Finally, we covered a set of incredible LEGO creations -- from a life-size Wall-E robot made from Lego Mindstorms to a computer built from plastic bricks and a series of amazing Lego animals that invaded the Bronx Zoo.
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Encountering a life-size model of a jail cell, visitors can go in and shut the door, to imagine what solitary confinement must have been like.
His includes a life-size terracotta army, a full orchestra with instruments and a river landscape with cranes, swans and geese - and archaeologists have barely begun the excavation.
There may be a life-size polar bear in a cowboy hat and hula skirt standing in front of a tourist shop that makes for memorable souvenir photos, and one could argue that any item is for sale if you make the right offer, but if it isn't specifically there to be sold, it doesn't count.
Instead of an Elmo costume, I could have rented a life-size stuffed zebra, or a plastic cadaver.
Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.
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Recently, assailants smashed a life-size statue of La Santa Muerte in a South Texas cemetery.
Together with his Siberian Mouse and Egyptian Lizard, the fancifully-named insect was a life-size automaton with perfectly realistic movement.
Other families take Christmas photos with "flat daddies" or "flat mommies" life-size photos of a deployed parent.
One link even took us to a life-size deer decoy at Cabela's, a Nebraska-based hunting and outdoor site.
With a push of a button, a curtain pulls back to reveal a stage filled with life-size dancers and musicians performing a jig.
Dry off with a life-size chess match, and then dress up for a pasta dinner at Chibi Chibi Restaurant on the house.
The fountain depicts a life-size female figure pouring water from an urn into a bowl with the inscriptions "take the water of life freely" and "water is best".
One recent weekday morning at the Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, dozens of excited 7- and 8-year-olds were posing for pictures with a life-size ticket taker built of Lego bricks.
Here you can see a life-size portrait of the lady, her sharp features etched out in profile, a transparent gown showing the curves of her body.
De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.
In another large-scale art installation, Babis Panagiotidis used 18, 000 recycled computer keys to make a life-size rocking horse.
Stratasys makes boxy machines that turn digital drawings into life-size prototype parts within a few hours.
Thanks to "Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux, " at the Field Museum in Chicago, visitors can now see life-size replicas of half a dozen sections of the caves.
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Children in Dorset have built a life-size model of Olympic 100m gold medallist Usain Bolt.
In his living room, Myhrvold has a life-size T. rex skeleton, surrounded by all manner of other dinosaur artifacts.
The clerk calls up a life-size hologram of her and projects different items on her, letting you choose the ones that look best.
This week, Shain was back in Times Square where she met with reporters at the unveiling of a life-size, lifelike statue of that embrace.
The caryatids, five larger-than-life-size female statues that supported a porch on the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis, survey the museum's lobby from an internal balcony.
There's even the "Little Lebowski Shop" in New York that sells merchandise ranging from shirts and mugs to action figures and a life-size cutout of The Dude.
Among the nearby statuary stands a life-size likeness of Benjamin R. (Pitchfork Ben) Tillman, the four-term United States senator who led the movement that disenfranchised black voters in 1895 and instituted Jim Crow.
Dominating the north gallery as the Mozia Charioteer dominates the south is a life-size limestone marble statue of the woodland diety Priapos, as powerfully hulking and oversexed as the Charioteer is suave and teasingly erotic.
Fuentes wears bright red shirts, mimicking Chavez's trademark color of choice, calls himself a proud foot soldier in Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution and in his private office there is a life-size photo of the Venezuelan leader.
Besides the addition of a built-in speaker, the main changes here involve screen size and battery life: the V30K sports a 3.5-inch TFT LCD (compared to the 2.5-incher on the S, though both share the same QVGA resolution) and promises up to 8 hours of video or 25 hours of audio playback on a full charge (as opposed to the meager 2.5 and 12 hour lifespans for video and audio, respectively, on the S).
Dozens of people showed up to create a mural under a bridge in central Cairo, depicting in striking, life-size, black-and-white detail an army tank facing a bread delivery boy on a bicycle a stand-off between the army and the people.
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