In the LEGO universe, this is a bloodbath. YouTube user “Namchild” made this amazing stop-motion short film called The Duel, featuring a lone swordsman going up against a dozen or so assassins. Some of the LEGO minifigures in it wind up cut in half. For real. Read more »
We’re salivating with each new reveal that comes along from LEGO for its upcoming Lord of the Rings toy line. We’ve seen several character posters, but today we’ve got your first look at the killer minifigures for the entire Fellowship and several baddies, including Orcs, Uruk-Hai, Gollum, and Nazgul. Read more »
Hey, have you heard that Lord of the Rings is coming to LEGO?! We may have mentioned it once or twice. Today, courtesy of LEGO, we present to you a first look at everyone’s favorite elf, Orlando Bloom. Er, I mean Legolas. Read more »
The good folks at LEGO sent over this awesome poster after our LEGO Lord of the Rings article a few weeks ago. This one features Aragorn in full King of Gondor regalia. Read more »
Simply perfect, and perfect in its simplicity is this little LEGO minifigure scene explaining why they don’t celebrate the holidays on the Death Star. Read more »
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. You’re looking at a LEGO minifig whose plastic “skin” has been peeled away so that you can see his insides. Read more »
Holy crackers! This coming January, LEGO is making one of its biggest product line launches ever: LEGO Superheroes. And the products making up this toy line? Both DC Comics and Marvel characters. How did I not know about this? Read more »
When Jay Hoff decided to create a LEGO diorama of the Emperor’s arrival (from the beginning of Return of the Jedi), he wasn’t messing around. Hand-built to Minifigure scale, this mind-boggling MOC is comprised of 30,000 LEGO pieces, and utilizes almost 400 Minifigures. Perhaps most impressively, it’s built to Minifigure scale. The brilliance is in the details: the Imperial Shuttle, the gleaming black floor with red carpet path (comprised entirely of bricks turned sideways), the intricate hangar bay walls, the perfectly-placed Stormtroopers, the open bay doors with star field beyond… It makes me want to donate all of my LEGO bricks to a local daycare or something. Because I know Read more »
Ad agency Access wants to put a LEGO Minifigure atop the Arc de Triomphe. Or a life-sized Darth Vader holding his lightsaber as the entrance gate to your local parking garage. Seeing LEGO as a “a brand that can get away with in-your-face stunts” because there’s so much goodwill for it from the general public. In brainstorming creative ad ideas, this street-level LEGO promotion was at the top of their wish-list. The idea is to promote the LEGO brand not with a logo but with “massive LEGO sculptures” that are so big they demand that you tell everyone on your social networks about them. What makes this idea unique is Read more »
If you have some extra cash, and you just can’t get enough of LEGO bricks, you ought to go check out eBay NOW. This guy is selling his entire LEGO collection – all 1000 lbs of it plus more than 2000 mini-figures! Yup, you read that right. Half a ton of LEGO bricks can be all yours; that is, if you have $20,000 lying around somewhere. Read more »
