Moko’s FF7 Characters: Barret and Aeris
For a creative approach to making Final Fantasy VII characters, I didn’t think Moko could top his banana-coiffed Cloud, but here’s Barret:
And Aeris rounds out Moko’s latest pair of figs:
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Dirty wormhole walls?
Clean them up with Endigo Vandane space sweeper! (Cue trumpet music.)
Here it is in flight (click for gallery):
And in its even cooler landed configuration:
New set: 10177 Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Seattle residents will always hold a special place in their hearts for Boeing, even after they ditch the city for Chicago. Oh well. From LEGO employee Steve Witt, here’s a new set — 10177 Boeing 787 Dreamliner (via mumu’s I Love Cute LEGO):
(More pictures in Steve’s Flickr photostream.)
Kevoh’s Heliocopter and Whirligig
Thanks to the Flickr steampunk contest, there’s been a bumper crop of steampunk lately. Awesome. Kevin Blocksidge adds two more with his Heliocopter and Whirlygig.
Kevin’s heliocopter has gone through several iterations, and I have to say that this, the simplest version, definitely works for me (love the minifig):
The whirlygig is apparently based on a real-life experimental vehicle:
Nathan Proudlove and the World of Tomorrow
This may be the first steampunk SHIP (that’s a Spacer term for Significantly Huge Investment in Parts). Nathan Proudlove presents a flying steampunk aircraft carrier reminiscent of Angelina Jolie’s ship in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow:
Not surprisingly, my favorite part is the little steampunk bicycle thingie sitting on the deck:
(More catching up. This one via Brick Brick.)
Mecha Instructions from Soren. w00t!
Ever wanted to build a mecha of your own? Not satisfied with puzzling out building techniques from Brickshelf pictures? Wonder no more! Soren Roberts and Tim Gould have teamed up to announce step-by-step instructions for Soren’s RGM-79C GM mecha:
View the partslist and download the instructions (in PDF format).
(Okay, so I have some catching up to do… Credit to mumu for blogging this first.)
Street Art Appreciation 101
For the record, I don’t endorse vandalism, but some of these are really rather cool:
From Flickr user yorkshire4 | From Flickr user gfrancis
From Flickr user mmmazzoni
From Flickr user darnolds
From Flickr user loveandunrest
From Flickr user rojotelefono | From Flickr user cherrybiz
Moko’s FF7 Characters: Cid and Tifa
Moko continues his series of Final Fantasy VII characters with Cid and Tifa (check out Cloud and Sephiroth):
Here’s Cid:
And here’s Tifa:
Danzou the Reaper’s Shin-nyu
I recently helped Linus Bohman with some ideas for a cool little space ninja vehicle. Here’s his Shin-nyu, a “long range infiltration and assassination craft” (shin-nyu means “infiltrate” in Japanese):
Be sure to click the picture for the full gallery — lots of great details on this one. Here’s the pilot of the Shin-nyu, Danzou the Reaper (Danzou is named after a legendary Japanese ninja):
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Banana-Head Cloud!
Moko says he’s been playing Final Fantasy VII recently.
Here are his versions of Cloud (with awesomely spiky banana hair!!!):
And Sephiroth:
Micropunk, huh?
Microscale + steampunk = “micropunk” according to Scott Whitesell. Here’s his “steampunk dirigible air fortress” in microscale:
Ewwwww! I hate spiders!
But I love Kevin Blocksidge’s arachnid steampunk walker:
Tow Truck to the Rescue!
Flickr user Duane Hess rolls up in a lovely six-wide towtruck:
Exterminate! LEGO Dalek by wintermoog
Brickshelfer (and recent newlywed) wintermoog presents a larger-than-minifig-scale Dalek from Dr. Who:
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