Awesome Lego

This amazing robotic chess set took a core team of four people over a year to create, using over 100,000 LEGO parts, at a cost of appx. $30,000. Winner: the LEGO company.

NSFW: An amazingly faithful rendition of the original trailer for Robert Rodriguez’ upcoming B-movie homage. They just messed with the wrong Minifig. The behind the scenes are on Flickr.

Proof that you can build just about anything with LEGOs: Sariel’s Robotic Arm was built in just two days but includes movable fingers (w/thumb) and is driven by a pneumatic compressor.

You could call ’em blockheads, but for Adult Fans of LEGO it’d be a compliment: AFOL: A Blocumentary takes apart LEGO fans and reveals a surprisingly witty and skilled group of hobbyists.

The recording is a bit grating on the ears, but we appreciate that Yoshi Akai literally lets you build music: his 3-channel, 8-step sequencer uses LEGO bricks instead of synthesizer keys.

Stop-motion LEGO isn’t new, but Fancy Pants Productions’ The Force Unleashed has the lightsaber duel down pat with everything from stormtroopers with bad aim to dramatic pauses.

Give both the Light and Dark Sides of the Force a spin with this fully operational LEGO Star Wars Foosball Table; we prefer the Rebel minifigs, but we’re sure the Empire will strike back.

We’d just barely gotten over Crawler Town when this giant LEGO Droid Control Ship landed on our desk Naboo: the Technic-framed marvel took 30,000 pieces and two years to build.

Introducing the LEGO MOC to end, crush, and recycle all other MOCs: Dave DeGobbi’s Crawler Town is a giant “Eco-punk” mobile city with hangar, solar panels, airport, and more.

Looking like a cross between Unicron and the Tokamak, this LEGO CubeStormer puts humans to shame and humanity on notice: it can solve a Rubik’s cube in only 12 seconds.

Available June 2010: LEGO fans will get their bricks in a bunch over this set of 16 collectible minifigs with unique parts and accessories; even worse for the wallet: they’ll be blindboxed.

The brick hits the fan in this initially uber-happy LEGO Universe trailer, but in a good way: filled with pirates, ninjas, rockets, and robots, it’s every boy-at-heart’s dream come true.

Matthias Wandel’s LEGO Domino Row Builder is a true DIY: he not only made the builder using LEGO bricks and a tape deck motor, but cut the dominoes himself (he’s a woodworker).

Get your iPhone bricked in a good way with LEGO Photo: it’s basically a free, one-function photo application that’ll convert any of your pictures into a mosaic composed of 1×1 bricks.

It’s one of Star Wars’ lesser-known ships, but we’d take this LEGO Nebulon-B Frigate over a Star Destroyer any day; it’s 4’6″ long and includes docking for X-Wings and the Millenium Falcon.

James May’s LEGO House is nothing more than a pile of bricks now, but catch a glimpse of the Top Gear host as he spends a night with LEGO carpet, leaks, and painful loofas.