This speeder bike by Keith Goldman (La Villa Strangiato) may have been built and posted in December, but it’s still worth noting. I only wish I’d spotted it when Keith first posted the lovely shot. The bike itself is quite stylish, but I think we can all agree that the photography and lighting really set Continue reading →
Sandcastles are tempting targets, no matter where in the universe you are, as Bart De Dobbelaer shows in this humorous vignette. Take note of his great use of the microfigs from the Lego games for bits of the sandcastle, and of course the aliens from Series 6 and Alien Conquest.
Every time I look at Cole Blaq’s photostream on flickr, I am blown away, with no exception this latest time. I’ve been seeing a lot of Tachikomas and their variants lately, including Cole’s own huge Think Tank, which we featured last month. But Cole Blaq wasn’t content to simply follow the norm with this model: Continue reading →
When Mark Stafford isn’t busy designing LEGO sets or baiting Justin Bieber fans, he builds awesome stuff like this Hikari gunship. From the tiny guns up front to the massive engines in back, the gunship looks prepared to retake Earth from the insectoid horde. I especially like the mix of red and white Technic. Mark Continue reading →
I’m going to close out my evening of LEGO space catch-up with this awe-inspiring tower by micro-space master Tim Goddard (Rogue Bantha). In addition to the high level of detail we’ve come to expect from Tim, the tower includes working lights and a functional elevator!
Following the official launch of the LEGO CUUSOO Hayabusa space probe, it only seems fitting to highlight another great CUUSOO project inspired by the exploration of our solar system. CUUSOO user Brianr8811 has proposed a LEGO version of NASA’s Deep Space Habitat and Rover, which may serve humanity in its first manned mission to Mars. Continue reading →
The second fan-created LEGO CUUSOO project has just been released in Japan, and will be available from the LEGO Shop online later in 2012. The set depicts the Hayabusa probe, which brought bits of an asteroid back to earth. Here’s the full press release: BILLUND, Denmark – The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, the second LEGO® CUUSOO Continue reading →
The Space Shuttle program may have ended, but in late December 2011, Romanian teenager Raul Oaida launched its LEGO doppelganger 35,000 meters (115,000 feet) into the upper atmosphere. Raul achieved this singular feat by stringing the LEGO shuttle beneath a weather balloon — with the permission of German air traffic control. Read more about the Continue reading →
I was in the process of blogging some sweet Star Trek micro-vessels by Jake (we’ll come back to them in a minute) when I stumbled on this earlier beauty that I just can’t pass up. Jake’s microscale spaceship Atlas has a really interesting shape, and even a detailed underside. The ring is composed of the Continue reading →
I built this drone space fighter almost a year ago, and have just realized that I’d never posted photos of it online. Since it has been awhile since I posted any of my own builds here, I thought it was high time I do so again. I built it to serve as an escort to Continue reading →
I’m a sucker for a lovely micro cargo ship, and this one by Evan B. (LJ) is no exception. I love the offset yellow strut thingy, and the way the cargo containers are arranged is excellent. The rear section with the bridge and engines also includes enough detail to satisfy any fan of greebles.
Sending LEGO into space isn’t actually all that new, but an astronaut building a LEGO model of the spacecraft he’s in certainly is. Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa recently built a LEGO version of the International Space Station while aboard the ISS itself. The full story and more photos are over on collectSPACE, and you can Continue reading →
Jason Corlett combines two shades of gray to bring us a space ship with a lovely shape. I suppose the name eclipse relates to its resemblance to a crescent moon. Name aside, the ship manages to achieve complex curves while also incorporating a surface almost entirely covered in greebling.
The only thing I can fault Shannon Sproule (Shannon Ocean) for lately is his tardiness. Had he built all his wonderful new toys before Brickvention I could have seen them all in ABS. I guess his amazing photos suffice.
You can get your mind out of the gutter now. With a little help from his girlfriend, Nathaniel Brill (Shuppiluliumas) has taken LEGO Friends and given it a Flash Gordon remake. Yea-ahhhh! She’ll save every one of us.