The Brothers Brick

Brent built this snazzy, yet spooky spirit wagon. It has a mission…to keep all of those nasty, flesh-covered people out of town.

Thanks to Jamie for the heads up!

I’m a massive fan of Squieu’s mecha and he’s just posted a heap of new stuff including the above-pictured ‘krw’. I can never get enough of his stuff.

Mecha or dragon? This knight’s mount by Aaron Andrews (DARKspawn) is both.

See more pictures of Aaron’s dragon mecha on Brickshelf.

This Fennek by Cole Blaq is da bomb! Well, it’s really a Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle, but you know what I mean. That camo job is pretty nifty too. Very nice job of recreating this burly vehicle!

The Indianapolis Children’s Museum, working with Lego, has put together an incredible traveling exhibit, designed to educate children (and adults!) on the intricacies of Medieval Castle building and medieval life. Among the many activities are “jousting”, building castle walls, dressing up in medieval costumes, and firing a catapult.

It has already been booked for the next five years! The exhibit has left Indianapolis, but is on its way to the Arizona Science Center.

You can check out the schedule and see if its coming to a city near you!

Check out these pics by Blackbear88 in order to see the actual exhibit.

Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) tries his hand at LEGO tagging with a 3D version of “PAX” that looks nearly robotic.

MrTruck has added to his collection of vintage and classic LEGO vehicles with this beauty inspired by 10194 Emerald Night — thus “Emerald Hotrod”:

Via Klocki.

As much as I enjoy the robots, spaceships, and tanks we blog here on a regular basis, there are also those occasional LEGO creations that remind us that we’re part of a broader world — a world in which war is not fun and war is not play.

My brother and I went to see Schindler’s List a few months before I found myself standing in the silence of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Matija Grguric captures one of the most moving moments from the film in this vignette.

Though we haven’t featured her work before, Legofesto has been protesting the torture and abuse of detainees caught up in the Iraq War and “War on Terror” for several years (via VignetteBricks):

For me, LEGO has always been a medium for potential art, and art doesn’t shy away from the world we live in. There is beauty in truth, no matter how ugly the reality. In the very revulsion I feel about what I see depicted in these vignettes — heightened by the fact that the medium is a children’s toy — I find hope that there will come a time when humans rise above our own depravity.

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The Final Fantasy series has been a frequent inspiration for my LEGO creations, so it was fascinating to read that Final Fantasy creator and head of game design studio Mistwalker Hironobu Sakaguchi builds with LEGO when he’s looking for inspiration.

Click each photo of a LEGO creation by Hironobu Sakaguchi to read how he uses LEGO in his creative process as a video game designer.

(Via Joystiq, with a hat-tip to reader Nathan Hale.)

Mark Stafford (Nabii) a corporate-sponsored military mecha “capable of fitting into bomb shelters and emerging later to aid in civil defense.”

See more pictures on both MOCPages and Flickr.

…it’s what Kevin Fedde (Crimson Wolf) does to pass the time. Check out his scene called “Rise, My Minions.”

Misa Qa‘s microscale beach house makes great use of the island baseplate from the LEGO Pirate line. It sums up the summer spirit perfectly as my summer vacation begins this week.

We don’t normally blog works in progress, but this massive LEGO Castle diorama by Johan “Teddy” van den Heuvel (Johanvande) is too epic to pass up.

Teddy has described his LEGO Castle as “a typical Dutch castle,” but it’s anything but ordinary. From the angled walls to the beautiful cross-shaped windows, I can’t wait to see what Teddy has planned for the final version.

74louloute enacts all sorts of mayhem on some Wild West minifigs in this fantastic Red Light District diorama. Please zoom in and check out all the details. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

And in his words (slightly edited)

Formerly, the sherrif used to be the guarantor of the security and the peace in the city. Unfortunately, now he is totally outstripped… All he can do is watch the mess spread the city directed by women…

What’s not to love?

And builds some graffiti out of his bricks. He’s (Cole Blaq) built his own tag in a fade color scheme. I love this graphical style. Ever since my design classes in undergrad, I’ve been a bit of a font nerd, and really enjoy it when people play with the simple forms of letters to make something that’s more than just text.

Thanks to Andrew Lee (Onosendai2600) for the tip.