Although Aaron “DARKspawn” Andrews reminds us that both dwarves and ewoks are short, the diminutive and hirsute denizens of mines and mountains are unlike ewoks in every other way.
Most importantly, dwarves are awesome:
And ewoks are not. The end.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Nathan Sawaya exhibits brick art in Hawaii
With appearances on Letterman and Colbert, “brick artist” Nathan Sawaya is quite possibly the only LEGO builder with anything close to celebrity status — and deservedly so.
Nathan has recently opened an exhibit at the Pearlridge Shopping Center in Aiea, HI. He debuted several new sculptures, including “Green” below:
Nathan also did some onsite work. Here he is working on a mosaic of the Hawaiian flag:
Thanks for the tip and the photos, Nelson Yrizarry!
You can see Nathan’s art at the Pearlridge Shopping Center through July 20th.
Tim Zarki’s adorable MaK-inspired hardsuit has me going “Awwww!”
Long-time readers of this blog should know by now that I’m a sucker for small adorable things. Tim Zarki isn’t helping my addiction by posting this cute little hardsuit inspired by Maschinen Krieger (often abbreviated Ma. K. or MaK):
That’s a Technic figure helmet. I may just have to dig mine out of my “useless” bin and give this one a try myself. (I know, I know, there are no useless LEGO pieces!)
Halo fans drool over possible BrickForge Space Marine armor [News]
Kyle “Armothe” Peterson of BrickForge has posted a very cool custom “Space Marine” that looks remarkably like a certain Master Chief:
Does this represent a potential future product from BrickForge? Intriguing…
In related news, Mark Sandlin (Flickr) has posted prototypes of another upcoming BrickForge product — the Megagun:
See more views of the Megagun in Chris’s photostream on Flickr.
10191 Star Justice and 10192 Space Skulls 30% off [Sale]
In news sure to please those of you who thought that 10191 Star Justice and 10192 Space Skulls
were a bit more expensive than you liked, both sets are now 30% from the LEGO Store online.
10191 Star Justice is now USD 69.99:
Similarly, 10192 Space Skulls is also now USD 69.99:
Other stuff on sale:
As always, these links only work for the US and UK.
Jehkay’s sentry will clean up your mess
Jehkay makes good use of the big blue half-cylinder piece from the cement mixer set as the armored shell of a sentry and riot control quadruped craft. The front opens to reveal the minifig pilot, ready to restore order to any situation.
Nick Dean returns fire
Like Nannan’s Black Fantasy and Tim’s cave racers, Nick Dean‘s RAMM theme has become an Internet phenomenon, copied ad nauseum — sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
So it’s always refreshing to see a new RAMM creation from the Feldmarschall himself:
But perhaps Nick is most famous for his future-military vehicles, like this RAMM Bluthund Quadruped:
We’re gonna need a bigger cave racer...
The title of Brent “thwaak” Wolke‘s entry for the Reasonably Clever Pigs on the Wing contest was too perfect not to *ahem* borrow for my own post title here. ;-)
Brent’s Jaws-inspired fishing boat/cave racer manages to hit all the rules while still being completely unlike any other cave racer we’ve featured or that appears in the increasingly crowded group pool on Flickr.
Hunkering down with legomocs
Flickrite legomocs enters the Picking up the Pieces contest with this great scene featuring a group of survivors building a bunker:
Enter the Pantheon of Eternal Solitude
Capturing the lines of Classical Greek architecture at minifig scale is challenging enough, but Mastergongfu has done so quite nicely at microscale:
Thanks for the e-mail, mastergongfu!
ImpreSariO takes flight in his Tin Goose
Reader John Rudy sends word of a great Ford Trimotor airplane from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by ImpreSariO
Don’t miss ImpreSariO’s other entries in the Klocki Indiana Jones Contest, including this great scene from The Last Crusade:
A horse by any other name...
…wouldn’t be as cool as this one.
Check out this incredible pegasus by edulyoung
Many thanks to Bruce of VignetteBricks for pointing this out on Classic Castle