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Amazing Lego creations

Rob Beschizza at 6:55 am Mon, Jun 27, 2011

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Dan Rutter has a roundup of "clever Lego things on the web," including mechanized Starcraft units, a harpsichord, and this dissected frog: "... these models are like Raven from Snow Crash. They just relieve you of the vague dissatisfied uncertainty that you might, given the right set of circumstances, become the world's greatest Lego badass, if you tried really really hard.."

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Anonymous

On the last Sunday of the academic year, our church (the episcopal Church of St Barnabas in Irvington NY) has the Sunday School kids help run the service. This year they replaced the ornate cross on the altar with a colorful version made of Legos–quite attractive!
teapot

They missed this one:
http://www.reposter.net/2011/05/worlds-most-complex-lego-great-ball-contraption/

Oh, and the vehicles from Halo:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/149880