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Legos are an icon of childhood for most of us, whether you were the one building elaborated fantasy worlds or your children are/were. Like just about every other product you can think of, Lego seizes just about any opportunity for merchandising that it sees and has moved out of the playroom and into the kitchen. Earlier this year, we saw some Lego Eggos, but now the company is offering us real kitchen gear, like ice cube trays shaped like Legos and salt and pepper shakers shaped - somewhat disturbingly - as Lego-men heads. They also have a Lego Apron, which is not made of Legos, but features the classic body of a Lego person on it, a set of Lego coasters and Lego corkscrews for opening wine (probably not something you want your kids to see in case they mistake them for toys).

All this Lego gear is a lot of fun to have around and definitely gives a new twist to playing with your food. The only way that this stuff could be more fun is if the ice cubes were stackable, though it should only take a little water to get them to stick together long enough to build a small tower. You'll need more than one tray for a fort.

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It was only a matter of time before that "leggo my Eggo" slogan went somewhere, right? Yep, there are now Lego-brick-shaped waffles from Eggo. I saw these in the supermarket the other day and then this morning found reference to them on a few different blogs. Most accounts agree that you can't build a damn thing with these, as they only have three holes on the bottom of each brick. Lore Sjöberg over at Wired had this to say: "You can't build. You can just kind of stack. Heap, really." (Sjöberg also has some great commentary on individually wrapped prunes, if you're into that sort of thing.) There were similar sentiments in the comments at Strange New Products but I think Lego blog Nextbrick summed it up best, saying "Finally, Lego elements that are supposed to have teeth marks!"