The Brothers Brick

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than ten years since eager computer gamers first began controlling the increasingly curvaceous (hurray for higher polygon counts!) Lara Croft in Tomb Raider games.
As always, Lara takes on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, utilizing her run & gun technique:

Characters from the Xbox 360 game Gears of War:

From left to right, Pvt. Damon Baird, Pvt. Augustus Cole, Sgt. Marcus Fenix, and Pvt. Dominic Santiago.
(I’m not as happy with these four as I am with the FFIII characters or Lara Croft, but I was dying to use my new BrickArms weapons again. :D)

To welcome all of you clicking through from Kotaku (and taking down our server for a couple hours yesterday — sorry!), I whipped together another batch of minifigs inspired by video game characters. This is the first of three posts.
Without further ado, here are the characters from Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS:
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DARKSpawn has bestowed yet another gem on us with his Tower House:

The rounded towers and angled windows are my favorite details, but the whole building is full of sweet little details. Keep it up, DARKSpawn!

(also via Moyblik)
Don Solo’s latest is a brilliant Moondozer:

Legohaulic has created a neat alien spacecraft. Look at that awesome shape!

And the minifig alien that goes along with the craft would make Andrew giggle with excitement:

Check out the full announcement on LUGNET, with links to downloads. I’m off to read!

Just in time for all of you clicking through from DESTRUCTOID, the Brothers Arvo present an update to their Nintendo Game Boy, now complete with battery compartment and Game Pak (click for gallery):

Back view:

w00t!

TWLUG (Taiwan LEGO Users Group) member Rake Hao presents a mecha titled “Ba luo Sha”:

For someone with Photoshop skills who’s a fan of both mecha model kits and LEGO, creating one’s own line of kits (well, at least an imaginary line), complete with box art, seems inevitable. Izzo is one such person, and he just started a new series of mecha called “Gunhead Bagune.”
Here’s BG-01 OA-LBUE (blog post):

And BG-02 […]

If you’ve ever wanted to improve your building skills by incorporating advanced techniques such as SNIR (studs not in a row), curved walls, or lettering, Didier Enjary has created The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide.
Read Didier’s announcement on LUGNET, and download the 37-page PDF today!

Dandily has recently posted an awesome Viking lighthouse. Among other details, check out the thatched roof and the light source. Gotta love that light.

I’m not sure it would be possible to shrink mecha any smaller than these, by Chuck Citrin:

When rupi built a chopper from a Fabuland bike, that’s when!

(Via Biczzz.)

I don’t think very many people will disagree with me when I say that Squieu is one of the greatest mecha builders around. He recently uploaded pictures of more than a dozen new mecha, but this one in particular caught my eye — an awesome suit of power armor:

Yokozuna are the highest-ranked class of sumo […]

Brickshelfer HIEN has updated one of his many World War II aircraft, the Nakajima Ki-44 (Wikipedia link). Named “Shoki” by the Japanese Army Air Force and “Tojo” by the Allies, the aircraft was used to intercept B-29 bombers:

Brickshelfer Arvo has been posting work-in-progress pictures of his Fiat Seat 131 sedan, and the car finally looks to be complete:

Be sure to click the picture and check out the gallery for detailed interior shots. If you read Spanish, you can also read all about Arvo’s car on Ladrillitos.

Now available to preorder from LEGO Shop@Home:

Yup, $500. Pretty darn cool, though.