MetaFilter posts tagged with toys and lego

Brick House

mattdidthat — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:32:37 -0800

James May built his own house with Lego.

Osama bin Lego, apparently

hifiparasol — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:35:04 -0800

So, for about two years now, Will Chapman of BrickArms has been creating a wide variety of custom Lego minifigures, ranging from World War II soldiers (both Axis and Allies) to a certain copyrighted British Secret Service agent. One of Chapman's more popular creations is "Mr. White," a "bandit" brimming with weapons (including an AK-47 and RPG) and grenades. This week, the Sun ran a story. Then Fox News ran another. A BrickArms representative responds on The Brothers Brick blog, then responds again. Oh, and just for fun, here's Michelle Malkin's take.

Toys have lives too

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0800

The private life of your favorite toys.

Brickmate!

jabberjaw — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:08:22 -0800

Cool. Cooler. Awesome! Using Lego bricks as a medium to design chess sets seems absolutely logical to anybody that grew up playing with them. Fans have gone low-tech, the inevitable Star Wars, and a few more. Lego offers a virtual cowboys-and-indians version as well. (Not to be confused with Playmobil Chess.) Sadly, Lego hasn't seemed to put much effort into Lego Checkers. Via Geekologie. Previous Lego love on the MeFi.

LEGO my... wait.

SansPoint — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:50:57 -0800

Oh, you never would believe where those LEGO bricks come from. Well, you might. It turns out it's a pretty awesome process. BuisnessWeek gives us the behind the scenes info on LEGO bricks. Did you know LEGO is the world's largest tire manufacturer?

No DUPLO version available

brain_drain — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:51:15 -0800

The LEGO Suicides. A series of tragic deaths, built block by block. (flickr slideshow; non-slideshow link here)

Spoon — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:12:46 -0800

Lego Shannanigans! Lego that solves the rubik's cube, the towers of hanoi, is a vision command enabled, four-shot rotary cannon but probably still really hurts when you step on a single block.

phartizan — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:26:56 -0800

Maori challenge Lego to stop using Maori words for its toys Certain Maori objected to what they claimed was Lego's inappropriate use of Maori words, and the way Lego's Bionicle game mixed together strands of many cultures. So what's next? No syncretic philosophy/art? Although I suppose marketing Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha as crappy plastic superheroes might cause a little stir.

alan — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:55:04 -0800

It looks like LEGO has licensed Eric Harshbarger's Pixelego Mosaic program. The cool part? You upload an image to the Lego servers, and they send you "building instruction, a mounting panel, a wall hanger and 1,936 bricks to build [the] mosaic"

Succa — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:39:35 -0800

The Fireland.com Blind Dialog contest. This is a hilarious contest. And how can you resist putting an entry in, when the grand prize is a Lego Ninja Fire Fortress?