The Brothers Brick

I think Lukas put it best: *GASP*
Here’s Danny Rice’s Porphyrion from the bow:

And from the stern:

Now someone just needs to build an Arrow of Heracles… Get to it, Spacers!
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Mikepsiaki has built a cute little biplane that I couldn’t pass up:

While the construction of this plane is deceptively simple, the beauty of it really jumps out at you. Using mostly basic bricks, the builder has really captured a neat plane. He says it isn’t based on any real plane, but it is [...]

After seeing the beautiful Boeing B-29 bomber Josh posted, I could hardly neglect JUNLEGO’s swooshably cool Mitsubishi A6M2 “Zero” fighter:

(The Zero was the primary Japanese fighter in the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the code phrase “Tora, Tora, Tora” was transmitted back to Tokyo to indicate that total surprise had been achieved.)
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JunLego has posted a very cool B-29 Bomber:

The details on this creation are quite good. The subtle shaping of the fuselage, the functional bomb bays, the rear gun, etc. Its a great piece of eye-candy. It never would have occured to me to use the tie fighter cockpit for this plane, and [...]

Mecha master Sugegasa’s dozens of “unmanned control experiment machines” are generally controlled from afar by adorable minifig girls. According to his most recent blog post, this sometimes presents a bit of a problem:
At first, the girl simply ran after the unmanned machine, calling out instructions, but being too close proved death-defyingly dangerous, and ambient noise [...]

That’s the sound a rooster makes in Japanese. Here’s MisaQa with another batch of her great brick-built birds:

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This is just beautiful:

(Click for gallery.)
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I made so many Lord of the Rings minifigs that I have to split them into two posts. Here’s the first, and you’re reading the second, rather darker post.
The Dark Lord Sauron:

Sauron’s Ringwraiths, or Nazgul:

Saruman’s Uruk-Hai:

A bunch of motley goblins, or orcs:

Some evil men, the Haradrim:

A Haradrim oliphaunt-driver, and Grima Wormtongue:

And finally, Gollum:

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Well, I got stuck trying to make more musical minifigs, so I’ve revamped the Lord of the Rings minifigs I uploaded to Brickshelf a couple summers ago.
First up, the Fellowship (Flickr photoset includes individual shots and alternate versions):

Arwen and Elrond:

Galadriel and Bilbo Baggins:

Faramir and Eowyn:

Theoden and Eomer:

Next up, Minifigs of Mordor!
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How cool is that?
Jonathan Coulton is a musician who releases his songs under a Creative Commons license, just as I do with my LEGO pictures and blog content. The idea is that you allow other people to use your creations (music, artwork, text, etc.) as part of their own creative work. The type of CC [...]

It’s been a busy week of LEGO-related news.
The good:

Microsoft Announces Robotics Studio (via The NXT STEP)
LEGO and Microsoft Enter Robotics Collaboration (via The NXT STEP)
South African LEGO ad wins print category in major competition (via TWENTY FOUR)
The bad:

LEGO Group to outsource major parts of its production to Flextronics (via Classic-Castle.com)
The ugly:

Mega Bloks to release [...]

Nelson Yrizarry mentioned recently that he has a bit of extra time on his hands. This is a wonderful thing for all of us, because he’s posted sixteen vignettes based on Spider-Man (I’m hoping Nelson will re-post some of the great minifigs separately).
Possibly lost in the Spider-Vig hubbub is a wonderful vignette based on the [...]

Classic-Spacer Jerac (who, it turns out, isn’t Swiss after all) has posted another awesome entry in his fleet of micro-scale Swiss-themed space ships, the Titan freighter (click for gallery):

The awesome bridge:

A smaller container that slides in and out of the freighter (labeled “7″), which clamps onto the bigger, black container shown in the first picture:

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I can’t top Alex Peacock’s own description of his new minifig:
“MEGA MAID! She’ll clean your window, then she’ll riddle it with shells.”

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Jacob C., a member of Classic-Castle, has posted an incredible bridge:

This bridge blew me away. First, the size of it. Its huge! But what really makes it great is the level of architectural detail. Incredible! Hopefully those two guards facing off on the bridge are pretty laid back…this could get [...]

There’s no question Mike Psiaki builds cool stuff. I just wasn’t expecting what I found when I clicked the thumbnail for this Adventurers-inspired truck:

I won’t say anything more so as not to spoil the surprise.
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Brickshelfer and 1000steine.de member Thekla brings us a classic automobile:

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I blogged a few months ago about Brickshelfer arvo’s Nord Lead synthesizer. Michael C. over at Snoikle has found another real-world object arvo has recreated in LEGO form — a wonderful Fuji camera:

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