This LEGO VHS Player Actually Has Cassettes You Can Insert and Remove
Before streaming queues and binge-watching algorithms rewired how we consume film and television, there was a ritual. You drove to the video store, walked the…
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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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
Beethoven Gets a 200th Anniversary LEGO Set Complete With Für Elise Sheet Music
Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony completely deaf. He never heard a single note of it performed, yet it remains one of the most emotionally overwhelming…
This LEGO Hannah Montana House Has a Rotating Miley-to-Hannah Transformation and Fans Need It
Twenty years after Hannah Montana premiered on Disney Channel, Miley Cyrus stepped back onto a replica of the Stewart family living room for a Disney+…
LEGO Minesweeper Captures the Windows 95 Game That Ruined Office Productivity
If you worked in an office during the Windows 95 era, you knew the drill. The boss walks past, you alt-tab from Solitaire to a…