Unrelenting in its efforts to dig to the very bottom of my murse, LEGO is releasing a Lord of The Rings: The Shire build set. The set will cost $270 *spit-takes Miruvor* when it’s released April 5th and contains 2,017 pieces, including nine minifigs and a very tiny One Ring.

To celebrate Mario Day (MAR10) and take all my money in the process, LEGO has just unveiled a 1,972-piece build set of Mario in his Mario Kart. The $170 set is available now for pre-order, and will be on regular sale starting on what is presumably Maris Day (MAR15). Am

Because there’s a minimum of two of everybody (I spotted one of my doppelgängers at a reggae concert in college and went to fight him to the death but lost him in the crowd), this is a video of a tuxedo cat meeting its LEGO twin and…doing whatever it does

In actual plastic food news, this is a stop motion video of Youtuber Andrew of Hypno Motion preparing a LEGO double cheeseburger (that would be $18 at Five Guys), complete with bacon, lettuce, tomato, jalapeño and onion on a sesame seed bun. Yum! I mean except that it’s plastic. Plastic

This is 9-minute timelapse of LEGO builder Solid Brix Studios constructing a 15-foot, 250,000-piece diorama of the Battle of Geonosis from Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. The actual build took over 2 years to complete. Damn! If I could choose between 9 minutes or 2 years to

Further proof there’s nothing you can’t build with LEGO, this is a video of Youtuber Banana Gear Studios constructing and demonstrating a small omnidirectional treadmill. It’s crazy the way the pieces just seem to float around the rotating spindle floor. How people come up with stuff like this is beyond

This is a beautifully made stop motion video by slopsmcgee (aka Greg Saniatan) of him making a LEGO vase in the style you’d make an actual vase out of clay on a potter’s wheel. I love stuff like this. I wasn’t going to internet today, but I’m glad I did.

This is a video of fun-loving Finnish crushers Lauri and Hanna of the Hydraulic Press Channel pitting a 10,000 brick LEGO block against their 300-ton press. Obviously, hydraulic press has quickly moved to the #1 spot on my Christmas list this year. Will Santa be able to fit it down