Category: Lego

Can I buy a ticket now?

Angela Watercutter at Wired:

The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built.

The model of the classic Star Wars fighter being unveiled in Times Square has a wingspan of 44 feet and comes complete with R2-D2 and a full range of sound effects. It’s a super-duper-sized version of Star Wars Lego starfighter set #9493 and was made with 5,335,200 Lego bricks. That, according to Lego, makes it the largest model ever built, eclipsing the Lego robot at the Mall of America by some 2 million bricks.

Suddenly, my LEGO projects seems so … wimpy.

via @WestTechNYC

I mean, how was I not going to link to this?

John Neff at Autoblog:

Unveiled yesterday by Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in Australia ahead of the season-opening Melbourne Grand Prix, this 1:1 scale model of the team’s 2011 Ferrari F150 Italia car is a highly accurate recreation of the real thing. While Ferrari hasn’t released too many details about it (a brick count would be nice), we do know that the car has real Pirelli race tires and a seat that can actually accommodate a driver. Once buckled in, though, everything within arms reach is made of Lego, including the complicated F1 steering wheel.

If it weren’t for all of the clinking and the graph I would need to use to tell time on it, this clock would be on my desk.

Great Scott!

45 minutes of awesome.

via Laughing Squid

This photo gallery combines two of my loves — Legos and how things are made. Amazing.

[via @jdalrymple]