Posts by Nathan Wells

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads...

Really, is there anything that needs to be said?  It’s by Legohaulic, and it’s everyone’s favorite time-traveling DeLorean.

 

Hobo4Evar’s M6 Cobra

This little spaceship by Hobo4Evar is very pleasing to look at – I love the light gray/dark blue/trans orange colors, and the cockpit windshield is wonderfully done.

 

Chrispockst visits a wasteland...

Chrispockst has created disturbing and disgusting wasteland full of toxic spills, rotting corpses and creepy mutants.  Surely I’m not the only one reminded of Half-Life and Half-Life 2…

 

SlyOwl channels his inner Escher and builds an expressionist castle

Echoing the works of M.C. Escher, as well as German Expressionism, Sly Owl‘s lopsided, sinking, crooked, all around messed-up castle is colorful and appealing in its craziness:

 

Also check out the other side of the diorama, featured a wonderful house that uses minifig flippers as roofing shingles:

 

 

Also a bonus, here’s a vignette of a poor soul getting sucked away by a twister:

 

Me-109 Fighter Plane

Tyler “Legohaulic” Clites, one of the most frequently blogged builders on TBB, has done it again with his Me-109 fighter plane.  According to Tyler, it has a functional tail, angled wings and 131 cheese slopes in four different colors.  Now that’s impressive.

 

“What? Did I forget to wipe my mud flaps?”

Nathan Proudlove brings us good ol’ Mack from Pixar’s Cars.

Nathan built Mack to the same scale as fellow Flickrite Allister McLaren‘s Lightning McQueen and Mater:

Woof.

Psst, everyone, remember why we’re here?  LEGO is awesome.  Check out this cute Boston Terrier by Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley:

Nnenn proves spaceships can still look fresh and unique

Before I was a brickfilmer, before I was a castler, I was a spacer.  One of the reasons I eventually dropped out of building spaceships was it seemed all LEGO spaceships started to look the same, or all started to fit into fan-made subgenres.  While this in itself is not a bad thing, it leaves many LEGO spaceships with a feeling of “sameness” to them.  But every once in a while, someone comes along and builds a ship that is different from all other spaceships.

Ogre by Nnenn is just awesome.  Have you ever seen and brown and orange ship comprised of three intersecting disks?  I thought not.

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The Brothers Brick gets their own van!

Nathan Proudlove presents a great green van featuring the Brothers Brick. I wonder if it can fit 7 minifig Brothers ;)

 

And this concludes our broadcast day...

“Big Daddy” Nelson Yrizarry has this to say about his latest sculpture, Off the Air:

This MOC reflects one interpretation of the nature of television as it is today. Simply stated, you are controlled, and what you want to see is moot. 

You control what you want to see and what you want to hear on TV. You control the action. You control your life. 

Don’t let anyone else (especially anyone on TV) tell you otherwise.

 

Celebrating GO MINIMAN GO – “30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure”

David Pagano, Nate Burr and myself were all recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm to celebrate the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday.  This is my contribution, 30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure.  How many historical figures/events can you name?

 

Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details coming soon to a blog near you!)

“GO MINIMAN GO” by David Pagano

David Pagano, along with Nate Burr and myself, were recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm celebrating the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday.  David’s brickfilm is a romp through time and space, celebrating the best of the LEGO sets and minifigures over the past 30 years:

Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details coming soon to a blog near you!)