The Cult of LEGO

The Cult of LEGO

by John Baichtal, Joe Meno
Released October 2011
Publisher(s): No Starch Press
ISBN: 9781593273910

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Book description

LEGO is much more than just a toy - it's a way of life. The Cult of LEGO® takes you on a thrilling illustrated tour of the LEGO community and its creations.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The History of LEGO
    1. Billund: Home of Peat Bogs and LEGO
    2. Only the Best Is Good Enough
    3. The LEGO Group Reality: Change Happens
    4. Just Another Brick?
    5. Fake LEGO
  5. 2. Building Again
    1. AFOLs
    2. Women Builders
    3. LEGO Builder Interview: Fay Rhodes
    4. Organizing the Trove
    5. Ingenious LEGO
    6. Remixed Bricks
    7. LEGO in Print
    8. LEGO on the Web
    9. LEGO Fan Glossary
  6. 3. Minifig Mania
    1. The Minifig Turns 30
    2. Minifig Facts
    3. Minifig Controversy
    4. The Minifig in Pop Culture
    5. Red-Headed Step-Figs
    6. CubeDudes: Cartoony Geometric Figures
    7. Sig-Figs: LEGO You
    8. Pimp Your Fig
    9. Famous People, Minisized
    10. Minifig Scale
  7. 4. (Re)creating Icons
    1. Carl the LEGO Guy
    2. Architectural Re-creations
    3. Trains
    4. Brick Classics
    5. Cinematic Inspirations
  8. 5. Building from Imagination
    1. LEGO’s Odes to Imagination
    2. Mecha
    3. Steampunk: Pure Fan
    4. ApocaLEGO
  9. 6. LEGO Art
    1. Olafur Eliasson’s Collectivity Project
    2. Douglas Coupland Ponders Time and LEGO
    3. AME72’s LEGO Graffiti
    4. Ego Leonard
    5. Nathan Sawaya’s The Art of the Brick
    6. Sublime Building
    7. Zbigniew Libera’s LEGO Concentration Camp
  10. 7. Telling Stories
    1. Vignettes
    2. Back Stories
    3. Comics
    4. Political LEGO
    5. Diorama Storytelling
    6. Brick Flicks
  11. 8. Micro/Macro
    1. Microscale
    2. Microdioramas
    3. Collaborative Microbuilding
    4. Building Big
    5. Life-Size LEGO
    6. LEGO Records
  12. 9. Digital Brickage
    1. Video Games
    2. Building Games
    3. Computer-Aided Building
    4. LEGO Font
    5. Print-Your-Own Bricks
    6. LEGO Fan Resources
    7. LEGO Universe
  13. 10. LEGO Robotics: Building Smart Models
    1. MINDSTORMS
    2. Robotics Also-Rans
    3. LEGO Robotics Projects
    4. FIRST LEGO League
    5. A Successful Sideline
  14. 11. Gatherings
    1. The Online Beginnings
    2. LEGO Users Groups (LUGs)
    3. LEGO Conventions Come of Age
    4. Convention Activities
    5. Brick Cliques
  15. 12. Serious LEGO
    1. Autism Therapy
    2. Marketing with Bricks
    3. Prototyping a Space Elevator
    4. High-Altitude LEGO
    5. Visualizing Skyscrapers
    6. Open Prosthetics
    7. Serious Play
    8. Andrew Carol’s Mechanical Computers
  16. Epilogue
  17. Index

Product information

  • Title: The Cult of LEGO
  • Author(s): John Baichtal, Joe Meno
  • Release date: October 2011
  • Publisher(s): No Starch Press
  • ISBN: 9781593273910