Cardiff City's FA cup run created in LEGO

A Cardiff City fan has recreated the club's FA cup run on film using LEGO. Ashley Weaver spent more than 40 hours shooting two film with about 1,000 still photos.

The season ticket holder said he had studied footage of the games to make sure all the LEGO character's positions were accurate. Then he used a normal digital camera to take the stills altering the postions of the LEGO men slightly each time.

He moved the ball by attaching a piece of cotton to it which was wrapped around a pool cue hung from two music stands.

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LEGO Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is released on May 22nd. Here's a LEGO version of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

World's Tallest Lego Tower

Visitors to LEGOLAND, Windsor helped add the final bricks to the world's tallest LEGO tower.

The tower, standing just under 100ft tall and constructed of half a million bricks, beats the previous record held by a LEGO tower which was set in Toronto in August 2007.


Children built 20cm sections which were then hoisted into place by crane. The record attempt is now waiting for official verification by Guinness World Records.

See more pictures of the world's tallest lego tower.

LEGO Thriller

Michael Jackson's Thriller recreated with LEGO.

LEGO Speed Racer on sale

4 new LEGO products based on the Speed Racer film are now available to buy in the UK. the sets feature scenes from the film and cost £12.99 each.


LEGO Speed Racer is now available to buy from Amazon

Did you know?

Google founder Larry Page built an inkjet printer made out of LEGO while at university.

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Interview with Bjarne P. Tveskov, Classic LEGO Space Designer

An interesting piece from Boing Boing featuring an interview with Bjarne P. Tveskov whose LEGO career began when he was just 17 and he saw an ad in a Sunday newspaper for designers for the Space LEGO product line.

LEGO Eiffel Tower

The LEGO Eiffel Tower was created by popular demand and it truly is a stunning model.



It was built from the real Eiffel Tower's original blueprints and is at 1:300 scale standing 108 cm high. The tower can be easily dismantled into 3 sections for easy transport and storage.

The LEGO Eiffel Tower can be bought from the UK LEGO Shop and costs £149.99.

LEGO wins Speed Racer rights

LEGO have added another Warner Bros produced franchise to their collection after winning the rights to produce four playsets based on Speed Racer. The sets will include key figures from the movie and will hit the shelves around April.

Sean Kenney Interview

BBC interview with Sean Kenney, a LEGO certified professional.

Listen here.