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This is the massive $250 'Star Wars' Lego set every fan will want

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This year, Lego will release 25 new "Star Wars" sets. I checked out a large collection of them recently at New York Toy Fair. Not only will the new sets reimagine scenes from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," but a few of the sets will also bring a few iconic scenes from the original "Star Wars" trilogy to life.

One of the coolest — and most expensive — sets that will be released May 1 will be a giant re-creation of the snowy Hoth Echo Base from "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back." Lego shared a bunch of images from the upcoming "Assault on Hoth" set with Tech Insider. Keep reading to see what comes inside it.

The "Assault on Hoth" set will be available May 1.



It retails for $250 and comes with 2,144 pieces.



Here's how everything in the full set looks out of the box.



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This Lego solar system is incredibly accurate

This artist recreates iconic Chinese architecture with Legos

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It took Andy Hung, one of only 13 Lego Certified Professionals worldwide, three months to build the Forbidden City with Legos, and another two to make Studio City, a resort in Macau. Take a peek inside.

Story by Jacob Shamsian and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss

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If you love Legos and you love Porsches, you're about to be very happy

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The love of cars and of Lego, the ubiquitous brick-building toy, often intersect.

But the latest set from the Danish toy maker, not new to making very realistic models of cars, is attracting a lot of attention in the automotive world. 

It's a model of the 911 GT3 RS, the most hard-core version of Porsche's famous sports car.

Features include a flat-6 engine with working pistons, an operable PDK gearbox with reverse gear, racing seats, opening doors, and adjustable aerodynamic surfaces — just like the real thing.

And like the real thing, it's not cheap. As in $300 not cheap. 

But for that big hunk of cash buyers will get 2,704 pieces of Porsche road racer, which will, when built, measure 22 inches long and ten inches wide.

It is certainly an impressive machine, though Ferrari lovers may prefer this Lego F40.

 

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Researchers used Lego to get past a new kind of smartphone security

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Researchers have found a reliable way of getting past a type of device security using a robot built with Lego, Motherboard reports.

One way to secure your mobile phone or tablet is something called "gesture analysis." The device learns how you use the phone by recording your swipes and taps. It can then build up a profile of you in order to verify you using the way you use your phone.

But Motherboard reports that a study carried out by researchers in the US found that it's relatively easy to fake a user's swipes using a robot built with Lego.

Researchers created a fake finger and attached it to a device that played back other people's swipes. The mechanical finger then replicated those swipes on the device. Sure enough, the device regularly thought that the machine was a real user.

One method that researchers used resulted in the machine being counted as a real user 90% of the time. That's a pretty good success rate. 

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A kid destroyed a $15,000 'Zootopia'-themed Lego sculpture that took three days to build

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It's official: children can't be trusted, especially around fragile toys.

Chinese artist Zhao built a giant Lego replica of Nick, the fox from "Zootopia."According to CCTV News, Zhao spent three days and nights — as well as more than $15k — building the sculpture for a Lego Expo in Ningbo, China.

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Then, in a matter of seconds, a child destroyed it. On the very first day of the exhibition, a kid pushed over the sculpture. Zhao posted a photo of the destruction on his Webo account:

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While others might be more upset over the destruction of something they spent so much time creating, Zhao is taking it all in stride. Understanding it was just an accident, he accepted the parents' apology and moved on.

The mess will live on in internet infamy.

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This guy quit being a Wall Street lawyer to become a Lego artist — now he's an international superstar

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Nathan Sawaya makes a living playing with Legos. 

Sawaya, 42, began his career as a lawyer on Wall Street. But he was constantly dogged by a yearning to do more creative work. Eventually, he happened upon his childhood Lego collection and used it to build massive sculptures, displaying the resulting works on a website. 

One day, that website crashed because it got too many hits. That was the turning point. Sawaya walked away from law, turned to Lego, and never looked back.

Since then, Sawaya's work has traveled the globe in the acclaimed exhibition The Art of the Brick. One of his sculptures was featured in a Lady Gaga music video. His Lego Oscar statue stole the show at the 2015 Academy Awards. He's penned two best-selling art books and launched a nonprofit. And he's still creating new works, brick by colorful brick.

"I never in my wildest dreams thought I could keep doing this when I started," Sawaya told INSIDER. "It was a great experiment that has worked out rather well."

Here's a look at some of his most famous works — and his journey to art world stardom.

Sawaya couldn't get museums to take him seriously when he started as a Lego artist.

"I'd been reaching out to art galleries who were not really getting what I did," Sawaya said. "At the time, when I brought up the idea of Lego art, people pictured cars and trucks and little castles — things they saw at the toy store. People didn't see it as an art medium."

But one museum did get it. In 2007, the executive director at Pennsylvania's Lancaster Museum of Art reached out to ask Sawaya he was interested in showing a solo exhibition. "When I had that first exhibition, I treated it a lot like my last," he said. "I figured, well, this is my one shot."



But that first solo show was a massive success.

The Lancaster Museum of Art normally gets around 35,000 visitors a year, Sawaya said. His exhibition drew 25,000 people in just six weeks. "It was mind-boggling," he said.

That's when The Art of the Brick began to take off. 



Since then, The Art of the Brick has traveled to 26 states and 14 countries.

The exhibition has also broken attendance records worldwide, and CNN named the show one of the top ten "must-see global exhibitions." 

And there's still plenty to come: The exhibition is scheduled to keep traveling through January 2017 (with more potential shows TBD). By then, Sawaya's art will have been exhibited for 10 straight years.



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Lego's new headquarters is like a real-life Lego building

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If you ever had a childhood dream of walking inside a real-life Lego building, that fantasy could soon become a reality —if you visit Billund, Denmark.

Lego will soon build a 560,000-square-foot expansion to its existing headquarters in Billund. Set to be completed by 2020, the new design was inspired by (you guessed it!) Legos. And anyone will be able to visit for a tour.

Keep scrolling to check out the plans.

Located in Billund, Lego's headquarters houses its 4,000 local employees. The small town in central Denmark is most known for being the home of Lego and the toy company's theme park, Legoland.



The new expansion's design by Dutch firm CF Møller will include a large park that surrounds the building, Partner Julian Weyer tells Tech Insider. Employees, who also gave input on the design, will be able to chat and work outside on the lawn.



Green space will continue into the interior with the indoor garden pictured below.



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These life-size superhero sculptures were built from more than 20,000 Lego blocks

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From July 21 to 24, more than 150,000 comic enthusiasts from all over the world will flock to San Diego for this year's Comic-Con, where film characters for superhero movies will be unveiled.

To create excitement for upcoming films, Lego has built life-size superhero sculptures made from over 20,000 Lego blocks each.

Tech Insider spoke with Mark Roe, one of Lego's Master Builders behind the sculptures.

He gave us an inside look at the intricate designs Lego built for this year's Comic-Con, including Captain America, a "Star Wars" Death Trooper, and Wonder Woman.

Check them out below.

Roe has worked as a Lego Master Builder for 22 years. He's one of seven employed by Lego to create massive sculptures, which he glues together piece-by-piece.



Pictured below is the new Wonder Woman (interpreted by Warner Bros) which Roe designed and built.



In the 2017 film, an Amazonian princess will become the legendary superhero.



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An artist made a realistic Lego minifigure costume that's super creepy

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It would be great if you could bring your toys to life.

But not like this.

Makeup artist Frank Ippilotomade a life-sized Lego minifigure costume. He calls it "Creepyfig," because, I assume, it's really creepy.

It's made with a 14-pound, flesh-colored silicone mask that mimics the iconic rounded cylinder shape of Lego figurines — including the peg on top. The large black voids it has for eyes, furry eyebrows above them, and ears embedded into the curve of the head don't help.

The creepiest parts, through, are the hands. Ippiloto made sleeve-length gloves the same flesh color, with life-sized hand forms, complete with a gigantic nail on each one and whorls on the "fingers."

It's the stuff of nightmares. Ippiloto wore his creation to San Diego Comic-Con last week, where he crashed the Lego section and hung out with the kids playing there.

Ippiloto showed off the costume on Tested, the Adam Savage-run science site. Check it out:

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Inside the Lego studio where Master Builders create incredible life-size sculptures

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When playing with Legos, you can spend all day building anything you could dream up.

For Mark Roe, that's a day job — he's one of eight Master Builders in the entire world.

Over his 22-year career with Lego, he's designed and constructed 150 life-size sculptures. His most recent, of San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, was unveiled July 30 at the the Giants' stadium, where it's now installed as a permanent fixture.

Roe gave Tech Insider an exclusive look at what it takes to build massive sculptures of people. Keep scrolling to step inside the Model Shop at Lego's US headquarters.

Lego's US Model Shop is located next to its headquarters in Enfield, Connecticut. Approximately 10 people work on the floor every day of the week.



When you walk in, there's a "graveyard" of abandoned heads from previous sculptures.



Builders at Lego's Model Shop create all kinds of life-size sculptures to promote events and film premieres. Here's the Wonder Woman that Roe designed and built for the 2017 movie.



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Check out some of NASA's unsung women heroes — in Lego form

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Despite the major contributions they've made to the U.S. space program, the women of NASA have struggled to get the recognition they deserve.

Maia Weinstock, deputy editor of MIT News and self-proclaimed "LEGO Tinkerer," dreamed up this awesome Lego set to pay homage to five of NASA's most famous female pioneers.

Weinstock submitted a proposal for this set to Lego Ideas, which is a site where the public can submit and vote on future Lego sets.

And considering that this set gathered more than the required 10,000 votes within a few weeks, it might be just a matter of time before Lego releases figurines of these awesome female scientists.

Here are a few facts you should know about the five scientists featured in the set.

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Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jemison are the five NASA scientists recognized in this awesome set.



In addition to the minifigures, the full Lego set includes individual vignettes of a micro-scale Hubble Space Telescope, a space shuttle, instruments of the Apollo era, and a replica of a famous photo showing the code that got astronauts to the moon.

Source: Women of NASA



Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist. She's known for popularizing the modern concept of software.

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Inside MIT's bonkers, $60 million-per-year laboratory for geniuses

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Founded in 1985, the MIT Media Lab is one of the strangest and most exciting academic institutions in the world.

Housed across two buildings on the prestigious university's Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, the laboratory works to bring together researchers and students across disciplines to build novel tools.

On September 20, I had the opportunity to tour the lab and speak with a number of the researchers. Here's a peek inside inside what might be one of the most innovative places on the planet, where the future seems to be very much in the present.

Much of the Media Lab looks like the inside of an extremely fancy college dorm, or perhaps an overfunded Silicon Valley startup. The group's annual budget is about $60 million, before outside grants get factored in. The biggest physical difference from a normal academic building? Researchers share working spaces across disciplines, and most rooms have only glass walls.



The Biomechatronics group works on artificial limbs. These are 3D-printed sockets, custom-designed to comfortably fit the limbs of individual users.



Here's the machine used to plan the sockets.



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These 2 life-size superheroes made out of Legos took over 100 hours to make

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Batman and Superman may have faced off against each other this year, but the real superhero (or should we say villainness) of 2016 is Harley Quinn.

Now, she's making the leap from the DC universe to the LEGO universe.

Inspired by DC Comics' DC Super Hero Girls franchise, the series includes teen versions of female comic book favorites including Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Poison Ivy. To celebrate, the company created life-size models of both Harley Quinn, who made a splash in "Suicide Squad," and Supergirl, who has her own show on The CW, made entirely out of the famous toy bricks.

Harley Quinn stands 5’3”  tall, weighs 63 lbs and is made up of 12,789 bricks:

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Supergirl, meanwhile, is 5’5” tall, weighs 70 lbs. She's made up of 14,210 Lego bricks.

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Building LEGO creations for living must be a dream, but that doesn't mean it's an easy job. Harley and Supergirl took 120 hours and 130 hours to bring to life, respectively. 

If the pictures aren't enough for you, you'll be able to check out the life-size models in person at New York Comic Con at the LEGO booth in Hall 3B at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from October 6-9.

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