LEGO Bauhaus Chess Concept Has Hidden Clues to Its Moves
A knight’s horse-shaped head is easy to recognize, but it offers no clue about that peculiar L-shaped move. That’s a small frustration with learning chess:…
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This LEGO Monet artpiece looks better when you take your glasses off
Monet’s 1882 painting of a path through the corn at Pourville has one small problem for American readers. There’s no corn in it. In…
This 2,680-piece LEGO AKAI tape deck is my kind of analog nostalgia
Owning a reel-to-reel deck in the 1970s meant owning a piece of furniture you could not move alone. The Akai PRO-1000 came in two boxes,…
Halloween finally gets its own snow globe, and it’s made of LEGO
The snow globe was invented by accident in 1900, when a Viennese surgical instrument mechanic named Erwin Perzy tried to build a brighter operating room…
San Francisco’s most iconic buildings are now a 4,200 brick LEGO diorama
Every city has one view that ends up on the fridge magnets, and San Francisco settled that argument a long time ago. It’s the row…
Gorgeous LEGO Book Nook Has a Steam Train Blasting Straight Through Its Snowy Pages
Every kid who grew up with Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express remembers that moment where the story stops behaving like a story. A train…
Delightfully Retro LEGO Art Deco Hotel Celebrates Vice City with GTA 6 Right Around The Corner
Here’s a fun bit of trivia to drop at your next party and watch people’s eyes glaze over: LEGO made its own version of Vice…
Pingu Is Getting A New Show, And Now LEGO Fans Want In Too
Here’s a fun fact for you. Pingu is getting a brand new show. Yes, that Pingu, the clay penguin from 1990 who talks exclusively in…
This 1,608-Piece LEGO David Comes with Its Own Historically Accurate ‘Detail’
Michelangelo never gave David a fig leaf. Prudish museum directors did that centuries later, and one particularly famous plaster cast fig leaf still exists today,…
This LEGO Fan Rebuilt Linkin Park’s Meteora Cover In Bricks, Then Added the Whole Band Below Too
Quick pop quiz for anyone who owns Meteora on CD, RIP CD collections. Who’s the guy on the cover, crouched down in a respirator with…
Someone Finally Built the Three’s Company Apartment in LEGO, Celebrating the 70s Sitcom
Sitcom apartments are basically stage sets pretending to be homes, and nobody understood that better than “Three’s Company.” The entire show ran on doors slamming…
Someone Built Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Album Art as a Monochrome LEGO Diorama
There was a solid decade there where every other Tumblr blog, VSCO caption, and breakup playlist owed a spiritual debt to one blank faced woman…
Someone Built A 1,064-Piece LEGO Super Saiyan Goku And It Looks Stunning
For most of its existence, LEGO acted like anime didn’t exist. Star Wars, sure. Marvel, absolutely. Batman, SpongeBob, even the Titanic, all fair game. But…
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…
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 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…