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6-Foot-Tall Lego Man Washes Up On Beach

Somewhere in Europe, a giant Lego family is missing a father.

Children playing on a Brighton, UK beach were stunned and thrilled to find a 6-foot-tall Lego man washed up on the beach, looking like he'd taken quite a swim. No one knows where the Lego man came from, though there are theories that he may have ties to a Dutch artist named Ego Leonard.

The Lego company was as surprised as anyone, though the giant Lego man's timing was impeccable: this year is the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Lego man, bringing police officers, firefighters, astronauts, and more yellow-faced, smiling men into Lego constructions everywhere. 

Last year, a similar Lego man washed up on a Holland beach, bearing a grammatically esoteric slogan:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take heed: the Lego people have spoken.

Photo (Right): Kent News and Pictures


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Comments

 

JeanneSager said:

Maybe it's Gulliver's plaything. . .

October 31, 2008 3:43 PM

About Hannah Tennant-Moore

Hannah Tennant-Moore is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Buddhist Writing (2008); The Sun; Guantanamo: Inside the Prison, Outside the Law; Tricycle; Turning Wheel (as the winner of the Young Writers Award); and elsewhere.

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