The Brothers Brick

Oh, I’m sorry, was that the wrong response to this new installment in Brendan Powell Smith’s The Brick Testament

I love the apocalypse, just love it.

Dr. X shows us how zombie-apoc is done with these excellent vehicles. They look like contemporary vehicles, but with stuff tacked on. That is good.

It’s been a very long time since going to see a movie inspired me to build a bunch of minifigs as soon as I got home. I saw Terminator Salvation on Saturday night, and had to build the heroes and their antagonists.

The human Resistance wouldn’t be the same without a couple of T-600 Terminators to [...]

UPDATE: Planning is now underway for the next Zombie Apocafest. Read all about it in our Zombie Apocafest 2009 strategy, tactics, & logistics post.
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The LEGO convention season is upon us, and BrickCon 2009 is just over four months away — time to start planning your trip and what you’re going to build. Likewise, it’s time [...]

Chase Lewis (Vid’) has posted his largest LEGO diorama to date, featuring a band of survivors holding out against a well-armed apoca-boat.

Check out the full photoset on Flickr.

Andrew Summersgill (Doctor Sinister) has posted a very timely swine flu pandemic vignette that perfectly captures the mood in the news over the last few days.

Run and hide your Cafe Corner, Market Street and Green Grocer!  This creepy creation built by Sebastian “Aliencat” Arts will consume all!

Side note: haha, take that Nannan, I finally blogged a Black Fantasy creation before you!

Absolutely nothing.  But I am a huge fan of these two completely unrelated minfigs.
Balakov recreates Magritte’s The Son of Man in LEGO:

 
And hobo has made a minifig Poison Headcrab Zombie from Half-Life 2.
 

I guess things aren’t too bad in Peter Reid’s (legoloverman) view of the post apocalypse.
Witness the tire swing hanging from the charred tree. Either it was added since the tree burned, or whatever caused it wasn’t bad enough to melt the rubber. Either way, I think there’s a positive message to [...]

The Big Toy Hut’s LEGO Zombie Contest includes some great entries so far, like this scene in a movie theater by Gettobread:

The theater itself includes excellent details, from Bruce Lee smashing through a wall to Snake Plisskin looking ready to escape New York.
Check out the rest of the entries on Flickr. If you want [...]

Just in time for Easter, The Brick Testament takes on The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle, or Revelation for short.
Click the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to read all four new stories from Revelation:

The ApocaLEGO landscapes we feature here on The Brothers Brick tend to be fairly crowded with action. Kris Kelvin has, perhaps, a more realistic vision for our mutually assured destruction:

Garbageman13’s diorama may include a few more survivors, but the detailed building is what I find most striking:

Well, not in the sense that I want them to eat my minifigs’ brains (well, perhaps some of them), but in the sense that zombies make pretty much anything cooler.
The guys from The Big Toy Hut have put together a batch of minifigs inspired by the zombie megafigs by Andrew Bell:

While we’re at it, here [...]

Jeramy Cooke (icecoldmilk) recently finished a diorama intended for a certain contest a year ago :). It depicts a lone survivor guarding the last flower on Earth from an invading Black Fantasy creature. I love the dynamic chaos of the landscape and its contrast with a clean black and white tiled interior. Check through each [...]

Kevin Fedde’s “larger project” Josh alluded to has apparently come to fruition:

A group of survivors cling to civilization in the middle of a wilderness. More on Brickshelf.

ORRANGE has been playing Half-Life 2.

There are lots of details to check out in this diorama, including several custom minifigs (note Gordon Freeman himself and the poor dude parasitized by a headcrab).

Building from inspiration unlikely to result in any official sets for his day job, Adam “MisterZumbi” Grabowski gives Mad Max the LEGO treatment.
Via Klocki.

I’m a sucker for ApocaLego. Especially the lone survivor type. This little scene by Kevin Fedde is excellent. In fact, he is doing a series, based on this fig’s journal. You can keep track of the updates in Kevin’s ApocaLego folder.

My wife said I couldn’t blog this, [...]

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…
 

Kevin Fedde (aka Crimson Wolf) built this snazzy little prop-job. He says it’s for a larger project. If so, we can’t wait to see the finished product. This part of it is pretty sweet.

I’m not sure whether it’s the uncertainty of the coming new year or all the free time builders have over the holidays, but there are just too many great ApocaLEGO creations to keep up with.
Justin Vaughn holes up in Bunker 282:

Joris Blok’s brickwork in this diorama inspired by I Am Legend is excellent:

Kevin Fedde reaches [...]

After arriving home from sunny New Zealand, I’ve been watching the snow accumulate here in Seattle for the past week.
Many parts of the United States have been gripped by an Arctic freeze, inspiring Improbcat to dub our collective freeze the Snowpocalypse:

This looks like a great set of vehicles for navigating the frigid wasteland, and [...]

Sean Kenney recently posted this poignant sculpture of a “short” investor and a short-order cook. Click the photo to see more pictures on Sean’s site:

After marveling at Sean’s fantastic brick-built newspaper, I started wondering if the economic meltdown has affected how we buy or build LEGO these days.
Are we buying less LEGO? Buying more [...]

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 [...]

With so much amazing stuff to blog, I sometimes feel like we don’t feature the smaller creations often enough. I really think small creations take a lot of talent to design well, which is one reason why I like Tim Zarki’s dive suit so much:

This would be perfect for, you know, hunting underwater zombies. ;-)