Yearly Archives: 2007

“Revenge is a dish best served cold...”

Peter Morris has built a rather incredible new ship. Check out “Ariana’s Revenge”.

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The Katari Relic by Nannan Z.

Well, folks, Nannan has done it again. This time its full of microscale goodness and its a ruin too! I love ruins…

The Empire of LEGO Town: 10184 Town Plan [News]

Cafe Corner. Market Street. Cement Mixer. Recycle Truck. No longer is the Town theme reserved for endlessly repeated police stations, firehouses and construction vehicles. 2007 has been a truly awesome year for LEGO Town, and it only gets better. Feast your eyes on this set that can only be as a masterpiece:

10184 Town Plan

Check out the Classic-Castle thread for more discussion and pictures.

EDIT: More, high-quality pictures are now available on BrickJournal.com, including pictures of the interior (some pictured below).

For anyone who didn’t know, the man pictured is Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of Ole Kirk Christiansen, the inventor of LEGO. 10184 Town Plan is a remake of 248 Town Plan Board. The boy seen in the original set is, in fact, Kjeld.

Yarrr!!!

As I’ve said before (I’m sure I say this every twelve months or so), I love that time of the year when new sets are starting to show up in stores and people are beginning to use the new pieces in interesting ways. Agent oo7 has used one of the new beards in 7036 Dwarfs Mining to create an absolutely perfect Edward “Blackbeard” Teach. The old-style capes oo7 used for Blackbeard’s coat are a nice touch.

Legoland Spacelines 979 by Bram Lambrecht

I saw this at BrickCon and have been itching to blog it ever since — just waiting for creator Bram Lambrecht to “officially” post it:

According to Bram, he used LSculpt to design some of the “studs-out” parts of the nose. And one thing I didn’t learn at BrickCon: The landing gear is retractable. Sweet!

LEGO version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows album art by woordenaar

For those of you disappointed by the fact that the downloadable version of Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, didn’t come with any album art, woordenaar has the solution:

News: BrickJournal Issue 9 out now, and in print next February

Editor Joe Meno has announced that the latest issue of BrickJournal (issue 9) is now available for download.

Joe says that this will be the last free issue, and that the journal will be available in printed form starting next February. Read more about this change in his announcement on LUGNET, where you’ll find the link to the download site.

The Grand Army of the Republic is on the move

RogueBantha presents a scene from the Star Wars universe. I love the camera angle in this shot.

Cafe got caterpillar

Is your Cafe Corner a bit too laid back? Too staid? Too colorful? Then mechanize that bad boy!!! Izzo did.

Oh, and in his somewhat more normal version, the sidewalks move and it’s always raining:

First look at new BrickArms weapons [News]

Those of us who attended BrickCon 2007 last weekend learned that Will Chapman of BrickArms is working on some new weapons. Will generously gave me some early prototypes to show off to everyone out there interested in custom accessories for their minifigs.

The first two weapons should be familiar to fans of a certain trilogy of popular video games:

Will is also working on some real-world weapons, including the M1 Garand rifle:

In a session on Sunday morning, Will also described his development process, including how he uses test molds to create small batches of prototypes before committing to a final design. I thought the test molds were really cool, so he lent me an early version he used to design the M1 Garand:

Will asked me to remind everyone that he’s just experimenting at this point, and he can’t guarantee that any of these will make it into production. I personally think these are very cool, and can’t wait to see the final versions.

Ren has all the good lines...

But that doesn’t mean that Adrian Florea‘s Stimpy figure isn’t adorable:

Iciac Light Cruiser by Lukas

I love little fleets of microscale ships. The latest from Lukas was apparently inspired by sharks.