The original Game Boy: that thing was a brick. And, appropriately, now it’s being immortalized in brick form with the upcoming release of LEGO set #72046. The 421-piece Game Boy set will be released October 1st for $60 and include pressable buttons, Super Mario Land and Link’s Awakening game cartridges,

Because if there’s one thing LEGO is good at, it’s digging all the way to the bottom of my wallet, past the nonexistent cash and expired fast food coupons to the one pre-paid credit card I save for emergencies. I hope you’re happy with yourself, LEGO. And laying claim to

This is a video of two soda can robots trying to brain the carbonation out of each other with little sledgehammers in a more adult version of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. Now this is the sort of game night I imagine whenever a friend invites me over on a

This is a video demonstration of a Tamagotchi inspired virtual pet “torture chamber” created by Cornell University design students Rhea Goswami, Caroline Hohner, and Amanda Huang. It’s like a regular Tamagotchi but with physics added, so tilting the case causes your blob pet to move around and smush into the

Because some people never give up on their childhood dreams (mine are so far gone I can’t even remember what they were), this is a video of engineer James Bruton (previously) building a rideable Transformer. In drivable car form, it’s about the size of a Power Wheels for tweens, and

Because there’s nothing you can’t build with LEGO besides a comfortable sleeping partner, this is a video of Youtuber Dr. Engine constructing and demonstrating a rolling mill made from LEGO. The mini-factory can flatten, stamp, and cut shapes out of modeling clay. How about that! Full disclosure: when I started

This is a clip from a Monster Jam event featuring 10,000 die-cast 1/64th scale monster trucks being released down a launch ramp simultaneously. Now I’m not one to be nit-picky (just kidding that’s all I am) but it looks like there were several lines that got caught on the track

This is upcoming LEGO set #10367, the Lord Of The Rings Balrog Book Nook. The 1,201 piece set begins shipping June 1st, costs $130 *spit-takes Ent-draught* and will make the perfect addition to the your Tolkien book collection. The set can be displayed closed in book nook form, or the