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Back when I was growing up, Slinkies were actually made from metal. I got up to more than a little mischief with my Slinky, after discovering if you threw that spring at your little brother just right, it would wrap around his head and get stuck. I was my own…

I could never build a gigantic LEGO creation like this world record-breaking tower. I tend to get bored after building a couple of LEGO cars or houses with my kids. That didn’t stop a group of LEGO fans in South Korea from constructing this 104-foot, 8-inch tall LEGO tower, breaking…

I think like most kids from the 80s, I had a fascination with pirates and wooden sailing ships well before Johnny Depp made pirates cool for the masses. One of the first times I can remember watching a film with pirates was The Goonies… and their search for pirate gold

Make your LEGO ambulance, LEGO police car and LEGO techno club more realistic with Brick Brites, transparent bricks embedded with LEDs that are compatible with your “favorite construction blocks”…, as long as your favorite construction blocks are LEGO.

You have your LEGO and Duplos and K’Nex and Tinker Toys and many others, which work great by themselves, but they don’t connect with each other. Well, here’s something cool that will let you build some amazing masterpieces using them all.…

Yo dawg, I herd you like Raptors, so I put a LEGO Raptor in yo LEGO Raptor, so you can fly prehistoric-style while you fly.… That’s what Jack Marquez, who goes by “Ewok in Disguise” on Flickr thought a lot about that when he was constructing his little F-22 Raptor

If you’re a fan of flying remote control toys, I bet you remember the original AR.Drone. Parrot has a new version of the AR.Drone that will launch soon called the AR.Drone 2.0. It looks very similar to the original with a few notable exceptions such as the addition of a…

ThinkGeek’s Schrödinger’s Cat Executive Decision Maker sounds like it’s one of their prank products, but it’s actually for sale. Maybe. At least it was there the last time I was on their website. (Checks) okay it’s still there. And it’s not April 1st. The box is a morbid version of…

LEGO has finally unveiled their first official Minecraft set. Now you can recreate some of the stuff that you made in Minecraft that you based in vanilla LEGO. And then recreate it back in Minecraft…. Better call Leonardo di Caprio or you might not make it out.

The hardcore LEGO geeks over at The Brothers Brick have said that the new LEGO Friends play sets aimed at girls kill the imagination, but I don’t agree. My daughter is seven and her name is Emma. One of the little LEGO Friends characters is named Emma as well. That…