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.

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Where's the lego minitiature

[Daimanta]

of Tibetan monks being hauled away to prison?

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[Threni]

> Go back to believing the garbage that your "Mainstream Media" spews about China and trying to defend American imperialism as they fuck up the
> world in the name of "freedom and democracy."

You mean I have to choose between American imperialism and repressive Chinese human rights abuses? Can't I say they're both wrong?

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[smitingpurpleemu]

If you population didn't elect presidents for the last 50+ years who are greatly in favor of American imperialism, then maybe you have a point, but no, your point fails.

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[d3ac0n]

if by "Freedom" you mean the freedom for your subjects to implement a puppet government under your control,

Let's list the "puppet" governments, shall we?

1 - Germany
2 - Japan
3 - Italy
4 - Poland
5 - France
6 - Austria
7 - Hungary
8 - Spain
9 - Belgium
10 - Greece
11 - Portugal
12 - Egypt
13 - Indonesia
14 - India
15 - CHINA (who were then re-oppressed by the communist chinese. But we DID free them from IMPERIAL Japan first)

Please add any other nations oppressed by the Axis powers during WW2 and freed by American "Imperialism" that I may have forgotten.

Since WW2:

16 - South Korea
17 - South Vietnam (failed)
18 - Afghanistan (work in progress)
19 - Iraq (work in progress, nearing completion)

Yep. Just LOOK at all those "puppet states" like Germany, who wouldn't even send assistance to Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein. Or France, who's recently voted out (by the people) government had back-room financial deals with Saddam Hussein's government in the oil-for-food scandal. Yep, real puppets there.

Face it smitingpurpleemu, you have NO argument. The Chinese Thugocracy has NO moral footing to stand on, and you have NOTHING to back yourself up with, so you fall back on empty DailyKos and DU talking points and useful idiot rhetoric.

Now Begone. The grown-ups wish to have a conversation.

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[oldspewey]

you sponsored terrorists to attack our land, burn our shops, and kill our people.

Dude ... put the kool-aid down and back away slowly. Re-read your posts in this thread. Take a few deep breaths. Ask yourself whether it's even just slightly possible that the state-run media has planted a few ... let's just call them exaggerations in your head?

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[Rycross]

Yeah, from where I'm sitting you're both over-nationalistic douchebags.

The whole "Your government does bad things so you have no right to criticize my government," has never held ground here. We're individuals, not our government. Both the Chinese government and the American government does fucked up things. Its a colossal waste of time to cry about who is worse when the more important thing is working to improve things.

But then again, I find crybaby nationalists who can't stand a little criticism of their country to be annoying. Maybe if more people actually considered criticism and held their leaders accountable instead of going "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU WE'RE SO PERFECT AND AWESOME" the world wouldn't be in such a shitty state.

Re:Where's the lego minitiature

[Achromatic1978]

Ye gods. I don't know what's worse, that you capitalized "Freedom", or that you honestly believe that the US's aim in taking over countries is to "build up a functioning democracy".

that helping people remove vile and murderous dictatorships

Oh yeah, like in Chile! Wait, hang on, no, not like Chile at all. In fact, Chile was the original "9/11", the day President Salvador Allende was murdered and the democratically elected government that he led was brutally overthrown by an army coup sponsored by the United States of America. September 11 will remain for a long time in the minds of most Chileans as the day to remember their murdered daughters, sons, mother and fathers, who disappeared, and the families whose world was changed irreparably by Augusto Pinochet and his henchmen, the puppet government whose power was not based on democratic principles but the protection of the USA.

Or maybe you meant Grenada, a "flagrant violation of international law", according to 108 members of the United Nations?

Wait, I know, you're talking about Iraq! Except I'm not sure how anyone would actually call Iraq a democracy in anything but name only. The government is still a rubber stamp of the US military, over and above its constitutional representation of its people, including such 'freedom'-like joys as "preferred bidders" for oil contracts and all other manner of extracting money from the ruins of a country as being US companies. It's also rather difficult to have democracy in the 21st century when you're still wondering when they will turn your power back on, only 2,000 days after "Mission Accomplished!"

Or perhaps it was Haiti? You know, where it was decided that a "democracy" run by corruption so rife and endemic that elections were not recognized by the international community where apparently worthy of US intervention.

How about Nicaragua, where many amongst the populace were so sick of Somoza's brazen and open corruption, nepotism, and the fact that he was a dictator who had stolen land from hundreds of thousands of their country members, without any international interference, that they rose up and rebelled. Their heinous crime? Accepting help from - gasp - COMMIES! - in order to do so. What else was a good Freedom loving US president to do to "restore" "democracy", but to order one of his spy agencies to begin financing, arming and training rebels. Let's not overlook the fact that Nicaragua was in ruins, and the Sandanistas did a whole lot to try to rebuild their nation, but oh no, better dead than red, dontcha know?

Or maybe Panama - where Noriega, a nice, Freedom loving gun- and drug-running dictator, the kind we in the US try to install in countries - had many many meetings, and lots of involvement with the CIA, and ol' buddy of Ronald Reagan, Ollie North.

Actually, let's make the list shorter. Let's try to list places the US has invaded since World War II with the real and genuine aim, and perhaps even accomplishment, of helping a nation be a functioning, non-puppet, democracy.

...

It's a far shorter list, isn't it... ?

we are still the last, best hope for Freedom in the world

Let's not go blowing the "World Policeman" whistle too much. We've used it far too many times when we weren't being world policemen at all, we were acting in -our- interests, not those of that nation, nor the world. Acting in your own interest is not (inherently) a problem. Pretending you're the line between light and dark while milking your own interests, however, is.

Re:Countdown

[jandrese]

Yeah, I'm sure that one had nothing to do with being politically charged...

Dude, it's made from leggos, it is nerd news

[DeadDecoy]

The Olympics may be for jocks but building anything in an extensive manner using legos is still awesome. What matters is not the context of the subject but rather the engineering creativity behind it, and I'd have to say, the love and detail in this project is impressive. 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 :).

Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit

[MagdJTK]

What?! TFA has a load of pictures of things which aren't from a guide.

"Kids aren't creative!"

"These kids are being creative right now."

"Don't use facts to ruin my rant, you brat!"

Don't act so suprised

[fm6]

Featuring 300,000 bricks, and 4,500 Lego, it was built by the Hong Kong Lego User Group. Yes that exists.

Why not? It's not like The West has a patent on geekitude. If anything, the geek mindset is even more prevalent in Chinese-speaking countries than here. They didn't become so dominant in electronic products by growing rice.

Re:Don't act so suprised

[seasleepy]

Er... I think it's more surprise that that a Lego User Group exists, rather than surprise that people in Hong Kong have heard of Lego.

Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit

[qoncept]

The really disappointing part is the number of special pieces. Nothing is made out of Legos anymore, they're all made out of the same parts as every other toy with Lego connectors instead of GI Joe rivets.

Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit

[eln]

Also, there are a lot more kids on my lawn these days, and they won't get off.

Seriously, have you ever actually seen kids playing with toys? The imagination is definitely there, and they do freely mix and match toys to fit whatever game they're playing, which is often something they're making up on the spot.

I have a 9 year old and a 6 year old, and they're constantly engaged in some form of imaginative play. Just because the play sets these days tend to be trying to encourage playing to a specific story line, kids rarely do that.

Mod parent funny, not informative

[Ethanol-fueled]

Hmmph, many jocks played with Legos as kids.

I'll bet a few Slashdotters even played sports when they were younger. Hell, I might even say that there are some who still play, if not watch, sports -- even if a few NFL games are more important than the entire olympics to them.