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The Associated Press is reporting that retailers may face shortages of LEGO during the upcoming holiday shopping season.
“Many of our most popular products are sold out,” Lego spokeswoman Charlotte Simonsen said. “As part of efforts to restructure the company and focus on our core business, we had to make some cuts and the company has […]

Moko recently posted a cool little vehicle Lukas called “bike-ish”:

What’s not in Moko’s Brickshelf caption is that this is based on a hover-bike currently featured in a Nissin Cup Noodles ad (in Japan, of course) that uses footage from a new project called FREEDOM by Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo. Here’s a six-minute clip from YouTube:
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Zombie Andrew, Zombie Josh, pumpkin-head Eddie (aka the disembodied head of Linus Bohman), and Necromancer Nathan join classic monsters to wish all of our readers a very happy Halloween! Be safe, and have fun!

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Got some time over? Then take a look at Daniel Major’s (ApophisV to most) very cool microscale helicarrier:

Now, as awesome as that is, I almost think I like the fleet it carries more. He says that he is planning on making minifig versions of some or all of these - and I just can’t wait […]

FoxPrimus, who goes under the name of Todd in real life, brings us a fantastic craft by the name of Habrok. (Habrok was essentially the king of crows in norse mythology, and played various minor roles.)

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The Colossal Castle Contest IV has been announced on Classic-Castle.com! Looks like there are great categories and excellent prizes.
Check out the Announcement thread on CC.

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So how do you deal with dirty LEGO? German appliance maker Bosch has a solution — a special cycle in their new “LEGO Edition” dishwasher that gently cleans your plastic toys at 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit).
No, I’m not joking:

Link via Engadget, with thanks to Ben Ellerman for posting this on Classic-Castle.com.

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Izzo recently posted these cows on Brickshelf and I love ‘em. Check out the alien attack too!
Check out the whole bovine gallery here!

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I’m not entirely sure I like to blog my own stuff, but here it goes anyway. This is Gas Mask, a tactical smoke screen deployer:

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Lcwtony on flickr has only recently begun posting models, but those that are up are quite stunning - he can obviously build both mecha and other futuristic stuff. With a stunning presentation to boot, you’ve got a winner! Here is his F430 Spider:

Make sure to click on over and look at the rest of his […]

And while we’re on the subject of contests, Mike Yoder (fantastic builder, by the way) has recently announced that he is hosting a contest: to build your very own junker ship! The full thing can be read in a post on flickr, but here is the gist to get you hooked:
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Just because I’m away people don’t stop building awesome space stuff! There has been a contest running over at classic-space (held by the by now familiar Lukas) that has just ended. It produced some spectacular models - check out Bram Lambrecht’s winning entry for instance:

First runner up, my fellow countryman Joel Larsson’s car, is also […]

Today’s batch of “mechanimals” from Izzo (previous post) includes two marine animals.
Proving that Izzo can pun in at least two languages, behold the “whalicopter” (Izzo’s blog post):

As if a flying whale weren’t enough, how about a bird that doesn’t? Here’s Izzo’s multipurpose aquatic transportation device, the “Penguindive” (link):

The vignette above shows the Penguindive in underwater […]

The LEGO Company wants to know from the adult LEGO collector community what car they should make as a set. Once again via the furiously typing fingers of LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry, the Brothers Brick has received the following message from LEGO:
The LEGO Design team is considering making a kind of collector’s car, and would […]

Takeshi Itou has recently posted pictures of his latest masterpiece, “Fog Valley Castle.
Once again, this incredible builder has created some out of the ordinary. Perched on one of his trademark cliffs, the castle seems to floating on the three waterfalls pouring from its base.
Check it all out here!
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John Langrish has finally posted pics of his award-winning castle, “Stoneguard Hold”! Personally, I’ve been waiting for this since NWBrickCon. This castle is truly amazing!

This castle is packed full of incredible details! From the rounded walls and towers to the plethora of SNOT (Studs Not On Top) construction, from the impressive […]

Wow, I’m still here. I’m sorry I haven’t contributed for the last month or so. I blame my new part-time job, college classes, and brickfilms.com, roughly in that order. Anyway, to jumpstart my comeback, I’m going to invade Linus’ domain (please forgive me!) and feature this extremely cool airship by Felix Greco:

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I always love it when Izzo starts a new series! Whether it’s vignettes based on Japanese proverbs or industrial mecha, I know we all have something great to look forward to.
Izzo’s latest is a series of creature-inspired mecha he cleverly calls “mechanimals.”
The first is a rat-car with a detachable rat-bot (blog post):

That certainly looks […]