The Brothers Brick

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Adrian Florea presents a heavy infantry suit called Bosfor (named after the strait between Europe and Asia, frequently spelled Bosporus in English).

ABC’s new television series I-CAUGHT will be featuring a segment about brickfilmers and brickfilming on Tuesday, September 11, 9 PM EST.   The story is expected to feature an interview with four prominent brickfilmers: Lewis “Lechnology” Chen, the “Leftfielder” brothers, and Joshua “RevMen” Leasure, owner of Brickfilms.com.  The story is also expected to feature clips from [...]

Zach Clapsadle takes us back to long nights sitting in front of a flickering cathode ray tube with his “Launch Arcology” from SimCity.

Chiukeung presents the Star Ferry terminal in Hong Kong.
(In addition to eating a lot of great food and following my mom around while she shopped, I rode a Star Ferry when I visited Hong Kong in 1989.)
Via MicroBricks.