The Most Awesome @#$%ing Thing You’ll See All Day
Some guys calling themselves Team Hassenplug made a chess set out of Legos. This might not sound that impressive, but watch the video. Don’t read ahead. Just watch the video.
Done? I KNOW, RIGHT? Holy fuck! It took four guys over a year and using $30,000 and more than 100,000 Legos to create that 12.5′-by-12.5 monster (no pun). I don’t know that I’ve ever featured an Impressive Act of Nerdery as impressive as this. Hell, I don’t even want to play with it, I just want to watch it being played. It’s gorgeous. Please, visit Team Hassenplug’s site for more specs and details; and infinite thanks to Joseph P. for the tip.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.