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LEGO Black Ops 3 Locus

LEGO Black Ops 3 Locus

LEGO weaponsmith ZaziNombies made a life-size replica of Locus, the powerful sniper rifle in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The toy is made of around 2,000 LEGO pieces, weighs 8lb and is nearly 4ft long. It even has a moving bolt and a detachable magazine.

Hydraulic Press vs LEGO

Hydraulic Press vs LEGO

Another day, another video of stuff being smushed by the Hydraulic Press Channel. The Minifig at the beginning made a valiant effort to escape, but in the end, there’s no escaping the destructive power of the mighty hydraulic press.

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The LEGO Touch

The LEGO Touch

A man is visited by the mighty Vitruvius, and is bestowed with the power to turn anything he touches into LEGO bricks. It’s an ability that we really wouldn’t mind having – assuming it didn’t affect our french fries – and we had our shoes on.

LEGO The Force Awakens (Gameplay)

LEGO The Force Awakens (Gameplay)

The gameplay trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens gives us an example of the game’s more varied building mechanics as well as stories that are not in the movies, such as Lor San Tekka’s back story and how Han and Chewie caught the rathtars.

The LEGO Batman Movie (Teaser 2)

The LEGO Batman Movie (Teaser 2)

After dropping an awesome teaser just a couple of days ago, we’ve already got a second look at The LEGO Batman Movie, as we stop by Wayne Manor to learn a bit about what makes the Dark Knight tick.

The LEGO Batman Movie (Teaser)

The LEGO Batman Movie (Teaser)

Given the complete dearth of humor in Batman v Superman, we’re really looking forward to this spiritual sequel to The LEGO Movie, focused on Will Arnett’s hilariously pompous version of The Dark Knight. Looks like we’ll get a bit of LEGO Justice League too.

BRIXO Bricks

BRIXO Bricks

BRIXO is a new breed of LEGO-compatible building blocks which can create circuits within in your projects. The system will offer conductive chrome blocks, sensors, lighting and motors. The Bluetooth module will let you control your builds from your smartphone.

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LEGO Ideas Maze

LEGO Ideas Maze

LEGO’s take on the classic marble maze game Labyrinth. Conceptualized by LEGO enthusiast Jason Allemann aka JKBrickworks, the set lets you create your own mazes, which you can easily swap over its tip and tilt base. Drops 4/1/16 for $70.

Meta-LEGO

Meta-LEGO

Animator Reto Hochstrasser shares this short clip of a group of LEGO minifigs who, just like Reto himself, like to build things with LEGO bricks. Filmed entirely with traditional stop-motion and no CGI.

Bricks Before LEGO

Bricks Before LEGO

LEGO built a toy empire with its snap-on bricks, but it’s far from the first company that thought of making such a toy. In fact, as YouTuber JANGBRiCKS explains, the first LEGO bricks were straight up copycats, down to the machine that was used to make the toy.

LEGO Paper Plane Machine

LEGO Paper Plane Machine

LEGO machine building expert Arthur Sacek was approached by Arrow Electronics to design and build a LEGO contraption that could take a sheet of paper and turn it into an airplane. The result was not only a cool machine, but a great commercial. Behind the scenes video here.

Giant LEGO AT-AT Time-Lapse

Giant LEGO AT-AT Time-Lapse

The largest official LEGO AT-AT kit you can buy measures has about 1,100 pieces. Peter “Cavegod” Brookdale’s design uses over 6,000 bricks and is enormous. Charlie Goldberg of BrickVault acquired all the parts to replicate the giant walker, and recorded the build process.

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LEGO Vending Machines

LEGO Vending Machines

LEGO fanatics Astonishing Studios have made not one or two, but a whole houseful of fun and functional vending machines built from LEGO bricks and Mindstorms mechanisms. Whether McNuggets, Reese’s, Doritos, or Cheerios, are your thing, they’ve got you covered.

A Fixed System

A Fixed System

A factory worker has a happy, if plain life. But the daily grind gets to him, and one day, he snaps. Will he choose certain survival, or take a risk and find something new? Find out in Aaron Fisher’s modernist LEGO stop-motion film.

Build-on Brick Pen

Build-on Brick Pen
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Like the Build-on Brick Mug, ThinkGeek’s new pen has holes and studs that are compatible with LEGO, K’NEX and other building block toys. It also comes with 36 blocks that you can assemble into a pen stand.

LEGO Architecture Skyline Collection

LEGO Architecture Skyline Collection
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LEGO has many building models in its Architecture sub-brand, but its upcoming Skyline collection will let you assemble up to five of a city’s popular structures per set. The first three sets are for New York, Berlin and Venice. Drops 1/1/16.

LEGO Concorde Concept

LEGO Concorde Concept

ABStract’s proposal for a mid-sized LEGO Concorde. It’s 31″ long and has an adjustable nose. It also comes with mobile ladders and a model of the plane’s engine. Check ABStract’s Updates tab for the latest mockups. 개인창작 made the physical prototype.

LEGO Captain America 3

LEGO Captain America 3

(Gore) Captain America fends off the Red Skull and his army of Nazi zombies. And then it gets much worse. YouTuber forrestfire101’s short film is one of the most complex and well-shot LEGO stop-motion animations you’ll ever see.

LEGO Land Rover Concept

LEGO Land Rover Concept

A proposal for a LEGO model of the legendary Land Rover Series III by LEGO Ideas member Dadandlad. It has opening doors and bonnet, a removable hard top and a detailed engine that’s also removable. Even Land Rover itself is impressed.

LEGO Coca-Cola Machine

LEGO Coca-Cola Machine

LEGO builder ElectryDragonite made this desktop vending machine using LEGO bricks, Mindstorms NXT controllers, and servo motors to dispense one of four different drink flavors, and has a working coin mechanism that rejects bad coins. It even keeps drinks cool.

LEGO Dimensions Portal Level Pack

LEGO Dimensions Portal Level Pack

(SPOILERS) The mother, the daughter and the unholy AI return in the Portal-themed expansion for the video game-toy hybrid LEGO Dimensions. It also features a new GLaDOS song from Jonathan Coulton titled You Wouldn’t Know.

World’s Largest LEGO Ship

World’s Largest LEGO Ship

Dan Siskind of Brickmania has spent countless hours (and dollars) building a 25.5 foot long, historically-accurate model of U.S. Navy vessel the USS Missouri from over 1,000,000 LEGO pieces. More on Flickr. (Thanks Orion!)

LEGO 2017 Ford GT Concept

LEGO 2017 Ford GT Concept

LEGO Ideas member Alex Paschoaletto’s proposal for an official LEGO set based on the new Ford GT. It’s around 1:17 scale and is made of about 950 pieces. Alex got the car’s engine wrong, but Ford still approved of his work.

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