The Brothers Brick

Nathan (aka Mister 007) has struck gold with his Bullion Hills Mining Company.

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?
 
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As a continuation to his tea house, Nathan has posted a lovely Zen garden.
The beauty of the leaning tree is likely to distract those seeking to clear their minds, while the perfect torii evokes thoughts of Shinto-Buddhist syncretism — but we won’t go there.

And now for something completely different. A Wells, Fargo [...]

What do you get when you cross an old Civil War ironclad ship with a tank?  Nathan Proudlove’s Bone Rattler, a uniquely-shaped attack vehicle that Nathan says “was one of those builds that one might have in the back of ones mind for a long time and then one day, after nearly 12 hours straight [...]

In Ley Ward’s world, Clancy ain’t no lilly-livered pacifist. He wears a black hat and ain’t afeared of nobody.

The last, haunted train out of TheBrickster’s town of Grave Stone has finally arrived at the station.

Check out Brickshelf for all the cars clattering along behind the ghastly engine.

The wind whistles and sage brush roll by, only to be caught in the slats of the crumbling fence. At five minutes to midnight, a lonely skeleton waits for a train that will never come.
Yes, it’s another great Wild West creation by The Brickster:

I love all the eyes in the windows.

Alex Eylar’s longing to escape the reality of “the worst college quarter yet” takes him to look to towards Disneyland, where this creation took inspiration from the Grizzly River Run ride, depicting “a ridge somewhere in the northern California wilderness, complete with tumbling waterfall and quasi-hippie river guides.”

Like several of the LEGO fans we feature here, Alex Eylar (Flickr) is one of those builders whose work we could feature just about every time he posts something. Alex’s latest creations are a rootin’ tootin’ pair of Wild West battle-critters.
The Bullfrog has a very large saw blade:

The Huckleberry skitters along on the tips [...]

Jordan Schwartz’s latest creation is the oil tower from the movie There will be Blood. The construction of the structure is fascinating when considering how all the angles came together nicely in the final product. Way to strike it rich Jordan!

Meanwhile, there’s a clip showing that the oil derrick is amazingly functional.

Harrison’s best work yet is an excellent saloon scene from the days of the wild west. The expression on the scallywag’s face is well worth a visit to the photoset on Flickr.
In addition to great minifig posing, Harrison makes excellent use of minifig legs as architectural details.

It’s always a pleasure when I encounter a connection between two of my great interests — LEGO and literature. Remember Norman Mailer and Douglas Coupland?
Writer Heidi W. Durrow contacted the blog this morning with a link to her beautiful, touching story Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears. Here’s an excerpt:
“You be Pocahantas,” Jimmy says. “I’ll [...]

Just in time for Halloween, The Brickster presents two new scenes from Gravestone…

Check out the wonderful architecture in this Western street scene by Mister oo7! Very cool.

We don’t see a lot of Wild West MOCs these days and anything this good is rare indeed!

Definitely a neat little fort by The Brickster…

The Brickster continues populating his Wild West ghost town, Gravestone, with new and interesting creations:

Reader submissions are keeping me busy, and that’s great! (Apologies if I don’t get to everybody.) This batch is from The Brickster.
Fort Jacinto:

Spring Valley Ranch:

Some builders are especially brilliant at continuing an existing theme when LEGO stops producing it, as Steve Bishop has with Adventurers. The Brickster keeps the Wild West theme alive, in a manner of speaking, with an excellent ghost town called “Grave Stone”: