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By Skip • Nov 3rd, 2008 • Category: GSFNews, Gadgets, Technology and ToysGiant Lego man appears on beach
A Dutch artist is thought to be behind the mysterious appearance of a giant Lego man on Brighton beach.
The 6ft-tall (1.8m) red, green and yellow figure has the slogan “No Real Than You Are” painted on the front.
Brighton resident Peter McNiven said he had spotted the figure in the sea while walking to work this week.
A spokeswoman for Lego said the artist responsible, Ego Leonard, would be exhibiting artwork in London in the coming weeks.
A Lego man with the same slogan appeared on a Dutch beach last year.
Mr McNiven, 32, who works for a digital marketing company, said: “I just happened to stumble across him on Wednesday morning.
“I took a couple of pictures because it’s not something you see every day.
“There’s a lot of talk about him coming over from Holland to here, but there’s no tide marks on him.”
In August 2007 a giant Lego toy, bearing a close resemblance to the Brighton figure, mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in the Netherlands.
The blue and yellow figure was pulled out of the sea and bore the same slogan “No Real Than You Are”.
A Lego spokeswoman said: “This giant Lego figure [in Brighton] came as quite a surprise to us when we heard about it yesterday.
“We understand the person behind this is a Dutch artist called Ego Leonard who will be exhibiting in London in the coming weeks.”
A spokesman for Brighton and Hove City Council said the figure had been taken away.
LEGO Tower Smashes World Record
My tallest LEGO was around 3ft and I was still proud of it until today when I heard that a new world record tower topping 96-feet was created in Vienna.
Measuring 96.73-feet the tower was built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna last week out of 460,000 bricks. It took 4 days to build - mostly by kids - and has snatched the previous world record by just 7in from the one built in May [mostly by kids] in Legoland at Windsor.
Anywhere else, all that child labour would have people frothing at the mouth but hey, this is LEGO we’re talking about.
The tower comprise 121 plates, painstakingly constructed by around 3,000 kids.
However, with just a 7in gap over the last world record, it won’t be long ’til this one comes crashing down too.
I’m thinking we need 4,000 kids this time.
Lego Radiator is the New Hotness
For many of us, it is the time of the year when we start thinking about staying warm. If you happen to be one of those people who is already lounging on a Lego couch or lighting things up with a Lego lamp, you will probably enjoy “Brick”—the latest product designed for the Italian company Scirocco. Apparently, a Lego motif actually makes for a thermally-efficient radiator.
The enhanced surface area of the blocks helps to spread heat more effectively, and each brick has a double plumbing connection—one for the heating system and one that allows you to snap together the bricks like actual Legos. How much all of this will cost to install is unknown—but nothing this nerdy ever comes cheap.
20-Foot-Long Lego Battlecruiser Can Probably Sink Oil Tankers
This is a 20-foot-long Lego model of the HMS Hood, a Royal Navy battlecruiser built in 1920 and sunk by the German Kriegsmarine Battleship Bismarck in 1941. This stunning piece of brick engineering, built to minifig scale, has a robotized mast and is actually bigger than the 16.4-foot-long Lego U.S.S. Harry S. Truman. Check the gallery to really get get the idea of how gigantic this thing is.
Lego builer Ed Diment wrote to tell us the impressive technical specs of his HMS Hood:
Time taken to build - 7 months
Bricks - just under 100,000
Weight - approximately 90kg (200lbs)
Length - just over 5.8m (approx 20ft)
Turrets are motorosied with Lego power functions so that each rotates independently and elevates its guns.
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Skip is the nerd out of the GSFN partnership. Skip enjoys nothing more than good sci-fi and horror, be it on the big screen, TV or in a book. He also likes the bad stuff too. Skip also has a thing for faces and continuously likes to point out actors from one film to the next, much to the annoyance of Drew.
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