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Finally, a first-person shooter arena made out of LEGOs

Writing in The Atlantic, author Christine Gross-Loh was unsettled by how quickly young boys turn to guns for free play: Then my firstborn went to a birthday party. In the goodie bags for these four-year-olds was a plastic toy gun. My son was utterly riveted. I tried to coax it away from him. “Bang bang!” he shouted, running around with the other kids. Just days later my shy little two year old fixated upon a toy sword that came with a pirate toy someone had given him, and would not go anywhere without it. I could see that the ludicrously…
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This colossal Lego sculpture plays head-nodding Chicago house

A musician has built from Lego an old-school analogue synthesizer that plays smooth and hypnotic Chicago acid house, totally one-upping both that Lego city I built when I was 7 and my unimpressive foray into DJing. Simply called Play House, the Goldberg-esque mechanical sculpture was assembled from the classic yellow, red, and green bricks, along with the strings and pulleys of a Lego Technic kit. Those little Lego flowers? Just embellishment. Creator Alex Allmont says that this is not the result of extreme Lego fetishism, as we’ve seen with the boom of elaborate Lego creations since Minecraft. Instead, it allows…
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This Minecraft player is building all of Manhattan brick for brick

We kind of joke when we talk about Minecraft and say that one day the entire structure of the Earth with be plotted in coarse cubic pointillism; but maybe we’re not joking. At least Manhattan will be accounted for, as the ambition of Minecraft creator Christopher Mitchell is to model the 13-mile strip of concrete jungle with 1:1 precision. That means Yankee Stadium, the Chrysler Building, the New York Public Library, Times Square, et cetera; all rendered in the pallor of New York’s iconic grayscale. How might one man with nothing better to do with his free time pull off…