Tag: lego

Tweet of the Day, You Know Why You Can’t Play As George Lucas in LEGO: SWTFA? edition.

That’s right, they couldn’t lick that “immediately start giggling and run George Lucas straight off of the nearest chasm. Over and over and over again” bug.  Real tricky one, that. On the bright side: instant DLC, am I right?

Continue reading Tweet of the Day, You Know Why You Can’t Play As George Lucas in LEGO: SWTFA? edition.

So, here’s the Lego Batman Movie trailer.

It’s the Lego Movie Batman movie, mind you, not a Lego Batman movie. You can tell by the fact that this Lego Batman is clearly not as skilled as the usual Lego Batman, which means that oh God help me I’m going to have to watch this movie twenty thousand times when it hits DVD because well-meaning relatives will buy it for my children and then it’ll just be on continuous rotation for four days straight.  Because that’s how these things go.

Anyway: here’s the trailer!  Those of you with children: look upon the form of your Destructor! 2017!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_6_KT47gM

The Lego Battle of Isengard.

Just got sent the link to this.  The IO9 article indicates that the display is “is seven feet tall, has an eight-foot-diameter, contains 22,000 plastic bricks, and weighs 145 pounds. This sculpture consists of 23 treefolk, over 100 orcs, and one Saruman.”  My first reaction?

Where do they find pieces like that, anyway?  Those look like actual fangs mounted on top of there. Continue reading The Lego Battle of Isengard.

“The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”

I’m stealing the title from @bdomenech, but only because it’s a perfect description of the video:

…although I have to wonder why the ancient Greeks needed to predict solar eclipses so precisely that they actually built a machine to calculate the next one. It’s not like they’re all that common, or have any physical result on the landscape… Continue reading “The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”