Monthly Archives: March 2008

I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

I found the Saturday Night Live skit spoofing There Will be Blood a week ago highly amusing, but not having seen the movie yet, I never imagined the milkshake bit was actually in the movie (as I learned during the Oscars the next night)!

Sir Nadroj creates minifig versions of the entire cast (his Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday above), while Jordan takes a different approach by putting the characters in a vignette (below).

Finally, Graeme “Littlebrick” Allen reminds us that we missed James Morr’s “There Will be Bricks” (thanks Graeme!):

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René Magritte’s Time Transfixed, LEGO’d by Uli Meyer

You’ve probably seen the paintings of surrealist artist René Magritte, even if you didn’t realize what you were puzzling over was by him. Uli Meyer has created a wonderful LEGO version of Magritte’s “Time Transfixed,” complete with a microscale train that’s great in its own right.

(Thanks for the tip, Tim David!)

Mechatronics

Today is a wonderful day for fans of LEGO mecha. I’m going for a triple post due to the flood of excellent designs.

Firstly Lukas presents this amazing Industrial Grade P-8 Lifter Robot. It’s tiny, it’s incredibly attractive and it has just become my favourite small scale mecha design.

Secondly Aaron Andrews has demonstrated his skill at both mecha and fantasy with The Troll Crusher, a ‘dwarf punk’ creation.

Finally Soren Roberts gives a cute overload with Danboard.

I’m all out of gushing words. I just plain love all three.

Crazy mouse rollercoaster

Steven Walker (Brickshelf user kwycstix) presents the most complete and complicated LEGO rollercoaster model I’ve seen. It’s based on the crazy mouse rollercoaster design, notorious for its sharp turns and steep dropoffs. Here, the builder uses t-connectors and cut up sections of pneumatic pipes to create the track. It must have taken quite some work, and the result is impressive.

Sincerest form of flattery

I’m sure almost all who visits lego galleries have seen my profile portrait, which pops up on the brickshelf recent pages once in a while when I make a new creation. This has inspired the ever so whitty Rocko to create his own self portrait shot. Well, two can’t be in the same pose; maybe I should make another one or even start an AFOL self-portrait glamour shot contest. Throw those mad building skills to the wind and show the real you. I’ll be sure to find a panel of female judges ;)

The contest idea is not to be taken seriously, but it would be interesting.