Just in time to be horribly inappropriate, some folks have discovered BrickArms, a company that makes cute little Lego men with realistic weapons. Here we have the White Bandit (not, not a terrorist) who is very angry and carries a rifle, what looks like a Luger, and some grenades. Not offensive enough for you? Try the SS man.
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There are people that played with LEGO bricks and then there people that still play with LEGO bricks. This Flickr pool of last weekend’s BrickCon is for the latter.

Oh this made me laugh. The developers behind the upcoming Lego-themed MMO, Lego Universe, want to make the game as authentic as possible. Fair enough, sure. But how do they ensure that? One method: by using a team of more than 50 die hard Lego experts who essentially function as hired consultants. “More this, less that.” Et cetera. I never was a Lego fan growing up (more of a TMNT kid, to be honest), so I’ve no idea what “this” or “that” might entail.

This is becoming more and more common, developers using fan knowledge to help create video games. The upcoming DC comics MMO is doing a similar thing, having hired a guy to make sure all the superhero interactions make sense, gel with lore, etc.

We have been following LEGO Batman closely and Warner just revealed to us the latest character. Alfred Pennyworth is joining Batman as a skilled sidekick. Kind of looks like Oddjob though…

Screenshots after the break

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Batgirl (!!!) is going to be around to help Batman and Robin catch all the baddies in Batman LEGO. 

Powers and Abilities:

In LEGO Batman: The Videogame, Batgirl has the ability to utilize Batman’s technology suits including the Glide suit, Heat Protection Suit, Sonic Suit and Demolition suit in her efforts to fight crime alongside the DYNAMIC DUO.

Click through for the latest screenshots and some of the box art. Oh, and we don’t know why the pics are greenish. That’s how Warner sent ‘em to us.

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Forget LEGO’s. Real pimps use playing cards to build Olympic scenes.

via Gizmodo

The Hong Kong LEGO User Group used some 300,000 LEGO blocks and 4,500 LEGO people to recreate some amazing scenes and venues from the Beijing Games. Hit the jump for some views of the Water Cube, table tennis, beach volleyball, and more…

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When I was in the 8th grade, friendship bracelets were all the rage — so much so that I started my own bracelet-making business. I would make them in study hall and then sell them for about 2-5 bucks. Demand got so high I ended up talking other kids into making them for me (I would pay them $1 a bracelet). Doing this got the attention of The Man and I had to shut down my little operation.

If I only had some LEGOs and a little engineering experience back then. I could have constructed a LEGO friendship bracelet maker and made millions! If I had that machine I wouldn’t have had to run a sweatshop in study hall, and wouldn’t have gotten punked by The Man.

[video via Make: Blog]

When I was a boy, Legos were good for having crash-em-up derbies (Instructions: You and your friends take a big green board each and build cars. The owner of the Legos gets all the good wheels. Crash the cars into each other. Repeat.) Now they have the damn things solving Rubik’s Cubes like some sort of manic hog-skinning machine that needed some time off. The full instructions and code are here but I enjoy just watching this thing go.

via Make

From the “Preposterous Headline” Dept:
This looks like fun. This guy has put together a C# program that takes input from a Wiimote and passes it to a Lego NXT car with a wireless interface. The program looks pretty powerful and customizable and the car certainly responds right (although there is a little lag). I’d like to think these are the projects I’d do if I were a creative and code-savvy guy, but as things are I think I’m stuck writing about them instead.

There’s more NXT-built stuff here if you’re interested. [via MAKE]

Here’s some footage from the LEGO Batman game that’s set to hit various platforms in September. You can play as the good guys or the bad guys. Speaking of bad guys, Killer Moth and Mad Hatter were recently revealed to be part of the game. Never heard of them, but I did have a killer moth destroy a pair of my corduroy pants a few years ago, so I’m guessing the Batman version is at least equally disruptive.

BBG’s Joel Johnson got a few hours with Syd Mead, the designer of the Spinner car in Blade Runner. Mead received a Lego model of his car at a design summit in Billund and he let Joel play with it. Mead proceeded to give Joel the Voight-Comp test and discovered that Joel was a pleasure model.

This product is not for me. Since the relatively widespread adoption of electronic calendars, I’ve sworn off old-school calendars for good. I was the guy with the calendar hanging on the wall that showed the same month for three years straight. Apparently, pulling a thumbtack out of the wall, flipping a page, and then reinserting the aforementioned thumbtack back into the wall was far too much work for me.

So you can imagine how I’d handle a calendar made of LEGO-like blocks that would need to be entirely rebuilt each month. Oh, the hilarity! I’d set it up for the first month and yada, yada, yada, that…is…it.

For those of you with more patience and diligence, $9.99 seems a small price to pay for such a wonderful doodad. You get “77 tiles with dates, days, blanks and icons to describe your month.”

Puzzle Calendar [ThinkGeek.com]

Sure it’s got guy-wires keeping it from toppling and killing little Lego men, but this very tall tower is just neat. It’s nearly 100 feet tall, making it by far the tallest Lego tower ever made.

It’s in England, and it has something to do with Vikings, and it’s all colorful, and it’s tall. Maybe this signals a new trend: Legos for World Records. I’m into it.

Who’s going to build the tallest free-standing Lego tower?

And it’s Two Face. Check out gameplay footage from Warner’s upcoming LEGO Batman after the jump.
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iPhone Lego appears to be ready to rock and from the soundtrack on this video, enjoys a spicy salsa beat.

[Thanks, Orli]