Today I learned that LEGO has a program where you can send them your old LEGO (bricks, pieces, mini-figs, etc). LEGO will then take them in, wash / sterilize them, and donate them to children in need!
🌊 Miniature octopuses, scuba tanks, life rafts, flippers, sharks and some very rare green dragons are still washing ashore along the Cornwall coast today, 25 years after a container of Lego was washed off the deck of a cargo ship.
In 2020 the #LEGO Foundation released a set of #braille bricks. These sets are donated to schools and accompanied with a website* to both "learn braille" (well, get more used to it) and have fun.
Now these bricks will also be for sale in a set to the general public. The set comes with a manual and a lot of exercises.
Took the kids to Melbourne Museum today to see 'Relics', a temporary exhibition depicting a post-apocalyptic world where LEGO minifigs have risen from the debris to craft new civilisations in discarded human artefacts.
I have to say that this repurposed old Space Invaders cab certainly caught my eye.
OK shameless self promotion time. Here is my personal website featuring all of my original #StarTrek#DoctorWho and #DC#LEGO builds, including my 4 foot #USSEnterprise project from 2020. Feel free to take a peek (and kindly boost if you like what you see):
The set was introduced back in 2019, but only as a kit that was distributed for free to limited recipients, like people and organizations specializing in teaching kids with vision impairments. After a couple years of feedback, #LEGO has decided to make the set widely available.
Depuis pas mal de temps, mon set #LEGO rêvé est le 21303, le Wall•E issu de l’entrée LEGO Ideas du designer de chez Pixar qui a travaillé sur le set pendant qu’il travaillait sur le film.
Sauf que le set est plus vendu depuis 2016 et du coup introuvable à prix raisonnable et pas mal de pièces sont soit plus disponibles soit spécifique au set donc très chères (30€ pour la tuile avec marqué « Wall•E » dessus…)
Eh bien je peux confirmer qu’en changeant deux / trois couleurs de pièces et en chinant un peu sur BrickOwl, il est possible de monter le set uniquement avec des pièces d’occasion pour un prix très raisonnable et : regardez moi cette beauté, une de mes expériences de montage préférées 🥰🥰
#LEGO’s « retro camera » 3-in-1 set (31147) is absolutely magnificent…
I actually decided to go a step further and to customize the camera to make it look like my #Olympus Trip 35 (which had been custom made in yellow). Loving the result 💛
If anyone has suggestions about the LEGO pieces I’d need to make the lenses match, I’m all ears (cc @cazmockett)