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Speaking of cool videos, Peter Edwards has some really interesting creations on his Web site, including many that are motorized in some way.
Here’s Peter’s very fast LEGO slot cars are built around AFX motors:
My favorite, though, is the video of an ingenious set of “dodgem” cars:
Be sure to check out Peter’s Web site for lots more, including higher-resolution versions of these and other great videos.
Joystiq has broken the news that the rumored LEGO Indiana Jones video game has been confirmed. Watch the trailer right here on The Brothers Brick:
Thanks to reader David for the tip! (And check out the Official Web site.)
Yesterday was the second birthday of this blog, but I was too busy reading the adventures of a certain young wizard to post anything. ;-)
Let the long-winded and self-satisfied post begin! (Read last year’s anniversary post here or with original comments on the old blog.)
The big changes to this blog since last year:
Here are some possibly interesting statistics about all of you, our faithful readers:
Finally, taking my queue from Technorati founder David Sifry‘s “State of the Blogosphere” posts, here’s a quick summary of how things have changed in the LEGO blog world since last year:
Noddy has improved on his earlier motorbikes (similar to Michael Jasper‘s), this time with ones that can seat a minifig:
Who says the barren landscape of the world after some sort of cataclysmic event won’t be full of interesting characters? Certainly not Legohaulic:
Unfortunately, Adrian Florea hasn’t included pictures of how his M3 Halftrack transforms into the Decepticon, but the before and after photos are certainly cool.
UPDATE: Adrian has posted a shot of Shellshock transforming. Way cool:
Update via Klocki.
Seach for “Optimus Prime” on just about any LEGO site and you’ll get about 1.6 million hits. Of course, most don’t actually transform, and if they do, it’s much easier to build a transforming Optimus Prime at a fairly large scale. astronut1 has created a transforming Optimus Prime in the 4-wide scale of classic Town sets:
I won’t spoil the surprise, so be sure to check out all of astronut1′s Optimus Prime photos.
(Via Biczzz.)
(Via Tim’s new blog, There’s a Moose in My Salad.)
Head on over to LUGNET to read Kevin Loch’s explanation for what’s been happening with Brickshelf.com over the last six days.
In his Flickr debut, Chris Malloy presents a group of wonderful mythical minifigures:
The fleet-footed Mercury:
Thor and Atlas:
Perhaps this post-apocalyptic trend as a whole is somewhat less hilarious now that Brickshelf is back, but that doesn’t change the fact that these two dioramas by Nick Dean are both cool and very funny.
Keith Goldman has always demonstrated the full capabilities of MOCpages — adding detailed descriptions that tell interesting stories to each set of photos. His latest photos tell this story: “Tri-pantheonic Alliance forces consolidate and withdraw to extraction point ‘Malcolm X’ following a predawn raid on the Central Asian Combine bunker complex near Jakarta.”
(Thanks for the tip, “Not Keith Goldman!” :-D )
A new message has graced the top of Brickshelf.com:
Notice: Brickshelf will not be shutting down!
We will be offering “featured” accounts for $5/month shortly.
We have received hundreds of supportive emails in the past few days including many who said they would like to contribute financially but did not know how. This has had us rethink the practicality of charging for enhanced features.We plan to do this without reducing current functionality for free users. Thank you for your enormous show of support.
IMPORTANT: do NOT try to download the entire site, it causes major problems, slows things down for normal users and you will be permanently blocked. We will make older folders public again after we see the crawlers go away.
UPDATE (AB 7/19 PM): IMPORTANT: Brickshelf.com is apparently not going away after all. Kevin Loch has asked everyone to stop trying to download everything, so please respect his request and suspend the efforts described in this post.
As we indicated in updates to an earlier post, a coordinated effort is currently underway to “rescue” as many of the images on Brickshelf.com as possible before they become unavailable after July 31.
In a beautiful, touching sign of how a community can come together in a time of crisis, members of Classic-Castle Forums, Classic-Space Forums, FBTB Forums, and Forum 0937 are showing a remarkable amount of cooperation and cross-collaboration. In addition to saving their own galleries, members are also attempting to ensure that the best LEGO images are saved — especially those originally posted by members of the community who are no longer active or who have since passed away.
If you’d like to participate, you can check out one of the threads on these four forums:
If you know of other efforts underway, please let us know.
UPDATE (AB 7/19 AM): Eurobricks is also participating:
