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this is bizarrely interesting knowing where the guts and bones of the toys are coming from 8)

I think Gizmodo is my favourite Lego site now, when did that happen??

http://gizmodo.com/5019797/everything-y ... about-lego

Rod recently introduced us to this curious phenomenon and I honestly didn't make this connection, but I don't have babies and toddlers at the moment.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29059

some salty language and opinions in the link ( and links from it ) so browser beware

http://gizmodo.com/5017950/galactic-emp ... go-factory

one of my fav blogs, gizmodo, which is also incidently very Lego friendly is off to Billund this week and here's great short video of the printing process for making the helmets.

Steve wrote:its definitely styrofoam, i have seen photos of it taken by a bystander.

and even if it were solid throughout, there is still no way it could be "5 million" as they claim....

I wasn't contesting the styrofoam, I was wondering if there were any bricks at all

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/26/le ... reate.html

typical, viral marketing. it was a styrofoam boulder covered in bricks ( maybe )

this is a 5 million brick boulder chasing an 'Indy' down a San Fransisco hill. who are these people that made me audibally gasp

http://gizmodo.com/391587/5-million+pie ... s-into-car

hah, I read that on gizmodo tonight, you beat me to it I left the tab open for Jeannie to read, figure there's a lot for her to commiserate over. maybe we should make a subforum/support group for the neglected widows of afols

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/05/worlds_tallest_1.php

it has to be noted right? the guy at the top is a nice touch, completely unnoticeable viewing from the base.

ThomasCat's cartoon sculptures are great, here's a class loony tunes http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=314143 http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ThomasCat/Characters/WileECoyote/thumb/road_coyote.jpg_thumb.jpg <hr> BlueStarMedia's shoop cracks me up http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gal...

I think he's using belleville bows:



or



but I could easily be wrong

once he hits 3 or 4 you won't have to change the fig for quite a few years, the scale is quite forgiving for the whole kid bracket.

I'm not a dbz fan at all but knew exactly what I was looking at with Moko's Vegeta http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=267520 http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Moko/ideas/others/figs/DB/thumb/vegeta-03.jpg_thumb.jpg <hr> it's fun trying to figure out what pieces mijasper used in, well, e...

perusing through the latest brickshelf posts seeing if the toyshow photos went public yet came across these gems: Halong Bay by cbolego http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=313681 http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cbolego/HalongBay/thumb/43.jpg_thumb.jpg a personal Lego site I hadn't seen...

not Lego but in the same alley:

http://www.sillof.com/C-Steampunk-SW.htm

http://www.toymania.com/customcorner/cc19/sw2.shtml

I think my drool short circuited my geek switches

wonder how he get's his red hair stuffed into that helmet. nice to see you playing house and flaunting your turkey