The Brothers Brick

This rare vintage photo shows Yoda during his brief stint with the French Foreign Legion. Prior to hiding away on Dagobah, Yoda thought that the deserts of Algeria might be a good place to lose himself.

The hot weather, ill-fitting clothes, and hazing by the other soldiers, made him decide to explore other options. He also wasn’t very good at taking orders….

Tranquility Base creator Louise Dade (Bladewood) has posted a Fabuland Danger Mouse, with Penfold and DM’s flying car.

The Fabuland figures were customized by Louise’s mom Hilary. (Hat-tip to reader Tim.)

Jamie Spencer (Morgan19) sure knows how to combine minifigs and custom accessories in interesting — and creepy! — ways.

From Yoda’s head on backward to Catwoman cowls for arms, Jamie’s minifigs are full of surprises.

See the full horde of Jamie’s creepy figs on Flickr.

That may be what defines space for Leonard McCoy, but I suspect Spock and Uhura — built here by Ochre Jelly — find more pleasure in the Final Frontier…

Via OJ’s blog, The Living Brick.

Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) discovered that sand green is harder to come by than he expected while building this mini-scale version of the Pelican dropship from Halo, complete with an itty-bitty Warthog that fits underneath.

The new LEGO Space theme has been officially launched on LEGO.com. We don’t normally blog something quite this information-free (heh heh), but I’m personally rather excited by this new theme, and it’s clear many of you out there who sent us the link feel the same.

Click the pic to watch the very brief trailer.

Jalkow trots out this cute scene complete with a poor shipwreck victim. I’m lovin’ all the details packed into this small space. Great scene!

The recent spate of unarmed mecha is a result of the Mecha Hub Civilian Mecha Contest on Flickr. Kyle Vrieze (bermudafreze) has built a pair of my favorites.

Micro mecha aren’t that unusual, but placing the mecha on a microscale background is fairly unique:

This submersible mecha has realistic, utilitarian arms:

See more great entries in the Civilian Mecha Contest thread.

captainsmot brings the Terry Pratchett’s Discworld characters to life in the form of custom LEGO minifigs.

Rincewind, the Luggage, and Twoflower:

Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Cohen, and the Silver Horde:

This eight-wide VW Van by Ed (Ed Bricks) had me smiling from the moment I saw it.

Complete with a caravan in tow, this little beauty makes me want to throw everything in the Van and head north to Lancashire on the M6 for a long weekend.

Sadly, I don’t live in England, so I’m stuck with I-5 as my roadway and Canada to the north, not that there’s anything wrong with Canada…

Check out Ed’s photostream on Flickr for tons more pictures of his LEGO VW Van, including shots of the fully detailed underside.

I recently received a new publication from LEGO called The Brick, which is a magazine for adult readers that shares stories, news, and reports from the company.

I’ve learned much from this 90-page magazine that I would’ve never known even from years of building with LEGO bricks. Do you know what the net profit of the company was in the past three years? Does it surprise you that Bionicle is the most popular selling product line in Russia while roughly half of all castle sales went to the Japanese consumer? Learn more including info on the upcoming LEGO board games, working in the LEGO factory, and even coverage of the FIRST LEGO League. I’m happy to inform that the magazine is available to the public both in hard copy and electronic download. Enjoy!

If you’re requesting a copy of the magazine, we’d appreciate a mention that you’re are a reader of our blog. Thanks!

6 months and 160 meters of rope later, Bonaparte built the HMS Prince of Wales, and what an impressive model indeed!

Check out his funny vignette by crises called The Blind Date, featuring the new cyclops head from the upcoming Space Police line.

This entry in the Battles Contest, by Rod Gillies, is balanced on one stud! He says that it took a lot of time and obscenities before it worked out. I’m glad he muddled through!

Matt Armstrong isn’t called MonsterBrick for nothing. Especially since he recently gave birth to this incredibly awesome death machine.

He also took new pics just for us, so we were forced to blog it. Otherwise he might have let this thing loose on us….