Posts Tagged: Lego

12
Jan

2015

5 Amazing LEGO Cable Car Systems

LEGO cable car. Image by Flickr user Pascal.

LEGO cable car. Image by Flickr user Pascal. (Creative commons.)

LEGO lovers have always known that the colourful toy bricks can be a (nubby) pathway to a future in architecture or urban design. Last month, The Guardian wrote an in-depth piece exploring just how useful LEGOs might be to actual life-sized city-building endeavours. We’re partial to seeing how people translate CPT technology into something that could carry those tiny smiling figures around a small-scale city or up to the peak of a plastic mountain. Here are a few of our favourite LEGO cable cars:

Detachable 3S — Kuppelbare Seilbahn
The detailed work here is nothing short of mind blowing—especially everything involved in moving the cabins around once they’re detached.


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14
Dec

2012

Weekly Roundup: A Solution to Seattle’s Montlake Mess

A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit:

  • Politicians in London consider the possibility of the Emirates Air Line becoming a “white elephant.”

If I could buy that right now, I would.



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28
Sep

2012

Weekly Roundup: A Lego Cable Car?

Charming, but it doesn't make me want to buy it right now.

A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit:

  • As part of a plan to rebuild Venezuela’s tourism sector, construction work is under way to reconstruct the Mérida Cable Car – once the longest and highest Aerial Tram in the world.
  • A Lego enthusiast campaigns to have San Francisco’s iconic cable cars immortalized in a Lego set – unfortunately, he’s only imagining it in a hyper-miniaturized and stripped-down form. I say, if you’re going to do it, do it right and go all the way. Give it the full-on treatment that VW’s famous Camper recently received:

Now that's a Lego set I want to buy right now. (In fact, I hate to admit it, but I already did.)



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