Monthly Archives: September 2007

Microscale links for September 16, 2007

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 (via a tip from mastergongfu:

ApocaLEGO links for September 16, 2007

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”:

News: Early, grainy pictures of 2008 Indiana Jones sets

Via circuitous links leading ultimately to Cool Toy Review.

Dark Hero by Izzo

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.

Shiny...

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

Thanks for the tip, non-me Andrew!

Danish architecture firm uses LEGO to design “LEGO Towers”

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.)

Brickfilming on national TV

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

MPG

Enjoy!

Space Ninjas, lava, and a bridge. (Who could ask for more?)

Sly420 has made an awesome thing…

Marcus Fenix Minifig by Chuck

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!

All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

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:

I don’t know what it is, but it’s cool...

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

“Garden” by Legohaulic

Legohaulic has posted a sweet apocalyptic diorama.

ApocaLego is cool. I gotta try it out…