LEGO cars

[SickCelica696]

I was at the Volvo ocean race launch in Annapolis last week and took some pictures of this. It was pretty intense. More pictures can be found here http://car.kak.net/modules.php?file=article&name=news&op=modload&sid=1662

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"The LEGO CAR
Volvo cars of North America, LLC and LEGLAND

[SOAPY]

Brings me back to when I was 8 years old. Memories... :wiggle:

[techgeekwill]

whats its 0-60?

I dont know how safe it would be to drive this, you hit a wall and your entire car explodes into several million little legos.

[ArchangelX]

But I bet repairs and maintenance are cheap as hell. :thumbup:

That's pretty freakin' amazing. Who'd ever thought LEGOS would come this far? Simply nuts.

[TRD_Celica00]

id like to see a lego celica!

[Mistrimeat]

Brings me back to when I was 8 years old. Memories...

You saw that when you were 8 years old? DAMN!

[Blue Bomber]

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:AF:

[SOAPY]

You saw that when you were 8 years old? DAMN!

Played with Legos when I was young like most kids. I obsessed over them I even slept on lego peices at night. I was a crazy little boy back then :crazy2:

[silverCELICAgt-s]

Where was it built? It was built at the LEGO North American Offices in Enfield, Connecticut.

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this is 15 minutes from me, i remember my mom would drop me off at the headquarters for the day and they would give me milk and cookies while I and many other kids would test out their new products such as lego mindstorms before it was released.

[Motor]

That's amazing.

[6SPDGTS]

You saw that when you were 8 years old? DAMN!

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[LightningRod]

id like to see a lego celica!


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[evil eye]

They had that same model at the NY International Auto Show last year, but in blue. I think I have pics of it on my home computer. I guess they made more than one? Creative idea, I liked it.

[Motor]

http://www.carpages.co.uk/ford/ford-lego-league-28-01-07.asp
The Ford-backed FIRST LEGO League holds its final in Birmingham tomorrow for the secondary schools taking part following regional heats at Ford locations in Dunton, Southampton and Halewood.

The league is the result of an alliance between education group FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and the global LEGO toy brand. Ford's UK product development centre in Dunton, Essex, and BP, Ford's partner on fuels, lubricants and future technologies, both sponsor FIRST LEGO League.

David Cayton, Ford Dunton's education outreach and community manager, explained that the FIRST LEGO League was an ideal way for tomorrow's engineers to learn engineering concepts: "The skills and techniques learnt by participants are the same as those used daily by Ford engineers at Dunton, Southampton and Halewood.

Ford is again delighted to support the League as a national sponsor, demonstrating the importance the company places on stimulating interest in youngsters as early as possible in the challenging subject of electronics engineering and encouraging them to consider the profession as a career".

The annual FIRST LEGO League provides participating nine to 16-year-olds with a challenge and LEGO equipment to use for set tasks. They had to explore breakthroughs in the innovative area of microscopic-sized nanotechnology and demonstrate their new-found knowledge by designing, building and programming the robots at tomorrow's final.

Up to 3,500 children in teams of 10 embarked on the 2006 FIRST LEGO League challenge which kicked off in September. Many had the advice and support of Ford engineers and apprentices acting as mentors.

December regional heats were held at Ford's Dunton technical centre, the Southampton Ford Transit plant and Halewood, where Ford transmissions and vehicles for Ford Motor Company-owned Jaguar and Land Rover are built.
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Teh greatest toy evar.

Discuss. :eatpop:

[GSBoek]

Proof that we were up to something big when we played with LEGO years ago :chuckles:
Of course kids today have much more available to them than the square blocks with round portrusions I played with.

[silverCELICAgt-s]

lego is near bankruptcy, their headquarters is 15 min from my house. My friends dad works there and he is done come March, they are moving the entire company to mexico in hopes of cheaper labor making them more money to come back from the dead.

[Burrcold]

lego is near bankruptcy, their headquarters is 15 min from my house. My friends dad works there and he is done come March, they are moving the entire company to mexico in hopes of cheaper labor making them more money to come back from the dead.I guess they're a perfect match with Ford then :gap:

[Motor]

Lego Maniac Inspires With Amazingly Detailed Lego Cars
Full Story (http://jalopnik.com/5263707/lego-maniac-inspires-us-with-amazingly-detailed-lego-cars)
While most Lego car builders we've seen in the past focus primarily on the exterior, Firas has chosen to cover all aspects, from the engine bay to the interior, with impeccable detail and care.
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GALLERY (http://mocpages.com/home.php/12960)

The detail is amazing. Click on the gallery to see more.