Yearly Archives: 2006

A Bug, a Girl, a Ship, a Boy

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 indeed:

A “Van Ship” from the anime series Last Exile:

The title character from the classic anime series Astro Boy:

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Nothin’ worse than havin’ your pigtails shot off!

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 steampunk airships since):

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FBTB R-Wing: C-22 by Mike Psiaki

I can’t say I’m tired of all the sleek fighters in what is turning out to be a really fun contest, but Mike Psiaki’s entry is just plain different:

With hardly any big sloped pieces in sight, Mike uses very few pieces found in current sets. Different is good.

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FBTB R-Wing by Legohaulic

Okay, I’m on page 7 — I promise I’m almost done. Here’s Legohaulic’s entry:

Great Old Republic color scheme, cockpit, and inclusion of astromech droid. Oh, and the big gun is pretty cool.

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FBTB R-Wing: RXS-7 by Dennis Coh

I didn’t mean to negate the coolness of Dennis Coh’s FBTB contest entry in my previous post by only blogging the minifig. The R-wing itself is pretty darn cool:

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FBTB R-Wing by Chris Malloy

Contests seem to bring out the best in builders. Chris Malloy joins the R-wing contest:

“But it doesn’t look like an R at all,” you may say. That is where you are gravely mistaken:

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FBTB R-Wing by Chris Edwards

Okay, so scanning 250 posts in the FBTB contest thread turns out to be worth it. Chris Edwards joins the dogfight with his own take on the R-wing:

What I like about this one is that it looks exactly like a typical Star Wars fighter. In fact, if a Y-wing and B-wing spent the night deep in the romantic gloom of a temple on Yavin IV, this is what might emerge a few months later.

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FBTB R-Wing: Maravah by Brayton Orchard

I haven’t read through all 249 posts in the R-wing fighter contest on FBTB, but I’m certainly running across some great entries on Brickshelf. Brayton Orchard’s entry just blew me away:

The brick-built, white-on-red detailing is just stunning. Both the weaponry under the nose and what I presume are the engines are delightfully greebilicious. It doesn’t scream “Star Wars!” to me (in fact, I mistook it for a micro-ship at first), but it certainly captures the R shape wonderfully.

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We who are about to die, salute you!

Ancestors of the Mexican luchadores, gladiators fought and died to entertain ancient Romans:

From left to right (click for profiles):

Secutor

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But will it float?

Steampunk creations have dropped off a bit after the conclusion of the recent contest on Flickr (congrats to winner Kevoh for his Whirligig). Staving off our steampunk withdrawal is Andrew Horvatits, with this nice little balloon: