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Finally, I’ve gotten around to posting my lighthouse! So, I give you…The Dragon’s Tooth!

This is my tallest creation yet!
Here’s the whole illuminated Gallery

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These won’t be news for those of you who saw the work-in-progress pictures on Flickr or who saw them at NWBrickCon, but I finally took decent pictures of my three recent steampunk creations. Enjoy!
H.M.A.S. FearlessThe brave women of Her Majesty’s Royal Flying Corp pilot the steam-powered gunship Fearless into most certain danger!

Leftenant Cavendish’s Marvelous Amphibious [...]

Soren Roberts has updated his Galbady Gamma with a ballute system:

While we’re at it, here’s a bonus mecha, a Soren-original called Gravity:

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Editor Joe Meno has announced the release of BrickJournal issue 5. Click the image to download the “BIG” issue (10.9 MB):

Of particular note for long-time TBB readers are articles and photo essays by Mark Stafford, MisaQa, and Malle Hawking, among many others.
On a related note, LEGO Shop@Home will be donating 1% of all purchases to [...]

Eurobricks reports that Amazon Germany has posted more pictures of the January-June 2007 LEGO sets. Check out the Ferrari, Technic, and Exo-Force sets in this post, and the Aqua Raiders, Star Wars, City, and Creator sets in this thread.
Here’s my favorite new Aqua Raiders set, the as-yet-unnamed 7776:

A shipwreck?! Unbelievably cool.
And check out the set [...]

Jehkay’s latest is an awesome ninja mecha:

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You’d be insane to not love multi-genre-builder Nelson Yrizarry’s latest floating rock. Featuring arctic landscape, polar bears AND a mashed orange ship, it is sure to be something special!

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Pantsbots are adorable, convivial characters who want nothing more than to help their Spacemen friends:

(Spider-Pantsbot, Schizo-Pantsbot, and Bodyguard-Pantsbot by Arpy 2.0)
Sometimes, though, Spacemen take advantage of the loyal little fellows:

JordanTN put it best:
One day when pantsbots become Minorities they will use this image to show young PantsBots how cruel the spacemen were to them all [...]

Brickshelfer Arvo’s latest LEGO recreation of a real-world object is a Commodore VIC-20:

Hurray for the 1 MHz processor! Three cheers for 5 KB of memory! Spend countless hours in your mom’s basement playing Blitz!

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The castle layout at NWBrickCon included an adorable female minifig with a long skirt I’d never seen before. I’ve recreated the design as a princess below:

I asked for permission to take her apart, learning that the “skirt” piece was actually the torso from an old fig. I promptly ran off to the Brick Bazaar, where [...]

Back in July I blogged Tim Gould’s LDraw version of a “Maschinen Krieger UDK38 Schenkel.” Now, Tim has posted pictures of his design in real bricks, complete with a nice diorama to showcase it:

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I like Flickr user Arpy 2.0’s sense of humor. Here’s his “House-Elf Liberation Front soldier” carrying the regimental emblem into battle:

Go, Dobby, go!

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Back to minifigs. Praise the lord! Speaking of which, Moko has posted an interesting “God-ish sort of minifig” (his words):

So much for the second commandment. Heh heh…

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Straight from the typing fingers of newly minted LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry:
Yes - It’s official. Space will be returning.That’s all I can say.

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Getting away from NWBC, now. Man, I wish I could have been there! The pictures show too much good stuff to take in at once!
Fradel Gonzales, commonly known as Slice151, have built a very nice pair of mechas that he call Chirashis. They are viewable in his flickr photostream, and are certainly fantastic in their [...]

With all of my own coverage out of the way (I just added my day 3 write-up to my original post), let’s wrap up NWBrickCon 2006 with a summary of coverage on the Web.
First up, coverage by Josh and me here on The Brothers Brick:

Off to NWBrickCon Day 1
NWBrickCon Day 1 Report
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My path to the dark side assured, let’s get a head-start on Halloween with some great “abominations” from self-described “evil mad scientist” Windell Oskay:

Windell has written up a nice article on How to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween, as well as a second article on his many Lego Abominations.
Here’s a hilarious example titled [...]

After spending an incredible weekend at NWBrickCon this last weekend, I finally got my journal online.
You can read it here.
It was a ton of fun to see all the creations and meet so many Lego fans. Of course, the highlight of the weekend was finally getting to meet Andrew in real life. [...]