I have to admit that I’m not a huge Ideon fan, what with the decapitations and universal (and I say that in its most literal sense) destruction. That said, I’ll grant that Izzo has recreated the titular mecha quite nicely:
(Via Soren on Tourist Bot’s Diary.)
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Back in May I blogged Hiron’s MS-09F Domtropen. Now, Justin Harvey has posted a another version, MS-09R Rick Dom (info) in awesome alternate colors:
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Oh, and mumu also makes “real” mecha:
(That’s XM-XC Crossbone Gundam X3.)
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Mecha can be pretty big, but Brickshelfer MACHA goes the other direction with a series of tiny creations inspired by Gundam. Click the image to see multiple galleries of pint-size creations:
(Check out the itty-bitty Guncannon in the middle of the picture!)
My only disappointment is that MACHA hasn’t created Gundam itself. Oh well, we can hope [...]
Horace Cheng continues his series of creations inspired by Hayao Miyazaki movies with princess Nausicaä’s “mehve” (or “möwe,” which means “seagull” in German), from the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (click for gallery):
Horace also puts a beast from Star Wars to good use as a “bird-horse”:
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Horace Cheng puts his Laputa minifigs and flappters to excellent use in his first vignette (via VignetteBricks):
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With a recent update, I just discovered Stuart Immonen’s Flickr photostream. Unlike those of us with hundreds (I’m pushing 500) LEGO images, Stuart has just a handful, but they’re all pretty darn cool. In no particular order, here are a few of my favorites.
Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis:
A beautiful lady — Plastic Fantastic [...]
Inspired by anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Horace Cheng presents a great set of “flappters” with excellent minifig passengers:
Horace has a fleet of four flappters, so be sure to check out the gallery to see them flying in formation!
And here’s the crew of the air-pirate zeppelin Tigermoth (inspiration for all [...]
I credit Azumu as one of the bloggers who got me into blogging just over a year ago, with his regular “best of Brickshelf” posts on LEGO-BINGO. But Azumu is also a consummate builder — his brick-built Pokemon are especially fantastic, even if you’re not a fan of little creatures who only say their own [...]
Apparently, mumu has been working on a little project for some time — his interpretation of Gundam RX-121-2A “Advanced Hazel.” Sweet!
Fully articulated and heavily armored, this beauty sports all the usual accessories, including a booster pack, shield, and rifle:
Japanese builder Toshiya has posted another adorable cartoon character, this time from the TV show Kirarin Revolution.
Here’s Na-san, the cat:
Ahhh… Adorable! Who can resist sparkly eyes?
Behold the show’s theme song in all its YouTube glory (and tremble in fear!):
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1816 has built a really sleek Mach 5:
I’ve never said this about a car before, but this is extremely swooshable! The excellent use of slopes in this creation is very sweet. Makes me want to get on the floor and drive it around under the dining room table…
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Soren Roberts has posted an awesome Zaku mecha from Gundam:
From the chain gun to the pink eye, this beauty is full of fantastic details.
Leave comments on Flickr, or check out the full gallery on NeutronBot.com.
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Sanrio (of Hello Kitty fame) recently released a counterpart to pink-hooded bunny My Melody called “Kuromi.” Apparently there’s a TV show centered around My Melody in Japan (official Web site and clip on YouTube — both in Japanese).
Toshiya has built a nice little Kuromi statue, complete with key, black hood, and spiky devil tail:
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Moko has been updating his minifigs fairly regularly, and I’ve missed a couple, so here’s a nice batch of anime-themed minifigs.
From director Hayao Miyazaki’s film Princess Mononoke, first up we have Ashitaka and San:
And some soldiers from the same film:
Next, a minifig dressed as Gundam:
Finally, a character from Sailer Moon (sorry, I have no [...]
Without any explanation (other than to celebrate the end of midterms), Moko just posted these:
Weird, just weird. Still, pretty interesting.
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Japanese LEGO blogger Hiron has been posting work-in-progress pictures of his MS-09F Domtropen mecha (from one of the Gundam TV series). Hiron has announced that DOM is complete, so I thought I’d post a couple of the pictures he uploaded to his Brickshelf gallery:
Very cool. For those of you who aren’t LEGO builders yourselves, [...]
Horace Cheng recently sent me an e-mail to tell me he’d built an Exo-Force alternate model called “Van Force” based on some information I’d posted over on Pan-Pacific Bricks. I checked out Horace’s Photobucket and was struck by another mecha he’d built, based on the Japanese animated series Patlabor:
Pretty cool stuff. Horace says [...]
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