search
Lego
Trends
- 1
UK insurers detected £1.34 billion in bogus claims last year, with fraudsters increasingly targeting larger payouts, according to the Association of British Insurers. Other fraud stories also circulating include a Lego-related insurance scam among the year's most high-profile cases, claims that stolen Crime Stoppers data was used for fraud, and US Justice Department efforts to curb public benefits fraud in California.
- 2
Retailers have started rolling out early Black Friday promotions ahead of the main shopping event. Amazon has quietly cut prices by up to 59% on brands including Dyson and LEGO, while Lowe's is discounting hundreds off appliances from LG, Samsung and Frigidaire. Shoppers in the Netherlands and elsewhere are searching for the best deals as the discount season kicks off earlier each year.
- 3
A builder behind the science-focused channel Brick Science has constructed a functioning rock tumbler entirely from LEGO pieces, polishing stones using the plastic building blocks. The project blends hobby engineering with geology, showing that LEGO Technic-style mechanisms can perform a real, slow, abrasive task normally done by dedicated machines. Viewers are reacting to the ingenuity and the novelty of seeing rocks actually smoothed by a brick-built contraption.
Repos
- anteloc/ldraw-mecha Agent tooling for generative LEGO mechanisms animations in Blender