As Rodney explains, this set is no joke. The 3,152 piece, $400 kit is an incredibly detailed 50 inch LEGO masterpiece. You need to set aside some serious time for this one. The instructions alone look like a phone book.

It even comes with a huge display tile that has statistics on the ship. To truly appreciate this build, check out all of their pics at the link below. The finished ship really is a sight to behold. Best of all two guys got to be kids again for a while.

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There are two reasons why they’re named that way: first of all, they’re all in earth tones or colors. Second of all, that’s because they’re made from stuff derived from the earth like coffee beans, cedar sawdust or cedar bark.

They might not look as attractive as the extremely colorful plastic LEGO blocks, but I think you could definitely teach a thing or two about using eco-friendly stuff to your kids with these blocks. That, and the fact that appearances are just appearances because you can pretty much do the same thing with Earth Blocks and plain LEGO bricks, creating whatever structure your mind can come up with.

Sure, it’s not like you typically throw out LEGO bricks, but there are bound to be by-products of manufacturing all that plastic, right? If you’re ready to go green with your bricks, you can get a set of 50 Earth Blocks over at the Guggenheim Store for $30(USD).

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She will be beside herself when she sees what builder Mark Stafford has come up with using these little pink blocks and LEGO Friends characters.

Peter’s creation has little lipstick fingers, a gun, and it’s in the requisite pink that any seven-year-old girl requires. I suspect I will spend the night rebuilding this thing each time the monster Ken Barbie tramples it to pieces.

It reminds me more than a little of the recon Mechs from my favorite videogame growing up called MechWarrior. Check out the photos in the gallery and see for yourself.

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He calls his Transformer Plasmashock. The man has a way with names. Much better than “Crappy gun used only for Duck Hunt.”

If you want to build one yourself, just check out the instructions provided by von Brunk.

His next project should be even neater. He plans to do a similar project involving an actual NES, that would “transforms into a giant robot, much akin to Metroplex and/or Fortress Maximus!” Sounds pretty awesome. Why doesn’t LEGO sell more stuff like this themselves? Oh well, their loss.

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Each building has its own unique color scheme and architecture. Included is the Texaco station with cars, the movie theater playing Jaws 19, the 80s cafe and more. complete with people and futuristic cars. Even Biff Jr.’s gang and some hoverboards make an appearance.

Each building was made individually, then added to the larger diorama. I don’t want to know how many hours of watching Back to the Future II (and snapping bricks together) these took to make, but they are amazing to behold. It is amazing work. Check out more pics over on Flickr.

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We already got to see some close up pics last time of Frodo, Legolas and Aragorn, but everyone else was pretty hard to make out. Now we get to see the entire collection, and they look pretty awesome. I especially love the Ringwraith – just give him a lightsaber and a face, and he’s Darth Vader. Those orcs are pretty cool too.

After seeing the Ultimate Factories special on how complicated and costly it is to make completely new LEGO molds, I really have a new appreciation for the pièce de résistance – Gollum. Here he is in all his glory. No CGI, No Andy Serkis. Just 100% LEGO:

He does look a little more devious in the large poster than in the minifig version shown above, though. I’m kind of hoping the final figure looks more like the big image. There’s still no word on an official release date or the specific sets or prices, but I’ll be sure to let you know when we know more about these great new LOTR LEGO sets coming out sometime this Summer.

LEGO said that they’re “developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft” and have not yet mentioned a release date or media of the actual products.

The images above are not from any official LEGO sets though – they’re just mock-ups made for Minecraft‘s CUUSOO page. But they look pretty Minecraft-ish enough. What’s next? Indiana Jones in Uncharted 4? Space Ghost in Ace Attorney 6? Ash Williams in Dead Rising 3? Gobots in Transformers 4? I can do this all day.

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Apparently, a guy from the LEGO site Brickset was at the 2012 UK Toy Fair and while he couldn’t get pics inside the booth to share, he was able to shoot a pic of a photo on the side of the booth showing off the new LOTR minifigs. The photo clearly shows that the entire fellowship of the rings is coming in Minifig form.

We also have a few hi-res LOTR movie-inspired posters here which LEGO was kind enough to share with us recently, featuring Frodo, Legolas and Aragorn in minifig form:

Brickset also reports there are a number of LOTR LEGO playsets coming too, and not just the minifigs. The early pics look really cool, and I bet LEGO fans that also love the films and the books will be salivating when they arrive. I’d keep an eye peeled during the New York Toy Fair in early February for more details to emerge, or bookmark LEGO’s LOTR web page, which indicates that something is coming in Summer 2012.

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Each notebook comes in ruled or plain notebook models and includes a LEGO bookmark and stickers. Best of all, they also include an actual LEGO piece built into the cover. So you will be able to use the special space in the notebook as the foundation for building a little creation should inspiration strike.

This is a very clever idea and they executed the design perfectly with the accompanying graphics. I can’t imagine any other paper notebook being more fun than these. No word on price yet, but I’m sure they will be reasonable.

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This is not the work of a starbase of a Federation shipyard. It comes from Christer Nyberg, who used somewhere between ten to fifteen thousand LEGO pieces to build it. The ship also sports several lights, so that it can look cool at night.

This is an amazing LEGO reproduction of the classic ship. Just look at that detail. It makes me want to see an entirely LEGO version of Star Trek II. The space battles would look awesome as phasers hit and bricks fly everywhere. Somebody make it so!

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The mini sorting plant boasts 7 NXT Intelligence Bricks, 28 motors and 22 sensors. It will sort any 2×4 or 1×2 block that it comes into contact with. After it sorts your bricks, a bot comes along to retrieve the full palette and move it, replacing it with an empty palette. It’s hypnotizing to watch this thing in action.

With the real LEGO factory featured on a recent episode of Ultimate Factories, it’s only appropriate that someone would build their own mini LEGO-powered factory.

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Keep an eye out this weekend on the National Geographic channel because the LEGO factory in Billund, Denmark is going to be featured. If you have ever wanted to know how the bricks of awesome are made, this is the show for you. Hopefully, they’ll also show how LEGO comes up with the designs for the stuff they package.

I bet the job of the guys and gals that come up with new kits is a highly coveted position. Check out a clip from the episode here to see what the show will be like. This should be a really cool episode. And set your DVRs for Saturday, January 21 at 8pm Eastern.

(P.S. If you happen to live in Europe, it looks they already ran this on the show Megafactories, and you can check it out on YouTube now.)

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It is made from 120,000 bricks and was built by LEGO pro Ryan McNaught, who may or may not be compensating for something with this enormous spacecraft.

The details are amazing. He even included the liquid fuel tanks and the NASA Astrovan. Here’s a fun fact that has nothing to do with LEGOs: Did you know the Saturn V is the only launch vehicle to transport human beings beyond Low Earth orbit?

This amazing LEGO creation will be on display at the Melbourne (AU) Town Hall on the 21st and 22nd of January. If you happen to be in the area be sure to look for it.

Check out more pics of the giant LEGO rocket over on Ryan’s flickr album.

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He took a bunch of LEGO and built himself a nice replica of the taxi that is very realistic and looks a whole lot like the one from the movie. You can see from the photos that the car has every detail that I can recall – from the license plate to the doors that are hinged to open from the top.

The only thing missing from the model are minifig versions of Korben Dallas and LeeLoo. What do you think of this model? Is it missing anything you can recall?

It never ceases to impress when geeks can build things so accurate with LEGO and their imagination.

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Everything about the set is made from LEGO parts, and the coolest parts is that the backdrop behind Superman actually scrolls. The guy even went so far as to make little fluffy clouds from LEGO blocks too. If you think it’s cool sitting still, check the thing out in action as the background scrolls quickly by.

I think that is really awesome, I’d like to know how he built that scrolling background. Sadly, there are no build notes, other than the fact that the backdrop pieces are mounted on bulldozer treads – so if you want to create your own version, I guess you will need to wing it.

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This impressive creation has over 15,000 pieces. If LEGO would only release kits this exciting, I would be building them. Of course a kit like this would cost a fortune, so there goes that idea. Sven has the right idea, build it yourself.

For more images of this one as well as other creations check out Sven Junga’s Flickr page.

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We first showed you this LEGO Great Ball Contraption about a year ago, but this video is much better quality and heck, it is still mind-blowing so it’s worth another look. It scoops up mini soccer and basketballs, then dumps them into a truck which drives over to a rotating ferris wheel kind of thing where the balls take a ride over to an elevator then…Just watch the video. There are too many cool things going on.

It was built by a guy known as akiyuky, and it truly is hypnotizing. You just can’t stop watching it. I just love it. Akiyuky, I salute you. I raised a fistful of bricks to you good sir and look forward to your next creation. What’s that you say, you’re already working on an update to your Great Ball Contraption?

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The scene is Max with his yellow, red and blue Ford Falcon XB Interceptor parked waiting to make his first chase in the flick. This chase set up pivotal events for later in the movie. The car the guy created even has the colors and stripes that are accurate to the movie car.

Sadly, there are no build photos or parts lists for those of you who want to try and recreate this yourselves. I would love to know how he put the car together.

If you aren’t a Mad Max fan, what was your favorite car flick? What’s the coolest thing you have ever made with LEGO?

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This custom-made mini WALL-E is made out of various LEGO parts, and manages to capture his essence perfectly, despite the fact that he’s only made out of a handful of bricks, and stands just three inches tall. He’s even got a tiny little plant to carry around and protect – though I don’t see his cockroach pal anywhere.

LEGO WALL-E was made by Mariann Asanuma, a former LEGO Master Model Designer from LEGOLAND California, who now runs Folded Fancy Creations, offering all sorts of cool LEGO objects over in her Etsy shop.

While it’s decidedly more menacing than WALL-E, I particularly like her LEGO Boba Fett Ornament – too bad I didn’t know about that in time for Christmas. The little bounty hunter would have looked nice on our tree. Well, there’s always next year, I suppose.

The LHC I am talking about here was created out of LEGO bricks by a physicist named Sascha Mehlhase in his spare time away from all the physicsy stuff he does during his normal days.

He did a heck of a job with it too – it looks very realistic. The 1:50 scale LEGO LHC uses 9,500 different components, and took Sascha about 33 hours to build (after spending about 48 hours on the 3D model to base it on.) The thing cost 2000 euros (about $2585 USD) in parts to build.

I wonder what he did with the finished product. I also wonder if he could create a tiny LEGO Higgs boson particle so at least one LHC could find the particle it’s looking for.

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