Even better than the minifigs
These minimalist, abstract LEGO® portraits of characters from pop culture show you just how iconic some of these creations are, that they can be so readily identified from such basic shapes. Incredible.
Incredible LEGO® MOC of the Russell T. Davies era TARDIS console from Doctor Who. Be sure to check out some of Mr. Xenomurphy’s other LEGO® MOCs, including this LEGO® vignette featuring Lady Cassandra from the 2005 Doctor Who episode ‘The End of the World’.
As the Ninth Doctor himself might have said, “Give the man a medal”.
The Big LEGOwski
Nicely shot LEGO® recreation of certain scenes from the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski by Lennart Bendixen. The moustaches on LEGO® The Jesus’s compadre are a nice touch. (Thanks to Phil Sherry for the link.)
“Where computational mechanics and LEGO meet”
A cool (if slightly over-dramatic) video detailing a reproduction of the Ancient Greek computing device known as the Antikythera Mechanism using plastic gears from a LEGO® Technic set.
The designer, Apple software engineer Andrew Carol, previously built a LEGO® Babbage Difference Engine.
Meanwhile, here’s a pink LEGO® house I built for my daughter.
The first and second Matrix films had a handful of great sequences, but how much better would they have been if they’d been filmed in LEGO®vision?
Answer: this much better.
(Legomatrix, via GeekDad)
This was the first major LEGO® set I owned. Clearly I will never achieve my dream of being the first author to include it on one of their book covers. Damn you, Jan Kraśko. Damn you to space.
Four extremely important items from my childhood (and, erm, adolescence) in order of acquisition
Space Lego Set 894: Tracking Station
Space Lego Set 6929: Starfleet Voyager
Space Lego Set 894: Beta-1 Command Base
