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Located in Denmark, the amazing LEGO headquarters "was designed with many values in mind including fun, unity, creativity, innovation, imagination, and sustainability." Click here for more pictures. In related news, continue reading to see Top Gear presenter James May's LEGO house.

As with most office spaces these days, LEGO opted for a more contemporary utilizing plenty of vibrant colors throughout the building, and what fun would this office space be without plenty of LEGO memorabilia?

While these may not be the world's largest creations, they most certainly are some of the coolest Pokemon-inspired ones you'll see today. They include actual sculptures to custom brick portraits and figures. Continue reading to see them all.

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That's right, Toronto-based "Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said." Video after the break.

Canadian media said the pair had fitted a box tethered to the balloon with four cameras and a cellphone enabled with a GPS (global positioning system) device to capture the journey.

Nathan Sawaya is a lawyer turned brick artist, simply put. He's "perfectly willing to fulfill any commission you can think up of, and if custom ideas are slow, he has plenty of his own ideas to flesh out." Continue reading to see a few of his more interesting creations.

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At 300-pounds, this life-sized Star Wars stormtrooper cake by Amanda Oakleaf Cakes stands a massive 6-foot, 4-inches tall and was "sliced up for 600 Arisia Sci-Fi Convention attendees -- the Stormtrooper cake took Amanda and a team of nine two weeks to design, create and assemble." Click here for more pictures. Continue reading to see LEGO Star Wars cakes.

This creation isn't all cake, though. Its legs are made out of Rice Krispies to keep the entire guy from toppling over. Amanda's cake blog says that they also had to invent new ways of holding its fondant vertically over time and figure out how to put it together in modular pieces. Talk about a challenge.

Not just a set of new minifigs, a "new indoor fully themed Star Wars Miniland will painstakingly recreate seven of the most famous scenes from the beloved Star Wars films including a scene from the animated series: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, using around 1.5 million Lego bricks." Continue reading for more pictures.

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Standing 19-feet tall and comprised of 120,000-pieces, this LEGO Saturn V Rocket is touted as the tallest LEGO structure in Australia. That's not all, "LEGO Certified Professional Ryan "The BrickMan" McNaught included every detail, down the to the LEGO NASA Astrovan used to shuttle the astronauts across the tarmac." Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for a video of the original Saturn V rocket launch, as captured by high-speed cameras.

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Comprised of over 10,000 LEGO pieces and measuring in at 3-feet long, this Sandcrawler took Marshal Banana 9-months to build. This incredible "minifig-scale model retains a high-level of details despite its size; the builder goes beyond to add remote-controlled steering and other functions such as a motorized crane and conveyor belt." Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for a video.

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Now that you've seen the StarCraft theme park and some incredible StarCraft cosplay, here's an incredible LEGO recreation of the Terran Battlecruiser from the game, called the Hyperion, by Sven Junga. It contains over 15,000 pieces and will hopefully be released as an official kit...one day. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading to watch LEGO StarCraft: Brick Rush.

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Called Ozymandias, this massive LEGO ship measures 3.2-feet long and boasts an inner LEGO Technic frame. Even more surprising, the underside of this ship is just as detailed as the top and sides, if not more. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for a video overview.

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