Awesome Lego

There are two things that never cease to amaze us: one is the courage of hobbits and the other is the way that trailers for LEGO video games like this one for the upcoming reimagining of The Hobbit always get us smiling.

This incredible feat of LEGO engineering by Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida is comprised of over 500,000 LEGO bricks, and drives at speeds up to 20MPH. Its working engine is even made of LEGO, and runs on compressed air.

Artist Dan Shearn has a love of 1980s pop culture and a love of LEGO, so he combined these two into a series of illustrations, envisioning the decade’s iconic characters as minifigs. The Warriors is from 1979, but we’ll forgive him.

Animator Brian Anderson is back with another idea for a LEGO video game that will never be made. This time he takes on Naughty Dog’s masterpiece The Last of Us. Actually this one’s a triple mashup.

BrickTease painstakingly recreated the classic shopping mall chase scene from The Blues Brothers using thousands of LEGO bricks as their medium. If you have any doubt as to how good this is, watch the side-by-side comparison video.

Superlegosam wanted a soda machine on his desk, so he did what any LEGO geek would do, and built a fully-functional vending machine using LEGO bricks and an NXT controller. It even accepts coins. He’s also got a candy machine.

When we’re not stepping on them, we’re building cool stuff with them – and now we’re going to be watching LEGO assemble on the big screen in early 2014. From the funny guys behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street.

Goel Kim and Big J built this impressive diorama of the Battle of the Hornburg, aka the Battle of Helm’s Deep from The Lord of the Rings. It’s made of 150,000 bricks with 2,000 minifigs and took them six months to build it.

Jason Allemann built a very smart(ass) useless machine with the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit. Instead of simply turning itself off, it has a variety of responses to being turned on. Of course, all of them lead to it turning itself off.

We can’t imagine how much work it took Annette Jung to recreate the opening scene from Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video using only LEGO bricks, but it’s pretty damned awesome. Now we want the whole video. For now, just watch this.

Sami Mustonen’s proposal for an official LEGO Jurassic Park playset. It includes the park’s gate and vehicle, three minifigs and of course a T-Rex. Vote for it on Cuusoo; it’s where the BTTF and Minecraft sets were born!

If you didn’t get Citizen Brick’s Walter White minifig, don’t fret because they now have something way better. The Superlab Playset includes parts for the infamous laundry shop plus minifigs of Walt, Gus and Mike.

Travel back to the 80s with the official Back to the Future LEGO set. It comes with the DeLorean time machine, minifigs of Marty McFly and Doc Brown plus Marty’s hoverboard. The car has movable doors and wheels.

While LEGO has made a number of architectural kits of famous structures, this 1210-piece set embraces the spirit of LEGO, encouraging you to build numerous structures from real-world examples, as well as your own.

Brickmania’s incredible recreation of the deadly WWII beach landings at Peleliu, created from over 500,000 LEGO parts. Includes the massive USS LST 325, tanks, airplanes, tons of custom minifigs and weapons, and even a shark.

Citizen Brick calls its minifigure the “Chemistry Enthusiast.” Word. We all know it’s based on The Danger, The One Who Knocks, Heisenberg: Walter White. Sadly it’s out of stock right now, though Fancy claims they have some for $25.