LunaBlocks are giant, LEGOesque pieces that are designed to be used as furniture. They’re available in plastic, glass, metal, and soft polypropylene. There’s even the “LunaPillow” which slips over the pegs of the bricks to make them somewhat comfortable to sit on. They’re currently available from the French decor site “Homology” — get ‘em before LEGO swoops in and thumps them.
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Those are very cool. I’m thinking, though, that most wives would exercise a veto on decorating the house using giant legos, other than *maybe* in a “guy room” where giant legos would at least be an improvement over the shabby old pieces of crap leftover from when the guy was in college.
It does also seem likely, as Joel points out, that the Lego company will send lawyers to at least attempt a thumping, which could make buying additional pieces problematic. Right now, it looks like they’re only available from that Homology place in France, anyway. Not that I’m in the market.
I have made the mistake of showing these to my 9 year old. Time for a shipping container and a trip to france!
For the DYIers in the house, I wanted to give a shout-out to Jef Poskanzer’s ACME Brix how-to: http://www.acme.com/jef/brix/
These are not giant or human-sized. The largest brick offered is “Dimensions : 38 x 19 x 11.5 cm” and prices range from 13-25 euros.