Brickshelfer ballchoi presents a nice three-tiered castle reminiscent of a much larger one in Himeji:
Yearly Archives: 2006
Make way for the Mars Express!
Legohaulic presents The Mars Express (via Izzo’s legostyle-LOG):
From his MOCpages post:
The Mars Express is the official M&M transportation vehicle of Mars Incorperated (company that makes M&M’s). Its purpose is to transport M&M’s all over the galaxy.
Delicious!
Nessie Rises from the Deep
Sometimes the simplest creations are the best. In this case, all of the pieces aren’t even connected. From Brickshelf user Legoloverman, here’s Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster:
I can’t describe that as anything less than art. Very nice.
Raspberry Head!
Cold Noodles in a Stream, Hurray!
It’s brutally, miserably hot (well, mainly humid) in Japan right now. My most recent post featured cold tofu from mumu and his wife. Today’s post features another cold cuisine from mumu, “somen“:
There are several types of noodles in Japanese cuisine, including thick wheat noodles called udon, thinner buckwheat noodles called soba, and very thin wheat noodles called somen. Somen is usually served cold, often on a bed of ice, with various garnishes and a cold sauce for dipping.
Some restaruants, like the one mumu shows in his LEGO scene, make somen a bit more of an experience. You sit at a bar with little channels running in it, and you scoop out the noodles as they float by. They tend to be a bit touristy, but they’re really fun — kind of like revolving sushi, except with channels of water instead of a conveyer belt.
I took my grandfather, visiting from Freeport, Maine, to downtown Tokyo when I was nine or ten, and twenty years later he still tells the “hilarious” story about going to a restaraunt with me and being served cold noodles. “On ice!” he exclaims, “with dipping sauce! I’d never seen the like!” He nearly fell over when we went to a nagashi somen restaurant (nagashi means “flowing”).
Smurfy!
This builder, appropriately named Smurf, has built a cool Smurf bust:
Definitely a cool smurf, but an interesting point of this creation is that its made almost entirely out of bricks. There are a few plates involved, but by an large its all bricks. Overall, a great job achieving “roundness” with only bricks. Smurfy!
Here’s the gallery
More than meets the eye...
Azumu always finds the stuff I miss.
Case in point, here’s Brickshelfer chingfat’s “Neo Hotrod”:
That’s reasonably cool, but check this out:
Sweet! Be sure to view the gallery on Brickshelf for shots of the transformation process.
Porphyrion
I think Lukas put it best: *GASP*
Here’s Danny Rice’s Porphyrion from the bow:
And from the stern:
Now someone just needs to build an Arrow of Heracles… Get to it, Spacers!
Must be a day of planes...
Mikepsiaki has built a cute little biplane that I couldn’t pass up:
While the construction of this plane is deceptively simple, the beauty of it really jumps out at you. Using mostly basic bricks, the builder has really captured a neat plane. He says it isn’t based on any real plane, but it is a perfect example of the genre. Slightly cartoony, really cute, and just a little bit burly…overall a sweet little plane.
Here’s the gallery
Tora, Tora, Tora!
After seeing the beautiful Boeing B-29 bomber Josh posted, I could hardly neglect JUNLEGO’s swooshably cool Mitsubishi A6M2 “Zero” fighter:
(The Zero was the primary Japanese fighter in the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the code phrase “Tora, Tora, Tora” was transmitted back to Tokyo to indicate that total surprise had been achieved.)
JUNLEGO has also posted a floatplane version of his Zero. Incidentally, he’s been working on a battleship Yamato that may rival Malle Hawking’s Harry S. Truman when it’s done!
Bombs Away!
JunLego has posted a very cool B-29 Bomber:
The details on this creation are quite good. The subtle shaping of the fuselage, the functional bomb bays, the rear gun, etc. Its a great piece of eye-candy. It never would have occured to me to use the tie fighter cockpit for this plane, and it works perfectly! Lovely, lovely plane!
Here’s the whole explosive gallery
Sugegasa Rides the Air
Mecha master Sugegasa’s dozens of “unmanned control experiment machines” are generally controlled from afar by adorable minifig girls. According to his most recent blog post, this sometimes presents a bit of a problem:
At first, the girl simply ran after the unmanned machine, calling out instructions, but being too close proved death-defyingly dangerous, and ambient noise also sometimes prevented her commands from reaching the mecha. So, with parts she had lying around, the girl built a vehicle with enough speed to keep up with the mecha and a transmitter to clearly relay her voice commands from a safe distance.
Now, I’m generally not a fan of convoluted backstories for LEGO creations, but that is just too awesome not to pass on to all of you English-speaking LEGO fans.
Without further ado, here’s Sugegas’s flight-board:
