The Brothers Brick

Brickshelfer DARKspawn may be better known for his many castle creations, but his “MadCat BattleMech” inspired by Battletech and MechWarrior isn’t half bad either:

Nice use of the Catwoman torso for the pilot.

Moko’s in quite the mood lately. In addition to building crazy-weird monster rats (previous post), Moko has been busy building crazy-weird minifig monsters:

Click the image to see the gallery on Brickshelf, with more strange creatures.

Looks like this isn’t actually new (based on the hit count in the gallery), but since it’s cool and I haven’t featured it here on The Brothers Brick… Anyway, here’s another strange/cool creation from cbolego inspired by the Metal Slug series of games.

Well, I was surfing the web and I came across this hilarious image of so called “Web 2.0-ized” logos, which lead me to this nifty “Web 2.0 Logo Creatr.” I couldn’t resisit:

I missed these in Bronson Rash’s Flickr photostream when he uploaded them (don’t forget to tag your photos with “LEGO”, people!), but this is a very cool, wonderfully sinister Count Dracula:

Alan Saunders proves once again that simplicity works, with his vignette of Gregor Mendel examining his pea plants:

LEGO has released a little working magnifying glass, but because it’s so big, it looks a bit rediculous when a minifig holds it. I like how Alan has used a wrench instead (and the oil can works well as a watering can).

Jonesy, Classic-Castler and co-founder of NeutronBot, has just released pictures of his latest MOC: a Soviet-era inspired tank whose driver appearently has delared war on daisies.

Japanese builder dellta presents a very large warrior on horseback:

(Click for gallery on Brickshelf, when public.)

minifig and I share a deep appreciation for music and minifigs. His latest band is a group from Montreal, Canada called Arcade Fire:

Remember when LEGO asked fans what kind of classic car we’d like to see in a collector’s set?

Well, LEGO Ambassador Stephen Sander announced on LUGNET (via Based on a True Story and How Many Studs to LEGOLAND?) that The LEGO Company displayed several prototypes at an event held in Frechen, Germany.

Ford Mustang:

Aston Martin:

Delorean:

(Note the fusion power thingie on the back, making this the car from Back to the Future. For licensing reasons, I doubt the production version will include this little detail, but it’s still very cool.)

Volkswagen (classic) Beetle:

Finally, here’s the text of an announcement about a completely new (potential) product line displayed at the event:

In April we will launch a big Modular Building. Product will be announced in Brick Journal March issue. What type of building would you like to see as a LEGO product? Which one of the buildings shown do you prefer?

Check out Stephen’s LUGNET announcement for links to all three pictures, but here’s my favorite, a hotel:

It hasn’t been long since I posted something by Moko (is it ever?), but I haven’t posted a mecha by him in a while. Moko’s latest is a rather shiny robot inspired by knights of old:

Ross Crawford announced today (well, technically tomorrow) that he has made queries to his LEGO Instructions Cross-reference database linkable using Web addresses.

For those of you unfamiliar with Ross’s ongoing project, The LEGO Company releases instructions for older sets on LEGO.com. However, the instruction code LEGO uses doesn’t necessarily match the set number you might be familiar with from the box or sites like Peeron and Brickset. Ross has painstakingly cross-referenced the LEGO instruction code with the set numbers.

So, head on over to Brickley’s Words and try out the instruction cross-reference tool:

http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29

Chris Malloy gives us a nice diorama, with a surprised rancher (and his trusty dog) checking out a fallen satellite. Note especially the landscaping and the scorched earth.

This could be considered part of a fan-created subtheme called Tech West, though Chris himself hasn’t labelled it as such.

The same recently mentioned Ed Diment constructed the USS Maddox some time ago. While old, it is still a jaw-droppingly impressive ship:

Don’t let the small picture deceive you – this is a huge beast. Featuring a fully detailed interior, a smooth exterior and some complex construction, it is one heck of a piece of work – still amazing despite it being built some year ago.

No, sadly, as the title might mislead, it is not a question of LEGO re-releasing the, in its days quite fantastic, Blacktron line. However, the space community more than makes up for that by producing some fun original models! First out is Ed Diment’s nicely chunky Black-CAT, a transport of sorts:

With a lot of moving parts, nice shape and a well-executed colour scheme, this is definitely something I’d have enjoyed as a kid. But no worries, I’ll enjoy it now instead.

Next up is Andrew Verner’s (aka Andrusi) Legion. At first sight one would think it is a CAD version of the original Blacktron Invader:

But lo and behold – he had us all fooled! With a few twists and turns it transforms into a robot!

Andrew has gone to great lengths to ensure that the ship mode still is modular, and he even put a .mpd file in his gallery which means that those with ldraw can take a look at how it is built (and even build their own!). Thank you for that Andrew!

And with that we end this session of nostalgia.