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LEGO's largest ever model was revealed in New York City’s Times Square yesterday in the shape of the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter. It is the world’s largest LEGO model coming in at 42x the size of the #9493 Star Wars set currently available. The model was constructed in LEGO’s model shop in Kladno, Czech Republic and measures 11 x 43 feet with a wingspan of 44 feet. The 1:1 scale model uses over five million bricks and weighs in at over 45,000 pounds. An international team of builders, engineers, designers, mechanics and logistics experts spent over a year planning and constructing the model from the same bricks enjoyed by people all over the world. You can check out some pics below. The X-wing will in due course appear at the company's LEGOLAND Resort in Carlsbad, California (after being certified as strong enough under the state's seismic requirements), and is being displayed in Times Square to publicize the forthcoming "Yoda Chronicles...

Happy Birthday Medicom! To commemorate this benchmark, they have teamed up with various brands to make some one-of-a-kind collaborations only Medicom can. Here's a peak... Japanese fashion brand Roen have done a few of these oversized black tone Mickey Mouse collaborations, but for the 15th anniversary they have collaborated in creating this version of the 'Guitar' Mikey Mouse, ready to drop on July 30th at the anniversary exhibition in Tokyo! To be launched on the same date is this 400% wooden Karimoku Be@rbrick toy designed in collaboration with Horizon. Finally, Medicom have teamed up with Stussy and Star Wars to create this anniversary edition Stormtrooper Be@rbrick ! This comes in a pack together with a special t-shirt reading 'I have a bad feeling about this' on the front and is due to be released a little later in mid August.   Not only are Medicom celebrating the big 1-5 but a couple of months back was the 10th anniversary of the classic Be@rbric...