASA are teaming up on a school-based competition, details of which are still under wraps.  “Your students can tackle the same aeronautics challenges that NASA and industry teams have been working on. We want to see if your team can do better.”  (NASA Education)
• And last but not least, a bunch of AFOL’s have built a display featuring 2.5 miles of LEGO train track.  (World Record Academy.com)