The Brothers Brick

Hot off the virtual presses over at 1up.com:
Traveller’s Tales, the makers of Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy are now one brick of a larger company, Warner Bros. Interactive. However, don’t worry about this changing their focus from brickology, because WB has them hard at work on their next game, Lego Batman: The Videogame. […]

Both Josh and I are headed to BrickFest PDX 2007 in Portland, OR this coming weekend. This is my second convention in less than six months, but I’m told that NWBrickCon and BrickFest are two very different events. I can’t wait!

(BrickFest 2005 photo from the Washington Post in Dan Rubin’s Flickr photostream.)
If you’re a reader […]

Italian design firm NOmadeDESIGN is selling the following furniture that should look vaguely familiar to readers of this blog:

(Via Marco Chiappa, via Spluch, via NOTCOT.ORG. Sheesh…)

I believe one of the privileges of this blog is that you’re allowed to post your own stuff. I’d like to think this one would have made it without it being mine but you can be the judge(s) of that. As such I present a Moscow in the 80s diorama by me. I’ll spare the […]

Misterzumbi is, in my opinion, the undisputed king of wheeled vehicles. The picture is the link.
EDIT:
And since this is still on the front page I won’t make a new post for this beauty…

Ochre Jelly (MOCPages, blog) apparently caught a piece of science celebrity news that I missed. Eminent physicist and A Brief History of Time author Stephen Hawking will be taking a ride on a plane that will help him experience weightlessness.
To commemorate this extraordinary man and his extraordinary moment, OJ has created a “miniland” scale version […]

I love dark blue mechs.
Izzo never disappoints.
Here’s his latest:

(Via Moyblik.)

Though nearly everybody has used the head from Frankenstein’s Monster as Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray’s head, everyone seems to struggle with his headdress/hat. Moko also says he struggled, but I think Nute’s pointy hat thingie turned out rather well:

And a bonus Episode I minifig — a Naboo Security Force soldier:

See all of Moko’s Star […]

Japanese hobby magazine Figure King has featured alternate models for Exo-Force sets ever since the theme was first released in Japan, and the alternate models have been fairly popular with Japanese LEGO fans (at least the ones with blogs I read).
Anime director Shoji Kawamori has designed two “Van-Force” models, which you can read about and […]

If he’s not building mecha, Hiron seems to build great vehicles and vessels inspired by mecha-themed anime.
Here’s his Minerva-class battleship from Crusher Joe (Info):

(Via Masoko Tanga.)

Well first I’ll say a hello to Brothers Brick readers out there. I’ve been invited to cover trains and virtual LEGO creations (raytraced, rendered but definitely not real) for the blog. I’m very new to this whole blogging thing having started my own blog a bit over a week ago and you probably won’t get […]

Yay! Two days ago I came home from PoliSci and found a rather large package from Connecticut waiting for me on the doorstep! I’m still busy taking detailed pictures and writing up a review, but in the meantime enjoy this time laspe video of me building the greatest LEGO set ever. Over […]

Mike Count Blockula Crowley has so finished six characters in his series of large-scale minifigs inspired by Mario Kart since I first blogged Bowser back in January. Here are my favorites — and I can’t wait to see them in person at BrickFest PDX at the end of this month.
Mario and Toad:

Yoshi:

Donkey Kong:

Check out all […]

Digger Digger Dogstar does it again! Here’s his version of Please Please Me:

Train builders create some fantastic stuff — often overlooked by those of us more involved in themes like Space and Castle.
For example, check out Anthony Sava’s full-size and micro-scale No. 805 American 4-4-0 (via MicroBricks):

Or all of the displays LEGO train clubs create for events, like the layout Bill Ward participated in at a […]

Looks like Moko’s officially working on a series. This time, it’s some of the most challenging characters from the Star Wars universe — the aliens.
His latest minifigs include a Bith musician from the Mos Eisley Cantina (not yet on Brickshelf):

And the Ithorian Momaw Nadon, also from the Cantina scene in A New Hope:

Nnenn is quickly becoming one of my favourite builders. He got all the necessary qualities - excellent technique, wonderful imagination, great presentation. But he also manages to shake things around a bit in the community! When the traditional view can be said to be that of the ‘purist’ - only use original Lego pieces, essentially […]

First there was the vignette itself, then came the V-Pod, and now Nelson Yrizarry has invented a new form of vignette titled “MOCBox.” “MOC” stands for “my own creation” (doesn’t every hobby have its own vocabulary?), and as its name implies, MOCBoxes are creations inside a little box.
Check out Nelson’s first ten MOCBoxes in his […]