The giant 8ft Lego man

[WhiteHexagon]

I want one!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...shed-beach.html

[furious]

All that Nuclear power Has had an effect down at the Lego Factory I see.

[Dragonator]

Now you've got to admit, that is pretty creepy. I sure would like an 8ft minifig to wash up on a beach near me! It wouldn't stay there for long.

[WhiteHexagon]

I wouldn't mind getting my game's website address on something like that

Maybe it's all some marketing ploy for universe :(

Although I think one washed up in Holland a few years back too. Maybe they are breeding somewhere!

[Batbrick]

That's made of all kinds of awesome. I want one! Seriously, some of the funnier and better news I've heard recently, cheers for posting!

Batbrick Away!

[eti]

Why don't they say what the Dutch writing said? That might gives us a clue, maybe.

[Front]

I just had a look at both giants, the one from Holland and the new from UK.

The elbow of the new one is much sharper then the more rounded old, which I think is still in Holland.

They are definately not the same.

The old minifig:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dead_insect/1049113448/

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[Mirandir]

This is probably another "minifig" by Ego Leonard. Just like that previous one was...

Edited October 31, 2008 by Mirandir

[Guss]

I don't know if the word "mini"fig is fine for it ^^ I want one! It doesn't enter in my apartment but I don't care, I'll put it on the roof!

[simonjedi]

I for one welcome our new minifigure overlords!

[CP5670]

Very cool news. I wonder how heavy it is.

I don't know if the word "mini"fig is fine for it ^^ I want one! It doesn't enter in my apartment but I don't care, I'll put it on the roof!

Megafig is more like it.

Edited October 31, 2008 by CP5670

[Matteo Kenobi]

Haha that's hilarious I wouldn't be suprisdee if it fell off a ship, but if they started landing on other major beaches that would be hilarious and I would deam that a pulbicity stund

[Nyundi]

I just had a look at both giants, the one from Holland and the new from UK.

The elbow of the new one is much sharper then the more rounded old, which I think is still in Holland.

They are definately not the same.

The old minifig:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dead_insect/1049113448/

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I'm glad someone else mentioned this. When I first saw this article I thought I was having some serious deja vu. I was scratching my head saying "I swear this happened before... but seriously, what are the chances??"

:alien:

[JimBee]

How mysterious... however, I'm leaning towards the "publicity stunt" explanation, as it's very unlikely that it just fell off a boat and washed up on shores. Looks pretty clean for being in the ocean to me. Also, I would think it would sink before it reached shores, unless it was built to float. Very interesting, though.

[paul_delahaye]

I knew I had read a very similar article before

[LEGOscum]

How mysterious... however, I'm leaning towards the "publicity stunt" explanation, as it's very unlikely that it just fell off a boat and washed up on shores.

Read my thread at Rebelscum for the answer:

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?...fpart=1#3470666

Jeremy

[Captain Zuloo]

Well if this is a publicity stunt, then it's the most darn expensive publicity stunt I've ever seen. To build a giant minifig and hope it washes up on the shore would cost a fair bit. Either way, I want one!

[Inigo Montoya]

I was going to post this story I read about a couple days ago but could have sworn it was old news....turns out it was a second fig.

Interesting, as Lego has said that it didn't come from them.

Publicity stunt seems unlikely as it would cost a fair bit on the hopes it would land....unless it was planted there?

[Oky]

That's awesome... and kinda creepy. It's as if God was playing with Lego and accidentally dropped a fig over the edge of the cloud so that it fell into the ocean.

(No blasphemy intended; in the contrary!)

Edited November 1, 2008 by Oky Wan Kenobi

[LEGOscum]

Uh... no, the uberfig wasn't dropped in the sea with the hope it would wash up. It was planted there.

Jeremy

[hollisbrick]

It's a conspiricy

The return of Fabuland

[randomparrot]

Haha I live in west sussex i could go and see it

[NewRight]

The famous man washes shore again.

Throw though back into thy ocean.

[MoonCheese]

Uh... no, the uberfig wasn't dropped in the sea with the hope it would wash up. It was planted there.

Jeremy

The word über is spelled with ü, not just u, so it's "überfig". If you can't type a ü, the proper substitution os ue, as in "ueberfig".

[Inigo Montoya]

The word über is spelled with ü, not just u, so it's "überfig". If you can't type a ü, the proper substitution os ue, as in "ueberfig".

Funny that you call out someone for their supposed spelling error, then misspell 'is'.

However, uber is a widely accepted form of spelling it:

"Spelling

The normal transliteration of the "ü" ('u' with an umlaut) when used in writing systems without diacritics (such as airport arrival boards, older computer systems, etc.) is "ue", not just "u"; however, it could be argued that the English language use of the word uber is a new word distinct from ueber. This is because English is defined by common use of words, which dictionaries and academia record, not the reverse. The use of 'ü', 'u', and 'ue' in the word is an emerging trend in common usage in English with no clear consensus."