Build a LEGO Creation without Leaving Your Cube
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Just because you’re stuck at your desk doesn’t mean you can’t sneak in a little fun. At BuildWithChrome you can slap together virtual LEGO bricks with ease.
The site, a collaboration between Google and LEGO, shows you a massive map of Australia and New Zealand covered in thousands of LEGO base plates. Zoom in, select a base plate, and get building. The block selection is fairly limited (you can work with the kind of blocks you’d find in a generic LEGO brick pack) but it’s still quite a bit of fun.
When I took it for a test drive, I started simple by building a house-like structure:
With the addition of a few more pieces it would be possible to pull off the wizard shop my wife and daughter just built:
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