18-year-old Raul Oaida has taken his love of Lego's to new heights. The Romanian teenager teamed up with Australian space buff Steven Sammartino t...
Posted 02.24.2012
It's days away from the Oscars, and that Hollywood excitement is in the air. It seems to be affecting some of us more than others, though. A 17-year-o...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Stephens | Posted 01.11.2012
In what surely must have been an effort to put all other men's marriage proposals to shame, Atlanta-based photographer and filmmaker Walt Thompson inv...
Lyn Mikel Brown | Posted 02.27.2012
When LEGO announced that after four years of marketing research, the best they could come up with was a thinner, pinker version of their product, I laughed. My first reaction wasn't outrage, but incredulity. A billion dollars of marketing research bought you... LEGO Barbie?
Posted 12.12.2011
No matter how hard you worked on it, Warren Seely probably puts even your most beloved LEGO creation to shame. Dubbed "the LEGO kid," Seely first ...
Susan Linn | Posted 02.08.2012
Marketers have transformed the holiday season into a materialistic feeding frenzy, teaching kids that it's all about demanding -- and getting -- 'must-have' toys.
AP | Posted 12.30.2011
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Lego man is going to stay in police custody for three months. Lego man, a 100-pound, 8-foot-tall sculpture, didn't do anything wron...
24/7 Wall St. | Posted 12.14.2011
From 24/7 Wall St.: It is not unusual for brands to disappear. It is unusual to see major brands resurrected. Scores of brands like New Coke, Circuit ...
The Huffington Post | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 11.29.2011
It's not unusual to find Ford Explorers rolling out of the Chicago Assembly Plant, but a recent creation on display there had a slightly different man...
Posted 11.15.2011
The European debt crisis appears to be so complicated that even financial wonks are resorting to toys to explain it. Felix Salmon of Reuters takes...
Lisa Catherine Harper | Posted 10.09.2011
So magnetic was the attraction that we instituted a new rule: On school days, no Lego before breakfast; no Lego before getting dressed and brushing your teeth. But what if Lego is merely priming the paths of his brain, readying his synapses for something more sinister? Addiction runs along every branch of our family.
Posted 09.21.2011
From Inhabitat: A different breed of animals has invaded the Bronx Zoo -- ones made entirely of LEGOs! That's right, these colorful lions, tigers, ...
TAUNTR.COM | Posted 08.01.2011
So before you sit down tonight to enjoy the NBA Finals, take a brief moment to relive some of the Finals greatest moments--Gar Heard in the Garden, Dr...
David Finkle | Posted 07.25.2011
Book lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.
Matt Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Game theory is a wonderful tool for determining optimal strategies, but most people don't have time for strategy in their work.
hyperallergic.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The Little Artists, now known as Cake & Neave, turn iconic works of art into tiny lego sculptures, creating relics that fetishize the social cache of ...
Charles Kolb | Posted 05.25.2011
LEGO's CEO is quite sincere when he says that what the company really cares about is inspiring the young people who will build our tomorrow. Is this just more corporate happy talk? Hardly.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether it's Christmas in July, a vacation, or even early back-to-school, this month is a great time to shop for the youngsters in your life at New York's boutiques.
Jonathan Bender | Posted 11.17.2011
It's a lot to ask for a company that started with a product line of handcrafted wooden toys. But perhaps that is why LEGO is currently so flexible
Jonathan Bender | Posted 05.25.2011
In an effort to have a legacy, every man has three dreams. We want to be made into an action figure, be immortalized in a comic, or be frozen in carbonite.
Jonathan Bender | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm sorry, Math. You had a great run as the universal language, but I'm afraid that LEGO bricks have supplanted you when it comes to getting a point across.
Jonathan Bender | Posted 11.17.2011
Seeing as there are 62 plastic bricks for every person on earth, the odds are good that you know somebody who is an adult LEGO fan. In fact, you might be one without even knowing it.
Jonathan Bender | Posted 11.17.2011
Here are the five ways you can prevent the trauma of stepping on LEGO bricks.
Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
German artist Jan Vormann and a small army of volunteers spent the past two weeks filling cracks in New York City buildings with Lego bricks. Vormann...
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 05.25.2011
Unfortunately most of us stopped playing with Legos as we got older - unfortunately because Legos are undeniably awesome. But fortunately the artists ...
Posted 03.08.2012