The Brothers Brick

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. ;) )

Patrick has built a very nifty Necromancer’s Tower for the Lego Castle Contest currently running on Classic-Castle. Don’t tell anyone, but I think this will be the winner in the Tower category!

Photographer Joe Braun has created a series of photographs that incorporate classic Space minifigs into real-world environments. The result is other-worldy:

Check out the full gallery on Joe Braun’s Web site.

(Via (un)social-commentary.)

Bruce presents an amazing microscale version of Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings:

Head on over to Bruce’s Web site, Brick Tales, for lots of pictures.

The First LEGO League World Festival 2007 is going on through today in Atlanta, Georgia.

Head on over to The NXT STEP for extensive coverage. Hope you’re having fun, Gothic Lawn Gnomes!

Graznador continues what appears now to be a series of LEGO creations inspired by Super Mario Bros. with his latest floating rock:

The Thwomp is unbelievably awesome.

(Previous post here on TBB.)

Author Kurt Vonnegut died today in New York (BBC story).

Here’s my Billy Pilgrim minifig from Slaughterhouse Five, a book inspired by Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden during World War II:

Those of you who saw pictures from BrickFest the weekend before last will have noticed the six-foot-long ship dominating the Space display.

Safely back home across the northern border, Nathan Proudlove presents the Blacktron II:

Yes, the hull is made from regular bricks. It’s just so big that they can curve (a technique more familiar to castle builders).

I love the stern:

But Flickr user baby_elephant has a funny batch of minifigs inspired by Arrested Development (with the Bluth company vehicle, naturally):

After some considerable delay, the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts (BAMPA) nominations have been announced. The nominations are as follows:

Best Film
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire

Best Animation
Capastroid
Faithless
Grace
Macbeth: Act V Scene VII
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)

Best Cinematography
Douleur
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire

Best Screenplay
Climb So High
Faithless
The Fisherman’s Wife
Grace
L’Inspiration

Best Sound Design
Beast
Grace
Faithless
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire

Best Score
Edison
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire

Best Visual Elements
Faithless
Grace
Men o’ War
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire

Best Voice Acting Performance
Brennan Davis – Tectonic Man – Tectonic Man
Mike Dyer – Mr. Hanson – Back 2 Skool
Scott Preston – Grand Moff Tarkin – Triumph of the Empire
Nathan Snow – Darcy – Grace
Peter Wood – Fabron – Grace

Links to the brickfilms can be found in the link above. A small plug: my brickfilm Beast (watch it here on YouTube), second-place winner in the Brickfilms.com Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, has been nominated for Best Sound Design. I’m honored, but also amused. I hated doing the sound for Beast, especially since I was working with Windows Movie Maker 2 at the time, and had to struggle with only one audio track.

The BAMPAs have a seperate website, but it hasn’t been updated in a while.