Lego in popular culture

Many of these webcomics make frequent jokes about the strange abbreviations, pet peeves and complaints often found in the LEGO community.

[citation needed] Lego bricks played a role and were featured on some covers of Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs published in June 1995.

There are a number of short movies or recreations of feature films that have been made using Lego bricks, either using stop motion animation or computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Making these is a popular fan-activity, and is supported by community websites such as BrickFilms – these films are often known as Brickfilms[8] Other examples include the award-winning music video for the song "Fell in Love with a Girl" by The White Stripes, in which director Michel Gondry filmed a live version of the video, digitized the result and then recreated it entirely with Lego bricks.

The LEGO Fantasia was premiered on 24 August 1997 at a concert in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry and Frederik Magle.

In 2002, the American rock band The White Stripes used Lego to produce an animated music video for their single "Fell in Love with a Girl."

They are America; Robin Sather, Graeme Dymond, Nathan Sawaya; Europe & Middle East: Georg Schmitt, Matija Puzar,Rene Hoffmeister, Kevin Hall, Riccardo Zangelmi, Caspar Bennedsenand, Balazs Doczy, Vladimir Golubev; Asia-Pacific: Prince (Shenghui) Jiang, Jumpei Mitsui, Wani Kim, Jae Won Lee, Wei Wei Shannon Gluckman, Nicholas Foo, Yenchih Huang, Andy Hung and Ryan McNaught.

[15] A 2011 exhibition titled Da Vinci, The Genius at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky attracted attention by having a Brick Art Mona Lisa replica constructed by Lego artist Brian Korte.

[18][19][20] The Little Artists (John Cake and Darren Neave) have created an entire Modern Art collection in Lego form.

A giant legofigure called Ego Leonard washed ashore at several beaches in The Netherlands, UK[22] and Siesta Key Florida[23] Polish artist Zbigniew Libera created "Lego Concentration Camp", a collection of mock Lego sets with a concentration camp theme.

[24] Danish artist Jørn Rønnau created a sculpture called The Walker out of 120,000 Lego bricks for the travelling exhibition 'Homo Futurus' at the end of the 1980s.

In December 2013, Romanian Raul Oaida and Australian Steve Sammartino completed construction of a Lego Car.

The build team tested a myth related to a YouTube video that showed a ball of Lego being rolled down a street and into a car, where it caused major damage.