• too bad some trans smoke didn't fit in here for the tape. - Scruffy Mynxbane
  • How is it connected ? - Lego-LM
  • It's not connected here at all.

Lego cassette

Giant cassette tape is giant.

Comments and faves

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    ted @ndes, ~Entropy~, Cam M., MBeige, and 145 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Lego Junkie. (23 months ago | reply)

    And it fooled me very well until I clicked on the thumb.
    That's quite the piece of art you have there.
    :D

  3. Cam M. (23 months ago | reply)

    Mind blowing.

  4. [IB] (23 months ago | reply)

    now all ya need is a pencil ha!

  5. .Tromas (23 months ago | reply)

    Ok you are now my hero...but you need to put a piece of masking tape on it and write 'Nathan's Mix' across it if you want to be really old school:)

  6. rabidnovaracer (23 months ago | reply)

    Sweetness!

  7. ƒernald (23 months ago | reply)

    I was fooled.
    Amazing idea, and perfectly done!

  8. Catsy [CC] (23 months ago | reply)

    Blink.

    Ya. Fooled by the thumb. But it was Nathan posting it so I knew I had to click through.

  9. Shadow Viking (23 months ago | reply)

    Righteous.

  10. Legohaulic (23 months ago | reply)

    What's a cassette tape?

    I kid. Really well done man!

  11. The Slushey One (23 months ago | reply)

    radical cassette tape is radical

  12. peterlmorris (23 months ago | reply)

    Dude I thought it was real from the thumb. I mean I saw the holes and thought, "there's no way he pulled that off in Lego."

    You, sir, are amazing.

  13. />ylan/>. (23 months ago | reply)

    Wow! Luckily I'm just old enough to still remember these things ;)

  14. z the lego man (23 months ago | reply)

    perfect.
    should have kept mine *shakes head*

  15. peterlmorris (23 months ago | reply)

    You know what's awful is finding old mix tapes in a drawer or something and then realizing you don't even have anything to play them on! It's like a little mystery!

  16. -Tayasuune- (23 months ago | reply)

    Heh, I found a floppy disk the other day, like one of the giant original floppy disks. I had no clue what it was, had to look it up.

  17. .Tromas (23 months ago | reply)

    I wish I could find some of my old mix tapes because just the other day I was driving to work and I realized that my car has a cassette deck in it! I have owned the car since 2004 and never really noticed. Obviously I knew it was there, but just never really thought about it...but it made me miss mix tapes. Kids nowadays are going to miss out on the joys of sitting in your room for 2 hours recording a mix tape. Burning a CD, or even worse, making a playlist on you iPod just doesn't have the same charm!

  18. Proudlove (23 months ago | reply)

    Yep, I kept most of my old tapes. I still pull them out once in a while for nostalgia's sake. Mix tapes are the best, but man they sound awful. Some of my music was obscure enough to only have been released on cassette. I'm especially glad that I've held on to those.

  19. StoryWriter (23 months ago | reply)

    Oh that's some straight up magical lego heresy. I thought from the thumbnail it was real. Nice one good sir. XD

  20. peterlmorris (23 months ago | reply)

    I think getting the levels right was the hardest part, especially if you were recording from two different sources. I hated getting a tape that had huge volume swings in it!

    Yeah I hear that. Even with the good ol' Dolby NR button mashed, the hiss was just terrible. I had a tape deck in my car 'till I wrecked it in 99, but that thing was just a receiver for the discman converter thingamabob. Man did it suck when the tape player didn't want to 'read' that thing.

  21. That New Zealand guy (23 months ago | reply)

    Well done.

    Reverse building of this will be a challenge.

  22. V&A Steamworks (23 months ago | reply)

    8 Track next?

  23. Sydag (23 months ago | reply)

    As many others, I was fooled by the thumb, thinking 'why is there a tape picture in the LEGO group !?' ^^ Excellent work !

  24. .Tromas (23 months ago | reply)

    LOL!! 'discman converter thingamabob'...I totally forgot about those!!! You gotta love transitional technology like that eh?!

  25. baronsat (23 months ago | reply)

    Wow, GIANT! ;>)

    Remember me the 80's when the walkman was the top of technology.

  26. LegOscar (23 months ago | reply)

    That's awesome! I remember recording every song I liked from the radio...

  27. doublechen (23 months ago | reply)

    awesome!

  28. Aroŋ. (23 months ago | reply)

    Oh, the nostalgy.

  29. Scruffy Mynxbane (23 months ago | reply)

    ...and awesome!

  30. ZetoVince (23 months ago | reply)

    Great work!
    it reminds me a piece of LegoManiac's work
    80's Audio Tape by LegoManiac
    Man you have a mind-brother or something!

  31. +DemonHunter+ (23 months ago | reply)

    Nostalgia! Nice build bro

  32. Proudlove (23 months ago | reply)

    I'm pretty sure I've seen that one. I know I wasn't the first to do it, and I really like the red and white bricks in his.

  33. 1wave (23 months ago | reply)

    Great work! No gaps in the SNOT, really nicely done!

  34. Jack Riveorput (23 months ago | reply)

    Excellent.

  35. </arpy> (23 months ago | reply)

    Now do a VHS tape! Or, that failing, a large pencil to stick in this cassette's holes.

  36. wunztwice (23 months ago | reply)

    Dude, memory lane or what?!?!

    RE: mixtapes, I even remember making a mix off the radio. Talk about old-school piracy...

  37. Scruffy Mynxbane (23 months ago | reply)

    ^i did that :D

  38. .Tromas (23 months ago | reply)

    haha old school piracy FTW...I used to watch Electric Circus every week on Much Music and put my ghetto blaster up to my TV speaker and record it. I would have the door to my room closed and have a sign taped on it that read 'Quiet! Recording In Session'. I really wanted to get a red light bulb installed that I could turn on instead, but my parents wouldn't go for it :)

  39. oLaF-LM (23 months ago | reply)


    thanks to remind !

    there's no problem, you've used a different way to make it, I've build it form down to up and you from left to right ;)

  40. Scruffy Mynxbane (23 months ago | reply)

    My ten year old niece hops in her great uncle's car the other day, picks up a cassette and says, "What's this thing?" After we laugh, with no small trace of wistfulness, we explain it to her and she says, "oh yeah, it was called a....... a Tape!" Like she's trying to remember a slide rule or an adz or something. Just thought i'd share for those of us who might not realize we're officially old.

  41. Kryiptuun (23 months ago | reply)

    I just think it's funny how many kids have no idea what a cassette is. When I was really young I remember always using cassettes and VHS tapes.

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  43. the oneman (22 months ago | reply)

    Masterpiece! I am serious, proportions are so accurate. Bravo!

  44. NIRDIAN (22 months ago | reply)

    I remember having these things, and playing them. So yeah, this hits a nostalgic softspot with me. Other than that I can also say that this is one awesome build, man. :)

  45. Lino M (21 months ago | reply)

    How did I miss this? Amazing work all around. Its taking me back down memory lane for sure.

  46. Brickd Blog (20 months ago | reply)

    some series 80's awesomeness. it made me lookup walkmen on eBay. i featured this on Brickd: www.brickd.com/post/7228556622/lego-cassette- by-proudlove

  47. dkmnews (18 months ago | reply)

    damn.

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  49. magnus_lauglo (16 months ago | reply)

    Brings back good memories!

  50. derbychic8track (15 months ago | reply)

    um to the "its not connected" it is probably just a 2 sided lego and the triancle is an upside down one

  51. SisiMissa (10 months ago | reply)

    Great!
    If you like tapes, please have a look at my work!


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