Monthly Archives: June 2008

The colorful gardens of Gardens of Cyndir Fis

Shannon Young took an overdose of dreamfruit and created the Glowing Gardens of Cyndir Fis. In addition to the unusually bright colors exhibited, also take note of the cool pathway constructed with cylinders and the orientally styled bridge. Lastly, check out the amazing layout of the place in this top view shot.

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Happy robo part 2

We recently featured Moko’s happy robot, and now Izzo contributes to the happiness as well. I would love to have one of these charms sitting on my desk, and it’s that much nicer that the model was based off a drawing by the builder’s son.

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In a future without cell phones...

Sometimes, the concept of a LEGO creation is what gets my attention. That’s not to say that Teikjoon‘s “Headphones” isn’t cool on its own:

But here’s the description:

The increasing amounts of technology in cellular phones eventually led to the creation of the largest network on the planet. On July 28th, 2009 this network achieved self-awareness and named itself…SKYNET.

Overnight, all existing cell phones were rendered useless. In their place, strange, seemingly intelligent robots appeared. By interacting with these robots, one could place a call to anyone on the planet, without paying outrageous charges to telecommunication companies…. (More…)

Ha! This deserves a second creation from Teikjoon — a prisoner transport called “Cruiser”:

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Spanish-style modular cafe by peachtree

Japanese builder peachtree (Brickshelf) has completed a Café Corner-standard building in a lovely Spanish style:

There’s so much to love about this beauty, from the awning, exterior staircase, and window details to the interior, ivy-covered walls, and mottled roof.

(Via Brick Town Talk.)

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LEGO Agents 8360 Gold Hunt and 8635 Mobile Command Center [Review]

I shared my thoughts on the new LEGO Agents sets a couple days ago, but nobody had posted reviews of any of the larger sets yet.

Gil Shaw now has photo reviews of 8630 Gold Hunticon and 8635 Mobile Command Centericon.

8630 Mission 3: Gold Hunt:

My observations (click the picture for Gil’s review on Flickr):

8635 Mission 6: Mobile Command Center:

My observations (click the picture for Gil’s review on Flickr):

  • The semi truck is just massive!
  • Drawers in a non-Belville set.
  • Not one but two laptop computers.
  • More play features and mini-vehicles than you can shake a stick at.

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A shelter in the post-apocalyptic storm

Obxcrew applies his vignette-building skills to the tortured world of ApocaLEGO, as three men huddle around a campfire:

The wall and stack of wood are nice touches, as is the mixture of sand green in the otherwise brown and white landscape.

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Demons, mecha and a touch of the Victorian

I think it’s been a while (or at least a lot of models) since I posted anything of mine here so it might be time to hit you with one. For those following I’ve been in a very cutesy retro phase lately but I decided to take a brief sojourn away and practise my town, steampunk and creature design in a mini diorama. I’m particularly pleased with the way the broken storefront worked out but feel that perhaps it lacks a feel of action.

Tim Gould's Demon and mecha

PS. It’s tentatively titled “31st May 1883” for want of anything better. If you can come up with a decent name I’d be happy to hear it.

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Hippo takes off for the country life

Marcin Danielak (Hippotam) contructed a stable with bustling details of people and animals from the country life. I like the use of differently colored wedge plates to partition segments of land (as shown in the overview shot), where builders usually attempts the effect with normal plates.

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Nobody puts baby in a corner

Occasionally I see a model that I have to blog right away. This is one of those times. Brent Wolke (thwaak) gave his magic punk dwarves a toy, he then gave their mortal enemy the orcs a bigger toy. Not to be outdone the dwarves enlisted the help of Patrick Swayze (my interpretation) and built an even bigger toy: the “Forge Breath”.

thwaak's Forge Breath

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