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Watch This Amazing LEGO Master Build Fenway Park With 28,000 Bricks
At just 4-feet by 3-feet, it doesn’t sound like it’s that big of a deal, but LEGO master Neville Smith’s model of Fenway Park is indeed one of the more remarkable creations you’ll see this week. It...
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For The Squeamish ‘Game Of Thrones’ Fan, Here’s The Viper Vs. The Mountain In...
Via House Lego WARNING: If you haven’t yet watched the most recent episode of Game of Thrones and you don’t want the ending spoiled, do not read past this point and especially don’t look at the Lego...
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Check Out ‘Bricksy,’ Jeff Friesen’s LEGO Tribute To Banksy’s Greatest Works
Via The Brick Fantastic If you’re the type of person who looks at Banksy’s iconic street artwork and thinks, “This is cool, but why does this guy always have to be so depressing?” then Jeff Friesen...
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Lego’s New Batman Tumbler Is Going To Make Master Builders Jump With Joy
Via Lego The fine folks at Lego are at no shortage for awesome Batman toys, between the Batmobile’s race against the Riddler’s dragster and the Batwing taking on the Joker’s Steam Roller. But those are...
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Finally, There’s A Lego Set For People Who Love Strip Clubs
Via Citizen Brick Every once in a while, some brilliant artist comes along with an unofficial Lego set for a show like Breaking Bad or Golden Girls, and while a lot of us celebrate our inner geeky...
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Holy Moly, Check Out Lego’s New 2,996-Piece S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
The Lego Group/Wall Street Journal Both Marvel’s The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier featured the impossibly huge S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier as the future of world defense. Soaring...
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Lego Has Added ‘Jurassic World’ And ‘Avengers’ To Its Stellar Video Game Lineup
YouTube The Lego brand has blown up in the last decade, thanks in large part to its fun modernization through video games and CG films. It’s one of the few toys from the older generation that has...
View ArticleCheck Out This Guy’s Car That He Built Entirely Out Of Legos
Creative minds using Legos to develop ideas for real word applications is certainly nothing new, but what you see in this clip might take the top prize. A young Romanian inventor named Raul Oaida has...
View ArticleMeet The Architect Who Remodeled His Basement Around His 250,000-Piece LEGO...
Architect Jeffrey Pelletier renovated the basement of his family’s 1902 Seattle home to create a space to house his 250,000-piece LEGO collection that would give most organization junkies an OCD...
View ArticleRunning On A Lego-Covered Treadmill Might Be The Dumbest Thing Ever, So...
There are few things in life that suck more than stepping on a Lego in your bare feet, as surely many parents can attest. So here’s something stupid! The modern day “Jackasses” over on the YouTube...
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Check Out a LEGO Version of the Grand Budapest Hotel
If you saw “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” you know the titular building is basically a candy-colored fortress. To recreate it with LEGOS is a Herculean task, but Ryan Ziegelbauer and his team managed to...
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Everything is awesome in this LEGO ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ teaser
What could possibly improve the new teaser for “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens”? The only acceptable answer, of course, is Legos. A Youtube used named Snooperking quickly put together a...
View ArticleGuess how many Lego bricks are in this life-size Lego TARDIS
Geronimo! Let”s build a Lego TARDIS! Or watch one being built… I”m not sure I”d have the patience to build this thing myself. You can watch a time-lapse video of the construction of a Lego version of...
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Lego Darth Vader, Batman, more minifigs make for amusing art
Darth Vader and Yoda playing Elliott and E.T. Magneto dunking Wolverine in a coffee mug. Batman putting up ‘missing” posters for Robin. These are the situations that Lego minifigs find themselves in...
View ArticleWatch Will Arnett Live Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare By Walking Barefoot...
Stepping on a Lego barefoot has got to be some kind of parental right of passage, because the fun of a toy is only as good as the amount of accidental pain it causes. So it only makes perfect sense...
View ArticleLEGO May Have Spoiled The Villains In The Avengers
Spoiler Alert: The villains are blocks Two weeks ago, LEGO unveiled some samples of its upcoming Marvel series toys, including the highly-anticipated X-Men and Avengers sets, based on the successful...
View ArticleDwight Howard Convinced To Stay In Orlando By This Heavily Edited Fan Video
I don’t know if Ray William Johnson invented that YouTube “edit 3 times in the same sentence so I jump around the screen” thing, but I’m blaming it for him anyway. This video would’ve benefitted from...
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'Game of Thrones' Fans Go Crazy with LEGO Intro and Westeros Beer Labels
I have no idea what fan artists get in return for their countless hours of effort. I’ve always wondered about these people, fans who create poster art, LEGO art, and viral videos. I’m convinced that...
View ArticleThis Week In Original Etsy Sports Merchandise
In what has quickly become my favorite With Leather-inspired hobby yet – not counting dumpster diving outside Kate Upton’s apartment – I tried to broaden the horizon of TWiOESM by including a little...
View ArticleRalph Wilson Stadium, Now In Lego Form
As a kid who could never get past mindlessly trying to fit as many Legos onto one flat green piece as possible, this is especially impressive. 57-year old Buffalo Bills fan and season ticket holder...
View ArticleThe LEGO Story
LEGO takes a look back at their history with this short animated film in celebration of their 80th birthday.
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Felix Baumgartner’s Skydive From The Edge Of Space Helpfully Reenacted With...
Unless you were on an island all weekend (if so congrats on that!) you know that daredevil Felix Baumgartner skydived from the edge of space yesterday, and the internet naturally went nuts over it. I...
View ArticleIs LEGO Spoiling 'Iron Man 3' For Everyone?
According to people who do ridiculous things like “read”, the Iron Man films, as well as Marvel’s The Avengers, have featured bits and pieces of a popular story arc known as “Extremis”. The six-issue...
View ArticleLet’s Geek Out Over This Retired Lego Mold
Everyone knows Lego is great for making stuff, but how is Lego itself made? With a shiny, super heavy-duty plastic mold like what you see above. Yesterday the above picture of a Lego mold, retired...
View ArticleCat Hijacks Lego Town Promo
Sam Scott Lapin gets some unexpected help during a video presentation about the Lego Town project he did for his son’s school.
View ArticleHere’s A Couple Clips From The Confusingly Titled ‘Lego Batman: The Movie –...
Don’t feel bad if you’re not sure what the hell Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite! actually is (aside from a grammatical nightmare). It took me a solid 20 minutes of research to figure it...
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The 'Game Of Thrones' Lego Set Comes With A Tiny Dragon
I’m usually not one to tell strangers that they need to spend their hard-earned money on a kids toy from a multi-million dollar company, but: WE NEED TO BUY THESE GAME OF THRONES LEGOS RIGHT NOW. ARE...
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An Amputee Made A Prosthetic Leg Out Of Legos
Here I was thinking that building Dany’s dragons was the best possible use for Legos, when the real answer was right in front of us the entire time: you can’t spell “Lego” without “leg,” something...
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LEGO’s New ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Tower Of Orthanc Is Pretty Amazing
One of the cool things about having young nieces and nephews is that I can buy them the latest and most awesome LEGO sets under the complete guise that I’m going to help them put them all together so...
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The Simpsons Will Be In LEGO Form In 2014!
(via Getty Image) As the LEGO universe continues to expand with its Marvel, DC, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings series, not to mention the unofficial Etsy Game of Thrones version and even the more...
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Respect The Tech: Gadgets We Love This Week #2
Keeping up with the trend, here are more gadgets we loved this week. Got tips? Got a gadget or app you want to share with us? Email TheCrew@smokingsection.net. Previously: Respect The Tech: 5 Gadgets...
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How Much Money Would You Pay For This ‘Breaking Bad’ LEGO Set?
If you’re unfamiliar with the website Citizen Brick, then you’re clearly not a dopey adult LEGO fan like I am, but for the sake of brevity, it’s a site that allows people to have a little more fun...
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Watch A Recreation Of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Music Video With LEGOs
Why can’t all things be LEGO? LEGO cars, LEGO dogs, LEGO people. Everything but sandwiches — keep sandwiches the same. But music videos? Turn those into LEGOs, too, Michel Gondry-style. Annette Jung...
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Watch: ‘Lego Thriller’ will blow your feeble mind
It’s time to start getting excited for Halloween, and this amazing video made by a woman named Annette Jung will certainly get you into that frame of mind! And also? The frame of mind to sit on the...
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The Best Highlights Of The 2013 ALCS And NLCS, Presented In the Medium Of Lego
You can do anything with LEGO. Recreate ‘Breaking Bad,’ build a life-sized X-Wing, recreate Grumpy Cat, whatever. Back in March, Newcastle Brown Ale relived college basketball’s greatest moments in a...
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Here's A 'Golden Girls' LEGO Set For The Person Who Truly Has Everything
We’ve seen everything from Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad when it comes to custom LEGO sets, but I’m sure that most parents have thought, “Gee, baby dragon breast feeding and violent meth gang wars...
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Check Out Will Ferrell and Chris Pratt in the Official Trailer For ‘The LEGO...
The new trailer for The LEGO Movie has arrived, and it’s basically the perfect storm of nostalgic pandering, as it combines a multi-generational love for the world’s greatest building blocks (suck it,...
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The Mall Chase Scene From ‘Blues Brothers’ Has Been Animated With LEGOs
The famous car chase scene from The Blues Brothers, which I hear is what Blues Brothers 2000 is based on, was filmed at the abandoned Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. It closed in 1978, a year...
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Here Are All 50 U.S. States Presented In Delightful LEGO Form
Do you like LEGOs? Of course you do. Everyone likes LEGOs. Unless you’re an employee of BIG MEGA BLOCK, you monster. For the rest of us, though, it’s been a good week: first, there was the LEGO...
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Behold The Full-Sized LEGO Car That Runs On Air
People are doing crazy things with LEGOs. They’re making replicas of Lord Of The Rings locations, recreating important sports moments, building Terminators … just once I wanted these weird toy...
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Bad News, Fellas: Porn Star Christy Mack’s LEGO ‘Contest’ Isn’t Happening
Longtime readers of With Leather might remember Christy Mack from her on-and-off-again relationship with former UFC and current Bellator fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver, AKA War Machine, as they had a...
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Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of ‘Ghostbusters’ With This Very Important...
For those unfamiliar with it, the LEGO CUUSOO project allows us regular Joes to dream up our wildest LEGO creations and pitch them to the entire LEGO-loving community for approval. Once a design gets...
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This 7-Year Old Girl Wrote An Adorable Letter Taking Down LEGO At An...
RELATED Check Out Will Ferrell and Chris Pratt in the Official Trailer For ‘The LEGO Movie’ No matter how smart us big, tough adults think we are, little kids can sometimes be way more perceptive, and...
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The LEGO Movie Was Awesome, So Here’s 45 Great Sports Things Made Out Of LEGOs
Yes, somebody made The Butt Fumble out of LEGO. If you haven’t seen The LEGO Movie yet, I bet everyone you know has and you’ve had to hear about it. A film that for all intents and purposes should’ve...
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20 Of Our Favorite TV Shows And Movies, In Adorable Lego Form
Everything that With Leather’s Brandon said in his Lego Sports post? Yes. The Lego Movie is great, you should go see The Lego Movie, and everything is awesome. Especially non-Lego movies and TV shows...
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Awwwmerican Hustle: See This Year’s Best Picture Nominees Recreated With Lego
None of this year’s Best Picture nominees are awwwwww-inspiring. 12 Years a Slave is as brutal as it sounds, Gravity is the closest the Oscars will come to acknowledging horror (except for Christian...
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LEGO Toy Fair Preview Unveils Ghostbusters, Guardians Of The Galaxy, And More
LEGO Every year, the Toy Fair Expo in New York City is a veritable smorgasbord of previews and spoilers for upcoming films and television. And 2014 was no exception. Nearly as soon as the gates opened...
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See 10 Of Your Favorite Bands, In Rock Star Lego Form
This Lego thing is sure catching on, isn’t it? There’s The Simpsons couch gag, all of this year’s Best Picture nominees (and 20 more movies and TV shows), and, of course, “Everything Is Awesome.”...
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Everything Is Awesome About This Woman With A LEGO Resume
Nothing is awesome about applying for a job. You’re one of a thousand names on tens of thousands of pieces of paper, so you have to do something special to have your résumé stand out. Like, when they...
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