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Staff dust down everything from tiny figures to huge models at Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire, during the attraction’s annual two-day clean-up
Photograph: Mikael Buck/Mikael Buck
Staff dust down everything from tiny figures to huge models at Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire, during the attraction’s annual two-day clean-up
Photograph: Mikael Buck/Mikael Buck
Photograph: Thomas Poulsom
Birds made from Lego? Why not.
Lego-enthusiast, avian-admirer and professional tree surgeon Thomas Poulsom has taken inspiration from birds to create this brilliant series of (almost) life-size Lego models. He hopes to persuade the toy company to make his birds into official Lego kits - vote for him at lego.cuusoo.com
Video: Youtube/mathewmho
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.
Read the game review here.
