Legózz!

The Year in LEGO Pictures

Inspired by The Guardian, I’ve made my own collection of 2011 top stories captured in LEGO.

The King’s Speech won four awards, all in major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay) on the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, February 27, 2011, in Hollywood, Los Angeles. (Profound Whatever/Alex Eylar/flickr)

Riots in London/Athens/Cairo/etc. (NYL/brickshelf.com)

Twenty five years ago on April 26, 1986 the number four reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power facility exploded. (Eric Constantineau/flickr)

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, UK. (Tony Newell/Legoland/flickr)

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. (Profound Whatever/Alex Eylar/flickr)

NASA’s Space Shuttle program finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011. Earlier this year, Space Shuttle Endeavour (mission STS-134) took 9 space-themed LEGO sets to space as part of NASA and LEGO cooperation. (The LEGO Group)

Hurricane Irene left extensive flood and wind damage along its path through the Caribbean, the United States East Coast and as far north as Atlantic Canada in end of August, 2011. (Blake Baer/mocpages)

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, on October 5, 2011. (Wes Waz/flickr)

Libyan Rebels ready to defend themselves against Khadafi’s troops near Misrata. Libyan civil war ended on October 23, 2011. (Ezechielle/Florent/flickr)

At University of California, a police officer uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad in Davis, Calif. Pike, November 18, 2011. (docpop/Doctor Popular/flickr)