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Marriage Proposal With a Lego Twist

Atlanta film maker Walt Thompson wanted to impress his girlfriend with an original marriage proposal. And, boy did he.

He spent 22 hours making this three-minute stop-motion Lego movie that tells the story of how the pair met and how their relationship unfolded. Beyond sweet. Let's just hope she said...

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Amy Winehouse is plastic fantastic after being made into a 12,500 piece Lego figure. Creator Craig Stevens made the statue of the stick-thin singer in less than half the time it usually takes him to make a Lego model.

Stevens said: "The Amy Winehouse Sculpture was constructed with only six days notice, but despite the hurried building that I did, I was happy with the result. "Normally I would spend two weeks on a Lego bust alone. "There was a competition to guess the number of pieces in Lego Amy. It's actually made from over 12,500 pieces and probably weighs more than the real Amy Winehouse." Stevens was asked to make the model to mark Croydon Fashion Festival, in London, where Lego Amy has been on display. Winehouse is a graduate of the town's performing arts school, the Brit School. He said: "The sculpture has gone down very well with the people at Croydon Fashion Festival and the public alike." Stevens has made many celebrities out of Lego, including Freddie Mercury which was bought by London's Hayward Gallery. He has also made a model of Star Trek's William Shatner and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack...

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I want one!

LEGO is awesome. My apartment is basically a shrine to the little plastic blocks thanks to my fiance's life-long obsession with building just about everything from them. So when these pictures hit our email this morning, I knew we had to extoll the virtues of how amazing it must be to work for the Danish toymakers.

Aside from getting to think up new LEGOs all day, the company offers a very interesting perk: your own business cards made of LEGO minifigs. You know the minifigs: the little yellow dudes with cupped hands and interchangeable heads? Check them...

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