Forget about Rube Goldberg machines and that dusty Mouse Trap board game. The Lego "Great Ball Contraption" makes you a believer in bricks, baby. Crave contributor Christopher MacManus regularly ...

There’s a peculiar subset of Lego fan that doesn’t spend their time building perfect replicas of iconic cars or elaborate brick-built model railroads. They instead create Great Ball Contraptions, or ...

Kawaguchi Akiyuki! Remember that name, my friends, for this man obsessed with Lego has built what’s probably the greatest Lego ball machine (or like the initiated call them, Great Ball Contraption) ...

Spoilers. What you are about to watch is an animation. We say spoilers because you absolutely couldn’t tell that this video of a LEGO Rube Goldberg machine that plays the theme to Pixar’s Up is ...

I’ve spent a good chunk of my life piecing together various LEGO projects… but even the craziest stuff I’ve built pales in comparison to this. It’s a fully functioning pinball machine built entirely ...

LEGO Masters season 5 returned with a new episode, the semi-finals, on July 21, 2025. With only a handful of teams remaining in the competition, the latest segment showcased each team trying to ...

If you’re a nostalgia-minded geek, you might have a soft spot for the classic Space Lego sets, with their iconic orbiting rocket ship logo. You might also be fond of the physical action of pinball, ...

Lego bricks are a tool of nearly limitless potential — if you’ve got enough pieces and enough patience, you can build almost anything. I know this is true, because of brick builder Bre Burns, who has ...

Lego enthusiast Bre Burns has created a fully functional pinball machine made entirely out of Lego bricks. It's called Benny's Spaceship Adventure and it's absolutely brilliant. The complex creation, ...