The Brothers Brick

First there was cave racing, and then came mech racing, and now there is track racing by Nnenn, who presents a lineup of colorful racers united by their common love of tumbling treads and high speed thrusters. Will this be the next fad to inspire dozens of variations by other builders? Stay tuned to find out!

It seems pretty official that we’ll be seeing Count Dooku’s Solar Sailer hitting the shelves soon according to a catalog scan now appearing in multiple Brickshelf galleries. The release is marked February on the scan.

…Jordan does, featuring the new Power Miners minifigs.

Fedde (Karf Oolhu) has dug deep into his heart (excuse the pun) and produced the glorious drilling machine “Doolittle”. Check out the lovely twisted stacks of teeth plates behind the main drill. I wonder if the two giant drills currently working somewhere beneath my feet inspired this.

JD Luse‘s microcity spans on a 64X64 studs base and contains over 100 micro buildings. This impressive layout lives up to the standards set by Shannon Young’s Shannonia, which served as the inspiration for the creation. Check out more pictures and descriptions of invidivual buildings in the gallery on MOCpages.

Chrispockster‘s scene of ancient Japan has a ton of interesting building techniques and cool minifigures to look at. I like the vines on the trees and the broken stone steps leading up to the torii gate.

As Lino says in his description, you were nothing if you didn’t have one of these babies. It was the only time I was cool….

I thought that it might be nice to do something for the community to finish off 2008 (fixed thanks). So I’ve begun a project to develop a Western Train along with some instructions. You can find the instructions here or as an MPD.

I’ll be adding new posts when I complete new stock so check back regularly.

Hope you enjoy it and may 2009 be a great year.

Tim

The Brickster is hosting a “Build and Decorate a Train Car” contest over on Eurobricks. The contest, in brief, consists of building a train set and decorating it in a holiday theme. For a full description head over to the contest thread.

Which coincidentally brings me to my next post…

Steve Witt, the LEGO Community Relations Coordinator, would like the adult LEGO fans to participate in a short survey, please take about 3 minutes to answer a few questions that’ll help improve our favorite building toy:

As Adult Fans of LEGO, you bring an important perspective to the LEGO Group. We respect your creativity and passion for our brand. Please take a few moments to complete this short online survey to let us know your opinion on how we are doing. We promise to listen to you and use your feedback to improve!

You might notice that the link refers to the LEGO Kids Inner Circle; this is because Satmetrix, which hosts that site, is also supporting our efforts to track AFOL opinions. Rest assured that this survey is for AFOL’s only.

Jordan Schwartz‘s use of fabuland and scala figure parts are encroaching the bounds of ethics, creating mutants that many have commented as disturbing. Check out Toby the Piglet, Blizzard the Dragon, and Lederhosen Goat.

Brickshelf user ladious‘s model of Darth Vader is as commanding as the dark lord himself. Check out some of the impressive poses in the creation’s gallery, which could make for a few good wallpapers.

Every once in a while, someone figures out that two LEGO pieces go together amazingly well. Flickr user Nolet combined a dinosaur half-torso with troll arms to create Torsten the Torturer. The half dome piece tops off nicely as a hood complete with eye-holes.

Spending too much time hunched over your brick? Do what yck888 did. Build a treadmill!

Kevin Fedde says that he built this in a week! Pretty cool, if you ask me. Among many other things, I really like the nests in the trees.