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Beijing 2008 In Lego
jedie noted an impressive rendering of the Beijing Olympics in Lego. Featuring 300,000 bricks, and 4,500 Lego people, it was built by the
Hong Kong Lego User Group. Yes that exists. Amazing. I'm pretty sure that the lighting inside the water cube was not made using stock legos. At least, none in my giant cardboard box.
10 seconds until the IOC pulls this for copyright infringement. If you doubt this, then look up how they attacked free-Tibet protesters over using their symbol (in handcuffs).
Hopefully it doesn't have a miniature BSOD during the opening Lego Olympics.
I had no idea jocks were interested in Lego
You missed it.
It's right next to the Lego miniatures of politicians looking the other way.
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Because we old-skool lego'ers had to use our imaginations. Even with G.I. Joes we ignored the storylines of the canon and made up our own, sometimes even bringing -- *gasp* -- non-G.I. Joes into the mix.
Nowdays, kids don't play with toys -- their toys play them.
I didn't realize that Lego had a "smog" building block.
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The monks were hauled away, disassembled and their bricks used in the construction of the water cube.
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> of Tibetan monks being hauled away to prison?
They've been photoshopped out, just like the little un-cute singer and the paralysed dancer. Ssshhh...our little secret.
On a side note, I have my doubts about a Hong Kong team building it. If the Chinese really built it, they would have conscripted their entire population to build a lego model up to scale :).
Well if it makes you feel better about the story's credibility, the members of the HK Lego User's Group were taken from their parents at the age of 3 to undergo years of rigorous Lego construction training.
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But only in Soviet Russia.
I thought they erred in not recreating the female Chinese gymnastic team, but I saw that the box was labeled "Ages 16 and up."
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It is well known that many serious Lego enthusiasts will take various stimulants and body building supplements to give them that edge.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
... and get off my big green Lego baseplate!
(There, fixed that for you.)
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