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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