How do I put this? BrickCon 2008 was amazing, but just a little bit more stressful than years past, as I demonstrate in this photo by Adam Hally:
Nevertheless, it was the best LEGO convention I’ve ever been to! Highlights for me included:
Zombie Apocafest 2008
Nannan crashing at my place
10193 Medieval Market Village
A chance to have great [...]
Zombie Apocafest 2008 just wrapped up at BrickCon, and I spent about an hour taking pictures.
Front and center in the display was Ryan Wood’s beautiful watchtower:
Josh, Nannan, and I awarded “Best Zombified Building” to Paul Hetherington’s “Casa Baron”:
Paul’s building has a full interior, including comfy chairs and a working elevator. We loved the art deco [...]
LEGO Castle fans have wanted more civilians, more women, and more non-equine animals for a very long time — something a little more like this:
With the announcement of 10193 Medieval Market Village last night during opening ceremonies at BrickCon 2008, there should be no doubt in anybody’s mind that LEGO listens to fans like us.
The [...]
I’ve uploaded a few of my photos from today to Flickr. We’ll fill this post with something more than this later, but first, sleep!
Nannan has also uploaded his photos:
Recent visitors to the BrickArms Web site will have noticed the intriguing message that they’ll be back soon with new products.
Just in time for BrickCon 2008, the site is now back online with all-new items, including:
M21 Sniper Rifle
Baseball Bat
Lee-Enfield SMLE
Zombie Defense Weapons Pack
We’ll of course have full coverage of other new BrickArms products announced [...]
One part Alice in Wonderland, one part Super Mario Bros., four parts awesome, Shannon Young places a little white kitten in certain peril.
The door behind the cloud is amazing, and the sun is brilliant.
Having just announced winners for the Brick Science contest, Reasonably Clever is now co-hosting a new contest with TK 1420.
The Spooky Star Wars Contest challenges you to build a spookified Star Wars vehicle, a scene, an impulse-size creation, or the death of Jar-Jar Binks. (I’m sure we’ve all dreamed of ways that would go down.)
Judges [...]
Tekka Croe apparently spent 3 hours applying 41 decals to this very cool racer mech:
EDIT (TG): The mech is based on Chuck Citrin’s racing mech frame.
Apologies for boring 99% of our readers, but this is still the fastest way to communicate with the fairly large number of TBB readers who are attending BrickCon later this week.
Fill out your MOC cards now
MOC (My Own Creation) cards identify your LEGO creations for fellow attendees and the general public. They also help theme [...]
I have no idea what this scene by Wobnam means, but it’s pretty darn cool. More pics on Brickshelf.
For those of you who can’t make it to BrickCon 2008, Josh, Nannan, and I will be covering the con starting this Thursday.
We want to know what you’re most interested in seeing from us. By voting in the new poll and leaving a comment here, you can help shape our coverage of BrickCon 2008. Our [...]
Harrison sends Chell through a series of tests in this vignette inspired by Portal:
Note the splashing water around the oars in this lovely little microscale rendition of the legendary Greek ship Argo by Luís Baixinho:
And now for something completely different — a human cannonball (also by Luís, of course):
Vidgamer838 has recreated the Rat’s Nest multiplayer map from Halo 3, complete with the trio of UNSC Marines voiced by Firefly and Serenity cast members — Alan Tudyk (Wash), Nathan Fillion (Mal Reynold), and Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb):
This is an entry for the August-September Contest in the LEGO Halo group on Flickr (click pic below [...]
This gorgeous mecha by Jas Nagra evokes favorites by Soren Roberts or Izzo.
That’s a big complement, to be sure, but I like Jas’s mecha for what sets it apart from all of those — the knee joints in particular:
Austrian LEGO fan group LGOE (not a typo — it stands for LEGO Gemeinschaft Österreich) will be hosting an event next weekend in Vienna.
Here are the details in German (courtesy Verena Schaden):
Die LEGO® Gemeinschaft Österreich lädt euch ein zur
Welt der Steine - taucht ein in das bunte Reich der LEGO® Fans
4. - 5. Oktober, 10 [...]
Chris Doyle sends word that the parts from Custom Car Garage are now available from online Pick A Brick. New parts include the great pilot torso originally from the redesigned Naboo fighter.
RP Cuenco used 2,558 bricks from LEGO Factory to build a case for his Mac (via Gizmodo):
Bricked Mac - Time-Lapse from RP Cuenco on [...]
LEGO Batman: The Video Game was released this past Tuesday. I’d hoped to play the game and write a review, as I did for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Video Game, but I won’t have time to do that for a couple weeks.
McDonald’s has of course had Happy Meal toys inspired by the game available for [...]
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