"Toy soldiers? Look again."

[cageyJG]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/world/...CNN+-+World%29

[Bigbot]

Very cool. They need the crawler, the kneeling aiming solder and grenade tosser! Amazing how they clean up the surrounding area to remove any foot prints. I would guess Photo-shop, but sometimes these serious art projects are done without that type of digital manipulation.

[cageyJG]

So this guy's 25 and has Legos all over his living room, maybe there's hope a new wave of Joe collectors is percolating.

“It’s not like I’m obsessed with it, but there’s a simplicity to Lego models that’s quite nice – to clear your mind and help it focus a bit,” he says, only a touch sheepishly.

As with most things, millennials are largely to blame. More than half of the ‘kidult’ spend comes from 18 to 34-year-olds, snapping up everything from £500 Scalextric sets to drones, Nerf guns and £2,00 Star Wars Lego models.

For some it’s a chance to recapture the careless raptures of childhood, while for others it’s a chance to escape the hassle and hardships of adult life – akin to other ‘mindfulness aids’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-f...just-children/

We have no ongoing mega-thread where this would fit, so I'll just put it ... here. Now I'm going to go rustle up and bump the childhood pics thread.