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Okay, Brothers Brick readers, our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest ends in less than a week, on October 31!
Ricardo Silva (evildead from Klocki) has submitted “Go Miniman Panic Go!” — in which “science-fiction turns into reality”:
Things go downhill for the minifigs in Rupi’s second entry:
Thanks for all the great entries so far, everyone!
Reminder: Don’t forget to let us know you’ve entered, and be sure to include what category your entry is for. ;-)
As we reported back in August in a guest review by Jordan Schwartz, the the LEGO® Collector’s Guide was not available here in the United States.
However, I’m pleased to share that the standard edition is now available from the LEGO Shop:
Check out the review, and let’s keep hoping the premium edition will also be released here in the States.
Jordan Neves, Zach Clapsadle, and Lukas Winklerprins are hosting a very cool contest running through the end of November — the Rebuild Your First MOC, but Good! contest.
Peter Morris improves on a childhood favorite with “SF-109E Eagle”:
David “Xenobuzz” Simmons also gets in on the action with his “JL-79 Cargo Hauler” (named after July 1979, when David was 10):
Read more about the contest on Classic-Space.com and the Classic-Space Flickr group, and then get building!
A heads up for all those Australian LEGO fans out there. I plan to attend and hope to have a blast.
Brickvention is Australia’s own LEGO convention and it’s only a few months away!
The 2009 Brickvention will be held over the Australia Day Long Weekend (January 24th to 25th) in Melbourne, Australia and promises to be an exciting event.
Following on from the success of the previous years, there will be competitions, presentations, demonstrations and lots of interesting things to see and do.
Highlights of the weekend include:
- MOC displays (including town, modular houses, train, moonbase, and space)
- Building competitions
- Dirty Brickster
- Dirty Buildster
- Build-in-a bag
- Timed build
- Brickfilms
- Brikwars
- Trade tables
We’re all really excited about the event and can’t wait to meet lots of other AFOLs from all over Australia and around the world.
Want to know more about the event? Check out the website at http://www.brickventures.com
As part of my patriotic duty I bring you all my latest bit of fun: a generic Australian worker’s cottage. These are quite common in certain suburbs in most Australian cities and date back to the turn of the 20th Century. I kept the design fairly simple to facilitate repetition and variation, just like the real things.
I never expected to see the nose of a GE Dash-9 done well in LEGO. The double down slope is one of the most difficult shapes to achieve. By making clever use of a triangular flag Scott Wardlaw has finally pulled it off in this lovely eight-wide version of the locomotive. Seeing solutions like this is one big reason I love LEGO trains.
Before I was a brickfilmer, before I was a castler, I was a spacer. One of the reasons I eventually dropped out of building spaceships was it seemed all LEGO spaceships started to look the same, or all started to fit into fan-made subgenres. While this in itself is not a bad thing, it leaves many LEGO spaceships with a feeling of “sameness” to them. But every once in a while, someone comes along and builds a ship that is different from all other spaceships.
Ogre by Nnenn is just awesome. Have you ever seen and brown and orange ship comprised of three intersecting disks? I thought not.
Don’t forget to check out the complete Brickshelf Gallery!
Keith Goldman has just announced the second annual “You Control the Action” contest with the theme of sci-fi horror! The rules are simple, build any sized creation in minifigure scale that delivers sci-fi horror action and you will have a chance to win fabulous prizes plus the all-so craved feeling of having controlled the action. You have until the end of this year to take part in this horrendously satisfying experience.
Braindead? Think “4 foot demonic SHIPS, gory vignettes, haunted MB modules, zombie siege dioramas, blood-trains, one eyed monsters, giant posessed super computers, undead steampunk, lycanthropic cyberpunk, punk-ass ghost-robots and serial killer-mecha.” Start controlling the action today!
Adrian Florea returns to starships with the lovely Ziy-9 Xapuri. The swing-wing configuration is just dandy.
Chandler (obxcrew) takes on Batman nemesis and former White Knight Harvey Dent in a series of five vignettes.
In his first vig, Chandler explores Harvey’s origins as Two-Face:
Each vignette includes great details and minifig customization, like the safe deposit boxes and two-face himself in this bank scene:
Check out all five vignettes in Chandler’s I Believe in Harvey Dent photoset on Flickr.
Well, not so bad if it’s pulling an adorable dwarven cart, but Rodney “BusterBuilder” Bistline’s bug is certainly a unique addition to the LEGO Castle universe:
More on Brickshelf.
(Thanks for the link, Peter!)
Lugpol member Kris Kelvin has built a rather impressive Imperial Barracks. I love the brickwork on the building, but that isn’t all that’s noteworthy. From the officers’ uniforms to the wheels of the cannons, this creation is packed with eye-candy.
I present my latest surrealist sculpture, called the Legacy of Vision. It is an exploration of the theme of insanity and a sequel to my earlier work, the Cry of Dreams. Both sculptures are made in similar style, depicting equally macabre subjects. Likewise, I have a bit of writing accompanying this work, which will offer more insight to this creation for those interested. I’m planning on eventually making a third scultpure to complete the three-piece collection called the Metamorphosis of the Mind.
The coolness that is Rocko has just finished Bay Castle. Check out this waterfront beauty! As with most of Rock’s creations, this thing is bursting with detail. I love the wake behind the water-skier and the Forestmen’s raft, but that’s not all there is to see.
Take a peek for yourself. I think you’ll be surprised.
If you prefer, it can be seen in his Flickr gallery as well.
I’m sorry to have missed meeting Ochre Jelly during the public hours at BrickCon, but I was very pleased when he sent me a link to his latest LEGO creation.
OJ has captured the Alaska governor winking during her debate with Joe Biden:
OJ writes:
This is a new scale of LEGO that I am experimenting with. Not minifig scale, not miniland scale, but I’m calling it “marionette scale”. The goal was to figure out the smallest (which in my mind is the most interesting) scale at which I can create recognizable 3D facial likenesses.
The latest Star Wars: The Clone Wars set available from the LEGO Shop is 7679 Republic Fighter Tank (aka TX-130 Saber-class Fighter Tank).
All orders over $99.00 ship for free, so I’ll just dangle before you some of the sales going on right now:
And now, a quick reminder about why we do this.
Knowing that there are tens of thousands of you out there reading what we post makes our efforts here on The Brothers Brick truly worth it. Running this site isn’t free, though. We use the revenue from our advertising to pay the bills, and then we give every extra penny back to you — through contest prizes, giveaways, and so on. If you don’t believe us, just ask BrickCon attendees! ;-)
So, whether you buy your LEGO through us or through Brickset, Klocki, Peeron, or another LEGO fan site, the next time you buy LEGO, consider clicking through from one of these sites. You’ll be supporting key resources in the LEGO fan community.
It would seem that photographing train models is back in fashion. I usually have to wait around for ages for the right quality combination of model and photography but lately it’s been flowing. This snazzy dark red and yellow SOO FP7 is by Matt Hamann.
Neiman Marcus has recently posted their upscale Christmas catalog for the uber-rich. They now sell LEGO!
They have brokered a deal with LEGO Certified Professional Nathan Sawaya. For a very reasonable amount, you can have a replica of any person you want. How reasonable? If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s pocket change, just $60,000. The real problem is finding space for it. Keep it in your mini-sub. You never use that anyway….
Thanks to Chris Wunz for the heads up about the Yahoo News post.
