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* One ad for the Honda Element featured the car being built from the ground up using [[LEGO]]s. (Well, Mega Bloks technically, but the effect is the same.)
== [[
* Although it's easy to miss if you're not paying attention, in the movie ''[[Time Bandits]],'' Evil's castle is made of giant LEGO blocks.▼
* [[Sophie's World]] calls LEGO "the most ingenious toy in the world," due to its ability to nigh-endlessly be built into something, destroyed, and then built again into something else much like the Greek philosopher Democritus thought with his version of atoms.▼
* James May (of ''[[Top Gear]]'' fame) wrote and presented a series in Autumn/Winter 2009 called ''Toy Stories'', in which he makes the toys of his youth full-sized and awesome, to get today's kids involved in old-style entertainment. Among other things, this included making a full-sized, fully functional two-story house—including toilet, shower and (uncomfortable) bed—almost entirely out of LEGO. Sadly, it was on borrowed land in a vineyard, no buyer stepped forward and it was demolished. The bricks were on loan from LEGO and were returned, with the intent of putting them to use in a yearly charity build. Its name liveth forevermore.
* An episode of ''[[Ultimate Cake Off]]'' had the teams building cakes for LEGOLAND California's [[Milestone Celebration|10th anniversary]] (in their usual [[Cooking Duel]] way, of course).
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** Also it couldn't have just been glued together for the video as the Mythbusters had to clear out the LEGO Group's North American supply and also borrow some from a private collector to have enough bricks to finish the build. Completely impossible for most people to have the required number of LEGO bricks for that video to be real.
*** The narration of the episode hypothesized that all they built was a hollow shell with the inside being made of something much lighter (possibly polystyrene).
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* Although it's easy to miss if you're not paying attention, in the movie ''[[Time Bandits]],'' Evil's castle is made of giant LEGO blocks.
== [[Music]] ==
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*** Maybe... [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prhymus/4402374061/in/set-72157623447034318/ maybe not...]
*** Replacing the head of the first [[Bionicle|Makuta]] toy with an octopus and giving him wings makes a passable Cthulhu.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130821092522/http://www.brickcomicnetwork.com/ Brick Comic Network] is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] for the authors (and fans) of comics made with LEGO bricks. The comics of active members include:
** [[Legostar Galactica]]
** [http://www.reasonablyclever.com/bh/index.html Reasonably Clever's Brick House webcomic].
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** [http://glomshire.thecomicseries.com/ Glomshire Knights]
** [http://yolt.thecomicseries.com/comics/ Ye Olde Lego-Time Theatre]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210011258/http://www.blocktales.thecomicseries.com/ Block Tales]
** [http://bricksofthedead.com/ Bricks of the Dead]
** [http://cafegruesome.thecomicseries.com/ Cafe Gruesome]
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*** [http://www.thebrickside.com/ The Brick Side]
*** [http://ianthealy.comicgenesis.com/ Adventures of the S-Team]
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031054545/http://www.tabletownonline.com/ Tabletown Online]
*** [[Harry Potter Comics]] (which sets itself apart with heavy alteration of facial expressions)
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100703114435/http://www.legoville.co.uk/latest.htm Legoville]
* [[The Brick Testament]]
* At least four strips in ''[[The Princess Planet]]'' were made with LEGO bricks.
* [[Jenny Everywhere]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130728040810/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jenny_Everywhere_and_the_Golden_Key/ and the Golden Key]
* ''[[Fabuland Housewives]]'' is [[Desperate Housewives]] <small>[[
* ''Weesh'' had one strip where Tate wished for his house to be made of the titular blocks. It wasn't exactly the most interesting wish he's ever made.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Legoland|Legoland]]; theme parks featuring extensive LEGO sculptures and displays. Anything that isn't built out of LEGO bricks (such as rides) uses a LEGO design motif.▼
* There is ''LEGO CANDY.''▼
* However, subverted in some places where LEGO products ''aren't'' made with the iconic bricks. The LEGO Technic line uses construction based on things like pins, axles, and ball-joints instead, and their "constraction" figure lines ("construction" + "action") like ''[[Bionicle]]'' and ''[[Hero Factory]]'' started out as a spin-off of Technic.▼
** Also strangely averted with fast-food tie-ins. Many LEGO Happy Meal toys these days are your standard throwaways, with no interactivity with the LEGO system. (LEGO Club Magazine editor (and ''BIONICLE'''s [[My Real Daddy|"Real Daddy"]]) Greg Farshtey has mentioned that fast-food chains have started to shy away from building toys because they want no assembly required.)▼
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Some LEGO fans have even made their own handgun models.
** [http://www.brickgun.com/ BrickGun] models feature working slides, triggers, and slide locks, removable magazines and one model even shoots rubber bands!
** And there is the [
* Now there's even a full fledged working [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY printer!]
** And another guy made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX1cO2XhMrg&feature=related 3d Printer].
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* One of [[Ben 10|Ben's]] new aliens in ''[[Ben 10: Omniverse|Omniverse]]'', Blox, is made of Lego.
== [[
▲* [[wikipedia:Legoland|Legoland]]; theme parks featuring extensive LEGO sculptures and displays. Anything that isn't built out of LEGO bricks (such as rides) uses a LEGO design motif.
▲* [[Sophie's World]] calls LEGO "the most ingenious toy in the world," due to its ability to nigh-endlessly be built into something, destroyed, and then built again into something else much like the Greek philosopher Democritus thought with his version of atoms.
▲* There is ''LEGO CANDY.''
▲* However, subverted in some places where LEGO products ''aren't'' made with the iconic bricks. The LEGO Technic line uses construction based on things like pins, axles, and ball-joints instead, and their "constraction" figure lines ("construction" + "action") like ''[[Bionicle]]'' and ''[[Hero Factory]]'' started out as a spin-off of Technic.
▲** Also strangely averted with fast-food tie-ins. Many LEGO Happy Meal toys these days are your standard throwaways, with no interactivity with the LEGO system. (LEGO Club Magazine editor (and ''BIONICLE'''s [[My Real Daddy|"Real Daddy"]]) Greg Farshtey has mentioned that fast-food chains have started to shy away from building toys because they want no assembly required.)
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