8 LEGO creations that will blow your mind
It's obvious that LEGO stimulates the inventiveness of builders, and the creations sometimes eclipse anything that's been done before. Let me present you with a list of LEGO constructions that, in my eyes, embody the unusual and the breathtaking.
Some people don't want to settle for a few LEGOs, but design, build or programme their own creations, which they then publish online. The result? Pure madness, as seen in these illustrations. See for yourself!
The superlative constructions
You may be familiar with the song "Harder Better Faster Stronger" by French band "Daft Punk"? Well, some fans are competing creatively in their videos by staging these superlatives. Not long ago, the YouTube channel "TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE" came up with a LEGO version of the song. Using a crane made entirely of LEGO, a GoPro camera synchronises itself to the words of the song, which are made up of the famous little plastic bricks. Here, construction combines with programming.
It était un petit navire
The builder of this warship is called Daniel Siskind. The LEGOsphere knows him well, as this is not his first attempt. The USS Missouri, a battleship of the US Navy, is one of his biggest models. It measures no less than eight metres in length and is made up of more than half a million bricks. The deck features cannons and artillery. What's more, the historic signing of the war-ending naval treaty between Japan and the United States has even been recreated.
The Last Supper
Here is a mosaic of more than 78,000 Lego bricks depicting Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, a work created in a fortnight by 73 children who digitised the image before converting it into pixels. This process enabled them to determine the number of pieces and their colours. The result? A 3m x 1.5m "painting" made of LEGOs.
On the bridge...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest LEGO model in the world is this 13-metre-high replica of London's Tower Bridge, a set piece made to mark the launch of the new Land Rover Discovery. 5,805,846 Lego pieces were needed, half a million more than the previous record.
A beautiful little cube
In 2014, two engineers, David Gilday and Mike Dobson, built and programmed a LEGO Mindstorms robot that took 18 months to complete. For the brain, they used a Samsung Galaxy S4, whose camera recognises the Rubik's Cube, calculates movements and transmits commands to the robot's arms. At the time, they broke the world record in 3.253 seconds, a record that has been surpassed many times since. Nevertheless, this feat deserves a moment's reflection.
1+1=3
Calculators weren't born yesterday, in fact they've been around for over a century. Just not in LEGO. What happens when you harness proven technology from LEGO Technic pieces? Nostalgia, for anyone who remembers these calculating machines from the past. The LEGO calculator shown in the video is a two-operation machine; in other words, it can only add and subtract. For multiplication and division, perhaps someone will develop a LEGO machine with three or four operations in the future? Are you up for the challenge?
Why keep it simple when you can keep it complicated
For the man who designed this bullet machine, time was of no importance whatsoever. And with good reason, it took him a whopping 600 hours. The 1.5 m x 6.5 m construction is made up of 17 modules containing 500 balls, which travel a distance of 31 metres before returning to their starting point. And off they go again.
Fifty fifty
In 2015, for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, LEGO teamed up with Porsche to create this model, a car that was half Lego - 380,000 pieces - and half Porsche 911. A year later the orange Porsche LEGO Technic landed on the market. The question remains, however, whether the model in the video was a publicity stunt or whether the cooperation between the two brands only began at that point.
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