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Friday, August 7, 2009
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Giant LEGO Light Bulb

Photo: Kids build blocks for the LEGO light bulbAugust is National Inventors Month. To celebrate, the National Museum of American History built a giant light bulb model out of LEGO bricks on August 3. Museum visitors worked with LEGO Master Builders to assemble the multicolored model. The light bulb is 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and contains over 300,000 bricks!

Get LEGO tips from a LEGO Master Builder on National Geographic Kids.

Visit the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center Invention at Play website.


















Photograph courtesy of the LEGO Group

 
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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President Obama Inaugurated in LEGOLAND

Photo: A replica of President Obama's Inauguration built with LEGOs


Photo by Sandy Huffaker/LEGOLAND California


President Obama's Inauguration has been recreated at LEGOLAND California! A crowd of over one thousand mini figures can be seen in front of LEGO brick Capitol building. Temperatures at this mock swearing in ceremony are much warmer than at the real ceremony.


 

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