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    Amazing things, all made out of... LEGO? (Video)

    By Lylah M. Alphonse, Shine Staff

    Workers at LEGOLAND, California, are really good at making things out of those nubby plastic LEGO bricks. The Model Team recently decided to build their boss a new car:


    This tech-savvy LEGO lover created something retro, fun, and functional: A printer that actually works. "I designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver," the creator, who goes by "horseattack," writes. "The USB interface uses a 'wiring' board."


    Amazing art. Made out of little plastic bricks. It would be a lot easier to tolerate stepping on those sharp-edged things in the dark if the kids were making things like this out of them:


    Car aficionados know him as the wry guy from BBC's "Top Gear." LEGO lovers know him as the quirky cat who commissioned a life-size, two-story house made out of LEGO for his BBC show, "Toy Stories." One thousand volunteers helped to build it, and May actually spent the night in the structure, which was filled with brightly colored LEGO furniture, LEGO food, LEGO accessories, and carpeted in LEGO as well.

    Why did he do it? "What I'm actually doing here is answering a question I asked myself as a 6-year-old boy," he explains. "If you had enough LEGO bricks, could you build a real house? Yes, you could. Here it is."






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    30 comments

    • jenifer  •  10 months ago
      fantastic art!
    • Johnny Brown  •  10 months ago
      How about a lego sausage and pancake breakfast cooked on the lego stove in the lego cookware in the lego house? Digestion could be a bit rough...
    • Fang  •  10 months ago
      Awesome!
    • Richard  •  10 months ago
      i think that women who was crying eat sleep and poop legos haha
    • sheryl  •  10 months ago
      What matters here is that it may have been made and seen by a few doesen`t matter. Most haven`t seen it at all. It all is great. What a talent,.I love it.
    • j  •  10 months ago
      LEGO's are the BEST!
    • Rage 13  •  10 months ago
      hey sherrie the house the prank and the art work maybe old and may no longer exist. but like many others i have not seen them, and find them very interesting. the fact that they are old dose not take that away. so please keep your cynicism to yourself and let others enjoy what they may or may not have seen. thank you
    • Wendy  •  10 months ago
      Pretty cool but not actually functional.
    • allGurl  •  10 months ago
      who cares if the video has been around for awhile....I love Lego stuff. It is art to me. It was fun to watch again. It answer my questions about lego...What would it look like inside a lego house?
    • Brendan  •  10 months ago
      This is exactly why I contend that Legos are the best toy in the world. Can a ball do this? I think not. But I such trouble finding good Legos anymore, except maybe Lego Land but since there's a slim to none chance I'll never go there it's unlikely to say the least. Gone are the days of giant boxes filled with three sizes of Lego and that's all...Now they actually TELL you what to make....I of course never would... Legos are like Tinker Toys (another that I miss), they don't have a set of rules, you just make stuff while your bored...
    • Franketc  •  10 months ago
      My kids in the 60s and 70s, had nothing but little lego squares,they kept them in buckets, each morning we would wake up to the rattling of pawing aroung for the right one, what they made was amazing. They had no instructions, just a huge bucket full of color, Now the kids get pre packaged for whatever. I remember when the motor came out, and the amazing things they made. Too bad children have to count on someone else to tell them what to do for creativity.
    • JJBA-1959  •  10 months ago
      An other reason to have fun and play I still do I'm -51- years old.
    • be  •  10 months ago
      I thought it was cute. I'm glad to see people are thinking out of the box. Pun intended...?
    • Dirk  •  10 months ago
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/dm_meister/4034883855/
      this is a big one I made almost two years ago ;-)
    • Charles  •  10 months ago
      James May a.k.a. Captain Slow ROCKS he even stayed a night in the house! They tried to sell it to Lego land as well as art collections but no one wanted the house so it was torn down.
    • Nicholas  •  10 months ago
      This brings back so many memories with Legos. I might do a Lego project for one of my art classes now.
    • Åustin  •  10 months ago
      i just wanna go up and kick it
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      Maybe I'm 2 or 3 years behind, but I enjoyed this article. I think the car thingy was dumb but other than that it was interesting.
    • Gamermom  •  10 months ago
      This was very fascinating and I have a family of lego builders. All of this was UNKNOWN for me and my family...I appreciated the article... granted I don't spend every waking moment on the internet.
    • beauty  •  10 months ago
      Now THIS is art.. and you can see it:)

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