Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal
Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris
Offbeat
3 Oct 2025 | 9
The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time – at least for the Apollo program – to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything. While Lego has released some impressive sets, celebrating the Apollo program and, later, Artemis and the Space Shuttle, the era of Skylab and the Apollo Soyuz Test …
In space, no one can hear you step on a plastic brick
Well, of course not. In space you'd be weightless, so the evil, nasty, pointed lego brick wouldn't be driven to embed itself in your foot causing the screaming and swearing that usually accompanies this and alerts everyone in a wide area to the fact that you've done it.