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…
Someone Built a LEGO Bedside Radio With 1,400 Bricks And Inner Circuitry
Remember when clock radios had personality? Before phones ate every function a bedside table used to need, you had this chunky little box with dials…
LEGO Shrinks Hogwarts to 700 Bricks, Keeps the Chamber of Secrets
Every LEGO Hogwarts has to decide what to leave out. The 2018 71043 kept nearly everything and asked for two feet of shelf in return….
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….
This LEGO Pink Panther Figure Is Already a Staff Pick, and It’s Easy to See Why
For a cartoon character who has never once opened his mouth to speak, the Pink Panther has spent over sixty years being one of animation’s…
Believe It: The LEGO Naruto Ramen Shop Might Actually Happen
If you grew up watching Naruto slurp down bowl after bowl of ramen at Ichiraku, you already know that the little noodle shop tucked in…
This 4-Player LEGO Chessboard Turns The Game Into Strategic Chaos
Four-player chess is not some internet-era gimmick dreamed up for group game nights. Variants of it have existed for centuries, from Indian Chaturaji played with…