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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
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
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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!!
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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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?
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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
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"
Anyone got a Godzilla suit?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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 -
...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).