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I've played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi's Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I'd forfeit bendable elbows to live in it. (toydots.com)

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[–]stebbiv 8 points9 points ago

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That thing totally reminds me on Howl's Moving Castle.

[–]st_gulik 2 points3 points ago

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Go look up Howl's Moving Castle LEGO -- some kid and his mom from Japan made it. It's DOPE.

[–]stebbiv 0 points1 point ago

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Swee… This is manic!

[–]Poromenos 2 points3 points ago

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Is this brimming with life, or is it just me? My box of mindstorms and other assorted crap has never cried for me more loudly...

[–]Scoldering 1 point2 points ago

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I would like to build that. If it could be offered as a kit, I'd buy it

[–]Dested 0 points1 point ago

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I would pay hundreds of dollars for this as a kit.

[–]cdawzrd 3 points4 points ago

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Where are the high res photos?

[–]KeelBug 31 points32 points ago

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*LEGO

[–]theghostofme 8 points9 points ago

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Oh, look: a Reddit Gold Member not having to spend time with the peasants.

[–]Sahasrara 8 points9 points ago

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Don't worry; when the revolution comes, he'll be the first we feed to the Jawas.

[–]A_Real_Jercough 3 points4 points ago

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Oooohh teee dee!

[–]CorrosiveMonkey 2 points3 points ago

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Anyone read Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines series of books? This is right out of them basically.

[–]Mandatory 3 points4 points ago

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Holy fuck. It's things like these that made every kid want to grow up to be a LEGO minifig.

[–]reverendfrag4 3 points4 points ago

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I always wanted to be a minifig. They were always smiling, always happy. They never cut themselves. They never OH GOD OH SWEET JESUS PLEASE MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT S

[–]myotheralt -1 points0 points ago

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No daddy, I'm sorry, I wont do it again....

[–]BeowulfShaeffer -1 points0 points ago

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They didn't? You didn't play with your minifigs the same way I played with mine. Mine suffered horrific, crippling burn injuries from which many of them never recovered.

[–]PirateMud 1 point2 points ago

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If this is how life is after a massive climate disaster... why does anyone want to avert disaster? Fucking. Cool.

[–]Ciceros_Assassin 1 point2 points ago

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I think it's fascinating watching spambots slowly get better and better at writing plausible articles:

The biggest success is that this Lego Crawler Town could work both in concept and execution. Personally, I think this Lego Crawler Town is supposedly a luxury resort set.

That's just adorable. It's like watching one of my little cousins learn to speak.

[–]Reneesigrid 4 points5 points ago

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Althrough it is naive, but it provide amazing information. I like it.

[–]mccoyn 1 point2 points ago

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When you post a wide angle shot of a very detailed image, and make that image a link to another image, that other image should be higher resolution, NOT THE SAME EXACT THING.

[–]wes00mertes 3 points4 points ago

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Sigh. When I see things like this I miss playing with LEGOs. I had tens of thousands and made some pretty awesome stuff (not this awesome).

[–]pudquick 13 points14 points ago* 

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If you liked those pictures, you'll enjoy the original Flickr page and user that they're from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29844928@N07/sets/72157623336807855/

(If you'd like to preserve your wistful childhood thoughts, don't proceed past this line.)

All rights are reserved on these photos, yet they provide no link to the original source - of which they even blatantly copy Dave's own commentary about his design.

... Which honestly doesn't surprise me, because toydots is a complete spammer blog that posts nothing but stolen content.

Edit: Looks like lusismasy is the only account that's survived, and surprise surprise she's commented on (and likely upvoted) a crossposted version of this same article. Looks like enjoylives and cermansuper are two more to add to the list.

[–]druzel 1 point2 points ago

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Thank you for posting the original link. I just decided to check reddit for Crawler Town links and downvoted any that did not point to the original flickr page. Upvote for those that do.

Then I tried to find a contact link or email for toydots and there isn't one! Unbelievable. Would love to tell them they're idiots.

[–]pudquick 2 points3 points ago

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Ah, you've uncovered yet another sockpuppet account: brazingfuuny.

RE: contact link - why bother? The entire site is nothing but rehashed stolen content, often full of extremely broken english. Personally I wish the reddit admins would just ban the entire domain.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Domain bans are pretty rare, but please submit any spamming rings you find to Report the Spammers. It usually will get them banned, actually.

[–]sound1down 0 points1 point ago

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Keep up the good work! Have you reported those accounts to the section of reddit that would make everyone aware of their malicious activities? I ask that in all seriousness.

[–]pudquick 0 points1 point ago

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The original link I provided about toydots submissions on reddit being nothing but spam posts was indeed sent to /r/reportthespammers by me. I'll make sure to add in a report on these additional accounts.

[–]DrDodgy 5 points6 points ago

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*LEGO

[–]Aleitheo 0 points1 point ago

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There is some really sweet stuff on Brickshelf if you sift through some of the weaker lot.

[–]philosophic 1 point2 points ago

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WOW!!! I love to see what humans can do.

[–]Annyjenny 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, I also love it, how awsome! A miracle!

[–]Not_So_Tuesday 1 point2 points ago

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Does this remind anyone else of Rivet City?

[–]jenivic 0 points1 point ago

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no

[–]xnickyx920x 0 points1 point ago

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jealous

[–]n1rvous 0 points1 point ago

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legos are way more crazy than when i remember them when i was a kid. i thought building a shitty house was cool....

[–]stevesonaplane 0 points1 point ago

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sigh...my parents bought me flexi blocks.....

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Who run Crawler Town? Master Blaster run Crawler Town!

[–]BeowulfShaeffer 0 points1 point ago

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Didn't you read? Crawler town runs on fuel cells, not methane.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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My swine are disappoint.

[–]WhatsUpWithTheKnicks 0 points1 point ago

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The highest spot on the crawler is not the watchtower. Disturbing.

[–]plbogen 0 points1 point ago

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How is that "ecopunk"? It seems pretty ecologically destructive with those crawlers and the airport.

[–]CantankerousPete 0 points1 point ago

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God, that is so fucking cool. That's the kind of 'toy' that makes a grown man want to sit and marvel at it.

[–]wbeavis 0 points1 point ago

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If I ever get absurdly rich, I will have a house built entirely from lego bricks. No wood or steal supports, ALL bricks. It will be up to the architect and engineer to figure out how.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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LEGO is the plural of LEGO, not LEGOs. You are being downvoted for this.

[–]puppiesandjesus 4 points5 points ago

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It's been Legos in the U.S. for as long as I can remember, but I did stumble across this tidbit in a quick search:

18. Which is correct as the plural of LEGO: 'Lego' or 'Legos'? Neither, actually. The word 'LEGO', when used as a noun, should only refer to the company that makes the product. Otherwise 'LEGO' is supposed to be used as an adjective. Thus, when referring to the pieces, neither 'lego' nor 'legos' is correct... rather one should say: 'LEGO bricks' or 'LEGO pieces' or whatever (using LEGO as an adjective -- and one should really capitalize all of the letters, and put the little 'circle-R' symbol after it (®)). This is all a matter of protecting the trademark of 'LEGO' for the company (using it otherwise degenerates the strength of the trademark). This is not to say that I use the word correctly 100% of the time... but that's the answer to the question (it's always fun/painful to read the near-flame-wars that start at slashdot.org over this topic... and generally, both sides are wrong).

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago* 

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Lego, Lego Bricks, Legos. English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!

[–]shakajumbo[!] 0 points1 point ago

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Gucci mane, SouljaBoy and Shakespeare, all coined new words. You've got to love a living language. :)

[–]wbeavis 0 points1 point ago

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Says you.

[–]roguealchemist 0 points1 point ago

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Freaking AWESOME!

That is all!

[–]natevberg5 -1 points0 points ago

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kind of remind me of that anime movie "hawl's moving castle"

[–]A_Real_Jercough -1 points0 points ago

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Legos are the best toy EVER.

[–]Black_Apalachi -1 points0 points ago

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Meh.

[–]zed857 -1 points0 points ago

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Imagine if you could buy this from Lego: the box would be taller than you are, the assembly instructions would be as thick as a phone book and it would cost $15,000.

[–]Abermike -3 points-2 points ago

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You mean LEGO, right? Have yourself a merry little downvote.

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