The Brothers Brick

New (I think…) Brickshelfer pezzab presents four cool little robots:

An “angry bot” and “Robbie”:

And a pair of ant-bots:

Scott Whitesell has posted a nice little set of World War II minifigs and equipment (via his new blog, Scotty’s Brick Chronicle):

I recently blogged Japanese builder Turbo’s goldfish-catching scene over on Pan-Pacific Bricks (you may also have seen the post on VignetteBricks).

Since Turbo’s latest creation shouldn’t need any cultural explanation for those of us who’ve been swindled by “shooting gallery” games at carnivals, I’m posting it here on TBB instead. Here’s Turbo’s shooting-gallery scene:

Sometimes, one’s own creations can be the best inspiration of all. Felix Greco has rebuilt a three-year-old submarine, and with a little Photoshop flair, (re)posted it to Brickshelf:

I don’t believe I’m the only one to call Michael Jasper a master. As usual, his latest Brickshelf updates include many masterful and interesting uses of LEGO elements. Let’s begin.

A wheelbarrow:

A stork:

A pair of swans (I think that’s a rare white vampire hair piece):

As I blogged earlier this week, July 7th is Tanabata. Turbo and Inago100 join the summer festivities with two great scenes.

Here’s Inago100′s Tanabata vignette (the text says “July 7th is Tanabata”):

Another favorite summertime activity, generally at festivals, is trying to scoop up goldfish using only a paper “net.” Typical of carnival games everywhere, it’s rather difficult. You have to be quick but gentle, because the paper will get soggy and rip — especially if the goldfish is especially frisky and flops around after you catch it.

Turbo captures this scene perfectly with a goldfish-catching scene:

Brickshelfer Annie Preston has been posting art-inspired vignettes over the last week or so (via VignetteBricks):

Piet Mondrian:

Pablo Picasso:

Jackson Pollock:

Nyu has updated their awesome military gallery with four new vehicles:

The classic German Opel truck:

A German halftrack:

A German Tank:

A German self-propelled howitzer:

The amount of detail that Nyu has crammed into these creations is stunning. Amazing!

Here’s the whole warlike gallery, including all of their other military vehicles.

Hurray! Another game-inspired mecha! Freshly posted by Brickshelfer Jerac, here’s a “Hellfire Dreadnought” from the real-time strategy game Warhammer: 40,000:

Be sure to click the image for the full gallery, and check out Jerac’s older Warhammer creations in this gallery.

For all you video gamers just joining us, here’s a lovely vertical tank from the Xbox title Steel Battalion (by Brickshelf.com user JonathanH; click the pretty picture for the full gallery):

It’s almost time for Tanabata in Japan. Tanabata (which literally means “Seven Evenings”) celebrates the meeting of two celestial lovers, Vega and Altair. In the old Japanese calendar, these two stars were separated by an impassible river, the Milky Way, for all but the days of this festival. To celebrate, Japanese people write wishes on narrow strips of brightly colored paper and tie them to bamboo.

Mumu’s wife celebrates Tanabata with bamboo full of hopes and dreams:

(I’m grateful to mumu and his wife for the recent batch of great creations I’ve been able to feature here on PPB. Keep up the good work!)

Brickshelfer ballchoi presents a nice three-tiered castle reminiscent of a much larger one in Himeji:

Legohaulic presents The Mars Express (via Izzo’s legostyle-LOG):

From his MOCpages post:

The Mars Express is the official M&M transportation vehicle of Mars Incorperated (company that makes M&M’s). Its purpose is to transport M&M’s all over the galaxy.

Delicious!

Sometimes the simplest creations are the best. In this case, all of the pieces aren’t even connected. From Brickshelf user Legoloverman, here’s Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster:

I can’t describe that as anything less than art. Very nice.

This officially tops the earbud Afro (previous post).

From Flickr user H Dickins, “Raspberry Head!”