I posted the winners of this year’s Battles Contest on Classic Castle earlier today. It was a difficult choice but here they are in all their splendor!
1st Place:
Rocko’s Goblin Attack
2nd Place:
Chris Edwards’ Family Reunion
3rd Place:
Adrian Florea’s Stone Golem Attack
Congratulations to these most excellent builders and their award-winning creations!
One of those days, Rocko will get some sleep and we’ll be less jealous of his prolificness, but until then, nothing stops him from building, not even a dozen disasters happening simultaniously.
Nnenn‘s Tropicana racer is full of vibrant colors and decals. The color combination is especially vibrant, and I’ve not seen many colorful creations look this good. This is something only nnenn and a few others can achieve.
So, after the zombie apocalypse, when humanity as we know it has ceased to exist, what do the victorious undead do? Kick up their heels in a gentlemen’s club, of course!
(The walking dead are simply pretending to be mindless drones as they tear apart our civilization. Clearly, once we’re out of the way, they’re capable of building a glorious society, as this diorama proves.)
Brothers Brick contributor Nannan’s Final Run “bignette” is featured in the current issue of the Official Xbox Magazine:
Congratulations, Nannan! Way to represent. ;-)
In LAML Radio #33, Josh and I join James to discuss all the tomfoolery on April 1st around the LEGO Web, including our own silliness.
Check it out on Radio.LAML.org.
In this video, former LEGO Community Team manager Jake McKee talks about how LEGO has begun changing its long-standing corporate culture, involving a greater diversity of people to build a community around the company and its brand.
We recently glimpsed pictures of the upcoming General Grievous figure set, but for those who can’t wait until summer to display the General, LEGO has instructions available (Part 1 and Part 2). Matt (Pepa Quin) found out that he has most of the pieces to build the model.
UPDATE: 7628 Peril in Peru is now available from the LEGO Shop.
It looks like there will be a Toys R Us exclusive Indiana Jones set upcoming. It contains 625 pieces set with 6 minifigs. Currently these are the only pictures available from the Japanese Toys R Us website.
And the box art:
I think that a sign of a good builder is the inability of others to categorize what they build. We’ve been putting Brent‘s creations in our steampunk category, but really, they’re not, are they?
Brent sets his latest batch of creations in the imagined world of an alternative American 1970s — the semi-contemporary equivalent of his Victorian 1870s.
One of my favorite details is this little tool cart:
