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Friday, December 24, 2004

Woot's NBA "Build a Brawl"

Today's Woot! item (and its description) is one of the funniest I've ever seen. It is for a LEGO NBA set; however, Woot! presents it as the LEGO "Build a Brawl." In the photo, they have recreated the Detroit-Indianapolis slugfest with tiny LEGO men.

Here is their description:
"Darth Vader. Doctor Octopus. Lord Voldemort. Each of these depraved monsters has been immortalized as a stumpy-limbed, unbearably cute LEGO figure. Now, LEGO gazes into the maw of evil itself with the most malignant cabal of villainy yet: the National Basketball Association! Add an undercurrent of stark terror to your holiday with this arena of doom, complete with ten adorable LEGO renderings of actual NBA miscreants.

That Detroit brawl was nothing; stage your own bloody assaults and send your other LEGO figures stampeding over each other in unthinking, animal horror. Ron Artest and Ben Wallace figures are not included in this set, but true violence junkies are encouraged to customize their own. The NBA: where men are babies and fans are scared!

Note: To recreate riot scenes like ours will take embarrassing amounts of cash spent on extra Lego sets, and far more time than you should really be spending on such childish pursuits. Again, don’t expect to get pirates, skeletons, or monkeys."

In the product disclaimer, they add "Do not throw tiny foam cups at the tiny LEGO players." See the set in action here.

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