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Yes, this is made entirely of legos. Legos have taken on a life of their own, it seems.
Recently, the editors of PC Magazine published their list of the "Top 10 Strangest (or Coolest...) Lego Creations". This particular creation [larger image] was made by Nathan Sawaya and used over 10,000 lego pieces and required more than 3 months to make this "Han Solo in Carbonite" masterpiece.
This website has photos of the top ten strangest Lego creations, including amazing items such as functional air conditioners (even though I live in NYC, I have never owned an air conditioner, so this is especially appealing to me), a harpsichord, computers and pinball machine.
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tags: lego
Comments
They left out Lego aircraft carrier and Cthulego Rising.
Posted by: Orac | June 10, 2006 8:40 PM
"Legos have taken on a life of their own, it seems."
Actually I think that's a Star Wars riff....
Posted by: David Harmon | June 10, 2006 8:40 PM
Hah... just looked over there. A Difference Engine ???!!! OK, that tops the Tinkertoy Tic-Tac-Toe computer all right....
Posted by: David Harmon | June 10, 2006 8:44 PM
hey dude thats freakin cool i wish i had eough legos to do that your awsome
Posted by: Daniel | July 25, 2007 7:49 PM
THIS IS TRULY A MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Lance | July 8, 2008 9:04 PM