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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."
Looks like his web server's made of Lego too.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
lego my ego!
Been up for about a minute and we're already getting everyone's favourite error:
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Cue The Sun...
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.
Although something like this may seem stupid or pointless at first, if I was an employer, the fact that someone had actually completed something like this would be a big point towards me hiring them. Something like this not only takes some serious drive and commitment to actually bring to completion, but especially with some of the larger models, there had to be some serious planning going into them, both excellent thigns to look for... and on a complete other note, I'm not an employer, lego rocks, and these are some serious awesome lego creations... wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :D
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
One man's Lego NY is another man's detailed 3D terrorist planning tool. We must be ever vigilant against these evil tools of teror. Ban Lego now!!
Looks pretty good.
~Philly
You do realize that all of the links on the Google cache versions still use the same server right? And I'm pretty sure they use the same images from the server too. So if you point to a cached page that the server doesn't have images for, you won't get them. So it's still trying to pull all of these images from that server... you know, the one that isn't working.
See for yourself. He depicted Ground Zero in Lego, months before the real attacks.
Paging John Ashcroft...
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.
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Use Vobbo for Video Blogs
When I was a kid I used to love to build giant Lego forts and smash them with lego vehicles. They were one of the few toys you could break and put back together. My Lego men always lived in a state of destruction and war, or reconstruction.
If I had a giant lego WTC that would seriously mess with me. On one shoulder, a little Lego devil would say "toss a Lego plane into that, you can easily put it back together." And on my other shoulder a little Lego angel would say "Are you f**king kidding me?!"
What would you do... if no one was looking?
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
He spends all his time playing with legos and sells anime DVDs over the internet. How could he get nerdier?
Empire State Building
World Trade Center
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
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).
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
NYC - WTC - Empire - Empire2 - bleh
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"
Actually, they can under the DMCA (yea, they actually did one thing right with the DMCA). Personally, I wish more ISPs, especially the really large ones, just cached all web requests. With a good tree structure, you'd be able to cache a lot of the commonly accessed internet with squid. Then slashdotting and most DoS attacks wouldn't work (at least not against their target). The only major except is dealing with caching dynamic content. The real answer to that is a combination of don't do dynamic content (ie, stick parts of it in javascript/java or use a dynamic generation cache where it doesn't have to be flushed even remotely often) and for things that really need dynamic content (ssl store fronts, web servers, etc) is for some large company (say Yahoo) to have multiple secure front ends to do the transactions for you so there isn't any one main server to DoS. Of course, the latter one isn't always doable (or even preferable), but then there's no real other solution.
clicking on the World Trade Center,
:(
results in:
MOCpages is undergoing emergency repairs. Please try back at 2:30pm Eastern Time. (19:30 GMT).
The World Trade Center is down. The terrorists have already won
Now that I've seen it, of course :)
:)
All of Sean's work
If you ask nicely, I might put up a mirror
Anyone got a Godzilla suit?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Guys
Not true! The Lego structures at Legoland are held together with glue, but that's because they are outdoors. Southern California Lego Train Club builds with no glue! See This picture for an example.
Some "in construction" pictures available at my website. (Scroll to the bottom).
Funny thing is, for Duplo you'd need glue. It doesn't stick together as hard as Lego does.
Fellowship 9/11
Seriously, I've always been more fascinated by things that aren't 'just' lego sculpture. Try this, or this
As for buildings and 'industrial stuff, This site is pretty nifty, this is rather impressive as buildings go, as well as (w0w) this. And what the hell am I still doing up?
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 -
You web browser probably contains a cache of this page, did you (or it) ask permission beforehand? It could even be argued that the absence of a 'Cache-control: no-cache' header, which the content originator could quite easily add if they don't wish their content to be cached, is an implicit permission to mirror the content.
Um... the Toys R' Us in Times Square in manhattan has had a 20-foot tall Empire State Building Model (as well as Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty and i think another) since they opened in 2001. This 5-foot model, while nice, is not unique nor is it the biggest by far.
At that TRU, they sell the Statue of Libery as a kit. I think it's like $399.98...
...and has been so for something like 20 years. Just to put some weight behind my second hand knowledge. (And of course to brag of a mother with an unusual occupation.)
I can tell for a fact that almost all structures build by the LEGO company are glued together - including the structures for indoor use.
Further, the largest ones are internally reinforced by welded steel structures. Sometimes because they have moving parts, and sometimes because they would not be able to carry their own weight (not all LEGO structures are just vertical piles of bricks).
Naw, what we need to do is create a .torrent file of all of the images on his site, and get his web server to cache that.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
Oh no! It's Slashdot!
The server puffs magic smoke
KA-BOOM!!! Server gone.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:http://www.moc pages.com/moc.php/2
I'm british, and am continually confused by the whole 9/11 thing. Nothing happened on the 9th of November. :)