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The wonderful things you can build with Lego

By David Bennett Posted on May 15, 2017 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with engineering, toys

Enter the Lego exoskeleton When building a flashy human exoskeleton, Lego is not the first building material that springs to mind.  Perhaps it should be, as this man demonstrates!   Photo by _nash

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What girls really want

By David Bennett Posted on February 1, 2016 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with social sciences, toys

A cautionary comic tale about interchangeable toy building blocks and gender prejudice. Photo by ricardoduplos

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Playmobil paintings

By Reden Posted on January 12, 2015 Posted in Thing of the Day 1 Comment Tagged with art, toys

This is a delightful take on some classic works of art: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2015/01/07/playmobil-vs-classic-paintings/

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Lego Easter Eggs

By uoplib Posted on April 16, 2014 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with Easter, toys

Carrying on with Thing of the Day’s obsession with Lego, we wondered if anyone was making Lego Easter eggs. Of course there is! http://hilug.org/?p=351 You still have time to make yours. Happy Easter! Photo by TooMuchDew

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Dinovember

By Reden Posted on November 18, 2013 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with animals, models, toys

Our thanks to S for finding this gem: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/6f4cb1886d41

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Lego Librarians

By Reden Posted on August 2, 2013 Posted in Thing of the Day 1 Comment Tagged with librarians, toys

All good fun?  Or a pandering to stereotypes?! https://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/image-public-perception-and-lego-librarians/ let us know.

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Lego Good Friday

By Reden Posted on March 29, 2013 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with Easter, hobbies, toys

We often find Lego things to post to TOTD from around the web, but this is more locally produced. A colleague has had one of their children creating an Easter ‘scene’ in a ‘basket’ and this was their contribution. Jesus …

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pop-up Lego book

By Reden Posted on December 3, 2012 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with books, design, toys

If you thought yesterday’s skittle sorting machine was clever, this is a work of pure genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlA3NV0rFA (Our thanks to Roo for both these items)

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Lego studio

By Reden Posted on November 6, 2012 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with hobbies, toys

We knew we were fairly keen on Lego here at TOTD, see our tag cloud for evidence of that.  But the only Lego the Library actually had was recently stolen sadly.  However, our enthusiasm is clearly totally outshone by occasional …

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LOTR LEGO

By Reden Posted on January 31, 2012 Posted in Thing of the Day 2 Comments Tagged with films, toys

TOTD loves LEGO! TOTD loves Lord of the Rings! Therefore how can we not love Lord of the Rings LEGO? http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/01/30/53265-for-your-exclusive-viewing-pleasure-lego-lord-of-the-rings-horribly-cute-bad-guys/

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