Nightmare Lego
If you are clinging to Lego as the last uncorrupted innocence of your childhood, look away! This is creepy stuff, and at any other time of the year would be totally inappropriate content. Ain’t Halloween great?
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Lego baseplate shirt
Ty over at ThinkGeek hipped us to their latest custom product, which is a T-shirt with a Lego-compatible baseplate attached to the front so you can build stuff on it–murals, spaceships, chunky boobs, whatever floats your boat.
Matchbox collision photography
From the MAKE Flickr pool For the first assignment of his Intro to Physical Computing class, Greg rigged up a couple of conductive matchbox cars to act as a switch – lighting their moment of impact. Read more over at Ideas for Dozens.
DIY plastic bag soccer ball
If you have a game, but no ball, and the closest sporting goods store is miles away, what are you going to do? Make one, of course!
Five Free Paper Toy Downloads
Fantastic Toys is offering up five free paper toy downloads, including this wee gnome bowling set (look out, guys!). There are paper dolls, a paper mobile and more in the set of free toys.
DIY Kids Play Kitchen for Under $10
Christie at Childhood 101 made a DIY kids kitchen for under $10 using materials she had around the house or purchased at the hardware store.
Toys, Tricks, & Teasers — Golden Star Origami
The five-pointed “golden star” is widely used around the world in flags, heraldry, coats of arms, and other decorations.