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New York City, LEGO Style

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-your-eyes-bleed dept.

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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  1. Re:Would you break the Lego WTC? by TiMac · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Oh relax. It's not like he talked about the little stumpy-legged Lego people burning in the plastic building, or throwing themselves off it and liquidating/melting on the pavement below...THAT would be distasteful.

    Oh, whoops. :-\

    Seriously people, lighten up. Sure, 9/11 was awful for everyone, and we do need to have respect for those that died and those that lost those they loved. But I and everyone *I* know is pretty tired of the whole world going stoic and stony-eyed anytime someone so much as mentions the events or the WTC. We need to be able to recognize events, learn from them, laugh at them (respectfully, of course) when applicable, and move on. This is a case where it is slightly amusing--I was most amused by the concept of little Lego Angels and Devils on the shoulders.

    So please, chill. No one means anything disrespectful (not yet anyway).

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