Archive for April, 2007

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Kratos, God of War

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

Real men (and T-800s) wear black!

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 [...]

Violent delights have violent ends…

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

(I can see your belly button, Juliet!)

Heavy Metal Minifigs

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!

How could [...]

Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water

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

Every army needs a cyborg shark!

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

Album Art by Taka Hamada

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):

Delian-class Frigate by Brenden Wilson

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

Louie Louie!

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

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Kinkaku-ji by Jumpei Mitsui

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.)

Vignettes as Philosophical Statement

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.)

Izzo’s Armor 05

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

Do minifigs dream of plastic sheep?

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. )

Papercraft Star Wars Minifigs

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 [...]

One night in Bangkok

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)

Mini Star Wars Vehicles by TsoAutTmo

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.

Izzo + Bionicle = Izzonicle

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