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LEGO and Batman fanatics Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey spent more than 800 hours over the course of six months to build this enormous, custom-lit LEGO batcave from over 20,000 bricks.

Not only does this guy like to show off his muscular physique while he does one-handed push-ups – he solves a Rubik’s cube with the other hand while doing it. Next time, keep the shirt on, dude.

Westray and Papa Westray are tiny islands in Orkney, Northern Scotland. The plane ride between the islands is just over 2-minutes-long, making it the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight.

Mythbusters host and cosplayer Adam Savage talks about how he made his No-Face – aka Kaonashi from Spirited Away – costume and the amazing experience he had with fellow fans of the movie.

If you’re a plastic bottle, let this serve as a warning: don’t mess with Will Keith. This bottle ninja will cut you down in an instant. Don’t try this at home, enough water has been spilled. (Thanks Ryan!)

Some say that he is biologically related to all the “blue” people who appeared in Avatar… All we know is that The Stig finally has his own LEGO minifig – UK shipping addresses only though :sadface.

There are lots of ways to get across town, but Phil Doyle shows us that taking the rooftops, Mirror’s Edge-style is the fastest (if not the safest) way across the city of Cambridge.

Devilfish recreated The Simpsons’ opening sequence in real life to promote the show’s airing on Sky 1 in 2006. Matt Groening liked it so much that it was used as an actual opener in one episode.

The lady in the fly down vest shows her brother some tough love after he almost got in a fight for spitting at someone, telling him to man up and act proper because after all, he’s “nearly three.”

Misuse of the word “anthem” aside, this commercial for WaterisLife puts the meme to good use with a heartbreaking juxtaposition of first world problems and people with real concerns. Donate here.

Mad vehicle hacker Colin Furze’s latest build is a baby stroller that can whip junior along at unsafe speeds, thanks to its 10 horsepower, 125cc engine. He’s aiming for a record 50mph top speed.

(NSFW: Language) The videos of returning soldiers surprising their loved ones can easily bring us to tears. This is not that kind of homecoming. We just got our orders from HQ ourselves.

GOTM Films shot over 80,000 photos of the Grand Canyon over the course of 7 weeks. Their goal was to show the scope of the natural wonder. We think they succeeded. The song is Don’t Waste by Figgy.

Partir (“leaving”) is a tale of two inseparable characters told through hand-drawn stop-motion animation. The quote at the end reads,“Just now, I heard the heartbeat of a tiny raindrop.”

A rookie burglar’s first heist goes badly and bizarrely wrong in this unusual short film made by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan aka Daniels as part of Channel 4’s Random Acts show.

Disney/Pixar’s new Toy Story short features everyone’s favorite Wally Shawn-voiced T.Rex at the center of the story – and this usually square dinosaur uses his tiny arms to get the party jumpin’.

The lord of internet cats has a shiny new car(dboard). But there’s a big problem: the car is too small for him. His owner shouldn’t have gotten a compact car. Love the license plate though.

Pro CGI artist Yoshiya Yamada shows off some of his most impressive VFX work, from films including The Avengers, Battle: Los Angeles, and X-Men: Wolverine. Man how far we’ve come since TRON.

This hill is called Yanar Dag, which is Azerbaijani for “fire mountain”, and for good reason. The hill’s base is eternally on fire, thanks to a steady leak of natural gas from subsurface. Video here.

We’re pretty sure that the skinny bikes designed for the Tour de France weren’t designed for street trials and wall-riding, but that didn’t stop Martyn Ashton from using his $16,000 carbon fiber bike that way.

Despite the cheesy acting and the overused jokes, funnyman Ryan Higa does have a great comeback for whiners and their first world problems: a bridge, a straw and a full cup. Just watch.

Who knows what the future holds? Hollywood seems eager to provide an answer. Mashup artist Eclectic Method put together a supercut of futuristic movies and made a ballin’ beat to go along with it.

YouTuber ilovejanelle is training her dogs Rogue and Ruger to be top class racers on various vehicles: strollers, scooters and kid cars. Rogue’s passenger gives him a slight edge though.