Yearly Archives: 2007

LEGO Star Wars Costumes at Comic-Con

My brother attends Comic-Con just about every year, and has told me all about the great costumes some people wear. “Boba Fetts roving in herds” sticks in my mind. Anyway, Kotaku has a great picture of two people dressed up as minifigs from LEGO Star Wars:

Great find, Kelly McKiernan!

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Tohu by Kopakashau

Kopakashau presents a creation called “Tohu”.

I’ll let mastergongfu do the talking on this one: “Not much Bionicle gets blogged, nor does it genrally deserve to get blogged, but this one I found on Brickshelf is superb.”

Hmmm… An interesting point. If you want to see more Bionicle here on The Brothers Brick, help me keep an eye out for great stuff and start sending me stuff to blog. Good photography also helps. Seriously.

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A Motorcycle of My Own

Plug time!  Inspired by the work of Noddy (and Micheal Jasper), I built my own motorcycle:

Flickr setClassic-Castle thread.

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Bluesmobile by Mr. Zumbi

I suspect the cigarette lighter needs fixing, but it’ll do:

Always a pleasure, Mr. Zumbi. (Via pootling.)

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WWE Superstars by Brendan Powell Smith

“Reverend” Brendan Powell Smith may be best known for The Brick Testament, but he does build other things. Here’s his “WWE Superstars in LEGO”:

(Still catching up — this one’s from before the recent “Brickshelf crisis.”)

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Tractornator by Tim Zarki

I left a comment on one of Tim Zarki‘s pictures saying that I can’t blog everything he builds. Well, it’s true — though unfortunate, because all of his recent creations have been fantastic, including this post-apocalyptic tank/tractor.

Great submission, Jamie Neufeld! (Can you tell I’m catching up?)

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3vil Battleship Andvari by Dillon

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new ship in the 3vil faction. The latest is from Dillon:

The skull — a requisite part of any 3vil ship — is particularly well-executed, with a great cannon sticking out of the right eye.

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Moo! Are you happy now?

Nathan Proudlove has been playing World of WarCraft, as evidenced by his Tauren warrior.

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Racing around Bodville with Peter Edwards

Speaking of cool videos, Peter Edwards has some really interesting creations on his Web site, including many that are motorized in some way.

Here’s Peter’s very fast LEGO slot cars are built around AFX motors:

My favorite, though, is the video of an ingenious set of “dodgem” cars:

Be sure to check out Peter’s Web site for lots more, including higher-resolution versions of these and other great videos.

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News: LEGO Indiana Jones Video Game Announced

Joystiq has broken the news that the rumored LEGO Indiana Jones video game has been confirmed. Watch the trailer right here on The Brothers Brick:

Thanks to reader David for the tip! (And check out the Official Web site.)

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Happy Second Birthday to The Brothers Brick!

Yesterday was the second birthday of this blog, but I was too busy reading the adventures of a certain young wizard to post anything. ;-)

Let the long-winded and self-satisfied post begin! (Read last year’s anniversary post here or with original comments on the old blog.)

The big changes to this blog since last year:

Here are some possibly interesting statistics about all of you, our faithful readers:

  • Between August 2006 and July 2007, we’ve quadrupled our daily readership, from about 250 visitors a day to over 1,000.
  • Since we launched Brothers-Brick.com in December 2006, you’ve posted 998 comments (and we’ve blocked 11,350 spam comments).
  • Visitors have viewed Brothers-Brick.com from 129 countries and regions, representing all the continents except Antarctica.
  • More than 140 unique blogs have sent 310 links our way.
  • The top sites that send us readers are Google, the old blog, StumbleUpon, Kotaku, Classic-Castle.com, LUGNET, and Destructoid.
  • Other than the blog’s name, our top keywords are “new 2007 LEGO castle set”, “LEGO blog”, “BrickArms LEGO creation”, and “LEGO 10190“.

Finally, taking my queue from Technorati founder David Sifry‘s “State of the Blogosphere” posts, here’s a quick summary of how things have changed in the LEGO blog world since last year:

Noddy gets muddy

Noddy has improved on his earlier motorbikes (similar to Michael Jasper‘s), this time with ones that can seat a minifig:

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