The Brothers Brick

One restriction of the Colossal Castle Contest is that you’re limited to three pictures per entry. Many builders post a second folder of pictures to show off additional details and angles, but no such luck with Gork‘s entry, a castle called Blondel. Here’s hoping Gork will post a lot more later, because I certainly like what I see so far — especially the bridge and the wooden part of the structure.

Don’t miss all three of Gork’s CCCV entries.

Tom Sneller‘s entry for the “Castle Spaces” category in this year’s Colossal Castle Contest flying furniture, beautiful stained glass, and some seriously scared guards.

Read more and discuss Tom’s creation in his thread on Classic-Castle.com.

(Via Klocki.)

Mark Stafford‘s latest steampunk creation proves that steampunk doesn’t have to be all browns and grays.

As “Armothe,” Kyle Peterson may be best known as one half of the team behind BrickForge, but he’s also a great minifig customizer in his own right. His latest set of figs is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. From Arthur and Sir Bedevere (above) to Launcelot and Robin (below), the gang’s all here.

Check out Kyle’s Flickr photostream for more, including Galahad, Gawain, and my favorite, a French Knight:

“Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!”

Apparently, the late writer Norman Mailer was a LEGO fan of sorts. You can see him here in his New York apartment with his large LEGO sculpture in the background:

Apparently, Mailer built “a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations.”

According to architecture writer Lynn Becker, Mailer’s LEGO creation appears as the frontispiece in his 1966 book Cannibals and Christians:

So not only is this LEGO creation by one of the leading writers of the past 50 years, it’s built from vintage LEGO! Just the thing to expand my selection of basic bricks. I bet they’d need a good dusting, though…

Check out our previous post about writer Douglas Coupland’s LEGO obsession.

(Via KyleSmithOnline.com, with a tip from reader James Lucas Jones.)

The minifig-scale Droideka (or Destroyer Droid) in official LEGO sets kind of balls up, but not really. hyf326 has built a fully functional Droideka from Bionicle. Okay, it doesn’t actually roll around and go “pew pew!” Still cool though.

Via Brick Blogue.

Matija Puzar announced back in September that he had completed his LDraw design for a LEGO version of the Croatian National Theater.

As impressive as the design may have been, the actual creation is just plain gorgeous. The capitals on the columns are particularly beautiful.

Thanks to Brick Town Talk for pointing me to the real thing.

My favorite entry so far in Mike Yoder’s Fanboy Cover Contest on Classic-Space.com is Andrew Lee‘s microscale interpretation of Dan Jassim‘s Regent.

Here’s the original, with builder for scale:

Sekiyama (blog) is one of those builders I run very hot and somewhat cold for but this loco is most definitely hot. It even has working pistons (although some cutting may be involved) and gorgeous innards. Check out those arched windows too, tres bien.

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Well that’s enough of his description, enjoy this wonderful and working creation.

Tim

That’s right, Aaron (Darkspawn) created a scene of a majestic bathhouse, but the royal atmosphere was quickly contaminated by two naked knights crashing in on the princess’ “me” time.

RebelRock’s latest creation is a sweet bit of whimsy…

Super starship builder Peter Morris has come up with the delightful gtx390aSteppenwulf01 starfighter. It’s excellent even by his high standards. What’s more it’s modular… how cool is that?

Check out Nnenn‘s latest fighter, there’s something about the color that I like, maybe it’s the soothing light blue background.

The whimsical mind of Mike Crowley (aka Count Blockula) has no limits. This time, he turns to make something exciting out of the mundane. Check out the “ongoing domestic winter adventures of Snowblower Man!”

“He’s just a regular guy, living in the northeastern part of the United States, trying his best to make it through yet another winter. The first heavy snowfall of the season has hit, and he knows what to do: bundled up in his winter’s warmest, he journeys out into the cold. Into the backyard, with deep and heavy footsteps, he makes his way though the thick, frozen white, all the way to the tool shed, where his finds his rugged and reliable friend waiting.”

Stay tuned to Mike’s gallery, where he plans on making a new vignette each day featuring the Snowblower Man.

Hey y’all! Been busy lately (what else is new?) but I just got three more entries wrapped up for the Colossal Castle Contest.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

May Day

You ain’t getting in here!