Lego

Science

NASA has selected a Lego photo by Instagram user @BrikWerx to accompany the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. Is this the first Lego photo sent into space?

May 24, 2016 0 Comments

First Lego photo in space?

NASA has selected a Lego photo by Instagram user @BrikWerx to accompany the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx. Is this the first Lego photo sent into space?

World

A former Harvard employee faces charges after he allegedly used a university-issued credit card to buy $80,000 worth of Lego sets and electronics!

September 25, 2015 0 Comments

Former Harvard employee accused of using university credit card to buy Lego

A former Harvard employee faces charges after he allegedly used a university-issued credit card to buy $80,000 worth of Lego sets and electronics!

World

Cambridge University has accepted £2.5m from the Lego Foundation to fund a Lego Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning.

June 15, 2015 0 Comments

Cambridge University is getting a Lego Professor!

Cambridge University has accepted £2.5m from the Lego Foundation to fund a Lego Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning.

Funny

According to science, stepping on Lego hurts more for adults given that movement multiplies your standing weight and the surface of Lego matches the force being applied to it!

March 24, 2015 0 Comments

The science of why Lego hurts to step on

According to science, stepping on Lego hurts more for adults given that movement multiplies your standing weight and the surface of Lego matches the force being applied to it!

Art, Music & Movies

A father and daughter have created a Lego version of Jurassic Park using $100,000 worth of Lego!

March 23, 2015 0 Comments

Father and daughter recreate Jurassic Park with $100,000 of Lego

A father and daughter have created a Lego version of Jurassic Park using $100,000 worth of Lego!

Outtakes

You can't make this stuff up. This guy face-planted onto the table just as I took the shot.

February 1, 2015 1 Comment

News Outtakes #2

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Art, Music & Movies

Phil Lord, the Lego Movie director responded to an Oscars snub for Best Animated Feature by tweeting "It's OK. I made my own" [Oscar Statue].

January 17, 2015 0 Comments

Lego director builds Oscar Statue in response to snub

Phil Lord, the Lego Movie director responded to an Oscars snub for Best Animated Feature by tweeting “It’s OK. I made my own” [Oscar Statue].

Funny

A customised Lego set produced by Citizen Brick is now on sale, featuring a strip club!

November 25, 2014 0 Comments

Unofficial Lego strip club set now on sale!?

An unofficial Lego strip club called the ‘Citizen Brick Center for the Performing Arts’, where ‘dreamers can dream and dancers can dance’ is on sale, complete with 4 minifigures, zebra print couches and a pole.

Funny

Lego is the uncut diamond with black market sales occurring around the world.

August 28, 2014 0 Comments

Lego is the new uncut diamond!

‌• It seems Lego is the new “uncut diamond”, with black market sales occurring around the world. Lego is precious given it’s high in demand and virtually untraceable.

World

After 17 years, shipwrecked Lego is still being found!

July 23, 2014 0 Comments

Shipwrecked Lego still being found

‌• In February 1997, the Tokio Express was hit by a massive wave, dumping nearly 5 million lego pieces 20 miles off Lands End, England.

‌• Over 17 years later, pieces are still being found among seaweed and stones!

First Lego photo in space?

Former Harvard employee accused of using university credit card to buy Lego

Cambridge University is getting a Lego Professor!

The science of why Lego hurts to step on

Father and daughter recreate Jurassic Park with $100,000 of Lego

News Outtakes #2

Lego director builds Oscar Statue in response to snub

Unofficial Lego strip club set now on sale!?

Lego is the new uncut diamond!

Shipwrecked Lego still being found

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