Yearly Archives: 2008

MisaQa’s Valentine message

MisaQa wishes everyone a happy Valentine’s Day.

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Aaron Andrews will haul away your corpses

The Classic-Castle.com Vignette Storytelling Contest kicked off at the beginning of this month, and sets of four vigs are popping up all over the place.

Aaron Andrews‘ vigs are inspired by one of my favorite moments in the Monty Python canon — “Bring out your dead!”

(“I’m not dead!”)

Kwi Chang gets industrial

Mecha builder Kwi Chang puts together one of his pictures from a trip to the port of Chiba with his latest mecha to create a very cool effect.

BB Gadgets interviews Classic Space LEGO designer Bjarne P. Tveskov

Remember Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnston’s Nine Sets I Have Known and Loved?

Something rather beautiful happened in the comments on that post — a connection between Joel and Bjarne P. Tveskov, one of the LEGO designers who worked on Classic Space sets in the 1980s.

Bjarne designed many of the sets we all know and love from the 80s:

BB Gadgets: What did designing kits for LEGO entail back in ’80s?

Bjarne: My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper…. when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer.

Read the rest of Joel’s excellent interview with Bjarne on BB Gadgets.

Nintendo character sculptures

Nick Chornay presents a handful of sculptures of characters from the land of Nintendo. They’re simple yet detailed and easily recognizable. Visit his MOCpages to see more.

Tim Zarki goes deep

I’ve always loved small submarines and submersibles. For a long time when I was a kid, I wanted to be an underwater archaeologist, riding around in a submersible very much like this one by Tim Zarki.

*ping*

“Turn on the floodlights! There, through the starboard porthole! It’s Atlantis!”

With a big bubble to see through and claws to pick up artifacts, this is a great little vehicle. Bonus points for not using any yellow.

Nick Dean’s vehicles of the Royal Austrian Mechanized Military

In the not-too-distant future, Austria will apparently be a kingdom again, and it will have a formidable military full of big gray vehicles.

The latest trio of creations by Nick Dean (Flickr) is a set of vehicles from the Royal Austrian Mechanized Military (RAMM). My favorite is the Schäferhund Infantry Fighting Vehicle (above).

Check out more RAMM vehicles on Next-Gen or Flickr.

The horror beneath the ground

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!

Warthog run from Halo 3

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.

Dave Lartigue discovers a Mega Blok in his LEGO collection

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.

LEGO Exo-Force theme to end in 2008 [LEGO]

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.

Dwarfs, orcs, hobbits, and more bathing babes

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.