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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.
You missed it.
It's right next to the Lego miniatures of politicians looking the other way.
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There is still lots of creativity with Legos. Haven't you ever heard of factory.lego.com?
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!"
That's what I thought until I started to buy kits for my son. He did build according to the instructions. Then he proceeded to do what I had done, and what you are waxing nostalgic about, 20 years before. He built whatever he pleased. He built, destroyed, rebuilt, on and on. He would spend entire days surrounded by his Lego.
I think the blocks are all good. Old and new. He seems to have outgrown them now. He's 14 and he started with Lego when he was two or three. The thousands of dollars worth of newer generation blocks (and all of the instructions) are boxed away with the older generation blocks (with no instructions -- they got lost somewhere along the way) for future rediscovery.
I think that Lego blocks are _still_ the world's greatest toy.
I didn't realize that Lego had a "smog" building block.
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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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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. . . .
> 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?
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.