James Wadsworth invited me to join him for the latest LAML Radio podcast. We shoot the breeze about the week’s news, including the new Indy pics, the 50th birthday of the brick, and other topics.
It should come as no surprise to longtime TBB readers (1447 of my own posts and counting) that I have a lot to say (some would argue too much, heh heh), so LAML Radio #17 is part 1 of my conversation with James.
Check it out on Radio.LAML.org.
I’m starting to consider Nnenn‘s starfighters as the apotheosis of minifig-scale and microscale spaceships. When the masterful use of color, shape, and photography cumulate in an all-in-one presentation, you get a perfect Nnenn starfighter.
LEGO is catching on to the success of battle packs and are in turn making castle fans happy as well. Check out the upcoming castle army boosters:
UPDATE: Both the Knights Battle Pack and the Skeletons Battle Pack
are now available from the LEGO Shop.
Remember Adrian Florea’s beautiful Natai Ugly? It was a combination of the Naboo starfighter and TIE/d for the FBTB Uglies contest.
RogueBantha combines micro versions of both source vehicles to create a fanboy cover version of Adrian’s Natai:
Genius! If you haven’t checked them out before, don’t miss the rest of RogueBantha’s amazing microscale creations on Flickr.
(Via YSAB.)
Mike Yoder has been working on a rather impressive cargo SHIP, but he took a break to build a microscale version of his own creation. Mike’s also running the Fanboy Cover Contest, in which builders create microscale versions of another builder’s much larger creation (my favorite so far, the oMICROn Weekend, one post below).
Does that make Mike his own fanboy? Heh heh… :-D
A band of builders (Andrew Lee, Gary McIntire, and Scotty Whitesell) headed by Ryan Wood created the ultimate Fanboy display. It’s a microscale version of KeithLUG’s legendary Omicron Weekend. Together, this group of brave men have made history; from now on they will be known as members of ChiefLUG. Congratulations!
EDIT (AB): I just think this deserves a couple bigger pictures. :-)
The ring:
The landing pads and vehicles:
