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Kick off your weekend with some cathartic superhero-on-Nazi ultraviolence. This video, by ForestFire Films, merges Lego stop-animation with Play-Doh blood to send plastic Captain America on a gory action sequence. More violent movies should be filmed in Lego. More »
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As part of an endeavor to depict Marty McFly's adventures entirely à la plastic brick, LEGO builder Alex Schranz has created an incredibly detailed diorama of Hill Valley from Back to The Future, Part II. Visit all of your favorite spots that will exist in three years, such as Cafe 80's and the cineplex that's screening Jaws 19. More »
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We've seen some pretty spectacular LEGO brick recreations of The Lord of The Rings, and it looks like the toy manufacturer has noticed these fan dioramas as well. To coincide with the upcoming release of The Hobbit, LEGO is releasing a series of LOTR playsets this summer. More »
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Entering a new exhibit in Washington, DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art is like walking into a movie mash-up of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and National Lampoon's Animal House. More »
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One amazing teacher has put together a 30,000-piece Lego recreation of the Death Star landing scene from Return of the Jedi. It is both glorious and tedious. More »
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Check out this amazing statue of a dinosaur made out of LEGO. This guy is 8.5 feet tall, and made out of 62,500 individual LEGO pieces. The amount of detail and coloring is pretty phenomenal. More »
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LEGO artist Rakanishu placed over 10,000 one-by-one LEGO plates to a 96-by-144 board for this portrait of Leonard Nimoy wearing his famous earpieces. It was an anniversary gift for his wife. Such manic work ethic could overpower a salt vampire. More »
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We thought we'd already seen it all when it came to awesome Game of Thrones art projects, but these Lego minifigs totally rock the Seven Kingdoms. Here are the Starks, and click through to see the Clegane brothers and the Lannisters. More »
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It took 50,000 interlocking bricks, but sculptor Kevin J. Walter was able to recreate Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr out of LEGOs, presumably to keep out some wee DUPLO Hobbits. You can see more photos at Kevin's Flickr page.

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You're looking at the oeuvre of Studio Ghibli bigwig Hayao Miyazaki sculpted entirely out of plastic bricks. This fantastic tableau was built by Iain Heath for BrickCon 2010. Check out everything from Nausicaä to Princess Mononoke in Lego. More »
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In case LEGOs aren't cool enough for you on their own, how about if we throw a gold-visor space helmet, USB drive, and some comic books into the mix? That's the ingenious thinking behind Jonathan Robson's concept design for the LEGO Audio Comic.

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After condensing the original trilogy into 133 seconds, YouTuber dzine123 has smushed The Phantom Something or Other, Attack of that Thing, and Revenge of the Whatsit into 141 seconds of stop-motion Lego animation. The explanation of Midi-chlorians is fairly on-point. More »
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The biggest ever collection of Star Wars Lego sculptures — including the biggest Lego Millennium Falcon ever — is being assembled at Legoland California. And you can watch it all happening, via a webcam. More »
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The Antikythera Mechanism is the world's oldest computer, calculating the stars 2000 years ago. Now modern engineers have come up with the only possible improvement...they've rebuilt it with Lego. But is this the best science video of them all? More »
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Ulises Farinas has wowed us before with his illustrations of superheroes as Lego minifigs. Now he does the same with the cast of Doctor Who. Perhaps this could provide some inspiration for a Doctor Who Lego line? [via Forbidden Planet] More »
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Space Habitat Adams, created and built by lego guru Hillel Cooperman, is so detailed that you can see the futuristic lives of space colonists through its tiny windows. There are robots, giant computer screens, and even a geoengineering simulation. More »
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Brickcon 2010 invaded Seattle this weekend, and intrepid Lego enthusiasts crafted oodles of science fiction out of plastic brick. Check out Legofied renditions of the Watchmen, the mysterious corpse from Alien, and a cult of Stephen Hawking worshippers. More »
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Keith Goldman has transformed the sexy party dystopia of Logan's Run into a massive Lego diorama; scenes from the film are interspersed in the nooks and crannies. The only thing missing is Box screaming about protein from the sea. More »
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Don't you wish you owned Lego figures of Paul Atreides, Emperor Shaddam VI, and a host of other Dune characters? A few stalwart souls have been posting their own custom Dune Lego figures and mock-ups on Flickr. More »
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Nannan Zhang and Tyler Clites showcased this Lego sculpture, "Containment," at Chicago's Brickworld festival. Containment sports a moving monorail, robotic conveyor belts, and a mutant wasteland. It'd be totally foreboding if it wasn't totally adorable. [Brothers Brick via MAKE] More »
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It took four guys one year, more than 100,000 legos, about $30,000, and a love for robotic awesomess to create Monster Chess. Keep watching, because it gets more and more impressive as it goes. [Topless Robot] More »
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Who says the end of civilization has to be totally drab? Dave DeGobbi's massive eco-punk crawler city brightens up the post-apocalypse, looking like a Mardi Gras float designed by Master Blaster himself. More »
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We wrap up our Toy Fair coverage today with a sneak peek at Iron Minimates, anime-themed Marvel superheroines, the Torchwood Cyberwoman action figure, lightsaber chopsticks, and this LEGO Star Wars Hoth Wampa Set. More »
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This weekend Hasbro will be rolling out a whole legion of brand new Star Wars toys this weekend at Toy Fair. Here's just a sampling of some of the new awesomeness, from General Grievous' double-sided lightsaber to Fett's helmet. More »
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We previously reported on the never-before-seen scenes that were cut from Avatar — now see the first image from the bar brawl on Cameron's dystopian Earth. Also, check out this collection of Lego Na'Vi, and news on Avatar 2's pre-production. More »
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When Lego Galactus comes to consume our plastic planet, who will heed the call to defeat him? How does the minifig Green Lantern Corps wear rings without separate fingers? Ulises Farinas illustrates superhero scenes in the Lego world. More »
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As consumers descend upon stores everywhere for the annual Black Friday sales, let's look back at what holiday shoppers of yore bought for the little science fiction fans in their lives: 20 years' worth of Lego Space toys. More »
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Neo and Agent Smith dodge bullets inside the Matrix. But this version doesn't star Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving; it stars superpowered Lego men in this frame-for-frame, stop-motion recreation of one of The Matrix's most famous scenes. More »
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Of all the love letters in Michael Chabon's newest book Manhood For Amateurs, the tenderest might well be reserved for Doctor Who. The Time Lord's journey, like so many other geeky narratives, becomes a touchstone for Chabon's relationships and self-discovery. More »
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The Zombie Apocafest has once again overrun the Lego lovers' convention BrickCon. For the past two years, fans of both colorful plastic bricks and the undead have come together to create an enormous diorama of the zombie apocalypse. More »
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Pixar animator and BURN-E director Angus MacLane's most famous works may be computer-generated, but in his spare time he works in the more physical medium of plastic bricks, rendering his favorite characters in Lego. More »
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Wish your childhood involved Lego playsets depicting the sandy deserts of Arrakis? Now you can enjoy the childhood toy that never was thanks to two Lego fans with a penchant for building Fremen and sandworms. More »
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Cartoonist Mark Anderson is using Lego blocks to invent new imaginary spaceships, but with a small twist: each ship's design is based on a letter of the alphabet. More »
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Lego Voltron. I'm not even sure I need to say anything other than that. Lego Voltron, people. You can thank Grand Admiral for his months of work, and click through the gallery to see the evidence of greatness. Voltron [Flickr] More »
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It's the holiday season, and that can only mean one thing: You need to buy toys. More »
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Lego Batman may have a square head, but he'll be motoring along in a sleek set of wheels. Some newly released screens and concept images from the video game show a whole host of bitching vehicles. Including Robin's Bat-bike and Catwoman's Cat-bike, plus a Bat-copter and a Joker-copter. Scarecrow even has a straw-colored plane. Check out a new clip and tons of images below. More »
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During the Vietnam War, world-famous photographers like Marc Riboud and Eddie Adams captured iconic (and traumatic) moments on film. In 2008, most war photographs are created by embedded journalists whose images are tightly controlled. So British photographer Mike Stimpson decided to make his contribution to the repository of war photography by staging mock Vietnam-era moments using Lego. This one, based on a 1967 protest in Washington, DC, stars Stormtrooper Legos as the US Army. See, it looks just like the original image. More »
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Matt De Lanoy, aka Pepa Quin the Lego-making sci-fi geek, made this diorama of Planet Express, the spaceship in Futurama, out of Lego. You'll notice Leela's shooting at somebody and Fry is about to go into the suicide booth. Fun times. This is on display at the Northbrook Lego Store in Illinois until April. More images of details at Brickpicks.com. Image by Pepa Quin

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With Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming out later this year, it's a perfect time to look at the history of LucasArts video games. Unfortunately, the long road of Star Wars tie-in games hasn't always been pretty. We've come a long way since the old 8-bit games of 1983, and here are some of the high and low points of the past 25 years. More »
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With the news that Lego are to release special sets based on the new Speed Racer movie, two thoughts enter the collective io9 head. The first, that we can't wait for said sets to be released so that we can mix and match them with our Indiana Jones and Star Wars sets for an awesome Racer X/Darth Maul/Nazis showdown, needs no explanation whatsoever. But the second is this: What's the next big Lego movie or TV tie-in? We explore three possibilities after the jump. More »
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