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Mark Frauenfelder at 1:12 pm Wed, Nov 30, 2011

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Lish Dorset of CRAFT made this nice display case to show off her collection of Lego mini figures. She also wrote complete step-by-step instructions for making one of your own.

Project: Lego Display Case

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • mrclamo

    Why not make the display case itself out of Lego? Now, that would be cool.

  • http://iynque.com Andrew Williams

    Not a very attractive or creative solution, and it really has nothing to do with Legos other than someone put Legos on it. So basically, this should be called, “Shelves: You can build them.”If I make a “Nintendo Display Case” by putting my Nintendo on a table, will you publicize it for me? I mean, you do like Nintendo, don’t you? …and I’ve mentioned Nintendo so my table is cool, right?

    HA! That’ll teach you to have a website and to like things!

  • Bevatron Repairman

    I used an old (letterpress) California job case to the same effect.  

  • http://www.falconlara.net oscarfalcon

    I would love to make one for my minifigs. Awesome.

  • xzzy

    These exist in purchasable form as “slotted display cases”. They can be as expensive or as cheap as you’d like. 

  • sockdoll

    At first glance I thought that the author had used cheap wooden yardsticks to construct the shelves, and at second glance I thought that she and her boyfriend had found a source for old-fashioned wooden lath strips. 

    Then I saw that they were ripping strips from a sheet of  lauan, which I’ve done myself for similar small projects, and found it to be not entirely suitable.

    YMMV

  • Alvis

    LEGOs, ukuleles, steampunk… some things just have a much lower attractive/creative bar to cross before they get the Boing Boing nod.

  • http://www.silkstream.net/ Hayley (Silkstream)

    I bet you can buy shelves just like this from that well known swedish furniture store. Think the post should have centered around the lego collection.