The Brothers Brick

This droid repair ship by Ernesto Carrillo is packed with detail, but the lighting is what really stands out. While the overhead light bars have been photo-shopped, that welding “spark” is an actual light. Nicely done, Ernesto, nicely done!

Pointed out to me by Joe.

Sebastiaan Arts has taken up the 32 challenge and pulled it off well. Of course, would we expect anything else? No. What is the challenge you ask? To build a castle on a nothing larger than a 32×32 baseplate.

The latest creation from Moko is dressed in samurai mecha armor and wields twin energy katanas. That’s enough to spell awesome, but there are some worthwhile details to note such as the use of tiered tiles and cheese slopes to imitate the jagged samurai armor. And as with pictures involving chrome radar dishes, you get a bonus image of the photographer.

The Arvo Brothers present their latest LEGO vehicle, a Ford GT Le Mans.

It’s always hard to find only one thing to like about an Arvo creation, so beyond the obvious shapeliness of the car as a whole, I hereby pick the funky orange spiky bits in the wheels.

Thanks for the tip, Evo!

Nathan Proudlove built this classic showrod and it’s smokin’! This particular model brings back fond memories of my own childhood Hotwheels cars. I had this one…

There’s a video too.

Not only does Chris Malloy know how to slay a shark, but he also knows how to make a scene out of it. Take the boat for instance: whereas anyone can use the stubborn piece that LEGO has intended for, Chris made his own out of flags and flex tubing while cleverly disguising the broken end of the ship in sea grass. Genius.

Dali Zheng has been hosting a Speeder Bike Contest with some really excellent entries so far. If you’d like to enter yourself, you have until the end of August.

Thomas Oechsner contributes a Neo-Classic Space speeder bike with appropriate greeblage.

What LEGO contest would be complete without a nostalgic Octan entry? This one’s by Mristoph Chonnaie.

Karf would be proud of the Bananabike by NIRDIAN.

Oh, I give up. There are too many cool little speeder bikes to pick just a few. Go look through the entries yourself.

Rock and roll may not be noise pollution, but it can apparently bring down an otherwise indestructible building.

Via Kotaku.

As twee affect rightly notes, we’re going to be seeing a lot of LEGO creations inspired by District 9 over the coming weeks. Some truly crappy, others rather awesome, like this biosuit by Erik (Lemon_Boy).

This is actually based on the suits from “Alive in JoBerg” — the short film writer/director Neill Blomkamp expanded into the feature-length District 9. Thanks to the magic of YouTube, you can watch “Alive in JoBerg” without leaving TBB:

Leavenworth, WA is a small town about 100 miles east of Seattle styled as a “Bavarian village,” with the world’s largest collection of nutcrackers and an annual Oktoberfest rivaling Munich’s.

Catherine (LegoQueen) created a trio of buildings inspired by our faux-German neighbors to the east.

The scene needs more drunken tourists eating frozen cheesecake, but I love the variety of rooflines, and the green and brown building in particular.

Flickr user einsteinonthebeach1982 posted this gorgeous River Citadel. It has so much incredible detail! It’s hard to pick my favorite.

Every detail is well thought-out and exquisitely executed, from the landscaping to the marketplace and well inside the Citadel itself.

This road machine is sweet. I love the rugged look of it. Cole Blaq done good on this one.

Okay, now this is strange…but cool…in a rather demented way. Uspez Morbo mashes up Castle and Aquanauts in this bizarre battle scene. I have a strange urge to build something in this theme. Must…resist…crazy…mashup!

Dan Siskind of BrickMania has just announced that his next custom kit is available for pre-order — the M4A3(76)W VVSS Sherman Tank.

I’d never bought any custom LEGO kits from somebody else, but I bought two of Dan’s kits a few months ago.

I couldn’t have been more pleased. They’re well-designed, interesting to build (well, except maybe the tank treads, heh heh), and a lot of fun to see how another LEGO builder solves interior structure problems you’d never see in a photo.

Though the printed instructions for the two kits I ordered were $10 more expensive, I found them harder to read than the electronic version on a CD.

If you’re reading this, you probably have a computer, so I recommend taking the cheaper, more legible route.

You can pre-order your own Sherman from BrickMania.com.

Fedde needed somewhere for his mischievous monkeys to hang out.

Looks like the keeper forgot to take away the monkey’s wrench…