https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309
It’s 1 meter tall when built (tallest lego set ever made) and has 1969 pieces (year of the Apollo 11 launch).
The design was submitted by a couple of LEGO fans, and the company decided to manufacture the set.
Currently sold out, but they will be manufacturing more sets until 2018.
.@Minecraft Generation
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html @Lego for a 21st century virtual world
also:
https://thecybersafetylady.com.au/tag/how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-play-minecraft/
#Lego’s Success Leads to Competitors & Spinoffs [including secondary market rental companies such as Pley]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/business/legos-success-leads-to-competitors-and-spinoffs.html
#Lego car becomes an avatar for a worm http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/27/lego-car-becomes-an-avatar-for-a-worm Powered by adapting nematode neural #connectome for sound, instead of food
QT:{{"
Remember the OpenWorm project, in which researchers reproduced the
genome of a nematode worm digitally and made it wiggle around on a
screen? If you take the "brain" of that worm and use it to power a
robotic car, you end up with researcher Timothy Busbice’sWormBot. He
mapped the software into a Lego Mindstorms EV3 bot, then trained it to
follow sound the way a nematode follows food. When he whistles to
"call" the bot, it heads toward him and even stops and reverses if it
detects an obstacle (using the EV3’s sonar) — even though it was
programmed to do none of those things.
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For Babes These Days, Toyland Has a Digital Bent: the #Ipad trumps Barbie. Is the future of #Lego an app?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/business/for-babes-these-days-toyland-has-a-digital-bent.html
This Amazing Life-Size, Air-Powered #Lego Car Hits 20mph: 50K pieces = normal-sized car
http://gizmodo.com/this-amazing-life-size-air-powered-lego-car-hits-20mph-1485535767 HT @Tommycarron #gadget