One thing my own Gears of War characters lacked was a properly brick-built Lancer rifle.
Alex Peacock corrects this situation with a great Cog armed with a Lancer of his own design:
(Alex builds some great brick-only weapons — check out his rifle design, which I’ve used a couple times myself.)
Hippotam over at Polish LEGO blog Klocki has found some really cool fine art in which the subjects have been turned into minifigs.
Here’s Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” LEGO’d by Joel Grannas:
And a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh LEGO’d by “nismo4banger”:
(Sorry for the huge sizes — I just think they’re better big.)
I hadn’t seen any LEGO work from Flickr user odchaz before yesterday, but he’s just uploaded a batch of really cool black and white movie scenes using built from classic LEGO.
Here’s Silence of the Lambs:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Star Wars (old school, with Castle pieces!):
Check out odchaz’s other LEGO photos for move movie goodness.
…when you can build your own? Hispalug member Joaquinito has done just that. Check out the cool cockpit design using Technic pieces:
Via Ladrillitos, where you can read more (in Spanish) and see bigger pictures. Thanks Juan!
(Original post on the upcoming UCS Millenium Falcon from LEGO.)
EDIT: More pics on Brickshelf, for those so inclined.
The LEGO Ambassadors program serves as a point of contact between The LEGO Company and the adult hobbyist and fan communities. The program started out a couple years ago with just a handful of participants, nearly all from the United States. With each new “cycle” of the program, LEGO has expanded community involvement both in number and geographically.
The latest LEGO Ambassadors have been announced on LUGNET, and I’m pleased to inform readers of The Brothers Brick that I’ve been selected as a new ambassador. With 30 ambassadors from 13 countries, it’s a much bigger, more diverse group than ever before, and will be representing the fan community for the next year (instead of six months).
I’m very excited about this, and will do my best to represent you, our readers, with the same loyalty and enthusiasm you’ve shown toward our favorite little plastic bricks.
High-resolution pictures of the box art for the new Castle sets have been posted on LUGNET.
Check out the new face on one of the soldiers in this set (click for full-size pic):
To celebrate the release of these sets, LEGO and Classic-Castle.com have teamed up for a contest in which you can win each of the new sets. Simply titled “The Castle Contest,” read more about it on Classic-Castle.com.
To celebrate the upcoming Girls’ Day festival in Japan, mumu’s wife has created a cool little vignette:
Read more about Girls’ Day, or the Hinamatsuri holiday, in the first post about it here on The Brothers Brick (well, actually Pan-Pacific Bricks) last year.
Martin Jaspers is at it again, this time using “jellybean” colors for his castle characters.
A pair of veterans scarred by battle:
A pair of younger soldiers guarding a crystal:
Brickshelfer Optimus Convoy waves his Wiimote and makes the words “Wii” appear on his big-screen TV:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
Our regular readers may have noticed a couple times in the last week or two when The Brothers Brick has been unavailable. Our crack team of server ninjas is hard at work, though, so we should be back to normal shortly.
Ochre Jelly asks, “Hasn’t the world had enough custom Lego robots and space ships? ;-)”
Ha! A fair question, to be sure. So, if you’re tired of seeing nothing but mecha and intergalactic cargo haulers here on The Brothers Brick, do what OJ did — build something different, post it, and let us know. If we like what you send us, we’ll post it.* :D
Here’s Ochre Jelly’s very microscale Bikini Bottom, as a 3D stereogram no less:
* And for the record, we can’t post everything, so just because we don’t post it doesn’t mean we don’t think it’s cool.
