The Brothers Brick

Okay, last one of my own, I promise. ;-) Here’s Kratos from the PS2 game God of war:

Decent weather afforded me the opportunity to photograph lots of the minifigs that have been waiting in piles around our living room. I’m too impatient to dole them out slowly, so I uploaded them all at once, which obligates me to blog ‘em all, I suppose. ;-) Anyway…

Here are Agent J and Agent K from Men in Black:

T-800 Model 101 (as played by the Governor of California) from The Terminator (with weapons by BrickArms):

surfininsf presents the cast of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

(I can see your belly button, Juliet!)

I love building musical minifigs, but my taste in music generally runs to indie and alternative rock, and those bands pretty much all look alike in minifig form (white guys in T-shirts and blue jeans). Thankfully, I was chatting with Nelson Yrizarry and he suggested using Voldemort’s face for Alice Cooper. Hurray! :twisted:

How could I build a heavy metal rocker like Alice Cooper without building the quintessential artist of the genre? I couldn’t, so here’s Ozzy Osbourne (with an animal friend):

I built these elemental mages for BrickFest but I’m just getting around to posting them.

From left to right:
Wind mage Vilhelmina
Fire mage Shihab
Earth mage Dumisa
Water mage Glimbert

Danny Rice puts Viktor Krum’s shark head to good use:

I’ve featured LEGO album art by Digger Digger Dogstar and minifig, I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted Taka Hamada’s extensive collection.

Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (1994):

Mr. Big’s self-titled debut (1989):

Björk’s Medúlla (2004):

Brenden Wilson presents a new ship in his microscale fleet, a Delian-class frigate:

Jared Burks collaborates with another great customizer, NickGreat, to create the Devaronian Mos Eisley Cantina denizen Labria (nicknamed “Louie” during production):

Jon Furman combines cool post-processing on his photo with an excellent rendition of the scene in which Locke discovers the Hatch in J.J. Abrams’ “Lost”.

Jumpei Mitsui and Sachiko Akinaga have earned international reputations through their participation in the LEGO King Championship TV show. More importantly, they’re both well-known for their great building skills, as Jumpei demonstrates with his recreation of Kinkaku-ji, the “Golden Pavilian” in Kyoto, Japan:

(I think Hippotam over at Klocki has a time machine.)

Nannan Z. is a wildly original builder with a penchant for philosophy. Click the picture to read Nannan’s take on the universe:

(Via Klocki and VignetteBricks.)

So many mecha look alike, so it’s nice to see something that looks different, like Izzo’s latest experiment in mecha armor:

Kaitimar (whose Zoomer we featured a few days ago) has posted another levitating vehicle. This one’s a micro-Spinner from Blade Runner:

(Via MicroBricks. Sorry Bruce, your post title was so perfect I couldn’t help but borrow it for my own post here. :-D )

I noticed a cool papercraft stormtrooper in Brickshelf user Obi-Wan-Stefen’s gallery, who kindly provided enough info to get to i like toys, which linked to Japanese site Piro model with instructions and templates for creating your own papercraft Star Wars minifigs:

Click the pictures above to go to instruction pages on Piro model. The instructions will be in Japanese, but they’re numbered and easy enough to follow visually.

Here’s what the templates look like:

Have fun, and let us know if you try making any of these.

BS user Pongsit has posted pictures of an enormous LEGO Suvarnabhumi Airport. Not sure if this is fan made or official but it’s certainly very impressive.

EDIT: Hippotam from Kkocki.blox.pl has tracked down some more information here (in Polish and English)

Builders like Moko and Chris Deck are well known for their mini Star Wars models, but occasionally other builders do something original with an otherwise well-worn theme.

Here’s TsoAutTmo’s X-wing:

Great use of the new mini-slopes and the wheels as engines. See more of his mini creations on Brickshelf.

By Izzo.

(A two-word blog post? Hey, gimme a break, I’m in a hurry. ;) )