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If there's one children's toy that is far more iconic than others, it would be [[LEGO]]. They may go by different brands, but building blocks are pretty much always associated with the name LEGO. They're easy to use. They let our imaginations run rampant. They let us act out horrific acts of violence without consequences (Besides breaking them, but the base parts are [[Tonka Tough|pretty damn indestructible]], sans the ones smaller than one-fourth a cubic centimeter). And there's also something just plain [[Rule of Cool|cool]] about seeing iconic characters in the LEGO-man look. Not to mention how ''adorable'' [[Adorable Evil Minions|little LEGO stormtroopers]] are.
Therefore many people have started using LEGO as the literal building blocks of their medium so that [[Exactly What It Says
The positive light LEGO blocks have been getting recently seems to indicate that LEGO may very well be the heir to the [[
Also, don't step on them while barefoot. [[Agony of the Feet|It hurts like hell]].
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Not to be confused with [[Lego Genetics]]. For examples of LEGO just popping up in fiction, see [[LEGO]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* One ad for the Honda Element featured the car being built from the ground up using [[LEGO
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* 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).▼
* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' tested the veracity of a viral video in which some guys built an eight-foot diameter ball out of LEGO and successfully rolled it down a street in San Francisco. {{spoiler|The myth was Busted; the LEGO ball collapsed halfway down the hill.}} So that means it must've been glued together or the same sequence was repeated in the video.▼
** 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.
* [[
▲* 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
▲* 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).
▲* ''[[
▲** 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).
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* A slew of LEGO-themed video games have been released over the years, most recently as [[Lego Adaptation Game|tie-ins with other franchises]], like ''[[Lego Star Wars]]'', ''[[Lego Indiana Jones]]'', or even ''LEGO [[Batman]]'' and ''LEGO [[Harry Potter (
** ''[[Lego Universe]]'', a short-lived [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] set in the LEGO world. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU9bUVoZfYA The trailer] alone is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** LEGO [[Real Time Strategy|BATTLES]] is also The Game to Play as a Knight, a Evil Wizard, a [[Pirate]], a [[Ninja]], Space Man, and an Alien.
** And now there's LEGO ''[[Rock Band]]'', where you can demolish buildings using [[The Power of Rock]]. With the added bonus of playing as LEGO Iggy Pop, LEGO [[David Bowie]], and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|LEGO]] ''[[Queen]]''.
** Before the recent bombardment of licensed games, there were many other games based off of LEGO's own ideas. Examples include games like ''[[
*** Some games didn't quite do this: ''[[
*** Taken to an extreme with the ''LEGO Creator'' series and LEGO Digital Designer, where you basically create your own world.
* [http://voxelstein3d.blogspot.com/2008/04/v-o-x-e-l-s-t-e-i-n-3-d.html Voxelstein]. The entire game is made out of LEGO-like voxels that are completely destructible. This means that you can shank your way through walls if you have enough patience.
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** [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38942/Mojang_Working_On_Official_Minecraft_Lego.php And now Mojang is working with the LEGO group to make Minecraft-themed LEGO sets.]
* ''[[Roblox]]'' is a free [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|(well... sorta)]] MMO where almost every single bit of content is user-made, there is almost unlimited customizability, and uses bricks, meshes, and GUIs (Guided User Interface). It also features the scripting language of Lua, which can be used to create almost anything within the user's scripting capability.
* While not actual [[LEGO]], the "dot" graphics in ''[[
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': Gummy Blocks and the ships made from them were more or less this.
* The boss stages in the ''[[Compilation Rerelease|Super Mario All-Stars]]'' version of ''[[Super Mario Bros
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
** Some of the parallel plotlines subvert this to some extent by using tabletop RPG miniatures for some characters (most often in the plotlines that are supposed to be ongoing roleplay campaigns, although recent events blur that line quite nicely).
** David Morgan-Mar remains one of only a few people on Earth to have built a Lego figure of Cthulhu.
*** 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
** [[
** [http://www.reasonablyclever.com/bh/index.html Reasonably Clever's Brick House webcomic].
** [[
** [http://www.dreamersink.com/ Genuine Draft]
** [http://www.lq-comic.com/index.html Brickworld Saga]
** [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]
** The aforementioned [[
** Other webcomics related to the project:
*** [[Lego Space:
*** [http://majestic7.comicgenesis.com/ Majestic 7]
*** [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]] ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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* This trope has definitely gone retroactive. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE Classic 1964s Flanders and Swann song re-enacted in LEGO, anyone?]
* LEGO [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxUZUnRwH7s Rammstein]
* The [http://www.youtube.com/user/BolegBros Boleg Bros' films] constitute a Lego [[Adaptation Distillation]] of [[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]] (UK).
* [[Grand Theft Auto]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMY9VlMIEJk LEGO City]
* Two especially bizarre and outright disturbing examples are [http://waxekphrastic.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/art-and-9-11/ a LEGO World Trade Centre] and [http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm a LEGO death camp].
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*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONSY1EOVB3g Defying Gravity]!
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_15G_tIl38 Bohemian Rhapsody]!
* [http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-sweets-legos.html LEGO cakes, including edible ones, anyone]?
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMB0wp_D4E&feature=fvst "Knights of the Round Table"] from ''[[Monty Python and
* 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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* Blockoland from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', which appears at the start of the episode where Homer deliberately starves himself to save Springfield's baseball team from being sold. Interestingly enough, an ''actual'' [[LEGO Land]] appears in another episode which mentioned Mr. Burns dumping toxic waste there.
* ''[[Transformers|Kre-O: Transformers]]'' is based around a same-named [[Alternate Company Equivalent|Hasbro toyline of plastic bricks and minifigures]], which is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|definitely not a toyline with a name that starts with an L]].
* One of [[Ben 10
== [[
▲* [
▲* [[Sophies World|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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