Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer-based. Read More >

If you needed yet another reminder that you're far from being a Lego master builder, check out 'Sheepo's' mind-blowingly awesome 1:8.4-scale Land Rover Defender 110 built from over 2,800 pieces. It could probably endure an off-road adventure better than your compact car. Read More >

What did you do last week? Did you build a a 104-foot tall Lego tower, made of 50,000 bricks, with a team of kids who can pretty much not even talk? Didn't think so! Read More >

Ken Robichaud has created these awesome, full-sized Avengers props in Lego: Thor's Mjölnir, Captain America's shield, Hawkeye's bow and arrows and the Black Widow's thingamajigs. They are perfectly made. The arch even bends like the real thing! (nerdy scream). Read More >

Screw over-priced Lego Technic cars, this is the ultimate teenage boy's Lego project -- fully working, full-sized Lego replicas of classic guns like the Desert Eagle, AK47 and Spas 12 combat shotgun from your favourite first-person shooter that you can build yourself. Read More >

If Game of Thrones were set in Legoland rather than the seven kingdoms of Westeros, it might look something like this. Created by YouTubers bymatthewP and Monica Garcia, this recreates the opening sequence to HBO's smash-hit series with stop-motion Lego animation. [YT via Neatorama] Read More >

Rejoice, my lovely fellow nerds, because one of the Holy Grails of Lego is about to become a reality! The Lego Back to the Future set—the one you are looking at right here—may happen soon. Read More >

A technique known as tilt-shift photography can turn everyday scenes into miniature wonderlands. But at this point the trick is as tired as vintage filters, so photographer Valentino Fiadini did just the opposite with these miniature Lego rooms—photographing them to look like life-size locations. Read More >

LEGO's collection of famous buildings has been updated, with the Danish plastic specialist adding our very own Big Ben to its oddball Architect series of models. Read More >

Designed and assembled with the assistance of professional Lego builder Rene Hoffmeister, this giant Star Wars-themed barrel organ was created to celebrate the 3D re-release of The Phantom Menace in Germany. Read More >

Netherlands-based Studio Mango has designed a clever collection of lamps made to ship in a super flatpack, using lucite coil springs and Lego-like bricks. Read More >

If you're going to Washington D.C. before September 3, you can't miss the Lego Architecture exhibition at the National Building Museum. They just added three new iconic buildings to the 15 already in existence. They are huge! Read More >

Given my life-long love affair with Lego and my life-long love affair with the Avengers — Avengers #159 was the first comic book I remember buying as a little kid — it's no surprise that I get excited just by looking at this poster. Read More >

The Dark Knight Rises is due to be released in the UK on July 20th this year, and if the previous Nolan films and trailers are anything to go by it’s going to be epic. Then again, everything is made better by Lego and watching this stop-motion trailer makes me long for a proper Nolan-esque Lego Batman. Read More >

The best ever British movie-inspired Lego set has just been revved to version two and it’s even better than ever. Behold the Shaun of the Dead’s “The Winchester” complete with Shaun and friends; cricket bats; shovels; a jukebox; a pool table; a dart board; a whole bunch of zombies, and even Shaun’s crappy flowers. Plus now it’s even got a detailed modular upstairs – this Lego set simply must get made. Read More >