Awesome Lego

Flickr member vmln8r made this sweet remote-controlled replica of the A-Team van using LEGO pieces, including LEGO Powerfunctions pieces. You can download the instruction file here.

It may not be made of as many bricks as his other famous creations, but Ryan “BrickMan” McNaught’s 100,000 brick, 13-foot-long replica of the Erickson S-64 “Elvis” air crane is still a sight to behold.

While we’re not sure how often you actually need to sort LEGO axle pieces, we’re still blown away by this mesmerizing mechanical marvel, built by LEGO-maniac Akiyuki, using just a single drive motor.

Brotherhood Workshop’s entry to the Machinima Interactive Film Festival is an alternate take on the Battle of Helm’s Deep from The Lord of the Rings, casting LEGOlas as a well-meaning but dumb elf.

LEGO Certified Professional Sean Kenney has created a unique series of sculptural modern lamps built out of LEGO bricks – mimicking the shape of lathed wood. Available in 5 styles and 10 colors.

We’d be impressed by this built-from-scratch architectural model of the Tōdai-ji Buddhist temple even if it didn’t fold up into itself like a pop-up book. Check out builder Talapz’s other structure here.

The world of the Lord of the Rings is teeming with monsters and ghouls, which Merry and Pippin take advantage of to play a Halloween prank on Frodo and Sam. A funny short by Brotherhood Workshop.

In case you missed today’s momentous jump, sit back and enjoy this low-budget scale replication of Felix Baumgartner’s epic flight – courtesy of some LEGO minifigs and Vienna’s ModelMaker Fair.

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.

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.

17-year-old LEGO-maniac Dylan Woodley (aka Insomniac’s) stop-motion video for Foster the People’s Houdini makes us wish all music videos were made with LEGO blocks and minifigs.

While you could go out and buy yourself a fancy 3D printer, why not build one yourself? Builder Arthur Sacek did just that, with a 3D milling machine made entirely from LEGO (except the drill bit.)

LEGO fanatic Akiyuki has spent years working on complex mechanical LEGO builds, and his latest is a real doozie. The 100-foot-long machine serves no purpose but to shuttle around 500 tiny balls.

Eric Steenstra built this impressive full-size go-kart entirely from LEGO Mindstorms components. He’s still working out the steering mechanism, but it can already carry an 88-pound kid with ease.

14-year-old LEGO maniac Evan Bacon is well on his way to being a pro LEGO artist with his second life-size superhero sculpture. His 6-foot-tall Iron Man even has light-up eyes, hand, and arc reactor.

By using a grid of thousands of special lenticular LEGO bricks, Arthur Gugick created this awesome mural that shows Batman when viewed from one angle, and The Joker as you pass by.

As the company celebrates its 80th birthday, LEGO takes a look back at its story so far with this animated short film. You can skip to about 10:00 in the video for the origin of the iconic bricks.

LEGO enthusiast Peer Kreuger made motorized scale models of the Tumbler and the Bat from The Dark Knight Rises. You can vote to make them official LEGO toys here and here. More pics here.

LEGO fanatic _Tiler took the Tumblers and Bat from The Dark Knight Rises and managed to convey their forms perfectly in these tiny little creations made from just a handful of bricks each.

(NSFW: Language) Apologies to David Simon and Ed Burns, but Yahoo! Sketchy’s LEGO parody of the cult classic TV show The Wire is legit. Also, there’s an Omar Little minifig? Shieeeeeeeee-

A proposal for three official LEGO sets based on Portal 2 – GLaDOS’ Chamber, a Modular Testing Chamber and a Puzzle Board Game. If it gets at least 10,000 votes, LEGO will consider making it.

A massive LEGO set for you to construct objects and buildings and place them into the virtual world. Australia gets the first map, but we’re hoping for more countries soon.

Some of the most powerful heroes and the craziest villains in the DC universe star in the launch trailer for LEGO Batman 2. Also the Batmobile loses all its wheels and Joker gets away.