Legos: Not Just For Kids

As a kid, I saw Legos as neat toys that were fun to play with.  Now as an adult, I'm realizing that they can do just about anything!

They can be used to repair a wall.

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They can be used to recreate a scene from a movie.

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They can even go into space!

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Seriously!  How cool can a bunch of little chunks of colored plastic be?  Too cool to express.  Simply too cool.

Star Wars and Escher, A Beautiful Pairing

It's being called "Nerd Nirvana."  This very well may be the case.  M. C. Escher is known all over the world for having created images that defied logic.  The impossible came to life before our eyes.  I grew up with an intense love for his works.

And now my love for Star Wars and Escher have been meshed into one glorious thing.  Click HERE to see it.

Now there's a little more beauty in the world.

An Unconventional Space Shuttle Launch

It seems the fabulous fad of sending unconventional objects into space continues.  Apparently the space shuttle needed to cross into space one final time.  Not every lego set travels 20 miles into the air.  Maybe Lego Man went up again and needed a ride back to Earth.

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Lego Man!

Wow!  While most kids spend their weekends at the local mall or cruising with friends ( I wouldn't know for sure what most kids do because I wasn't cool enough to be among them), two Toronto teens were playing with legos.  But their lego dreams went beyond the normal scope of things as they, for a mere $400, sent a lego man 78,000 feet into the air!  The video is awesome.

Now I find myself wondering what kind of crazy things I could have done as a kid if only I'd thought of them.