Legos get crazy iced out

(Credit: Lego.com)

This Lego Ice Brick tray is as cold as ice, and willing to sacrifice our love. But not our love of Legos.

The $7.99 tray, available through Lego's online store turns boring old ice into ridiculously awesome Lego ice bricks.

According to the Lego site, you can build little Lego sculptures out of the ice bricks...but a close inspection of the tray reveals that it only creates the "male," nubby side of the bricks, and not the "female," Lego-nub-receptor side of the bricks.

Thus, cool as these ice cubes look, your "sculptures" would just consist of stacked ice cubes, not snap-together Lego projects. That's a shame, but I still want this tray in my freezer like it's nobody's business.

Update: As Crave reader pejohnst kindly points out in the TalkBack section below, perhaps the "female" end is created by stacking the trays on top of each other. There's no picture of the underside of the tray on the Lego site, so it'll be a mystery until these trays are in hand.

The Lego Ice Brick tray is dishwasher-safe, makes 10 ice Legos per tray, and is made out of silicone. I have a great recipe for ice if anyone needs it.

[Via Geeksugar.]

[pejohnst]

What if you stack them?

Will the trays fit together so that the bottom of the tray on top will create the female side of the Lego bricks?

[tmoynihan]

Great point

...adding to the post right now. There's no picture of the underside of the tray on the Lego site, so there's no way to verify until I buy at least two of them.

[henrydorn]

you could stack, but there is no bottom

My roommate bought this about a year ago. There is no bottom to them. The only way you could get "female"/"male" legos is if you stacked them like the previous poster said.

[afterglide]

You can stack 'em

I just bought 4 trays, and yes, you can stack them. The bottoms of the trays have the molds to form the "female" holes in the bottom of the bricks in the tray stacked below it. Whatever cubes are in the top tray in the stack will not have the holes in the bottom. You could use those as the base of whatever lego ice sculpture you were building. It would be nice, however, if you could buy some sort of separate "lid" for $3 or $4 that would create the female imprint in the top tray, as well.