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High-Heeled Legos: The Snappiest Snap-Together Shoes You'll Ever Wear

A pair of playful stilettos can make a woman feel young again -- especially if those high heels are covered in tiny toys from her childhood. Last month, British artist Finn Stone unveiled one seriously funky fashion accessory at the Affordable Art Fair in London: a pair of stilettos covered in hundreds of colorful little...

How to Use That Engineering Degree: Lego Czar

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Cal Walsh, a 24-year-old University of Texas graduate who holds a degree in aerospace engineering, had planned on attending a career fair this weekend in his yearlong search for work. But that was before he landed a job as a Lego czar. Now he will be paid a starting salary of $37,500 to play with toy...

Legoland's Master Builders Aren't Toying Around

A career is nothing to toy around with -- unless, of course, it involves building Legos for a living. Believe it or not, a few lucky Lego lovers are able to make a living snapping together bricks in various shapes and sizes at one of the four Legoland amusement parks around the world. Artists like Gary McIntire and Ryan...

Netherlands Town Claims Tallest Lego Tower

(June 7) -- How tall is tall? That's the question Lego aficionados in Munich; Oslo, Norway; and the small Dutch town of Limmen are trying to answer as they vie for tower-building supremacy. Over the weekend, Lego lovers in Limmen planned to use more than 1 million Lego bricks to construct a tower that would reach nearly...

Artist Helps New York 'Lego' of its Crumbling Buildings

(March 13) -- German artist Jan Vormann may have New Yorkers reconsidering the structural integrity of a Lego. Vormann, 26, spent two weeks in February repairing some of the city's dilapidated walls and buildings with the plastic building blocks as part of a project he calls "Dispatchwork." Careful observers in the city...

Background on Legos

Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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