The Difference Between LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Home Edition (#31313) and LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 (#45544)EV3 General, Featured, Product Guides 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars LEGO Space: Building the Future ""Nothing could be more awesome." —Wired ScienceLEGO Space: Building the Future (first published October 22nd 2013) To see what your friends thought of this book, To ask other readers questions about Be the first to ask a question about LEGO Space Lists with This Book This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list » 1 2 3 4 next » new topicDiscuss This Book There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one »NEW SEALED LEGO Creator Emerald Night Train set (10194) in BoxWith LEGO Digital Designer you can design and create your very own Mindstorms robot.They have helped transform Lego into some of the most popular toys on the market and even turned its coloured bricks into valuable collectors items.
But the best-selling Jurassic World and Star Wars Lego sets may be stifling children's creativity, according to a new study.Rather than traditional Lego bricks, which relied upon children's imagination to create something wonderful from a pile of plastic, the themed kits come with instructions on how to put them together. Lego kits like the Star Wars Millennium Falcon shown above, which went on sale for £168, may stifle children's creativity according to a new study by providing them with instructions on how to build the kits rather than encouraging free play and the use of their imaginations like traditional Lego setsResearchers found that these instructions make it too easy to create spaceships and dinosaurs and did not spark any creativity in youngsters.Children who were given the traditional toy bricks without instructions were found to outperform those who had been given the sets with step-by-step instructions when they later did other creative tasks. Lego has come under fire in the past from parents who hare concerned about its specialist model building kits.
They worry it takes away the pleasure and ambition involved in a child just sitting with a box of bricks and creating something from their own imagination.The debate was triggered by British blogger, Chris Swan, who complained: ‘The problem is sets that only make one thing like a dragon or something licensed from a movie.’The IT expert who was previously in the Royal Navy said: ‘Lego for me was always about creativity, remaking and improving on existing designs. Those things don’t happen with sets that are designed to build a model of a single thing.'His views were supported by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto Professor Marit Gundersen Engeset, from the Buskerud and Vestfold University College in Norway, said: 'There are a lot of studies that explore what enhances creativity. Ours is one of the few that considers ways in which creativity may be undermined.'What we find is that a well-defined problem — in our case, following an explicit set of instructions to build something with Legos — can actually hamper creativity in solving future problems.'Lego has insisted it bricks can help to foster creativity in children by giving them the opportunity to build almost anything they want.
The company's Legoland theme parks provides some idea of just how creative some people can get with entire cities built in miniature.Annual competitions also challenge youngsters, and some adults, to engineer and construct the most impressive structures they can come up with.However, some parents have complained that the trend for themed sets where Lego kits are specially designed to be built into a specific object, often from a film, are robbing their children of that creative freedom. Researchers gave two groups of children either a set of Lego bricks without instructions or a themed kit with instructions. They were later given creative tasks and those who had been given the bricks without instructions outperformed the other group. A stock picture of children playing with Lego is shown above Lego kits, like this Death Star from the Star Wars series, have proven to be extremely popular and in many cases have become collectors items. However, they come with instructions to make it easier to build them
Lego has released many different themed kits, usually based around popular movies, such as the Ghostbusters kit shown above. These helped to turn the company into one of the world's biggest toy firms Following the release of Jurassic World, Lego also released a range of specially made kits, shown aboveTo test this Professor Gundersen Engeset and her colleague Dr Page Moreau from the University of Wisconsin, whose research is published in the Journal of Marketing Research, gave some young subjects complete sets of the toy bricks with step-by-step instructions while others were left to build what they like.They said the results suggest the instructions with the Lego sets is similar to Googling a solution to a problem rather than retrieving it from memory.The researchers wrote: 'Managers and policymakers should become more aware of the way in which things like routine tasks can make an employee ill-suited for creative work and how standardised testing, by encouraging the use of well-defined problems, can hamper imaginative thinking.'
Lego bricks have been used to create some truly impressive creations, like this replica of London's Tower Bridge and the Thames at Legoland in Windsor pictured aboveIt's 2017, and it's hard to imagine a world in which Lego didn't exist. From its ubiquitous bricks, to its theme parks, to the host of media tie-ins, via video games, movies, comics–and more! – Lego is the biggest toy brand on the planet.In this post we've celebrated the Lego legacy (a Legocy, no doubt!) by presenting you with some of the greatest models ever built. So sit back and enjoy, as we showcase the very best in Lego art, from both certified Lego professionals and some amateurs whose love for Lego knows no bounds. Kicking off our Lego art examples is this brilliant Batman Batarang, which crash landed in London recently to mark the release of the Lego Batman movie. Made from 35,000 lego bricks, it took the team at Bright Bricks 225 man hours to build, with broken pavement, smoke and lights (all non-Lego based) completing the scene of destruction.
Lego Albums is a project by Harry Heaton, an artist who recreates iconic album covers using the little bricks. The finished products resemble low-resolution pixelated versions of album art, but are nonetheless brilliant. This replica of JME's Integrity album is definitely one of our favourite. Check out Heaton's collection to find yours. Everyone loves the Simpsons, but veteran Lego artist Matt De Lanoy clearly loves them more than most. Just a few months after the release of the official Simpsons Lego set, he's recreated the entire town of Springfield in coloured bricks, including the Kwik-E-Mart, Moe's, Krusty Burger, the nuclear power plant and more. This image only shows one corner of his creation – see more on his Flickr page.Professional Lego artist Warren Elsmore broke records in March, with an exhibition of 72 Lego models. Attracting over 50,000 visitors, with 2,000 on the busiest day, the likes of the Olympic Park and St Pancras Station in London and the Forth Bridge were on show.
His Las Vegas strip also proved hugely popular.Korean Lego artist Jin Kei has given life to one of the giant four-legged mammals from Salvador Dali’s painting 'The Elephants'. At 32 inches, the artist added his own steampunk twist with mechanical accessories, making for a seriously impressive piece of Lego art.The Creative Bloq team was extremely excited to learn that Back to the Future Lego was a thing. Our excitement then prompting us to then search for BTTF Lego fan art, which is when we came across this 19th century train by G Russo.Currently featured on the Lego Cuusoo website, Russo is keen to get his design developed into an actual Lego set. And he's gone all out to try and ensure that happens, adding fine details including two side panels that fold open to reveal an overhead door, some foldout steps, and various controls, levers, pipes, and wheels for controlling the train.The talented team at Brickworkz create the most amazing custom Lego art work. posed of over 20,000 Lego bricks, the cool mosaic currently resides at legal office of William Ellyson in Richmond, Virginia.This Lego aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman has got to be one of the most impressive creations on our list, in terms of size and detail.
The 200,000 brick, 4.5m long, 350-pound aircraft carrier comes complete with electrical lights as well as moving elevators and radar dishes.The epic sculpture, built by German Lego fan Malle Hawking, also includes a half submarine and a mini gunboat on the side.After discovering the Lego Factory and latest Lego Digital Designer software recently, artist Simon C Page was become hooked on Lego art design. And this Lego framed rainbow is his first creation.Created out of 3,029 bricks, there are over 200 1x1 pieces of each of the 16 colours used throughout. Page comments on his website: "It has took me over six hours to put together and wasn't easy - stacking nearly 50 1 x 1 piece end to end nearly 50 times across, all the time keeping to a strick colouring pattern."Project 'Build Up Japan' was sponsored and curated by the legendary toy brick makers and encouraged school children to build imaginary structures - with the result of a Japan that they wanted to see.With a little help from their parents and a few Lego officials, children across Japan were able to create their country the way they wanted it.
The total number of Lego bricks used was a jaw-dropping 1.8 million!How cool is this? This isn’t a child-sized toy set: it’s actually a life-sized LEGO forest in the Australian Outback! It’s made up of 15 pine trees, and 15 flower sets, all 66 times bigger than their design toys counterpart – making the trees a whopping 4m high.The iconic toy brick company built this amazing creation in Living Desert State Park, a 2400ha reserve more than 700 miles west of Sydney, as part of its 50-year anniversary celebration.Last year, the UK's only certified LEGO technician Duncan Titchmarsh built this huge advent calendar sculpture. Made up of approximately 600,000 bricks, the installation was unveiled in central London's Covent Garden shopping area.Each door was opened at 4pm every day in the lead up to Xmas day. The presents behind each were also cool Lego creations. An awesome way to celebrate the festive season.Take a trip to Disney World in Florida and you'll find this awesome Lego sea monster, Brickley.
The cool character is made out of 170,000 LEGO bricks, stretches a whopping 30 feet and weighs half a ton!The brilliant sculpture is one of many found in Downtown Disney at the LEGO Imagination centre. Other models include a Transformer, giant models of Woody and Buzz Lightyear and the Seven Dwarves.Paul Hetherington - known in the Lego world as BrickBaron - had already given a sneak peek to this incredible creation, by showing off the lower structure full of mermaids, oceans and ships. Little did we know that it would actually play as part of a much larger sculpture featuring the God of the sea.Poseidon was built for the Vancouver Lego Club's Mythology exhibit at the Surrey Museum; taking place from July until September 15th. The attention to detail is astonishing: we don't know if we'd have the patience to build something as impressive as this! You can see more photos of Poseidon, as well as Paul's other work on his Flickr page.This stunning sculpture was created by Bram Lambrecht using LSculpt - a program which converts a triangle mesh into an LDraw file.
Like the sphere generator, the generated model consists of a surface of 1×1 plates oriented in whichever direction provides the best detail.We love that Bram has taken the time to create not only the body and branch but the shadow too. It's these details that make certain Lego sculptures stand out from the rest. You can see more of Bram's work on his official website.Although created in 2009, this huge Mario sculpture still deserves a mention. Crafted by brick layer Dirk Van Haesbroeck, it took him just over two weeks to finalise the plumber. Mario is comprised of 30,000 LEGO bricks with the pedestal containing another 12,000. This video showcases the 160 hours of work in just over a minute.Once the sculpture was finished, it was auctioned off on eBay in aid of Ronald McDonald, a Dutch organisation that arranges proper housing for relatives of hospitalised children in the vicinity of clinics. It sold for an impressive $5100. You can see more of Dirk's Lego art on his Facebook page.Despite its short run on television almost ten years ago, fans of Firefly and film Serenity still express an intense love and passion for the Joss Whedon series.
One such fan decided to build the ultimate homage to the sci-fi show with a replica of the ship Serenity.Adrian Drake used around 70,000 Lego pieces and the project took 475 hours over the course of 21 months. The ship itself weighs an incredible 135 pounds due to the intricate details Adrian has included. You can more of Adrian's stunning Lego art on his website.What can we say about Nathan? Well, first off he's one of the, if not the biggest Lego artist around. Counting himself as one of the world's certified Lego professionals, when he's not jetting off around the world showcasing his artwork in prestigious galleries, he's at his studio creating the next array of Lego art masterpieces.Here, the pop-up book is a celebration of Waldo H. Hunt - ''the king of pop-up.'' It's created entirely out of Lego (which is handy for this list) and is based around a poem Nathan wrote himself. You can see the said poem across the pages of the book, which we think is a lovely touch.See more of Nathan's incredible work at his personal website.
Or just go to number 2!We could compile this entire list with Nathan's creations but we'll treat you to just two. 'Crowd' has been trawling the United States for quite some time thanks to Nathan's popular exhibitions so you may have seen it before.Inspired by the throngs of people walking the streets of New York, 'Crowd' also gives us a sense of George Orwell's 1984 with its watchful eye. The blending of the Lego colours is a perfect example of how talented Nathan is; combining art and toys has never looked so good.Both 'Pop-up book' and 'Crowd' are currently on tour as part of Nathan's THE ART OF THE BRICK exhibition. Schedule information can be found on his website.Anyone who can call themselves a 'professional kid' and can make money from building robots (and other such things) out of Lego, definitely deserves a mention. Sean Kenney is another certified Lego art professional and does just that and has been making waves on the sculpture scene for quite some time.In this video, the short tutorial coincides with the release of his book 'Cool Robots.'