Did you ever think those small, plastic bricks could ever be powerful enough to solve a Rubik's cube or act like a gun? You'll be in admiration at the adults who took Legos to the next level by making them a part of 21st century technology. The only painful downside: accidentally stepping on one!
Functional V8 engine
This isn't just a static scale model of a V8 engine. It actually runs. With a little electricity, the thing springs to life. (Obviously van der Hart didn't want real gasoline running through the engine, combusting, and turning the model into a molten blob of plastic.) Plus, since it runs on electricity, it's technically the engine of a smart car!
M.C. Escher art
One of the most famous is the infinite staircase, which jumped back into pop culture when it appeared in Inception.
But that didn't stop Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shui, an eccentric team of Escher (and LEGO) fans. The most impressive models they made re-created “Ascending and Descending” (the staircase one) and “Relativity.” Unfortunately, they learned that changing the structure of reality is actually impossible, so the team used super-clever optical illusions to recreate the print … but only if viewed from one side.
Using something called the SNOT technique (which probably only makes sense if you're a level 100 Master Builder who has sold your soul to the devil), they accurately recreated gravity working against the laws of reality.
USS Harry S. Truman
Instead of just creating a little model, though Hawking decided to create it on mini-figure scale using only 25 internet pictures. The end product is a 16-foot long, 4-foot tall, 350-pound model. It displaces enough water to float.
Since it's a scale model, the creation has a flight deck, full-sized hangar bay and meticulously modeled bridge. Hawking included every airplane in the complement of the Harry S. Truman's air wing.
The aircraft elevators and radar dishes actually move and work. Even the catapult was modeled and motorized.
Life-sized X-wing
Using canon sources for the dimensions, the LEGO builders put together the iconic spaceship, piece by piece. In the end, they used 5 million pieces. It is 42 times bigger than the commercially available X-wing model, and took 4 months to make.
At 45,000 pounds and engineered to withstand stresses, there really isn't that much of a difference between the model and its fictional counterpart, except for all the sci-fi tech (as far as we know).
Life-sized T-800
Designed by Martin Latta, the T-800 stands at an impressive six feet tall, and is a faithful reproduction of the iconic cyborg assassin.
Pretty much everything else is in place, with all the pistons and components modeled with loving care. With a life-sized X-wing and a life-sized T-800 hanging around, the rise of the machines will probably come from the T-800 gaining sentience and modifying the X-wing to actually fly.
Tallest LEGO tower
In 2015, the record went to an Italian LEGO group for their 114-foot-11-inches-tall LEGO tower. The LEGO Tower of Babel was a fabulous rainbow of plastic bricks stretching a couple of stories above the historic buildings of Milan. Naturally, the record was broken the following year, with a tower in a German Legoland beating the Italian tower by another foot and a half.
If the record just slowly keeps inching higher and higher, that is going to take a while, but just wait: the 2375 LEGO tower record is going to be insane.
A world record-holder Rubik's Cube-solving robot
Named CubeStormer III, this brilliant little robot solves cubes in just 3.253 seconds. The brains of the robot are a normal Samsung Galaxy phone. Its processors use an app to figure out how to solve the cube.
Remember, these are made completely out of LEGO, which we never knew could move so fast. Also, unlike humans, CubeStormer III can inspect the cube and figure out the solution while still moving its robot components.
A full-sized, functional house
When James May was a boy, he wanted to build LEGO full-sized house.
From the outside, his house just looks like a block of LEGOs, but any fan of Top Gear knows that James May does not do anything halfway. The house was connected to water lines — the sink runs water, the toilet flushes, and the shower works.
He got the community to take part, and it became a labor of love for all his fans. But the house had to be demolished by order of the landowner, and Legoland went all cheap-skate.
A functioning HK UMP 45 submachine gun
The coolest model is his HK UMP 45, but he has also made sniper rifles, World War II machine guns, and pump-action shotguns. The UMP 45 is faithfully reproduced in cool black bricks. The firing mechanism is faithfully modeled after real weapons, but instead of shooting bullets, it just shoots little bricks.
Streat went ahead and reproduced all the accessories of the HK UMP 45. A collapsible stock comes with the model, as does a Reflex sight. In case the sight doesn't work, Streat made sure to give the gun classic iron sights.
Allianz Arena
The arena itself is pretty amazing, but honestly, seeing it made of LEGOs is actually more impressive. By using careful layering of bricks, however, the curved facade was re-created. That's probably the coolest part of it.
At “full capacity,” the model seats up to 30,000 little LEGO figures, some of which were designed by park visitors. The huge stadium stands 1 meter tall, and completely replicates the iconic curves the original stadium. If that wasn't enough, the stadium also lights up like the real thing, and even has smoke effects that can shoot out over the crowd of LEGO figures.
A shockingly detailed map of Europe
Now at first, that doesn't sound like much, but this isn't just a normal map. Oh no, the builders of the project wanted to design a relief map, with all the mountain ranges, river beds, and lowlands of Europe modeled to scale. They decided to recreate 44 of the most famous landmarks in Europe out of LEGOs, and stick them on the map in their respective locations.https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Which lego creation is your favorite? Have you come across any other cool things made from legos?
Article & Photo Source: Grunge
