New York City, LEGO Style

Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we've done LEGO links to death, but The Brick Apple is in a class all by itself. Between the 5 foot tall Empire State Building, the 50,000 piece Greenwich village or perhaps the best of all: the World Trade Center, from which this quote was taken: 'Actually, sticking together all those little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces would get VERY tedious, and after a while they would really hurt my thumbs. Each floor had over 500 little 1x1 and 1x2 pieces.' Wow."

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Your breath smells like beef and cheese

[originalTMAN]

This was in the new movie Elf. Will Ferrel decorated Macy's with a lego NYC (among other things) in honor of Santa's visit.

Here's a small pic of it

[phillymjs]

Looks pretty good.

~Philly

Really weak mirror

[NightSpots]

Be kind ...

Get the zip if you can.

Otherwise here's the index page, and midtown manhattan.

If you can put these up elsewhere, that'd be much appreciated.

Okay, for the friggin' whiners...

[wrinkledshirt]

Empire State Building

World Trade Center

Google Cache of Sections

[TheSpoom]

Most important bits in Google cache:

• Greenwich Village
  
• Empire State Building
  
• World Trade Center

All the images (with the exception of the Greenwich Village... look them up directly on the Google cache if you want) load correctly (they're on a different server than the pages, oddly enough).

Re:Slashdotted already...

[NightSpots]

First, there's copyright and common-carrier issues. If you cache pages, you become responsible for their content. Google is realizing this as they get served for DMCA removal requests.

Second, it's not something a 'ping' will help. It's usually a db / apache tuning issue, where there's too many connections. The server's alive, it just can't connect to the db, or there aren't enough apache processes. To find these types of errors, you'd have to read the responses and grep for errors. This becomes non-trivial, and more often than not, more trouble than its worth given (1).

lazy

[Anonymous Coward]

NYC - WTC - Empire - Empire2 - bleh

Mirror

[utahjazz]

Here's a backup of the WTC page in the wayback machine.

Here's another guy with a lego WTC

--I prefer the term "Karma Slut"

Ok, another site for you all to slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that I've seen it, of course :)

All of Sean's work

If you ask nicely, I might put up a mirror :)

Re:Ah legos

[Niet3sche]

But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled.
Aha, but you can. At least, you can if you are willing to build a bit. As part of my CSE X86 series at my undergrad hell-hole, we had to merge forces with all engineering disciplines and build lego robots, controlled through the parallel port. It's actually not as difficult as you would think, and the pinouts are quite freely available. Of course, you'll need a language with low-level hardware access, and an OS without an abstraction layer that will thwart your code.
Besides that, the rest is reasonably simple - you build the control box, hook the sucker up to your lego creation via an umbilical cord of wires, and viola - you're running via a wire.
Now, running R/C would be even easier. However, most standard servos that I know of (e.g. Futaba, JR, Hi-Tec) from flying R/C planes aren't likely to be what you're looking for. Rather, you can get high-performance servos for some extra dough, but hey, if it's what you want to do, then go for it. :)
My personal recommendation on a radio? The Futaba 4-channel digital radio (model number escapes me right now). It's awesome, and you can do flaperons / etc with it, so if you ever want to do R/C flying with fixed-wing craft, you'll be in good shape.
Hope this helps a bit -

Re:Lego and employment

[jonadab]

> The cheapest LEGO available is a 2000 piece tub for $20, or 10 cents a piece.
> Unfortunately

Your mistake was buying them all new. Lego has been around for quite some time,
and so there are a *lot* of them available in secondhand-toy land. When I was
a kid, we picked up a big cardboard box of them (must have been two feet long
by a foot wide at least, and there were maybe three inches deep of legos in
there) at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. Granted, that's an especially
good deal, but if you hunt around you should be able to pick up used Legos in
good condition at well less than the new price. You'll probably still have to
buy some new if you need specialty pieces in certain colours or whatever, but
for just plain old ordinary regular-sized bricks that you need in bulk, you
should be able to pick up quite a few of them used.