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NYCLUG LEGO News #009
At long last, a LEGO Green Lantern! (Image via FBTB)
In this (long-delayed) edition: a really, really big Tumbler; a bus stop made out of LEGO; and what’s washing up on the shores of the U.K.? Continue reading
Latest MOC: St. Peter’s Cathedral.
Brickplate.com’s LEGO News Roundup – July 31
- Now that the Back To The Future DeLorean is an official LEGO set, the next great 80’s movie-themed Cuusoo set could be here soon: a 30th anniversary Ghostbusters set, complete with Venkman, Stantz, Spengler, Zeddemore, the Ecto-1 mobile and yes, Slimer!
- Barnes & Noble is selling an exclusive $149 Architecture set. (PSFK)
- Here’s an oldie but goodie: Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz’s tour of the LEGO factory from 2008.
- Despite their new LEGO Movie starring Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Batman, the film’s directors insist “We’re not making Justice League.” (Digital Spy)
- A Netflix-type service called Pleygo will allow you to build sets then return them without having to buy the set. This could work! (GeekDad)
- Two more Minecraft sets are a-comin’. (Unwir3d)
- Why do LEGO minifigs have holes in their heads? (News Corp.)
- There’s a dating site for LEGO lovers. (Leg Godt)
- And finally, meet the woman who designed a working prosthetic leg out of LEGO. (USA Today)
Brickplate.com’s LEGO News Roundup — Week of May 27
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)
Weekend project: the TARDIS.
This is one of the awesome things that happen when a LEGO designer has too much time on their hands.
Craig Callum, an official LEGO designer, took the VW Bus (with a modified color scheme) and an AT-AT and made this quite excellent, um, Imperial Volkswagen.
An SLR camera made entirely of LEGO.
This amazingly-detailed model, by Flickrer RGB900, has just about every element a Canon fan would appreciate, right down to the red lens ring. The strap is designed from Lego tank treads and probably can’t be slung over one’s shoulder. But with a MOC this realistic, you never know!
My latest MOC — the famous logo of some unknown rock band. :-)
The Avengers’ Quinjet is just about finished for New York Comic Con.
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