Blade Runner LEGO Spinner Car Syd Mead w Joel Johnson (BBtv)

Continuing in the Blade Runner theme of our most recent Boing Boing tv episode, today BB Gadgets editor Joel Johnson speaks with artist and futurist Syd Mead about this rare treasure -- the only one in the world! -- spotted during a BBtv shoot in Mead's home and studio.

So what is that, Joel?

"A one-of-a-kind official LEGO version of Mead's "Spinner" flying car from Blade Runner, presented to Syd by LEGO when he attended a design summit in Billund. Syd let me pick it up and swoop it around my head like a child."

LEGO and Blade Runner, two great tastes that taste great together.

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[legolaughter2986]

nice lol i wish i could buy it

[09Murmur]

im called joel

[botswanky]

Very cool... love this stuff.

[armadillozenith]

I noticed (several models to the left of the "Spinner", on the same desk) the Time Machine from George Pal's version of the H.G. Wells novel (like a sleigh with upright disk at the rear). That novel, film and model have a great romantic attachment for me.

[squirrel8000]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[TheDmDark]

oh no, you didnt. . . not the buster! plz on the reverb and saber too! and chopper too! them is my favorite!!

[trkdad552]

genius i say! hah

[Khultan]

I love this man!!! Syd Mead!!!

[pwfd]

what's the name of that music that plays in the end?!

[misteridiot]

I got the blueprints for it off of legofancentral, before they lost the site. Of course, my model is all mismatched colors... lolz.