I love these LEGO sets... Just started to collect them as I've done few years ago with Game & Watches and 8bit consoles! .

In june Lego will release the Shuttle Adventure 10213 created for AFOL (Adult Fans Of Lego). It features realistic engines, retractable landing gear, opening cockpit with seats for 2 astronauts and even a ground maintenance vehicle!

The Lego Minifigures Collection will be distributed in Japan as GatchaGatcha series that will be released by Takara Tomy in July.
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via sariel.pl - Model of a human arm. Features 4 electric and 4 pneumatic functions.

Datasheet:

Completion date: 28/02/2010
Power: electric (Power Functions) / pneumatic (fed from external pneumatic compressor with an airtank)
Dimensions:  unknown
Weight: unknown
Suspension: none
Motors: 3 x PF Medium, 1 x PF XL, 1 x RC

via Make - Akihiro Uehara, a Japanese Lego hacker (blog.reinforce-lab.com), built an interface between a LEGO MINDSTORMS Alpha Rex and a Wii Balance Board. User can control the robot's leg motors speed and direction by changing the vector connecting user's center of balance and center of the board!

Passion combines with creativity in this documentary that features a selection of AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO) from the Pacific NorthWest.  Directed by Jess Gibson

via digitaltools

Last week during the Toy Fair 2010 (held in Nuremberg) I spotted prototypes of several new LEGO licensed products like these BENTO BOXES made to finally being able to enjoy a truly plastic lunch like a real minifig from Legoland!!
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Wow! LEGO has finally discovered the collectable toys market (I fear they never heard of companies like Medicom Toy) and, in June, the Danish blocks empire  will release the first line of Collectable minifigures. [via Brickset ]
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LEGO Rock Band multiplatform videogame has just been released so why not build a "real" replica of the band’s bus featured in the game? You can download the PDF with the step by step instructions for  the LEGO Rock Band bus (FBTB).
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I'm again in LEGO mood (I finally found the super rare "Winther Toy Shop" Christmas Set here in Tokyo!!) and I'm happy that I'm not the only one. Dave Sterling just created this brick built replica of the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). He even made a fake TV set!!
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Electronic Music Producer Skweee Recording and Artist Fredrik Mjelle from Stockholm created these super kawaii LEGO synths to celebrate their MP3 album "The Future" downloadable for free from BEEM official website (in the ZIP file there are 10 differentes LEGO cover artworks for each of the 10 lego elecro/disco tracks)...

This is the video of the tingeypa's submission for the Microsoft Dare To Dream contest. The contest required entrants to build an embedded application using the new Micro .Net framework which allows C# programming on a resource constrained platform. The entry needed to use a prototyping board with touch screen provided Microsoft. My entry was a touchscreen driven programming & execution environment called Brickstick that allows Lego IO to be connected to the prototyping board and programed and run controlled without the use of a PC. All programming and execution is done through the touch screen. This makes it easy to build remote controlled robot with sophisticated features, without the complexity of a complex programming environment. My entry used a number of complex I/O types utilising the I2C bus such as the NXTCam, NXTServo and PFMate, all designed and built by Mindsensors.

I always loved Japanese crazy TV shows: with enka anything looks cool!

At the Nuremberg Toy Fair I spotted this beautiful Lego Indiana Jones diorama (OK I know I'm not a great photographer).

 

Today, at Nuremberg Toy Fair, I visited the  Lego mega booth and found several new sets that will be released during 2008. The most interesting is this special edition box, with a Golden Brick  Lego, produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the danish blocks.

 

Today I landed in Germany for the Nuremberg Toy Fair and while I was waiting for the baggages I saw these great  Lego sculpures placed near the be baggage belts. It was a surreal scene and for a second I tought to be inside a real sized  Legoland Airport!!!

From today till February 25 Shibuya "Parco Factory" will held the  Lego World Heritage exhibition (Sagrada Familia, Shiuri Castle, Pisa pending tower and other World Heritage sites reproduced with Lego bricks)! The Sagraad Familia reproduction has been created by the Japanese artist NAOE who is the only Asian  Lego professional builder (photo gallery).
Looks like a great way to celebrate Lego 50th anniversary!!

Demi has posted a really cool guide to build a  Lego Geodesic Dome.
"A geodesic dome is an almost spherical structure based on a network of great circles (geodesics) lying approximately on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and yet also distribute the stress across the entire structure. It is the only man-made structure that becomes proportionally stronger as it increases in size."
If your are a Dome maniac too you should also check the incredible Space Dome created by Christian Treczoks. The whole structure has about 20000 pieces and is made from classic grey (you can’t build a white/dark grey combination with the new colours without gettin eyesores).


One day I will build my own real scale dome waiting for NASA to get humanity colonize the Space!

Japanese Lego master Jun Brick is working on his next masterpiece: a reproduction of the Yamato battleship. This work will be finished in 2008 and will be a 6,5 meter long plastic brick reproduction build with 100.000 pieces.
On the left of the photo (up) there is an impressive 1/1 scale Doraemon.





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