- Ryan McNaught has created the “World’s First Lego Colosseum Made of 200,000 Bricks.”
- Lego is celebrating 50 years in Australia by building a life-size forest in the outback. [Via]
- Holy nerdporn: “Star Wars Relativity V2” is “A visual mash-up of LEGOs, Star Wars and M.C. Escher.”
- Graffiti artist Martin Heuwold has turned a bridge into giant Lego. [Via]
- Truly, deeply weird: Giant LEGO men dissected by Jason Freeny.
- Check out this lovely Lego bird set concept by Thomas Poulsom. [Via Steve Guilhamet]
- Wonderful: Kids share their uncommon nomenclature for LEGO bricks. [Via]
PS–Semi-random question: Do you happen to know how/where I could buy just Lego train wheels & buffers? My mom just mailed the boys my 1983-era train set, and of course they’re wanting to build more cars. I see that Pick A Brick offers individual wheels & buffers, but I don’t know whether those require separate axles/connectors that aren’t sold there. TIA from the Micronaxx!
I would check eBay..
We have a lego store in town. I you could post/mail a photo, part- or kit-number it might be easier.
One reference that i find very useful in this context is 1000Steine (1000 bricks), which is a german LEGO Fansite. They have a list of pretty much all the Kits available: http://www.1000steine.de/de/info/setreferenz/
This is a list of all sets including “Zug” (german for train), grouped by year:
http://www.1000steine.de/de/info/setreferenz/?dbac=s&suche_val=zug&evw=y
Bricklink.net
Online Lego mall with hundreds of vendors!
Catalog of every Lego part ever made!
Sorry! Its Bricklink.com
Catalog on Lugnet.com
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=train+wheels