I assume that minifigs are gender-neutral in the absence of characteristic clothing or hairpieces. Danes Bjarne Tveskov and family are responsible for Lego Leslie, here. [via The Brothers Brick]
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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
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I love this, having done this sort of thing before I thought I’d share my efforts I made a sort of “pop” vid…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QGpIQEe-Y
I may go and try to top my 7ft snow-bot!