30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved
The bus bench scene in Forrest Gump was never supposed to be the heart of the film. It was a framing device, a structural trick…
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The Biggest Lord of the Rings LEGO Set Ever Just Dropped
I’ve been a LEGO adult fan long enough to know that the announcement of a new flagship set usually lands with a mix of excitement…
The Hermès Birkin Finally Has a LEGO Version and It Opens to Reveal A Secret Runway Inside
The Hermès Birkin has one of the most theatrical purchasing rituals in luxury retail. You cannot simply walk into a boutique on Rue du Faubourg…
LEGO Icons Road Bike is an intricate 1,015-piece buildable set for grown-ups
There’s something about the intricately scaled-down models of vehicles that takes me back to the nostalgic times. The memory of the miniature bicycle model that…
The Artemis II ‘Earthset’ Photo Is Now a LEGO Set and It Looks Incredible
On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut Bill Anders looked out of Apollo 8’s window and saw something no human had ever seen before: Earth, whole and…
600 LEGO Bricks, One Gorgeous Victorian Telescope, and Four Hidden Scenes Inside the Lens
Every great adventure story needs a telescope. Horatio Hornblower snapping his glass open on the quarterdeck. Long John Silver tracking the Hispaniola from a cliff….
LEGO’s Mini SEGA Genesis kit lets you relive retro gaming nostalgia right on your work desk
LEGO has previously shown confidence in gaming console remakes in brick versions, including Game Boy, Atari 2600, and NES. However, SEGA has not been a…
This 1,117-Brick LEGO Picasso Build Proudly Belongs on Your Living Room Wall
Cubism was, at its core, an act of radical fragmentation. Picasso and Braque looked at the world and decided that a single perspective was a…
Die-Cast Cars Grew Up: Meet Parksible, The Ultimate 1:64 Smart Motorized Parking Garage by Fun-Tech-Lab
Parksible is a premium, smart motorized display garage created by Fun-Tech-Lab specifically for 1:64 scale die-cast cars. It replaces standard acrylic display cases with an…
Someone Finally Built the Hollywood Sign Out of LEGO and It Actually Slaps
Every year, roughly ten million tourists visit Los Angeles specifically to photograph a sign they will never get closer than a few hundred meters to….
LEGO Finally Gives Tintin’s Moon Rocket Its Brick-Built Moment
The moon landing happened in 1969. Tintin got there in 1954. That’s the kind of detail that makes you stop, reconsider, and immediately want to…
The LEGO Metal Slug Diorama With Adjustable Cannons, POWs, and Mid-Air Grenades Is Here
By 1996, the arcade was dying. Virtua Fighter and Tekken had the crowds. Sega’s racing cabinets had the spectacle. The conventional wisdom was that 2D…