Monthly Archives: August 2009

Favorites from the Speeder Bike Contest (well, so far)

Dali Zheng has been hosting a Speeder Bike Contest with some really excellent entries so far. If you’d like to enter yourself, you have until the end of August.

Thomas Oechsner contributes a Neo-Classic Space speeder bike with appropriate greeblage.

What LEGO contest would be complete without a nostalgic Octan entry? This one’s by Mristoph Chonnaie.

Karf would be proud of the Bananabike by NIRDIAN.

Oh, I give up. There are too many cool little speeder bikes to pick just a few. Go look through the entries yourself.

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LEGO Rock Band gameplay footage reveals destructive power of rock ‘n’ roll

Rock and roll may not be noise pollution, but it can apparently bring down an otherwise indestructible building.

Via Kotaku.

Alive in JoBerg biosuit by Lemon_Boy

As twee affect rightly notes, we’re going to be seeing a lot of LEGO creations inspired by District 9 over the coming weeks. Some truly crappy, others rather awesome, like this biosuit by Erik (Lemon_Boy).

This is actually based on the suits from “Alive in JoBerg” — the short film writer/director Neill Blomkamp expanded into the feature-length District 9. Thanks to the magic of YouTube, you can watch “Alive in JoBerg” without leaving TBB:

Leavenworth, your Bavarian getaway!

Leavenworth, WA is a small town about 100 miles east of Seattle styled as a “Bavarian village,” with the world’s largest collection of nutcrackers and an annual Oktoberfest rivaling Munich’s.

Catherine (LegoQueen) created a trio of buildings inspired by our faux-German neighbors to the east.

The scene needs more drunken tourists eating frozen cheesecake, but I love the variety of rooflines, and the green and brown building in particular.

Down by the river...

Flickr user einsteinonthebeach1982 posted this gorgeous River Citadel. It has so much incredible detail! It’s hard to pick my favorite.

Every detail is well thought-out and exquisitely executed, from the landscaping to the marketplace and well inside the Citadel itself.

The Iron Horse

This road machine is sweet. I love the rugged look of it. Cole Blaq done good on this one.

Aquastlenauts versus The Dragon Shark Clan?

Okay, now this is strange…but cool…in a rather demented way. Uspez Morbo mashes up Castle and Aquanauts in this bizarre battle scene. I have a strange urge to build something in this theme. Must…resist…crazy…mashup!

BrickMania M4A3 Sherman Tank custom kit now available for pre-order [News]

Dan Siskind of BrickMania has just announced that his next custom kit is available for pre-order — the M4A3(76)W VVSS Sherman Tank.

I’d never bought any custom LEGO kits from somebody else, but I bought two of Dan’s kits a few months ago.

I couldn’t have been more pleased. They’re well-designed, interesting to build (well, except maybe the tank treads, heh heh), and a lot of fun to see how another LEGO builder solves interior structure problems you’d never see in a photo.

Though the printed instructions for the two kits I ordered were $10 more expensive, I found them harder to read than the electronic version on a CD.

If you’re reading this, you probably have a computer, so I recommend taking the cheaper, more legible route.

You can pre-order your own Sherman from BrickMania.com.

Monkey in the middle

Fedde needed somewhere for his mischievous monkeys to hang out.

Looks like the keeper forgot to take away the monkey’s wrench…

RAILBRICKS Issue 6 now available for download [News]

Jeramy Spurgeon and the team have just released a double issue edition of RAILBRICKS magazine covering all things LEGO trains. It has in-depth articles on a few models we’ve featured here on TBB.

This 100 page issue was a long time coming, but features an interview with UK
builder Carl Greatrix, more Steam tips & Tricks, the Indiana Jones Circus
Train MOC by Brian Williams, Billund’s Miniland Trains, and much more!

Check out the website to download or read the magazine.

The Bionic Ogre

Anthony Sava challenged Classic-Castle members to build their own version of Steve the Ogre.

Sebastiaan Arts (Aliencat) took a more…modern approach.

You can check out some of the other creations in this thread!

I can haz your cheese?

Cheesers wants your cheese. Even as cute as he is, Legoholic won’t feed him, so you have to.

(Just to avoid confusion now, Legoholic built this. Tyler, aka Legohaulic, did not.)