Botched: More Embarrassing Details Emerge In FBI’s Snag Of Rioter With Lego Set
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https://www.dailywire.com ^
| Jul 11, 2021 | Ashe Schow
Remember last week when The Daily Beast published a “scoop” revealing that one of the men charged in the January 6 Capitol riot had a “fully assembled” Lego model of the Capitol in his home? It
turns out it wasn’t true; the man merely had the unopened box set.
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No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees
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American Greatness ^
| July 8, 2021 | Julie Kelly
No Relief for Lego Man or Other January 6 Detainees Prospects look dim for those caught up in Merrick Garland’s Capitol protest witch hunt. Joe
Biden’s Justice Department wants the Lego Man kept behind bars—indefinitely.Federal agents seized a plastic replica of the Capitol building from the Pennsylvania home of Robert Morss during his arrest on June 11. Justice Department officials are citing the Lego model as evidence in the criminal case against Morss for his involvement in the January 6 protest: “During his arrest, law enforcement recovered some clothing and other items that appear to match those he carried with...
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Based On LEGO Evidence, FBI Believes Capitol Rioter Was Also Planning Attack On Hogwarts Castle
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The Babylon Bee ^
| July 7th, 2021
PITTSBURGH, PA—The FBI released disturbing new details today regarding alleged January 6th rioter Robert Morss, who had a fully-constructed LEGO Capitol building in his home. Agents
say Morss was also building several LEGO Harry Potter sets, leading authorities to believe he was planning a similar attack on Hogwarts Castle. “The suspect had several completed LEGO Harry Potter building sets and was about 80% of the way through building the advanced-level LEGO Harry Potter Castle,” said FBI bureau chief Warren Alvarez. “We feel we caught him just in the nick of time before things turned violent once more.” Alvarez said a...
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FBI seized ‘fully constructed US Capitol Lego set’ from alleged riot leader
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NYPost ^
| 07/07/2021 | Jesse O'Neill
The FBI is building its case against an alleged leader of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot one Lego brick at a time. Investigators
seized a “fully constructed US Capitol Lego set” from Robert Morss, 27, along with a notebook containing instructions on how to create a “hometown militia,” court records published by the Smoking Gun revealed. The suspect allegedly led rioters in “one of the most intense and prolonged clashes” against law enforcement officials trying to contain throngs of rioters, according to the outlet.
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In Honor Of Pride Month, Lego Introduces Sodom And Gomorrah Playset
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The Babylone Bee ^
| May 21, 2021 | The Babylon Bee
BILLUND, DENMARK—Hot on the heels of the company's new "Everyone is Awesome" playset and genderless blocks without male or female connectors, the LEGO group revealed its commemorative Pride Month playset: a new Sodom and Gomorrah set. The
entirely flammable, destructible set includes dozens of pagan minifigs plus a bonus Lot and his wife, who is, of course, a pillar of salt. Children can press a button on the set and the whole thing explodes in flames, and they can even participate in the carnage using the included brimstone launcher. "Hooray! The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against...
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LEGO Unveils New Genderless Bricks With No Male/Female Connectors
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The Babylon Bee ^
| May 20, 2021 | The Babylon Bee
BILLUND, DENMARK—As part of its new push toward inclusion and diversity, LEGO has unveiled a new set of genderless bricks without male or female connectors. The
entirely smooth bricks have no suggestive male nubs or female receptors and instead have entirely smooth, androgynous sides all around. "This represents a new era in inclusive building bricks!" said LEGO spokesperson Bjørn Irkestøm-Slater Walker. "Finally -- anyone can play with our LEGOs without being triggered by those horrid male and female parts that imply they're only supposed to fit in one direction. Every brick can stack on any other brick without anyone misgendering...
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LEGO announces new LGBTQ toy set
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Fox Biz ^
| Bradford Betz
LEGO on Thursday unveiled its newest product: a rainbow-colored LGBTQ set titled, "Everyone is Awesome!" "We’re super excited to reveal our new set – LEGO Everyone Is Awesome! Because we celebrate every LEGO builder," the Denmark-based company tweeted.
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Lego reveals first LGBTQ-themed set ‘Everyone is Awesome’
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New York Post ^
| 5-20-2020 | Marisa Dellatta
In the lead-up to Pride month, Lego has released its first set which celebrates the LGBTIQIA+ community. Called
“Everyone is Awesome,” after the “Everything is Awesome” song from the Lego movies, the new model features 11 buildable, colorful figures, inspired by the rainbow flag. The set comprised of 346 bricks, will be released June 1 and will cost $34.99.
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Online ‘Lego’ Gamer Infiltrates Psaki Press Briefings
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populist.press ^
| 4/09/2021 | CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO
Four times in recent weeks, members of the White House press corps have relayed questions to press secretary Jen Psaki from someone claiming to be a fellow reporter who was not able to be there in the room due to Covid protocols. That
colleague, who goes by the name Kacey Montagu, doesn’t exist — at least not as an actual reporter. Since late last year, Montagu has taken on the identity of a White House correspondent extraordinaire with a fictional outlet to boot: White House News, shortened in emails to WHN. Montagu started two real-life Twitter handles, which are followed...
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These New LEGO Sets Are Perfect for People Who Can’t Keep Plants Alive
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Apartment Therapy Blog ^
| January 7, 2021 | Inigo Del Castillo
For those who aren’t good at keeping their houseplants alive, don’t worry, LEGO has you covered. The
Danish company is now selling plants you won’t have to (painstakingly) grow, but rather, you’ll just have to build. LEGO’s new Botanical Collection features sets that let you turn bricks into floral arrangements. One is called the LEGO Flower Bouquet, and it includes 756 pieces which can be customized into roses, daisies, poppies, asters, and snapdragons. Let the florist in you go wild; you can create a flamboyant bouquet as high as 14 inches tall, or make smaller arrangements and spread them around...
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Why the car of the future is more like a Lego set than a Bond ride
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www.fastcompany.com ^
| 07-31-207:00 am | By Mark Wilson
Electric. Modular. And pretty much whatever you want it to be. Some
days I dream about driving a zippy two-seater. Others, I long for a camping-friendly family van. And every once in a while, I wish I had a pickup truck that could handle the freight of a Home Depot run. So like most suburban stereotypes, that means I’ve settled for a high-horsepower crossover, a vehicle that does all of these jobs with mediocrity. But what if there was another way? What if you could buy a car that transformed from car to van to truck, à la Inspector Gadget?...
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New Lego Sets Replace All Police With Rioters
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Babylon Bee ^
| 06/10/2020
BILLUND, DENMARK—The world is hurting right now, and everyone knows that the only thing that can heal the wound is big corporations announcing their positions on things. Well,
we've taken a big step toward unity today as LEGO announced all building sets in the future would remove the police and replace them with rioters from groups such as Antifa. The new "LEGO Riot City" line of building bricks brings a real, police-less LEGO utopia right to your tabletop. The new playsets are completely police-free, showing us what peace and harmony could break out in our own world without law enforcement...
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LEGO stops marketing police-themed toys 'in light of recent events'
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The Blaze ^
| 6/4/20 | Breck Dumas
Toy company Lego requested Tuesday that marketing affiliates immediately cease advertising several of its law enforcement-related products and to even pull them from websites "in light of recent events," as protests rage nationwide over the death of George Floyd.
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LEGO Asks Stores To Stop Advertising Police, White House Sets
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Kotaku ^
| June 3, 2020 | Luke Plunkett
In recognition of everything that’s going on right now, LEGO’s actions for #BlackOutTuesday involved not just a $4 million donation to organisations devoted to racial equality, but a request for sellers to not advertise any sets involving police or the White House. As The Toy Book report, emails went out on Tuesday
from Rakuten (who handle LEGO’s affiliate marketing) asking resellers to avoid promoting a long list of products that included police stations, police vehicles, a donut shop that included a police minifig and the excellent Architecture Series version of The White House (pictured above).
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Don't take any kid to the Lego 2 movie
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It is horrendously bad. In fact, the two worst kid movies I have ever seen are... 1) Cat in the Hat - don't think anything will every top that 2) Lego 2
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg to have cameo in The Lego Movie 2
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BBC News ^
| 21th January 2019 | BBC News
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to make a cameo appearance in the new Lego movie. Justice
Ginsburg, known affectionately to her supporters as the "Notorious RBG", will appear as a Lego minifigure - complete with gavel and robes. She was not required to do voice work for the film, but has given filmmakers permission to use her likeness. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - a sequel to the 2014 film The Lego Movie - is due to be released on 8 February. Producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord say they were "trying to think...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Make Cameo Appearance in 'Lego Movie 2'
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Hollywood Reporter ^
In addition to inspiring an abiding meme, becoming the subject of a documentary and a biopic, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will soon be able to add a new accomplishment in entertainment to her resume. The
judge will make a cameo appearance in her Supreme Court robes in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, director Mike Mitchell told USA Today on Saturday. "These movies are so full of surprises. And we were thinking, 'Who’s the last person you would think to see in a Lego film as a minifig?' Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" Mitchell told the publication. "And we’re...
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Scientists ate Lego heads to see how long it’d take to poop them out
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The New York Post ^
| November 27, 2018 | Mike Wehner, BGR
Pediatricians have to deal with all kinds of interesting situations in their daily work with children, and kids eating random objects is one of them. Children
just love to stick stuff in their mouths, and while parents do their best to keep tiny toys away from eager eaters thereÂ’s always a chance that something like a Lego finds its way into the stomach of a youngster. A half-dozen pediatricians decided to see what effect, if any, a tiny yellow Lego head would have on their own bodies by volunteering to swallow them. Their findings were reported in the Journal of...
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June 18 is the anniversary of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo: history, quotes a Lego re-enactment
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VA Viper ^
| 06/17/2018 | Harpygoddess
June 18 is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo in 1815, in which British forces under the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians under Field Marshal Blücher decisively defeated the French under Napoleon to end the "Hundred Days Campaign." After the allies took Paris in March 1814, Napoleon was initially exiled
to Elba. A year later, however, he returned to France amid great acclaim, re-entered Paris, declared himself emperor again, and retook command of the French armies to renew the struggle. Four days after the debacle at Waterloo - which Wellington described as "the nearest-run thing you ever saw...
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Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them
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The Babylon Bee ^
| June 7, 2018
BILLUND, DENMARK—Lego has just introduced new and improved interlocking plastic bricks that will instantly kill you when you step on them, sources at the company’s headquarters confirmed Thursday. The sharper edges in the new design will just immediately put you out of your misery, so you don’t have to roll around on
the ground in excruciating pain for minutes on end. Utilizing advanced laser-driven techniques, Lego factories can now hone the edges of the famously sharp and painful bricks to such a fine point that the human nervous system instantly shuts down upon coming into contact with them. “Our engineers...
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