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WWII Scene Made From Thousands of Legos on Display During Arrowhead Home and Builders Show [PHOTO GALLERY]

Tony Hart — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:46:58 +0000

Brickmania is a Minneapolis based company that designs and sells custom model building kits using LEGO bricks, with a specialty in military vehicles and weapons, and they’ve landed at the DECC this weekend for the Arrowhead Home and Builders show with an incredible custom built WWII Pacific beach landing scene built from hundreds of thousands of individual LEGO bricks and figures. Brickmania shot an update to their Facebook page [...]

Toys Get Sex Change And Become Popular Again

Chris Allen — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:51:21 +0000

LEGO toys have always made money when it comes to boys. Star Wars and other popular “boy” themed building blocks put the company on top. It was starting to lose face though and sales were dropping. LEGO toys put out a new series of building blocks designed for girls, and the success of the product [...]

Engineers Discover Highest Possible Height for a LEGO Tower

Donald Deane — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:45:47 +0000

Although it's something we've never wondered ourselves, engineers at Open University in the UK recently discovered how high a LEGO tower can go before the bricks at the bottom are crushed under the weight. Here's a hint -- it's pretty darn high.

Mysterious Giant LEGO Man Washes Up on Beach [VIDEO]

Dylan Schenker — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:07 +0000

Somewhere in the world, there must be an island inhabited by life-size LEGO people living in a massive LEGO world. How else would you explain one of these guys washing up on our shores? Mysteriously, a giant LEGO man recently appeared on a Florida beach with no explanation as to where it came from. Funny [...]