Literary Legos

Is there anything that hasn’t been created from Lego bricks? Fine Clonier ran a contest that invited people to create historical figures out of Legos. Mark Twain below was the overall contest winner. Bookalicious recently posted some of the literary figures featured in the contest.

28 Popular Movies Recreated in Lego

American student Alex Eylar is a big Lego fan. He has a huge collection of 30,000+ Lego parts and pieces that he used to brick together scenes from popular movies. You can see what he’s got after the jump.

Twilight


American Beauty


A Clockwork Orange


The Addams Family


The Exorcist


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly


2001: A Space Odyssey


Back to the Future


James Bond


Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


Inception



Inglourious Basterds


Raging Bull


Reservoir Dogs


Tron: Legacy


Raiders of the Lost Ark


The Silence of the Lambs


Psycho


And these are the photos with scenes he was making from each of this year's Academy Awards Best Picture nominees.

127 Hours


Black Swan


The Fighter


The Kids Are All Right


The King's Speech


The Social Network


Toy Story 3


True Grit


Winter's Bone

Lego Star Wars Chess

Lego fan Brandon Griffith created this aswesome chess set make out of Lego elements. This Lego Star Wars chess set has broken the chess paradigm of one figure per piece the kings include Luke and Leia together and the queen Han and Chewie.

Brandon decided to build three different Chess sets in total, one for each original episode. This is the first of the series. Star Wars: A New Hope Lego Chess which weights in at a whopping 25lbs.