Monthly Archives: May 2006

Bohman’s Space Ninja Dojo

Space ninjas are both awesome and totally sweet (after all, they’re the second-most powerful entity in the universe). Here’s Linus Bohman’s awesome and totally sweet space ninja dojo:

In addition to a cool “Asian space” aesthetic for the architecture, Bohman has included some really cool minifigs.

BaronSat’s World War I Tank

French builder BaronSat presents a whimsical version of the Renault FT-17 tank from World War I:

Love the gunner’s bugle!

Marcin Kitala’s Mountain Pass

The little archaeologist who lives in my brain loves ruins. He did a little happy dance when I laid eyes on this beautiful diorama by Marcin Kitala (k1089 on Brickshelf):

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Steampunk + Mecha = Even Sweeter!

I blogged Izzo’s ninja mecha a few days ago, but he’s continued posting new mecha since then. Here’s the latest, a steampunk mecha titled “Tin Machine,” driven by none other than the Adventurers theme’s archvillain, Sam Sinister:

Grigorij Rasputin Medical Frigate by Jerac

I’m really enjoying the recent surge in micro-scale building (mainly in the Space community, though SEALUG member Justin Major showed off a really awesome modular city at this month’s meeting — should’ve taken pictures).

Classic-Spacer Jerac (Jerrec on Brickshelf) posted a micro medical frigate titled Grigorij Rasputin earlier this morning:

Here’s the Rasputin assisting another micro-scale ship — note the extended docking corridor and the small shuttles swarming over the stricken vessel:

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Lukas’ Steampunk Dragster

Lukas, whose “Jade Empire” minifigs I featured earlier today, has also posted a steampunk dragster:

This kind of reminds me of Bekr’s “Smoke Signal” (which I blogged a few months ago). I think Bekr’s vehicle has better detailing (called “greebling” by us LEGO geeks), but it’s nice to see more builders creating steampunk stuff, and I like the minifigs Lukas uses.

Lukas’ Jade Empire Minifigs

I posted some “Eastern Block” minifigs a while ago, intending to follow up with minifigs from other fan-created Space factions, such as “3vil,” “Pre-Classic Space,” and “Jade Empire.” I never got around to it, but Flickrite and LEGO blogger Lukas has posted some cool Jade Empire minifigs.

Here’s an officer:

And the officer with some troops, including a sweet space ninja:

Of Gold Carriers and Bush Robbers

It’s been a while, but marakoeschtra has updated his castle characters with a pair of “gold carriers” and a “bush robber”:

MS-09F Domtropen by Hiron

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, I want to point out a building technique Hiron uses called SNOT, which is an acronym for for Studs Not on Top. You can read all about SNOT on BrickWiki, the open-content LEGO encyclopedia.

Mmmm... Tasty, tasty nooooodles...

I featured Antony Lau’s wonderful “maxifig” creations back in December, and he continues to post new creations, from people to vehicles.

His latest vehicle seems to be a noodle truck, and I love noodles. Antony’s truck makes me hungry for phad thai, udon, chow mein, soba, pho, ramen — you get the idea:

Updated Blog Lists

I’ve made a number of updates to the LEGO blog lists over in the navigation area on the right. The LEGO Blogs in English section now includes several new LEGO blogs, as well as more established blogs I’ve found via Technorati or on other blogs.

I hate to play favorites, but the LEGO Blogs in Japanese section now includes an updated list of my favorite Japanese LEGO blogs (I also just updated the main list over on PPB).

Thinking beyond these two languages, I’ve added a LEGO Blogs in Other Languages section, where I’ll be adding links to non-English, non-Japanese blogs.

If you have a LEGO blog not listed in any of these three sections, just leave a comment on this post (I’ll get an e-mail).

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Major Updates to Japanese LEGO Blog List

I don’t want to bump the post from last year because it’s pages and pages long, but I’ve updated my list of Japanese LEGO blogs.

Changes include fixing broken links, updating the titles of renamed blogs, removing links to deleted blogs, and adding new blogs.

Among the many additions, highlights include the addition of The Sekiyama Railroad Newsletter (a LEGO Trains blog), Be-bonest, How Many Studs to LEGOLAND? (sort of the English-to-Japanese equivalent of PPB), and legostyle-BLOG (Izzo’s new blog).

I’ll be updating my (very partial) list of Japanese LEGO builders at some point as well. In the meantime, I hope you find the blog list useful and interesting as well.

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