6ft Lego man washed up on Brighton beach

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7702121.stm

I want one.

Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

Watch out, they seem harmless now but they'll be taking our jobs and women soon as you can blink.

chap, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

We understand the person behind this is a Dutch artist called Ego Leonard

Okay wait.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

"No Real Than You Are"? Such SCANDALOUS VILE ABUSE of our fair MOTHER TONGUE which has not yet been suppressed by the EVIL BRUSSELS KILLJOYS it should be TOSSED back to WINDY MILLERLAND along with other so-called asylum seekers and threats to OUR CHILDREN'S INNOCENCE such as DOTTY DOCTOR GERMAINE GANGRENE FACE GREER

Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

finally some closure for mrs. lego then

rent, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

I like how the Lego man in the second picture is totally doing the Kids in the Hall squishing the guy's head.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

wtf at the scale of that thing, holy moly

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

The Metro actually reported this as a freak occurrence this morning, I knew it had to be an art thing.

chap, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

I thought it was photoshopped when I first saw it.

post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

Still, I bet they were bricking it when it first turned up.

Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.egoleonard.com/dancevalley/dancevalley.html

NickB, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Thank god the pieces all fit together now.

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chap, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

haha okay that must be a child in that second pic, whew

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.egoleonard.nl/images/A2_2.jpg

Just about to chuck himself into the canal and end it all.

NickB, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

I think its a child standing quite a way further towards the sea. Haha if that was the real relative size we'd be in Mr Stay Puft territory.

Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

i hope he makes one of steve mcclaren saying "no real than you are"

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

An honorary knighthood if he can get the umbrella in!

Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

He looks more like Martin Jol.

Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

The punishment for washing up on a beach is DEATH !

http://i37.tinypic.com/2s154k1.jpg

StanM, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

lol

Disco/Very (Roz), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

From last year: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=284674

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A woman nearby added: "I saw the Lego toy floating towards the beach from the direction of England."

It swam back?

Disco/Very (Roz), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

It's a different one, not as tall.
Anyway, looks like the BBC have found a replacement for Jonathan Ross.

snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

This is way better art than Banksy.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

my first thought upon reading the thread title was that this happened in brighton beach, brooklyn!

we are 538 (get bent), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

when in fact it happened in actual brighton beach. crazy

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

If only his eyebrow was arching a bit more.

Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

I wonder if he landed in a giant lego spacecraft???

Autobot Lover (jel --), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

I am kinda disappointed that you can only buy a shirt that looks like this instead of a replica jersey of the man himself
http://www.egoleonard.nl/images_hebbes/007.jpg

TOMBOT, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

I see this happened again the other day - http://globalnews.ca/news/1710637/giant-lego-man-washes-up-on-japanese-beach/

And in 2011 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/post/lego-man-washes-ashore-in-florida/2011/10/26/gIQAfmlIJM_blog.html

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:28 (eleven years ago)


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