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Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning space footage
It’s also hard to shake the feeling that the standard Lego MO – no dialogue, just squeaks and grunts and murmurs – is a marked improvement on some of the “acting” in the films … and some might argue the same of Lego’s efficient abridging of JK Rowling’s weighty tomes.
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