The Brothers Brick

The awesomeness that is Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley strikes again, this time with Brak and Zorak from Space Ghost (and The Brak Show).

Some builders are especially brilliant at continuing an existing theme when LEGO stops producing it, as Steve Bishop has with Adventurers. The Brickster keeps the Wild West theme alive, in a manner of speaking, with an excellent ghost town called “Grave Stone”:

Then send in Izzo’s “Stilts Walker”:

By Legokinsfolk. Check out the gallery for interesting pics of how Legokinsfolk built this little beauty — it’s full of interesting techniques.

Have you ever wondered what to do with all those left-over peeps and Technic pieces you have lying around the house? Do what Windell Oskay did — make a peepmobile!

Two recent armored vehicles inspired me to dig up my favorite APCs from the past.

But first the new stuff, Carter Baldwin’s utilitarian APC and Morgan19’s “UMC BTR-960 Kodiak” (via Klocki):

A pair inspired by Aliens, the first by bitaur and the second by Paul Brassington:

Finally, a micro-APC by nnenn and “Bismarck” by Andrew Horvatits:

I love it when Mark Stafford builds! Via Moyblik.

The diligent readers over on Eurobricks have found high-res renders of the new Batman minifigs.

Here’s a dark-blue Batman and Scarecrow:

Riddler and Bane:

Very cool. I can’t wait for Bane in particular.

Martin Jaspers combines classic Castle minifigs and a non-production green helmet for a great “Practical Joke”:

I know my brother’s going to resent me for saying this, but first-born children tend to get all the photographic attention — at least until the second kid comes along. The first five years of my life were meticulously photographed by my mom and dad, including a handful of photos documenting my early love of LEGO. Here I am showing off some unrecognizable creation, circa 1978:

I think this one’s a bit earlier, from about 1977:

From 1977 to 2007 and from Basic bricks to Cafe Corner, this post brings my LEGO hobby full circle. I wonder what the next 30 years will bring!

So, do you have any old photos of yourself playing with LEGO as a kid?

Want to build Naoe-Force? Kazuyoshi Naoe is three posts in to a continuing series of step-by-step instructions on his blog:

Channana3’s top-heavy robots and kwi-chang’s “LSF-004 Fantasma” starfighter:

Sugegasa’s racing brooms and magical cannon:

And a platform for his broom racers to take a break:

Izzo gets in on some transforming action and a squat little black mecha:

Squieu’s chess-themed “Guard Bots” (via Moyblik) and Dan Sibley’s “Benaelem”:

No, seriously. There’s enough stuff about 10182 Cafe Corner to dedicate a whole roundup post to this one set.

First of all, it’s where my own LEGO time has been going this past week! My brain is spinning with ideas for interiors, additions, variations, and neighborhood buildings. And I’ve always been a castle and space builder, so that says something about this set! :-D

Second, Cafe Corner designer Jamie Berard (that’s a link to his blog, for those of who unaware that he had one) has a nice Cafe Corner roundup of his own.

Finally, a couple Cafe Corner neighbors and variations by Japanese builders. Moko’s house built with nothing but Cafe Corner, and Peachtree’s Cafe Corner neighbor:

Renowned Spacer Chris Giddens reviews 7093 Skeleton’s Tower:

The Radiant Kestrel by Zach Clapsadle keeps our roundup posts chugging and clanking along:

“Flyer” by Jerac (via) and “Steampunk Skiff” by Tim Zarki:

An older creation by Ayucow inspired by the anime film Steam Boy (via):

“Fanglyfuss” by Makaru, and “The Pit Scourge” by Breann Sledge (both via BioniBlog):

Guu Press has an interesting interview with Lars Lusenberg Nielsen, Senior Toy Designer at LEGO’s Concept Lab (via Klocki and Forum 0937).

This one clearly deserved its own post. If you read Spanish, you can discuss this latest creation from the Arvo brothers on Hispalug. Via Masoko Tanga.

I’m behind again, so instead of cluttering up the page and RSS feed, I’m going to post by theme again. First up, Space! And…Star Wars!

“Alien Life” by Felix Greco, and “Swallowtail” by Mr. Stenz:

In Star Wars news, the inventory for 10179 Millenium Falcon is now up on Peeron, and details are now available on FBTB about the Golden C3PO Contest (via LEGO Contests).

Tim Zarki’s evolved X-wing (more from him in subsequent posts):

As featured here previously, master customizer NickGreat continues his “Colors of the Samurai” with my favorite color — and favorite minifig so far (via Klocki):

(Wow, feels like I’ve been gone forever, but it’s only been a couple of days. My bookmark folder’s bursting at the seams, so I’ll do a few “roundup” posts tomorrow to catch up.)

I’ve been pretty buildy lately so I’m just throwing a bunch of stuff here. The Hotrod and Bike are variants of misterzumbi and mijasper’s models but the others are me having colourful fun. Also in my Flickr stream (may contain disliked language).

Here’s what greeted me when walked through the front door yesterday evening:

I’d finally ordered 10182 Cafe Corner last week, so I knew it was in the mail, but my wife understood how excited I was and set everything up so I could spend more of my time building when I got home. Yay!

Oh, and that’s why you won’t be seeing much of me around here for a couple of days. ;-)

Brickshelf builder HIEN has come up with (well did come up with… it’s really rather late to post about) what I’d consider one of, if not the, best small scale WWII planes in LEGO. The entire thing is a big ball of complex genius and I, for one, am sold.

Steven Marshall’s name isn’t Mater, but this little truck from Cars goes by that name:

(Via Paganomation.)

And don’t miss Dave Teague’s Lightning McQueen I blogged last year.

Matt De Lanoy demonstrates that something you made yourself is so much more meaningful than a bunch of plants you buy on the Internet. And besides, plastic flowers last a lifetime:

Forum 0937 member rupi puts Chris Bragg’s arm replacement technique to good use with Dr. Crow, a mad scientist.

(If you don’t already know how to put a robot arm on a minifig, you can read the how-to on Chris’s old blog.)

At first glance, this new mecha by squieu reminded me of the “Robonoid” by comic I blogged back in 2005, but with the usual squieu detail, there’s a lot going on in this little thing: