Our apologies, the content you requested cannot be located. using the Search box above.Twenty-two years before WALL·E's sermon about over-consumption hit theaters, an even better movie robot had already saved the day. Every child of the '80s wanted Johnny Five as their best friend, and now that we're all grown up, that might actually come true with a little help from Lego. submitted this fan-built set to , and because it's so impossibly perfect, it's already racked up the 10,000 votes needed for Lego to officially consider putting it into production. Standing seven-inches tall there's a remarkable amount of detail in this set built from just 300 pieces of Lego, including a pair of working tank treads and some remarkably expressive eyes. As it moves onto the next round, Johnny Five will be up against other fan-built sets like the which is going to provide stiff competition sinceBut hopefully someone on Lego's jury has a soft spot for cheesy '80s popcorn flicks and helps number five along.
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Ad: MilaapEarn profits from Premium Commercial properties in IndiaAd: Property ShareBaby needs an urgent surgery in next 48 hoursAd: MilaapHelp This Pastor save his 4-yr-old Daughter! View all Portraiture Architectural models Sculpture Home decor Children's books Available for sale or lease This model of the Tribune Building in Chicago is 4 feet tall and contains 27,000 LEGO pieces. On display with two other Chicago landmarks The building was created together with the Trump International Hotel and Tower and Water Tower Place which are together on permanent display at the LEGO store at Water Tower Place Mall in downtown Chicago. It was an absolute joy to replicate this classic, Gothically-styled building. Every last corner of the building is covered in ornate details, making it a great challenge to replicate it using nothing more than standard, off-the-the-shelf LEGO pieces.
The top of the building is covered in detailed facade work, made doubly complex by the fact that it octagonal shaped and has several different octagonal setbacks. (LEGO bricks like doing squares, but octagons can be a challenge when you know they need to line up with things on all eight sides and eventually close at the top. Because I'm insane, I always have to make my building's windows with window shades behind them, some open, some closed, some halfway in between. It takes a lot longer to build the building this way, but it really adds a lot of life to the model. It's one of those things that you never realize is there, but if it was missing... you'd notice. Much along the same lines, I have this bizarre fascination with "roof junk". Creating the iconic "Chicago Tribune" lettering across the side of the building was fun. I spent an entire eight-hour day building the lettering in many different ways, until I finally had something that not only looked like the Gothic lettering from the newspaper's masthead, but that just as importantly fit in the proper space along the side of the building!
(If you look closely, you'll see that the lettering is built completely sideways.) At the start of the project I spent a full day designing the pattern of the windows. This building was to stand on display alongside five other Chicago landmarks, so it needed to be the same scale as the rest. That meant, however, that the windows would need to be 1.5 studs across, which was a problem since There's no such thing as half-of-a-LEGO-piece, let alone such a thing as a window. So I devised this idea and used tan bars (commonly used as light sabers or magic wands in retail LEGO sets) as a visual divider halfway between the windows. They mimic the real building's thin strips of bricks between sets of windows. Can you figure out how these diagonal windows are built? Here's a hint ... There's no glue, no cheating, and lots of voodoo. Unlike most of my sculptures, the entire model is ~unglued~ and managed to make its way to Chicago from my New York art studio in one piece! You can see this model in person!
It's on permanent display at the Chicago LEGO Store. 835 N. Michigan Avenue. Monday - Saturday: 10 am - 9 pm Sunday: 11 am - 6 pmThe Clash of the Robots - the Annual Lego Competition 22 Sep 2009 - 15:16:03 in Event With names like Praying Muntaz, Predator, Icarus and Optimal Prime, the stage was set for an exciting match at the Annual LegoMonday night gave students enrolled in ECSE430 Advanced Mechatronic Engineering II the opportunity to design, construct and programme autonomous robots that not only had to work but competeThe aim of the competition was to score the most points by having the robots locate and physically pick up a puck then deliver it to a donut shaped goal. Pucks varied in value depending upon how hard they were to locate. Maximum points were scored if the robots deposited the puck in the donut centre as opposed to the raisedAs the Robots were required to operate completely independently of humans, points were deducted if a competitor touched