The Brothers Brick

Oh yes. There are many trifectas, but this is certainly one of them. When Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley combines Apple + LEGO + Star Wars, you get 100% awesome.

Red. Sleek. Fast. This lovely fighter by Niels Bugge (Flickr) veritably roars off the screen with speed and power:

Don’t miss the 80 Z-Fighter 3 page on Niels’ website for discussion of the inspiration and building techniques he used, including the great curved wings.

Nick Dean has included lots of realistic details in this scene illustrating the life of a sniper:

Check out Nick’s photoset on Flickr and see if you can spot them all.

Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnson recently visited futurist Syd Mead’s house. Mead is of course renowned for the designs he’s contributed to many of our favorite movies, including the Spinner from Blade Runner.
Joel reports that LEGO presented a special LEGO Technic Spinner to Mead when the legendary designer visited the company. The Technic Spinner [...]

Here’s some interesting news from Billund:
LEGO® Collector`s Guide Publishing date: 26.06.08 / LEGO Collector – Premium Edition beginning of August 2008
We are happy to announce that the LEGO Collector’s Guide is about to be launched by Fantasia Verlag GmbH. The confirmed launch date will be the 26.06.08. This bilingual (English/German) catalogue is for the [...]

As I said a couple weeks ago, I really enjoy the little descriptions Teikjoon includes with his LEGO photos.
Click the picture to read Teikjoon’s description of the high-powered “Skyscraper” on Flickr:

Most people probably know Xueren for his amazing collection of custom minifigs, but he’s also an accomplished builder, as he demonstrates with buildings like this one.
On the street level, a vendor sells roasted chestnuts:

Naturally, the resident of the second floor, a certain Mr. Holmes, has a secret identity:

The “geological research and exploration vehicle” Jehkay posted recently sports more play features than you can throw a brick at.

It has manipulator arms on the front and a motorbike on the back:

Aaron Andrews presents a French castle on a river, titled (appropriately enough) “Château sur la Rivière”:

My favorite detail is the tiles on the crenellations. Check out the full gallery on Brickshelf.

YouTuber Mar Delgado has posted an intriguing trailer for a LEGO CGI movie he’s working on, inspired by the game God of War:

Very cool.
(And no, this isn’t an “official” trailer. Sadly, there will be no LEGO God of War after LEGO Batman. Nor Grand Theft LEGO.)

We certainly love the airplanes that Ralph Savelsberg builds, but he’s recently on a Town kick.
His most recent buildings include iconic British buildings — a corner shop and a pub:

Here they are together with the rest of Ralph’s buildings and vehicles:

I’m loving Gizmodo contributor Jesus Diaz’s coverage of his recent trip to Billund. His latest post includes a great video of his visit to LEGO’s Secret Vault, where the company stores all of the products ever released, in their original packages.

Click through to Gizmodo for the video and the full gallery.
Jesus’ coverage of his trip [...]

Eurobricks once again found first good pictures of upcoming Star Wars sets including: 7681 Seperatist Spider Droid, 7678 Droid Gunship, 7679 Republic Fighter Tank, and 7680 The-Twilight.

Here is the final installment of the Brickworld 2008 photos from me. The four days have been a blast with seeing all the great LEGO creations and meeting friends and making new ones. Here is the Saturday gallery.

Sunday brings the second public display day and the wrap up with the closing ceremony and tear down. [...]

Public hours at BrickWorld 2008 are wrapping up as I type this, and I hope Nannan is taking a well-deserved break from the fantastic coverage he’s been bringing those of us who couldn’t make it to Chicago this year.
To tide everybody over until Nannan’s next post, here are some blog posts and photos I’ve found [...]

It is Saturday at Brickworld 2008, and today is when the public come to tour the displays. Here are pictures taken in the morning through mid-afternoon, courtesy of The Brothers Brick’s fastest service to bring you the latest.

It is the end of the second day at Brickworld, and here are the pictures I took during the day. Activities that took place today included presentations, finishing setup, the opening ceremony, and a trip to insanity- I mean the LEGO store.

Noteworthy observations include:
1. 10188 Death Star revealed at opening ceremony.
2. Brickarms arrived with new [...]

At the opening ceremony at Brickworld on Friday July 20th, the 10188 Death Star playset was officially announced and revealed by representatives of the LEGO group. The price will be $399.99 and there are 24 minifigs. I captured a video of the model, enjoy.