The Star Destroyer is a benchmark of construction in some Lego circles. Groups get together to speed-build the thing. A few years back I saw one put together in a little over an hour. (Wired News)
About the toothing, many other outlets reported it as truth as well.
A few days later, the print media requests started coming. We kept a record at the start of where we were mentioned, but there were soon too many to record in full. There are hundreds of tiny anecdotes, though. I had to write Penthouse-letters-page style sexual adventure stories for a full page article and interview in The Telegraph. So many papers read that and followed up, broadsheet and tabloid, regional, national, all over the planet. One of us made an appearance on Radio 5 Live, and had a Conservative MP declare his interest in Toothing as a way of meeting women. We received a whole host of offers to licensed official Toothing merchandise: sex lines, web pages, even mobile phone software. German TV station RTL agreed to pixellate our faces and change our voices for a pre-recorded interview. We were invited to attend - and promised a stand - at China's national sex exhibition. And so on, and so on.
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The Star Destroyer is a benchmark of construction in some Lego circles. Groups get together to speed-build the thing. A few years back I saw one put together in a little over an hour. (Wired News)
Actually, he's now an editor at Wired News.
Uh ... a paragraph linking to an article elsewhere is not "news."
News? Here? Blow into this balloon, please.
It's just Wired News. The mag has nothing to do with it.
Criminy, doesn't anyone look at Boingboing?
Last week in Wired News.
Probably had a good night at the poker table. (Although I usually get Franklins instead.)
Actually, Wired News did this story two weeks ago.