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Sticking a hand up your nose.

A toy hand from a Lego set has come out of a boy's nose two years after it got stuck up there.

Samir Anwar, from Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island was playing with the Lego piece in 2018 when he put it up his nostril.

His dad Mudassir shone a torch up Samir's nose at the time but couldn't see it.

The GP told the family it would quickly find its way out naturally through his body, but it didn't.

"Since then we were pretty confident that he didn't have anything in his nose," Mudassir tells Newsbeat.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53819306
 
Here's a new Guinness record mothers can identify with ...

I didn't know there was a Guinness record category for distance walked barefoot across Legos ...
Florida women break Guinness record for Lego walking relay

A group of five Florida women broke a Guinness World Record when they collectively walked 2.04 miles barefoot over a pile of Lego bricks.

Katie Wells, founder and CEO of lifestyle website Wellness Mama, gathered friends Ashley, Savanna, Grace and Cat to break the record for farthest distance traveled by walking barefoot on Lego bricks by a relay team in 1 hour. ...

Each woman had to complete a minimum 20 laps on the 32.8-foot track in the one hour time limit to break the record, and they exceeded their own expectations by achieving a total distance of 2.04 miles on the track.

The Lego track was created at a gym in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.

"One of my goals for this year was to set a world record, and knowing the importance of community, I knew I wanted to attempt it with other moms," Wells said.

"How many of us [moms] have had the experience of a Lego to the foot while walking across a room in the middle of the night to get a fussy baby, or while running across the house to answer the door or check the oven?" Wells said. ...
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FULL STORY (With Photos): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/1...-record-for-Lego-walking-relay/3921606322520/
 
Lego have released a haunted house for the Creator Experts series.

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Spotted a lego version of my 'favourite' scene from The Ring on ebay (£20.00). Sound idea but doesn't really work for me..

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Maybe this explains where Rynner went ...

In 1997 a container ship lost 62 containers off Land's End, Cornwall. One of the errant containers held almost 5 million LEGO pieces. Ever since then LEGO pieces have been washing ashore on a certain Cornwall beach.
LEGO Pieces Routinely Wash Ashore at UK Beach

On the coast of Cornwall, in the southwest of England, there’s a beach where the tide brings in an inordinately large amount of plastics from the ocean. Amongst the pieces of plastic waste, however, are pieces of plastic treasure: LEGO. In fact, over the past 24 years, some portion of 4,800,000 LEGO pieces have washed ashore on the Cornish beach. ...

The phenomenon began in 1997, when a rogue wave hit the container ship, Tokio Express. The impact from the wave sent many of the ship’s containers overboard; including one containing the millions of pieces of LEGO.

Incredibly, many of these pieces were destined for LEGO sets with sea adventure themes. Amongst the lost bricks and other bits were, for example, 418,000 LEGO flippers. As well as 97,500 scuba tanks, 26,600 life preservers, 13,000 spear guns, and 4,200 octopuses. ...
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FULL STORY (With Video): https://nerdist.com/article/lego-pieces-wash-ashore-beach-cornwall-plastic/
 
EnolaGaia said:
Maybe this explains where Rynner went ...

In 1997 a container ship lost 62 containers off Land's End, Cornwall. One of the errant containers held almost 5 million LEGO pieces. Ever since then LEGO pieces have been washing ashore on a certain Cornwall beach.

FULL STORY (With Video): https://nerdist.com/article/lego-pieces-wash-ashore-beach-cornwall-plastic/
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The ever-watchable Tom Scott has done an unusually sombre video about this beach:

I love Lego, but the sheer amount of plastic washing up on this shore is sobering.
 
Deadlier than your average Lego set.

A US gun company is facing a backlash for producing a pistol that looks like a children's toy made of Lego.

Culper Precision said its customised Glock weapon, named Block19, was developed to "highlight the pure enjoyment of the shooting sports".
But Danish toymaker Lego has written to the company demanding that it stop producing the weapon, which is covered in what looks like Lego bricks.

Gun control campaigners described the pistol as irresponsible and dangerous. Shannon Watts, of the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign group, said her organisation had contacted Lego about the customised Block19 last week, and that the Danish company had then sent a "cease and desist" letter to Culper Precision. Ms Watts also criticised the gun company, which is based in Utah, saying there was a risk that children may be drawn to use firearms "even when guns don't look like toys".

Culper Precision said in a statement that it had chosen to release the Block19 in an attempt to show that guns were "for everyone" and that "owning and shooting firearms responsibly is a really enjoyable activity".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57832053
 
ramonmercado said:
Deadlier than your average Lego set.

A US gun company is facing a backlash for producing a pistol that looks like a children's toy made of Lego.

Culper Precision said its customised Glock weapon, named Block19, was developed to "highlight the pure enjoyment of the shooting sports".
But Danish toymaker Lego has written to the company demanding that it stop producing the weapon, which is covered in what looks like Lego bricks.

Gun control campaigners described the pistol as irresponsible and dangerous. Shannon Watts, of the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign group, said her organisation had contacted Lego about the customised Block19 last week, and that the Danish company had then sent a "cease and desist" letter to Culper Precision. Ms Watts also criticised the gun company, which is based in Utah, saying there was a risk that children may be drawn to use firearms "even when guns don't look like toys".

Culper Precision said in a statement that it had chosen to release the Block19 in an attempt to show that guns were "for everyone" and that "owning and shooting firearms responsibly is a really enjoyable activity".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57832053
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So toy companies began producing brightly coloured toy weapons so that they wouldnt be mistaken for real weapons and end with an innocent child being shot by police, now this! Are they trying to endanger children or what!?
 
Yithian said:
I think the first line of the apologia on the company's website tells you all you need to know:

We here at Culper Precision are grateful for the attention that Block19 is currently getting across the globe...​

Full Statement:
https://culperprecision.com
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They must have a cynical PR team.
 
EnolaGaia said:
In 1997 a container ship lost 62 containers off Land's End, Cornwall. One of the errant containers held almost 5 million LEGO pieces. Ever since then LEGO pieces have been washing ashore on a certain Cornwall beach. ...
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Tomorrow (13 February) is the 25th anniversary of the Great Lego Spill, and there's no reason to believe all the lost Legos have yet washed ashore.
5 million shipwrecked Legos still washing up 25 years after falling overboard

A once-in-a-century wave that pummeled a cargo ship in 1997 caused the worst toy-related environmental disaster of all time. As the vessel Tokio Express pitched and rolled near the United Kingdom's southwestern coast, 62 shipping containers tumbled off the ship — and one of them dumped nearly 5 million plastic Lego pieces into the ocean.

Soon after the event, which some referred to as the Great Lego Spill, beachgoers in Cornwall, U.K., began finding brightly-colored plastic Legos. Even now, 25 years after the Feb. 13 disaster, numerous Legos from the spill still appear on beaches in Cornwall. ...

... [It] may be even longer than a few hundred years until the lost Lego pieces break down. When scientists recently analyzed the structure of weathered beach Legos using X-ray fluorescence, they found that it could take up to 1,300 years for Legos from the 1997 spill to degrade entirely, researchers reported in July 2020 in the journal Environmental Pollution.
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FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/great-lego-spill-25th-anniversary
 
A Chicago store specializing in custom Lego is offering limited edition figures of Ukrainian president Zelensky and Molotov cocktails. All proceeds will be donated to help provide medical aid to Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in neighboring countries.
Custom LEGO of Zelenskyy and Molotov Cocktails Raise Funds for Ukraine

A custom lego store in Chicago is selling custom designed LEGOs modeled after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Molotov Cocktails. All the proceeds are going to a charity that provides medical aid to Ukraine and the surrounding countries. ...

Citizen Brick is a store in Chicago that designs custom LEGO pieces. ...

Now, Citizen Brick is offering Molotov Cocktails and Ukraine’s President as custom pieces. “In light of the recent invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military, Citizen Brick has decided to raise donations to help Ukrainian refugees. During tomorrow's sale, shoppers will have a chance to purchase these two custom items—the Molotov Cocktail ($10), and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy minifig ($100). Supplies will be very limited,” Citizen Brick said in a Facebook post announcing the sale. “100% of the sale of these items will go to @directrelief to assist with their efforts to bring medical supplies to the people of Ukraine.” ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgd...and-molotov-cocktails-raise-funds-for-ukraine
 
Since the loss of the submersible, Lego can not keep up for the demand for Titanic kits.

Some of the larger kits that sell for 700 dollars are being resold for over a 1,000 dollars or more.
 
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