The Brothers Brick

With both ApocaLEGO and microspace building still going strong, I’m reduced to playing catch-up with roundup posts like this one. It’s a nice problem to have! :-D

A virtual LEGO U.S.S. Sulaco from Aliens by BrickCommander (via Klocki) and The Khet Nasari Relic by Tim Zarki (via Moyblik):

Next, two creations by Andrew Lee (both via MicroBricks):

Finally, every microspace roundup post needs at least one creation from nnenn. This week’s is “Hurassa heavy-dropship, TB12 Porcilm” (via Snoikle):

Brickshelfer snyderman presents a fully poseable Predator figure.

Adrian Florea presents Salmamir, a microscale torpedo frigate. He also demonstrates the innate swooshability of microspace creations:

Dennis Coh presents “NOX”, a Heavy Assault Mech in the form of a spider.

I was inspired by recent events and creations:

(Flickr page) 

It all started with wooden toys like this duck:

The LEGO Company is celebrating its 75th birthday today. You can read a very cool LEGO timeline on LEGO.com.

Here’s to another 75 years of wonderful memories. We can’t wait to find out what’s next!

EDIT: This is what I get for jumping right to the new post page after getting home, without checking the main page first. Well, at least you get a picture of a wooden duck. :-D

“I feel an immense sense of pleasure and pride when I meet children and adults who enjoy our products. Throughout its 75-year history the LEGO Group has been through difficult and good times – fortunately much more good than difficult! This has been possible only because we have been blessed with – and still have – an incredibly committed team of employees. They have helped to keep alive the fundamental principles on which my grandfather set up the company. So I’m confident that we can look forward to the next 75 years.” – Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

Check out the LEGO press release here.

And to celebrate:

(More pics of the younger me with LEGO here)

Leg Godt!

These time-lapse videos of LEGO events are always cool, especially with hilarious Benny Hill music:

That’s the setup for the annual Malkara School model railroad exhibit in Canberra, Australia — an event that Peter Edwards participates in.

An interesting side note: The trains are run by MINDSTORMS. How cool is that?

And in the continuing spirit of minifigs being used in microscale creations, this just in via the contact form, a yellow microscale Mt. Rushmore by Red 5:

Excellent Teddy Roosevelt. Great submission, Dan Sibley!

Digg is a “social news” site that lets users highlight interesting stories they find on the Web. Having something you’ve done “Dugg” is always fun. For example, the recent hubbub over the mysterious marine minifig garnered over 4000 Diggs.

Anyway, Fabio Fiss angles to get Dugg with his Digg logo built from basic bricks:

You can Digg Fabio’s creation yourself here.

After several years of active involvement in the online LEGO fan community, I finally took the plunge and went to my first convention last October. NWBrickCon right here in Seattle was an absolute blast. If you’re thinking about testing the waters yourself, I highly recommend NWBrickCon. And contrary to my fears, no, LEGO fans are not all freaks. :-D

(3-D NWBrickCon logo by Adam Hally.)

The mysterious, gigantic minifig on a beach in The Netherlands has left TBB readers all abuzz. Builder Will M. has recreated this intriguing scene, in microscale no less!

Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.

Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso.

“We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water,” said a stall worker. “It was a life-sized Lego toy.”

A woman nearby added: “I saw the Lego toy floating towards the beach from the direction of England.”

The toy was later placed in front of the drinks stall.

Excellent work, Will! You had me laughing so hard I could barely blog this.

Here’s the caption from the BBC News Web site:

A huge Lego toy has mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in Holland. Nobody knows where it comes from.

Any of our readers from The Netherlands know something about this?

(Thanks to readers Sharon and Cynthia for the link!)

Via TechEBlog and Engadget.

UPDATE: Thanks to the magic of our contact form, we now know who built this and where to go for more pictures! I’ve updated the image, name, and links appropriately. Thanks David McNeely! Excellent work!

Here’s what builder David McNeely said on TechEBlog:

This is a custom guitar controller for the game Guitar Hero, modeled after a Gibson Explorer guitar, with an extra large scratch-plate for style. I gutted the real controller and put the electronic boards in the lego case, so it actually works, too.

Thanks for the tip, readers Peter and Paul!

I think these two post-apocalyptic vehicles from Legohaulic speak for themselves, so I’ll shut up.