The Brothers Brick

This was on the top of my “to blog” list before the power went out last Thursday. What I like so much about Patrick Yrizarry’s microscale Edo castle is all the detail he’s packed into it, from the moat to the gate and the courtyard full of trees of various shapes:

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Japanese builders zizy2 and squieu both build fantastic micro-mecha. What better way to highlight them than in one convenient post?
Here’s zizy2’s “m40″:

And Squieu’s “Gigas”:

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If you’re seeing this, you’re one of the first to know that we’re starting up The Brothers Brick on its own domain. Until we get everything up and running, you can continue to read about LEGO news and creations on our old Blogger blog.
EDIT 12/21/06: And we’re now live on Brothers-Brick.com!

A typical barbarian prisoner wagon returns from battle. Festooned with remnants of previous residents, the wagon rumbles its way back to the barbarian encampment. What hideous fate awaits the unfortunate survivors? I hope to never find out.
Check out the gallery here!

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Jehkay’s latest mecha is beefy!

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Adorable!

And oh so festive! (From Turbo.)
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Have you picked up your 2007 mosaic sets yet (6162 and 6163)? The dragon is awesome. My new mosaic (clear base plates!!!), plus an e-mail from RichardAM, reminded me that I failed to blog BitFlicks. Here’s their first — and still my favorite — LEGO+CGI animation:

Via Destructoid.
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DarkSpawn has posted a very classic-looking tower for the CCCIV. From the sculpted look of the landscaping, to the angles of the walls, this tower has a lot to offer.
Check out the gallery here!

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I just “upgraded” to Blogger in Beta, and I’m experiencing some technical difficulties with the new template. I’m working on fixing them, and I apologize for any weirdness in the meantime.

From Kotaro Ono’s How Many Studs to Legoland?:
There once was an ancient, ancient, oh so ancient dragon. When the dragon awoke from his slumber, the world around him had completely changed.
The dragon asked the king, “O King, why has the land become stained red, red the color of blood?” The king replied to the dragon, [...]

I’ve featured chocobos based on Kevin Heckel’s design several times (post 1, post 2) here on TBB. But I also really like m20xr’s new design for a baby chocobo:

(Oh, and if you’ve been wondering why posts from me have been so few and far between lately, I’ve been playing Final Fantasy XII — 90 hours [...]

In June of 2005, Classic-Castle.com held a contest to create castle-themed chess pieces and chess sets. It looks like Flickr user astronut1 took his pictures a few months later (and just posted them on Flickr), but these would have been great entries:

The pawns are classic Crusaders and Black Falcons minifigs, but astronut1 created unique [...]

Baggins has entered a rather morbid little scene in the Colossal Castle Contest IV. Other than lots of dead bodies, it includes a well-built tudor house, a sweet lokking burial pit, and a number of well-posed mini-figs.
Check out the Plague-infested gallery.
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The newest creation by Nathan (aka Norro) is easily the best creation I have seen in years. The fanstastic cliff-side tavern, incredible landscaping, and plethora of detail renders this reviewer speechless (well, almost).
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Well, here I am, tooting my own horn. This is my attempt at a custom fig for the Colossal Castle Contest 4. Virtually all of it is customized, only the wings and plume are unaltered Lego. It was definitely a fun build. Hope you enjoy it!
Check out the airborne gallery.

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I live in Seattle and drive a Hyundai sedan. If I lived in Dublin or Madrid or Tokyo, I’d want something smaller, like a scooter. What better scooter than a Vespa? Arvo seems to agree, since he built a LEGO version of his own Vespa P200E:

Zippy!
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Although his brother Nelson is in no danger of losing a spot as one of the most-blogged builders here on The Brothers Brick, it’s nice to see multiple posts featuring creations from Patrick Yrizarry too!
But enough meta-blogging (there’s certainly been enough of that from me this week) — on to the LEGO!
Here’s Patrick’s “Warp Zone”:

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My gallery of musical minifigs on Brickshelf was recently featured on THE 9 on Yahoo! (they’re at number 8):

Check out the gallery on Brickshelf, but I’ve been keeping the photoset on Flickr a bit more up to date. Sweet!
Thanks to Azaghal from Classic-Castle.com for letting me know! I totally missed this, and didn’t even notice [...]