Posts tagged with ‘lego’

If you had forgotten, the Lego DC game still looks pretty awesome

Technically, it’s Lego Batman 2, but in reality, it’s more like an all-out DC Lego universe ass-kicking free for all. With over 500 square miles of open territory to explore and a pretty good selection of DC heroes and villains, this could be the Lego game that gets me back into Lego games. And I totally want to kick Lex Luthor in his Lego nubs.

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Listen to the Star Wars theme song played on a giant Lego barrel organ

The organ was put together by Serviceplan Campaign for the 3D premiere of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace in Germany. Over 20,000 Lego bricks were assembled by Rene Hoffmeister and Axel Al-Rubaie, who wrote, “We took the iconic Star Wars Main Theme, rearranged it and translated it into a matrix – the constrution blueprint for the organ. Then, we took the four most famous Star Wars worlds – Hoth, Tatooine, Endor and the Death Star – and built them on to the barrel, accordingly to the musical composition. When the organ is turned, the bricks touch mechanical sensors – these strike the keys of a built-in keyboard and play the Star Wars Main Theme.”

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The Dark Knight Rises trailer, the LEGO edition

If you thought the Dark Knight Rises trailer was exciting with people, just imagine how exciting it is with LEGO minifigs. 

“When Gotham is broken into little bitty pieces, you have my permission to die.”

Fucking awesome Lego animation of the day: “The Duel”

Even my sugar fueled Lego minifig and action figure adventures when I was a kid were only about half this awesome.

Teenagers launch a LEGO space shuttle into space

The launch took place from central Germany (easy flight clearance) and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367. We launched it on the 31st of December 2011, the equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area.

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Astronaut builds a Lego International Space Station while aboard the real International Space Station

International Space Station astronaut Satoshi Furukawa constructed a two-foot long Lego model of the International Space Station inside the actual ISS. The process took about two hours, and the Lego ISS had to be assembled inside a sealed glovebox, so no pieces would get loose and become jammed in the station’s equipment or even become a fire hazard.

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LEGO Millenium Falcon assembled in stop motion in rendered 3D

Francisco Prieto spent over 3 years to compose this stop-motion clip, modeling all of the individual LEGO components from the 5,000+ piece model using 3ds max, along with the help of V-Ray. The animation runs just 3 minutes, 35 seconds long, and is well worth the watch.

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