The Brothers Brick

BrickArms manufactures injection-molded ABS accessories compatible with LEGO. Now, I’m what most LEGO fans call a “purist”; I don’t cut, paint, glue, or otherwise harm LEGO, and I don’t generally use non-LEGO parts in my creations. After I attended a presentation at NWBrickCon last October, though, I couldn’t help but pick up a few BrickArms [...]

Pointy!

(From Jehkay, who, incidentally, has figured out a rather ingenious, if obvious, method of hosting all one’s photos on Flickr for free…)

There seems to be a fairly standard way of making the bounty hunter Samus from the Metroid series of Nintendo video games, and graznador doesn’t deviate too far from that approach, but I’ve never seen a metroid this cool:

This week BrickArms announced brand-new weaponery for that special minifig in your life!

BrickArms, famous for being the only custom pieces that Andrew owns, previously brought us 8 incredible custom weapons. I know because I bought way too many of them at NWBrickCon last year. Also my Vikings really love ‘em (yes, my Vikings).
This [...]

After months of difficult judging by Classic Castle Admins, the winners for Colossal Castle Contest IV have been decided!

Not only are the winning entries incredible, the 348 other entries includes some awesome creations too (thanks to Jens for compiling stats on the entries)! Check out all the entries here.

I liked Soren’s Mr. Choppy when I saw it a couple weeks ago, but I was busy and missed blogging it:

So, why is “Mr.” plural in the post title? (Yes, “Messrs.” is plural for Mr.”) Here’s why:

Awwww! So cute! Nice miniaturization, Tim Zarki!

An ongoing discussion on Classic-Castle Forums asks the question in this post title.
EDIT: Ha! Nathan beat me to Moko’s monster.
For reference, Exhibit B: (the first jibbly, by blue-blue-and-blue):

I don’t know why, but this jibbly creation by Moko makes me think of Furbys.  Still an interesting creation, in a sort of creepy, wierd way…

Lots of people have built LEGO necromancers, the Grim Reaper, and other minions of evil, but Classic Castler smcginnis has created quite the helmet for his version of Death:

Pictures from the Nuremburg Toy Fair have shown up on Brickshelf. We’ve seen pictures of most of these sets already, and known most of them were in the pipeline, but it’s nice to see pictures — and there are a couple surprises.
EDIT: Looks like the pictures have been moved or deleted, and the folder itself [...]

I can’t get enough of pirates. (And ninjas, of course. Simmer down, Hattori. You’re still Da Man.) Anyway, Brickshelfer amanda100101 (aka Classic-Castler Lamanda2) presents a jaunty pirate with a colorful parrot:

Portuguese blogger Biczzz has found a really cool Volkswagen Camper on Brickshelf, complete with retro box art:

Here’s a bigger picture:

The creatures contest is coming along nicely, but two little dudes caught my eye among the awesome critters in Arpy 2.0’s Flickr photostream. Behold a Pirate and Islander Pantsbot!

Classic-Castler TsoAutTmo has discovered some unlikely parts contain faces when flipped upside down:

Alan Saunders adds another scientist to his minifig ranks with “Ivan Petrovich Pavlov”:

Ding-a-long! *drool* (Via VignetteBricks.)

A less disturbing monkey-themed creation, this one by Michael Jasper, is this scene featuring Charles Darwin:

Mmmm … science… *zzzzzz*
(Via Moyblik. Also don’t miss Van Gogh.)

The fact that the butcher in rupi’s “Butcher Shop” is dismembering a monkey is vaguely disturbing, but the meat grinder is just plain awesome:

Mmmm … monkey meat… *drool*
EDIT: Check out the comments on this post for links to Rupi’s back story in Portuguese and his story in English.