It seems that the new Trolls keep popping up everywhere. Sadly this one was hunted down, beheaded, and hung on a wall. Check out Troll’s Head Inn by MrTS
Yearly Archives: 2008
Bokk in the land of dreams
Curzon79 suggests that when a troll has nightmares, he sees horrible, beautiful flowers and nasty, pretty butterflies:
Fitting a bed around the troll must certainly have been an interesting challenge, and those large brick-built flowers are great.
Crises at the Red Inn
Strange things are afoot in this lovely medieval inn by Crises. Click the pic for details:
Via Brick Town Talk.
LEGO Star Wars Clone Wars sets at Celebration Japan [News]
The new LEGO Star Wars Clone Wars sets will be available soon, but attendees at Star Wars Celebration Japan got an early look at some of the sets — and the minifigs in particular.
Edge (エッジ) over at レゴ系 (The LEGO System) was there, and took a bunch of pictures of the LEGO Star Wars booth.
Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, and a bunch of clones:
Clones on bikes, including CC-7567:
An overall shot of the booth:
Bonnie Burton from the Official Star Wars Blog also took a handful of pictures of the Clone Wars LEGO, including close-ups of the nose art on the Republic Gunship:
The ladies of the booth:
See lots more pictures in Edge’s blog post.
Bridge from ‘Singularity Sky’
I’m a huge fan of Charles Stross’ books and short stories and am particularly fond of the anachronistic starship in Singularity Sky. Something about the combination of brass speaking tubes and faster-than-light drives just tickles me in all the right places. This is my attempt to do some vague amount of justice to the bridge featured in the book.
PS. If you like good sci-fi you should read as much of Stross’ catalogue as possible. The man is a modern great of the genre.
Super LEGO Monkey Ball
Harrison (corran101) makes creative use of the LEGO Astronaut Bubble to relive the glory and hilarity of Super Monkey Ball the video game.
LEGO StarCraft Terran battlecruiser
Brickshelf user vana treats us to an amazingly designed and photographed UCS scale Terran battlecuiser from the game StarCraft. The traditional greebles on studs technique prevails once again, making the model extra detailed.
Langeoog Island
Every so often I’m absolutely dumbfounded by a LEGO model. In this particular case German builders Andreas and Kai Böker do it by presenting what I consider to be the best non-urban train layout I’ve ever seen. While looking at the details is exciting enough the panorama shot is a must in order to absorb the true brilliance of this layout. I could spend hours looking at this.
If Alta-Vista has translated correctly this layout is presently on display on the actual island of Langeoog so if you’re in the neighbourhood check it out. And if any of our German readers can help me out with information I’d be forever grateful.
Jimbo has a rough day
I took some time of time off to finish Jimbo’s rough day:
When the one-eyed snaked attacked, the two friends forgot to check their footing. Jimbo lost an arm and a leg to a mine, and it looked like his buddy Frank was about to lose even more. One could argue that the odds where against them.
“Finally, some action!” Jimbo joyously exclaimed, trying to build a makeshift shelter using his own blown-off leg and hand as a crude tool. He had always been one tough son of a bitch.
See more on either flickr or linusbohman.se.
Palm Springs and zeros and ones
Matt Wagner (jedimasterwagner) is fast becoming one of my favourite LDrawers. As can be seen in this latest work he treats the rendering process as a means of creating artworks as well as for constructing models. I’d love to see the image he based this on for comparison.
Leian Castle – paradise on the rock
Pun intended in the title, Rocko‘s to-be-featured masterpiece for BrickCon in October is one grand sight to behold. This structure is home to Rocko’s favorite minifigs (the ladies in Slave Leia torso and legs), but naughty men beware, the cats are hungry. Too bad details like these won’t be revealed until the convention, but that’s just another reason for me to be there.
Swagman robot by Teikjoon
Even robots sometimes get down in the dumps and have to scrounge for a living. Though this reminds me of something from the Futurama universe, Teikjoon sets this lovely little vignette in the Star Wars universe, where — on a planet embargoed by the Trade Federation — unemployed robots “choose to stay operational, scavenging for energy packs”:
