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Making of a LEGO paper plane machine

Brazilian LEGO fan Arthur Sacek is well known for his amazing robotic LEGO creations (links below if you haven’t seen his work yet). Arthur recently teamed up with Elevation Digital Media for making a LEGO paper plane machine for a commercial for Arrow Electronics. 🙂

LEGO Paper Plane Machine

I’m not going to say more as an introduction, because I don’t want to spoil the experience for you of watching the commercial the first time. Enjoy!

Beautiful video isn’t it? But what is even more impressive is the engineering that went into making this amazing LEGO robot. In the behind-the-scenes video below, you will learn more about how this commercial came together. Chris Lewis – Creative Director at Elevation Digital Media, Jon Stevenson – Director of Production at Elevation Digital Media, Hugo Meyer – Director of Global Brand Management at Arrow Electronics, and Arthur Sacek himself all talk about the process and the amount of work that went into this project.

What I found most impressive is how fast this robot was designed and built. Arthur had 88 hours (or approximately three and a half days) to design and put together such a complex mechanism using mostly LEGO Technic elements. He obviously has experience with LEGO robotics, but still, this was a brand new project with brand new challenges. If you would like to see more of Arthur’s work, you can check out his website at ArthurSacek.com and his YouTube channel.

What do you think? How did you like the commercial and the LEGO paper plane machine? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below! 😉

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LEGO Mixels Series 7 review & details

At the beginning of the month I forgot to mention that the Series 7 of the LEGO Mixels characters is now available. LEGO Mixels are fun little characters worth collecting, but what it even more interesting to LEGO fans is that the sets are full of very useful and interesting elements. So let’s what we got this time in the latest LEGO Mixels series. 🙂

LEGO Mixels Series 7

As far as the characters, we have Kuffs, Busto and Tiketz in the MCPD Tribe. The color-scheme is blue, white, black and gray – all standard colors that can work in a variety of LEGO creations. LEGO Mixels is a great way to get those new small ball-hinges and rounded slopes, and here we also get a good number of both. Also these little guys have lots of teeth! We get 1×2 plates with 3 small teeth, and 1×2 tiles with one big and one small tooth, and most interestingly, a brand new rounded 1×1 tile piece which also serves as teeth here. This piece is going to be very useful for decorations on buildings, for mosaics, and other creative applications. So far the piece is only available in white, but I’m sure more color choices will come soon.

The Medivals LEGO Mixels tribe include Camillot, Mixadel and Paladum. Gray, brown and gold are also very useful colors, especially if you are into castle or steampunk building. We get a few masonry bricks here – which are still fairly new, and always very welcome. Note that Paladum has four of those rounded 1×1 tile pieces (and one extra), so if you want to try out this part, this is a great Mixels character to get.

The Mixies is a musical tribe including Jamzy, Tapsy, and Trumpsy. I think from the three current tribes these guys are the cutest – and brightest too – with their yellow and purple color-combination. Tapsy comes with a nicely printed dish piece, and Trumpsy got four of the new 1×1 rounded tiles (and one extra). So this is another excellent set to get if you would like more of this new tile piece. In the video-player below I have included for you reviews of all three tribes.

And just like with previous LEGO Mixels series, you can also build larger LEGO Mixels Max characters, combining the three members of each tribe (see the last video-review above of the Max characters). LEGO has been also offering building instructions for other creative mix-ups of the characters at the official LEGO Mixels website. If you like to play around with these little guys, you might want to check those out. Also notice that the Nixels (the little black devilish guys) have new face prints in the MCPD and the Mixies Tribes!

LEGO Mixels Series 7 and More

Whether you collect LEGO Mixels, or just get specific ones for parts, Series 7 doesn’t disappoint. The packs are only $4.99 each, so they won’t break the bank even if you get the full series. LEGO Mixels Series 7 is currently available – along with some of the previous LEGO Mixels characters – at the LEGO Mixels section of the Online LEGO Shop.

Shop LEGO Mixels Series 7

So what do you think? How do you like Series 7 of LEGO Mixels? Have you been collecting them? Do you have some favorite characters? Or do you just get them for the parts? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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