Posted January 25, 201213 yr http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1120808--toronto-teens-send-lego-man-on-an-a-balloon-odyssey-24-kilometres-high?bn=1 *awe*
January 25, 201213 yr THIS IS EPIC!!!! This really shows how aspired young minds can create do something you would assume would take tons of money and time and professionals. This was a great read and story, this rivals the Giant Lego men washing up on shore for me.
January 25, 201213 yr Quite inspiring!!! To think that they did that "for fun" reassures me that this generation is not "lost" as some might say. Plus imagine what they'll be abel to tell their kids: "When I was your age, I took these pictures .... OF SPACE!!!" LOL Congratulations to 2 ingenious youth, an inspiration to all!
January 25, 201213 yr Very cool! One (very) small step for minifigs, one giant step for minifig kind!
January 26, 201213 yr Very, very cool! And they did it with almost nothing expensive. Wow! ya gotta be very proud of these kids!
January 26, 201213 yr Great job, guys! They get extra respect points for atttaching a minifig to their rig. I have a good feeling that this will soon be on the brothers brick, and many other Lego blogs! I am getting ideas of epic proportions from this. Once again, congratulations, and I hope both of them are TFOLs! To infinity, and beyond! Dakar Edit: It has now been blogged on TBB. Edited January 26, 201213 yr by Dakar A
January 26, 201213 yr Amazing video...amazing story. The nice thing is they did this with the known risk of not being able to retrieve the cameras or anything. Very clever work.
January 26, 201213 yr Wow, that is incredible. Would have been superb if instead of a normal minifig an astronaut minifig been choosed for the photo.
January 26, 201213 yr Author I'm surprised there isn't more wide spread condemnation of this here on EB... these kids clearly did not have safty in mind. What they did was reckless and dangerous. How DARE they send up a Minifig without the proper Helmet and Air Tank?
January 26, 201213 yr How DARE they send up a Minifig without the proper Helmet and Air Tank? Poor little guy. Never had a chance.
January 26, 201213 yr Ingenuity at its best! Awesome work by these two young lads! These two should get some kind of compensation from the Superglue and the camera manufacturer (Canon) for proving their respective products' worth.
January 26, 201213 yr I've read a lot about these weather balloon cameras before, but it's fantastic to see it done by people so young, and with LEGO. Being a space enthusiast, I've made a slight correction to the topic title - 24km altitude is very high, but nowhere near space, which is usually put at around 100km high. If weather balloons could get to space, we wouldn't need space shuttles.
January 26, 201213 yr Pretty cool they made national news last night and local news this morning. They also made front page news on MSN.ca today.
January 27, 201213 yr My sister found this and immediately told me about it, 2 guys from Toronto managed to get a Lego Man up into stratosphere, here is the video: And here is the article: Article at Globalpost
January 27, 201213 yr It seemed a little silly at first, but those were some interesting pictures once he was in the stratosphere... Wonder if they glued him down...
January 27, 201213 yr Uh-oh! Don't give any ideas -- imagine if this Giant Lego Man appeared via parachute in your back yard!
January 29, 201213 yr Would have been superb if instead of a normal minifig an astronaut minifig been choosed for the photo. I thought of this too. How DARE they send up a Minifig without the proper Helmet and Air Tank? What's arguably even worse is that it doesn't appear that they gave him a name. Who does something with a minifig that garners national attention and doesn't even name the poor little guy?
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