The Brothers Brick

Steve Vargo’s latest addition to his horde is an infernal rider — a Demon Major astride a hellhound. Nice.

I think it’s been too long since we’ve had a great big animated GIF here on The Brothers Brick. Here’s LEGO biker Noddy’s latest:

Flashy! Thanks for the tip, Peter Edwards!

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman was an important comic book series published between 1989 and 1996. Shane Larson has emerged from a yearl-long absence from the hobby to recreate The Endless in minifig form.

And don’t miss Shane’s take on the moment that Percival Lowell thought he had discovered canals on Mars (via the inestimable Klocki):

Whether it’s Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, a little ’shopping can go a long way toward improving the presentation of a LEGO creation. Don Solo puts his own spin on Adrian Florea’s entry in the “X-wing Evolved” contest, and then kicks things up a notch with a great backdrop.

FBTB member Badgerboy (my dachshund offers to take him on anytime, anywhere, but I digress) presents an entry in the Mini Starship and Spacestation Contest.

(Via MicroBricks.)

Steven Marshall is fast becoming one of my favorite builders. He’s not prolific, but what he posts is well-built and beautifully photographed.

While we’re at it, don’t miss his double-decker bus:

(Both bookmarked a couple days ago, but I’m forced to concede a “reminder-via” to the inimitable Klocki.)

And have I told ye NWBrickCon next month be pirate-themed? Well, it be. Now ye know.

Among the crazy parts Adrian Florea uses in his “MOC-12″ fighter are:

• Big Ugly Rock Pieces (BURPs)
• Castle doors
• Lamp posts
• Street cleaner brushes
• Stretcher

I am most impressed! Check out the large size of this pic for more details.

Izzo’s latest mecha is an update to his previous version of Ideon, from the anime series Space Runaway Ideon.

You can read more about Ideon on the sum total of all human knowledge, Wikipedia.

Blogger Christoph has a great photoset of LEGO’d album art inspired by indie artists like Kaiser Chiefs, Morrissey, Belle and Sebastian, and The Strokes:

I noticed this in one of my Flickr feeds last month but thought that someone had just mis-tagged it “LEGO” (as sometimes happens). But then I saw it again in nnenn’s photostream when I was blogging a couple of his recent microscale creations a few minutes ago. Knowing that nnenn only posts LEGO creations (well, mostly LEGO), I did a double-take. Yes, in fact, it is LEGO:

This is by far the best TIE fighter I’ve ever seen built from LEGO. Notice especially the detail between the upper and lower wings and the hinges used to angle the border around each wing. (According to nnenn’s description, the only non-LEGO is a few pieces of black tape to cover Technic holes and to create the stripes on the cockpit.)

Yup, we’re mostly doing roundup posts today. :-)

Tim “Spook” Zarki gets this massive microscale post going with his “Pirate Light Carrier”:

Aaron “DARKspawn” Andrews reminds us that microscale isn’t all about Teh Space, with “Micro Flying Citadel” (via MicroBricks, where you can read about the latest microscale contest on Classic-Castle.com):

Adrian Florea recreates a Hammerhead capital ship from Star Wars (an entry for a micro contest on FBTB):

Speaking of yet another contest, the monthly Icon Contest for Microspacetopia on Flickr is also yielding some great probes. A small selection:

What microscale post would be complete without a couple contributions from nnenn?

Finally, a mini version of 7692 MX-71 Dropship by Mike Bernd (via a tip from mastergongfu:

I’ve been busy building my own ApocaLEGO minifigs (to be followed at some point by vehicles and/or dioramas), so I’m rather behind on cool new ApocaLEGO that needs to be blogged.

In reverse chronological order (I think), Mark Stafford gets things going with “Oakwood Avenue: After the Zombie Apocalypse”:

Here’s “Post-apoc road battle” by Shadow Viking:

Alex Eylar combines steampunk and ApocaLEGO for his diorama, “Jekyll vs Hyde” (don’t miss his older Zombie Apocalypse):

Finally (and very belatedly), Bronson’s excellent “Hellbringer”:

Via circuitous links leading ultimately to Cool Toy Review.

Reader “bedlam” reminds us that, back in the day, most mecha builders used minifig legs as hands. What I like so much about Izzo’s latest mecha (and what I might not have noticed without the reminder from bedlam) is the left hand:

The feet and head are pretty cool too.

Moko seems to have quite the collection of gold-chrome tiles:

Thanks for the tip, non-me Andrew!

Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group recently used LEGO to showcase its design for their proposed “LEGO Towers” in Copenhagen.

According to Dezeen, the LEGO version took 250,000 bricks and 5 weeks to build.

Here’s a time-lapse video of the build process:

(Via Dezeen and Gizmodo, with tips from readers Dale and Jaap.)

True to word, ABC’s series I-CAUGHT aired a four-minute segment featuring brickfilms on the 11th, and within hours several copies were available on the Internet. Included were interviews with Brian Gribbon, Joshua Leasure and David Pagano, and clips from a dozen brickfilms, including my own Infinity Squared.  There is also an accompanying online article.

Another YouTube clip

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Enjoy!

Sly420 has made an awesome thing…

Everybody loves Gears of War! As demonstrated above, Chuck loves Gears of War. Legohaulic loves Gears of War. Alex Peacock loves Gears of War. I love Gears of War.

Hurray for Gears of War!

Janey “Red Brick” Cook celebrates the most delicious deity worshipped by Pastafarians everywhere, the Flying Spaghetti Monster (wiki-linki):

And of course, don’t miss Chris Doyle’s officially sanctified version of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

Nannan Z (aka a-tree) has built yet another mindbender.

Legohaulic has posted a sweet apocalyptic diorama.

ApocaLego is cool. I gotta try it out…

DARKSpawn just posted a really cool undeadish creature and it’s awesome! But, then, we expect that from him, don’t we?

Great job!

Brian Kescenovitz presents his MERIDIAN combat frame.