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Brick By Brick: James May's Lego house comes down

Top Gear host James May went to Dorking, England and built a Lego fort house in an orchard with more than three million Lego pieces. Now it's time for him to vacate the premises, and the house has been torn down. Mays had tried to get the structure taken to the Lego park in Windsor, but the cost and logistics were too challenging for the park to accept. So now it's dismantled, all the way down to its red Lego slippers. With the plastic fantastic house in pieces, all of the bricks will go to charity and "they have all been allocated, so ... Read more →

VIDEO: Don't call it OCD: Dude builds 32-valve DOHC V8 out of Legos Jonny Lieberman

For those about to rock, we salute you, of course. And for those of you with four months of free time, seventeen suitcases full of Lego bricks and a masters in mechanical engineering, we'll totally ...

Stig and the boys immortalized in bricks as Top Gear makes it to Legoland Frank Filipponio

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Top_Gear_Immortalized_in_Legoland_w_pic'; Another Saturday, another LEGO car story. This time, the little Danish bricks have been used to immortalize the ...

VIDEO: Limited slip differential Lego style Jonny Lieberman

After spending enough time searching YouTube to make us reconsider our personal path in life, we're slowly coming to the conclusion that there just aren't other old-timey awesome vids like the one ...

REPORT: James May to build life-sized Lego house. But what's in the garage? Jonathon Ramsey

James May, a.k.a. Captain Slow on Top Gear, has a BBC show called James May's Toy Stories. After building an award-winning Plasticine garden and the world's largest model airplane, the next thing on ...

VIDEO: Triumph Daytona motorcycle assembled from Lego bricks 4 months ago on Autoblog

Further proof that you can literally fashion anything if given access to enough interconnecting Lego bricks is this Triumph Daytona 1200 motorcycle. The machine has apparently been on display for quite some time at Legoland Windsor in Berkshire, England and is obviously assembled from thousands ...

Childhood Redeemed: Lego artist creates jaw-dropping four-wheeled creations 6 months ago on Autoblog

This is how you tell the master from the journeyman: Give them a common task, place the same tools in each of their hands, and while journeyman's results will be acceptable, the master's results will be amazing. Firas Abu-Jaber has a way with Legos that certainly qualifies him as a master in ...

Mad physicist creates cars out of LEGOs 9 months ago on Autoblog

Today we bring you some more wonderfully crazy LEGO creations, this time created by a genuine mad scientist. The creator is actually a physicist living in Southampton, England, and his creations are so insanely imaginative that he is often described as mad by fellow LEGO artists, which explains ...

Standardization gone amok: LEGO Ferrari F2008 F1 car 1 year ago on Autoblog

Perhaps this is Ferrari's answer to the FIA's threat to move to standardized engines: standardized building blocks! What could be more fair than to have every team start out with their own huge package of LEGOs? The drivetrain could remain unique or might even be a LEGO V8, but each team would get ...

Build your own 1960 Beetle - with Legos 1 year ago on Autoblog

There's likely to be no shortage of VW Beetle owners who can relate to this new kit from Lego. It's a box with 1,626 parts in it that one day, after hours of work, will resemble a classic Bug. Three differences: This box of bits will only cost you $120 and a successful build is probably not above ...

'66 Barris Batmobile hits the bricks 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for photo gallery Lino M is one of our favorite custom Lego builders. We've shared some of his work with you in the past, and if you frequent his flickr photo stream, you'll find that he's usually up to something new. One of his recent creations is this rather spectacular, unbelievably ...

LEGO my V8 engine! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click on the image for more shots of the LEGO V8 engine Is there anything that a set of LEGO bricks can't create? In the last few months, we've seen a Camaro and a Mustang both built with nothing that wasn't manufactured by the LEGO corporation, and each of those creations featured a V8 engine and ...

Up on Blocks: Lego replica '67 Mustang 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above to view more of the Lego Mustang in our gallery A fair share of us Autobloggers were ambitious Lego builders as kids, but we never cooked anything up like this. From Crowkillers, the same hands that brought us the new Camaro made from the plastic Danish bricks, comes this replica 1967 ...

The "Death Proof" Nova in Lego...and more 1 year ago on Autoblog

"Death Proof" Nova by Lino M. Most of us played with Legos as kids. Half the fun of getting a big new set was mining it for parts we'd then use to perfect our own creations. Time passes, we grow up, and the vast majority of us stop building. The bricks get handed off to a younger generation of ...

VIDEO: Lego car parks itself better than Lexus for less than $250 2 years ago on Autoblog

After watching the hilarious video from the guys at Automobile trying to use the self-parking feature on the new Lexus LS460, this video is truly amazing. For a measly $249, the crew at Mindstorms NXT will sell you a complete kit to build an SPC (self-parking car) of your own. The SPC will ...

Le Mans goes Lego on cover of Winding Road 3 years ago on Autoblog

Online auto mag Winding Road has always been an interesting read, but one area in which the digital rag's been lacking is graphic design, particularly when it comes to covers. The most recent issue eclipses all others by foregoing the expense of more talented graphic designers and putting the mag's ...






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