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Beijing 2008 Olympic Venues Constructed With Lego
Published 7/26/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... most impressive, but the detail on every section shows that a lot of time was spent on this. Spent, not wasted - Lego is never a waste of time. Sure, they took some creative license. There are no flaming tiny Lego monks, pollution clouds, tiny Lego citizens spitting everywhere, or mangled English signs. At the same time, it's doubtful that anyone who constructed these venues was worked to death, so that's a bonus.     [HKLUG via Brothers Brick via Gizmodo]

The Medal Stand: Olympic Legos
Published 7/26/2008 by Nick Friedell at Fourth-Place Medal
A few links to get your weekend started ... That is a lot of legos ... (hklug.hk) Via Gizmodo and The Brothers Brick California strawberries will be present in Beijing ... (Mercury News) An Alabama town comes together so a mom can see her son in the Olympics ... (Tuscaloosa News) Making Beijing prettier one mural at a time ... (AP) A teenager may play a big role for the Canadian baseball team ... (Globe and Mail)

HKLUG and Their Olympic Lego City
Published 7/26/2008 by beans at TheOriginalWinger.com
olympic-legos-1 Are you ready for this year’s Olympics to kick off? HKLUG is…They’ve created their own reprdocution of some of Beijing as they get set to host the Olympics. This little mini version contains over 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 mini figures. I can’t even imagine how long it took to put this together. Let’s hope Lego kicked them down to help them complete this. More pics after the jump. [Via Hypebeast and HKLUG ] olympic-legos-2 olympic-legos-3 olympic-legos-4 olympic-legos-5

The Beijing Olympics in Lego
Published 26 days ago by Kevin Fylan at View from the Bird's Nest
... I know this has been out for a while, but with just a few days to go to the start of the Games I couldn’t resist a link to this exhibition of the 2008 Olympics in Lego. ...

LEGO My Mini Sports Village
Published 10 days ago by Carolyn at And One - cleveland.com
... LEGOs once or twice. Squares and rectangles in my hands, I made larger squares and rectangles. Brightly colored, yet sorely lacking in creativity. Constructing a miniature LEGO Beijing Olympics, including the athlete's village and Bird's Nest? Ridiculous. Not possible. Additional geometric configurations would be required. And yet - HKLUG recently posted photos of such a feat. Can it be? Is it possible to create art using LEGOs? The proof is in the photos (click on image to enlarge): Nest Sports Ground ...