The Brothers Brick

The bow on this fighter by Kidthor (Flickr) looks like it could slam into other spaceships instead of just shooting at them:

Great use of stickers, Technic slopes, and “cheese graters.”

With regular link love from Gizmodo, StumbleUpon, Digg, and other popular sites, The Brothers Brick is now pushing a million page views a month, so the time has come for another upgrade.
Please expect some downtime over the next day or two while we migrate from one server to another. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
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In his latest vignette, Rocko summons a wormhole and sends a Viking charging through it to medieval Japan. Yeah, I’d be surprised too.

I’ve postponed blogging this wonderful winter scene by Zgrredek several times because I can’t seem to find the right words.
From the smoky chimneys and trio of rooftop birds to the brick-built horse and old-fashioned delivery truck, I can’t pick just one favorite detail.

Find your own favorite details in the Brickshelf gallery.
(Via Klocki, Brick Town [...]

The latest mecha from Mark Stafford (Nabii) is named simply “6600M Confessor”:

It’s no secret by now that Mark is one of several LEGO fans who’ve joined The LEGO Group recently as set designers. (Others include Pierre Normandin, Jamie Berard, and Adam Grabowski.) Mark’s set design credits so far include several Exo-Force sets, Mission 3: Gold [...]

Tyler Clites (Legohaulic) joins the Vic Viper “NoVVember” fun with his Rusty Saber:

The cockpit has an arthropod-like look to it, and it’s definitely my favorite part.

Kevin Fedde’s first microscale spaceships have a great color scheme. Well, anything green catches my eye, but they’re still awesome, from their angled bows to the blue engine exhaust:

Via MicroBricks.

Those of you subscribed to my Flickr photostream probably saw that we’d found a stray named Sampson last week. Although Sampson’s story ended well (his owner picked him up on Wednesday), it made my wife and I aware of the dire situation many pets are in right now due to the economy.
Following a whirlwind of [...]

Proving that you don’t need 5922 pieces to build the Taj Mahal, T-Brick recreates the famous Indian monument in microscale:

Using a white tire for the dome is very clever.
Via MicroBricks.

Mmm, yesss… Adrian Florea’s new mecha is beautifully chunky. Check out the chairs on its ankles and the windows around its neck. Very cool.

Following the release of the LEGO® Collector’s Guide, the English-language version of the 50 Years of the LEGO Brick is also now available from the LEGO Shop.

And don’t forget that shipping is free on all orders over $99.00 right now.

There are more partisan LEGO images I could have chosen, but this beautiful mosaic by Udronotto seemed the most appropriate.
(Like Senator McCain’s concession speech a moment ago, let’s keep the comments civil, dear readers.)

Ex-Force hair as trees, “headlight” bricks on their sides as windows, and wands/lightsabers for the beams in the bridge and dock — this microscale castle by Wobnam might feel a little underpopulated, but there’s an amazing amount of detail to take in:

This great little car by Karwik (Noddy) has so many cool details I don’t know where to start. From the groovy hood to the simultaneously round and pointy rear, don’t miss all the photos on Brickshelf.
(Via LUGNuts, while trying to channel Tim. )

When we last saw the NO REAL THAN YOU ARE minifig, it appeared on a beach in The Netherlands to much fanfare and even inspired Nathan to build a real LEGO version.
A similar figure, this time with a green torso, has shown up on Brighton beach in England (click for the full story on BBC.co.uk):

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Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo has posted a pictorial timeline of the LEGO minifig over the 30 years of its glorious plastic life.
Fair warning that several hundred images on a single page might take a while to load:

The BrickLink Reference Catalog lists just over 4,000 minifigs, so the Gizmodo timeline isn’t complete, but the pictures [...]

Fórum 0937 member superfan has entered the Classic-Castle.com Mini Castle Contest IV with this great scene that incorporates a minifig-scale horse as a massive Trojan Horse:

The last couple of months of the year really are the “contest season” in the LEGO fan community. Klocki is trying out a Contests page to capture many of the contests going on at the moment. We’ll try to feature as many as we can get to, but I’m not making any promises.
Andrew [...]