Monthly Archives: February 2009

RAILBRICKS Issue 5

It’s time for issue 5 of RAILBRICKS magazine and once again Jeramy Spurgeon and the team bring another feature packed edition all about LEGO trains. This time it’s dedicated to steam

This Steam Issue focuses on all things Steam with tips & tricks on building steam trains as well as ideas on incorporating Power Functions into you creations. There are also interviews with Anthony Sava and Ben Fleskes. As always, there are great articles from our editors on creative challenges, flashback reviews, and MOC creations.

Check out the website to download a copy. Check it out.

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Knowing is half the battle

Wow, these sure brought back some memories. Back in the day, I was a big GI Joe fan. These recreations by Alexander Schranz are spot on. Click on the picture and scroll down. There’s a lot of awesome GI goodness there. I always liked the bad guys best though. Cobra!

Great job, Alex! Thanks for pointing these out to us.

Terex RH400

Okay, this thing is enormous. The Terex RH400 is the biggest, baddest hydraulic power shovel in the world. The Lego version by Zbiczasty is no light-weight either.

Thanks to Leif Michelsen for the heads up.

Rush Hour

Matt Armstrong has been building a monstrous number of microscale cars, trucks, and buses. So many, in fact, that he is now experiencing grid-lock…

Thanks to Erik Smit for the reminder!

Polar Express by Sava

This is one of Tony Sava‘s older builds, but its a darn good one. We hadn’t featured it before and he just took a new, improved picture of it. So take a ride on the Polar Express!

By the way, Tony is featured in the newest issue of Railbricks. I believe this is their first-ever Steam edition…

Walker Ride

Steven Walker takes us on a vintage road trip in his Model A coupe, built for LUGNuts concept challenge. Its a pretty little thing!

Mark wishes us all a happy Valentine’s Day

While I may not be keen on Valentine’s Day as a holiday, I can’t fault Mark Neuman for the way he expresses his Valentine’s wishes. He’s built an adorable mecha/animal robot to offer up a cupcake. I love the expressiveness of the face he’s achieved, and the feet are just adorable. Since I’m 3000 miles away from Mark, I can’t eat the cupcake, so I wish it was made of LEGO too.

Let’s find a happy place

Benlego has created a little piece of paradise, and it, like everywhere else, needs mowed.

This diminutive scene is crammed full of incredible details! To begin with, check out the roof and the lawn-mower…

Pyrefyre’s hardsuit makes minifigs tall

While most hardsuits make minifigs chunkier, Alvaro Gunawan (Pyrefyre) allows his minifig pilots to take slightly longer steps.

Via the TFOL blog.

UCS Millenium Falcon $125 off at Amazon.com [News]

I’m tempted. Aren’t you? In addition to the Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon, the Sandcrawler is also 20% off.

Given that the Sand Crawler isn’t even available from LEGO anymore, this could be your last opportunity to get Jawas. Just sayin’. Thanks for the tip, Wes!

Reasonably Clever Handtruck Building Challenge ’09! [w00t!]

Chris Doyle over at Reasonably Clever has just announced the “Handtruck Building Challenge ’09.”

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Incorporate as many LEGO handtrucks into a LEGO creation as you can. The deadline is March 13, 2009, so get building!

Check out Reasonably Clever for complete details.

Massive Separatist craft carries more than 100 minifigs

Check out this Separatist Landing Craft by roholbro that carries 100 droids and 4 vehicles including the MTT set from LEGO! Click on the picture below to see all 100 pictures in the gallery.

Thanks to ~Jester~ for the tip