This LEGO Phoenix’s Talons Actually Grip the Perch, and It’s Weirdly Convincing
LEGO’s official phoenix, the 597-piece Fawkes from the Harry Potter line, does one trick. You turn a crank at the back and the wings flap…
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LEGO x Nike Air Force 1 is set for take-off with a 360° dunking minifig onboard
LEGO and Nike are back with their new themed set. This time it’s the Air Force 1 Space-Themed Building Set that seems en route to…
A Maker Spent Months Building a Pokéball That Jumps and Shoots Smoke
Pokémon has always sold us a very specific fantasy: a compact sphere you can throw into tall grass, watch shimmy three times, and hear that…
LEGO Fan Recreates Jeff Koons’ Iconic Balloon Dog In Just 1,026 Bricks
LEGO already makes a balloon dog. It’s part 35692, it’s about the size of a fingernail, and it shows up as an accessory in carnival…
Michelangelo’s iconic David bust gets recreated in LEGO, turning plastic into sculpted marble
If you ever took a drawing class, you have met this face. Art schools spent about two centuries buying plaster casts of David’s head and…
LEGO built a working Donkey Kong arcade game that lets you throw barrels at Super Mario
In 1982, Universal Studios looked at Donkey Kong, saw King Kong, and sent lawyers. Standard shakedown stuff, and most companies would have folded and paid…
LEGO Koenigsegg weighs 480 kg more than the real car and hits 70mph
Three hundred twenty-seven thousand, nine hundred and six pieces. Every single one placed by a human hand, pressed into position by a human thumb, across…
LEGO’s Star Trek Turns 60 Into 1,701 Pieces of Pure Nostalgia
The moment LEGO dropped its first Star Trek set last year, fans knew the brand was going deeper. The NCC-1701-D from The Next Generation was…
This 2,200-Piece LEGO Moth Kit Is Basically Taxidermy Without the Guilt
Butterflies get all the credit. They show up on tattoos, greeting cards, and garden murals, while their nocturnal cousins get treated like the moment a…
The Only Thing Missing From This LEGO Coffee Set Is the Smell
LEGO fans are obsessive. Coffee fans are obsessive. Somewhere at the exact intersection of those two fandoms sits ModularManiac’s Coffee Collection, a build that exists…
LEGO Just Built the X-Files Set Every ’90s Fan Always Wanted
During the mid-’90s to the early 2000s, all my friends knew that you couldn’t disturb me on Thursday nights because I was glued to my…
After 14 Years, LEGO’s SpongeBob Is Back and Fully Grown Up
The last time LEGO released a SpongeBob set, most of the people who grew up watching the show were still in school. That was 2012….