Tyler (Legohaulic) unearths his creature for my Black Fantasy Contest, which is now teeming with a myriad of biomechanical horrors. Check out this grotesque underground burrower, called the Megiddo Mangler.
Don’t stare into its eye, it’s very bright!
After learning about a Halo vignette contest at Brickarms forums with less than a week before deadline, I impulsively decided to enter. I needed an idea, and what’s more dramatic than the final warthog run from the last mission of Halo 3? For those who haven’t experienced it, you are driving a warthog through an expansive and volatile surface trying to escape a giant explosion. Classic? You bet.
The warthog design is largely based off Legohaulic’s, with minor modifications.
What would you do if you found a nasty old Mega Blok as you were sorting your LEGO collection? Dave Lartigue experienced just such a terrifying situation and took drastic measures.
Isolating and disposing of the offending (offensive) brick seems like a short-term solution, however. As a long-term solution, I suggest we invade Canada.
The LEGO Exo-Force theme was received with mixed feelings back in 2005. Nevertheless, many fans have embraced the theme in the intervening years — if for no other reason than that it yielded a plethora of new minifigs and other new parts.
So, it is once again with mixed emotions that I share the news of the end of the LEGO Exo-Force theme at the end of this year. Personally, I think the 2008 Exo-Force sets were some of the best-designed sets of the theme, so it’s disappointing to say goodbye to the theme just as it seems to be coming into its own.
Surely, this can only be the work of Rocko. Check out his latest castle diorama. In addition to the round towers and the neat hobbit hole, this scene has an underground section full of surprising details.
Check out the latest episode of LAML radio for an interview with Joe Meno, editor of the fabulous BrickJournal magazine. Learn about the past, present, and future of the largest unofficial LEGO magazine for fans, with the next issue coming out in print for the first time.
Meanwhile, take a look at an informal interview conducted by Joe with the CEO of LEGO, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp.
After a sojourn through some great Black Fantasy and achieving fame with his Victorian Shuttle Tyderium, Brent is back to his punky magical ways with Irradiant Dragon. As much as I’ve enjoyed everything he’s built in the intervening weeks, it’s nice to see Brent go back to his “roots” (which appear to be yellow).
Incidentally, this is a good excuse to show everyone exactly how talented Brent actually is. Here’s the entirety of his LEGO collection:
If Brent can do what he does with just a few bins of LEGO, it just proves you don’t need an infinite supply of bricks to do amazing things.
Four names in the post title. I think that’s a first.
This may be more “meta” than I can handle, but Keith Goldman has joined Mike Yoder’s Fanboy Cover Contest with a micro’d version of Dan Hamann’s “Container Shuttle Craft”, and then Keith put a vignette of Ley Ward building a nano version of the C.S.C. inside the micro version’s container.
My head hurts. (Via MicroBricks.)
Ralph Savelsberg (Flickr) builds things with wings and things with wheels. In an increasingly studless LEGO world (no pun intended), Ralph unashamedly shows his studs in his incredibly realistic vehicles. From a B-1B Lancer and Su-27 Flanker to an E-2C Hawkeye and F-15E Eagle, the level of detail is amazing. The camouflage on the Soviet Su-27 is particularly striking.
I’d bookmarked Ralph Savelsberg‘s amazing photoset of military aircraft on Flickr to blog later, but we have a bit of a backlog right now, so Ed Diment‘s reminder was very much appreciated.
There’s more than just earthworms in Brian Kescenovitz‘s groundbreaking diorama called Ephram’s Garden. The invasion of biomechanical horrors has made it even to the hills beyond the cities. Brian excellently combines the theme of Black Fantasy and post-apoc in this inspiring build.
I was despondent last summer over martinbb‘s cruiser. His new Sobol-class fleet carrier doesn’t help me feel better about myself.
I want to spend an afternoon swooshing this around the living room going “Pew pew!”
Andrew Summersgill (Flickr) sends word of a cool blue pair of futuristic tanks he’s built.
I figured a bigger solo shot would work better here, so check out the pair of ’em on Tabletown.co.uk.
