Archive for August, 2007

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A steamer on legs

Zachmoe’s latest is a beautiful piece. It’s very difficult making something look this thrown together, but the result Zach gets leaves me dumbstruck. Check it out on his flickr stream. It is based on this concept art from the Classic-Space concept gallery.
Edit: The original concept art is drawn by Keith Thompson. Thanks for the heads up […]

Whoah. Blackout.

In the wake of the Transformers movie (and games), we see quite a few lego iterations of the robots. Adrian Drake’s Blackout is certainly one of the better. It looks great in both helicopter mode and bot mode:

Read about it on Adrian’s brickfrenzy.com or comment it on his flickr stream.

Microscale Cafe Corner and Market Street by chiukeung

Brickshelfer chiukeung has miniaturized two of my favorite sets of 2007, 10182 Cafe Corner and 10190 Market Street.
Via MicroBricks.

News: The New LEGOfan.org is online

Now in its fourth incarnation, LEGOfan.org is designed to become the place where new LEGO fans can learn about the hobby and see how they can get involved in the fan community.
The site will grow over time, but head on over and check out some of the sections that are already online, including several articles, […]

News: The latest from PodBrix sells out in a day

Speaking of custom LEGO products, artist “Tomi” has been creating various Apple+LEGO products under the PodBrix name for several years. Tomi uses a combination of offical elements and customized pieces to create his artwork. Each new product is released as a limited edition, and seems to get more popular each time — the most recent […]

News: Barnyard animals from BrickForge

I wrote in my review last week that BrickForge would soon be selling livestock. Well, that “soon” has arrived!

The $5 cows come in solid black and Holstein white, the $3 pigs are currently available in black and pink (with white coming soon), and the $3 sheep are available in black and white. You can further […]

Rapid Transfer Gate #33 by Hippotam

Hippotam over at Klocki has a great entry for the LugPol “BTT” contest. Check out the Brickshelf gallery for more photos.

I am already grown up, I just get older.

minifig presents the two main characters from Léon (called The Professional here in the States). That’s Jean Reno as Léon and Natalie Portman (many years before she shaved her head) as Mathilda.

Dragon Transport by Iskra

Brickshelfer Iskra presents a dragon as a means of transportation, an entry in the “BTT” contest over at LugPol. (Via Klocki.)

1959 Opel Kapitaen P-LV by Michael Jasper

Michael Jasper presents an updated version of his 1959 Opel Kapitaen.

Fort Jacinto by The Brickster

We don’t see a lot of Wild West MOCs these days and anything this good is rare indeed!

Definitely a neat little fort by The Brickster…

BrickForge Minifig Accessories [Review]

Reminded by the pictures of their upcoming livestock shown during BrickWorld, I recently ordered a rather substantial number of weapons and accessories from BrickForge.
I wrote a review here on The Brothers Brick of modern weapons from BrickArms last February, so I thought I’d do the same with my new collection of BrickForge products. BrickForge primarily […]

Dan Jassim sends in the troops

Dan Jassim presents a cool troop carrier dubbed Hurricane. Thanks for the tip, reader Taylor!

Electronic Warfare Frigate “Kitsune” by Tim Zarki

I’ll repeat my silly multilingual joke I left as a comment on the photo: “Foxy!” (Kitsune means “fox” in Japanese.) And does this represent the fifth of five cool microspace ships? Or is that an “S” that stands for “Sexy?” Hmmm…

Wrench in Australian is Spanner

Aaron “DARKspawn” Andrews is participating in the hardsuit contest over in the Flickr LEGO group. Is this the third of three cool hardsuits? Only time will tell…

I am just going outside and may be some time…

Alan Saunders illustrates the moments after Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates spoke his famous last words. I love the miniature camp in the background.

My turn at ApocaLEGO

Well, I finally got it done.  I first started this creation the moment after the new fan-created LEGO theme ApocaLEGO was launched, but it took a while to get just right.  I’m pleased to present Checkpoint.  This checkpoint is stationed around the remains of an old brick building and consists of a crow’s nest lookout, […]

Walker Dragoon by Izzo

It’s been too long since we’ve blogged one of Izzo’s always wonderful mecha. His latest is titled “Walker Dragoon”.