LEGO Carbon Fiber Tiles

Whether it’s the Lincoln Memorial, the Simpson’s house, or the ubiquitous spaceship, you can build

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Whether it’s the Lincoln Memorial, the Simpson’s house, or the ubiquitous spaceship, you can build virtually anything with LEGO. So how do you make the world’s most popular bricks even better? Simple – by making them carbon fiber. That’s exactly what LEGO fan Mark Carpenter did. Partnering with an American carbon fiber manufacturer, Mark created fully usable (albeit unofficial) LEGO bricks made from 3mm sheets of aerospace grade carbon fiber. Currently available in the versatile 1×2 brick size, the high gloss carbon fiber bricks come in packs of 10, 200, or 1000 over on Mark’s Kickstarter page. They’re the perfect way to give your next LEGO spaceship some actual space-age material.

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