This awesome video is making the rounds on the ‘net, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, check out David Gunstensen‘s stop-motion movie of minifigs building the Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon:
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Soren Roberts may be best known for his mecha, but this tank certainly demonstrates that he’s capable of building outside his comfort zone. It’s frequently when a builder leaves the genre he or she is best known for that truly interesting things happen.
Now even folks that weren’t even originally part of the coordinated effort on www.neoclassicspace.com can’t help but get in on the action. I love what Aaron Andrews (DARKspawn) has just posted, a classic-spacified version of an Apollo Lunar lander. AWESOME!
Paul Meissner (Legosamurai) has built a cool new mecha. He’s done a lot of really cool detail work here, like the boosters on the legs and back, and the reserved use of stickers and decorated tiles. I absolutely love the head, it’s a perfect part choice. It even opens to accommodate a fig, but still has an awesome bulbous shape that looks armored and ready for space. I don’t know what the big rod sticking out from the back is, but I assume that there’s some explanation I would understand if I watched Gundam or something.
Fradel Gonzales (Slice151) has just posted a cool little power suit for his LEGO figs. I like his style of beefier looking mecha, it’s nice to see a little variety from the standard frail-looking anime styled stuff. This power-suit has some nice play features (like the opening cockpit) and looks very posable too. I like that you could play with it without worrying about it shattering into a million little pieces.
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It looks like the March Neo Classic Space project is off to a rousing start.
Some really excellent creations have been posted already, like the ones by Mark Sandlin (right) and Tim Goddard (below).
Mark has built a very cool ship. I love the fins, and the slight angle he’s put a traditional windscreen piece at. Tim has built a really cool ship, with a cool windscreen orientation, and then put it on a landscape with some very interesting alien plants.
EDIT (Andrew): I feel compelled to add my own favorite, less vehicular Neo Classic Space creations — Thomas Öchsner‘s “Universe of the Floating Rocks”:
I’m sure most of us remember the scene from the opening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where teen aged Indy chases down some relic thieves on a train.
Brian Williams has built an amazing rendition of that train. Complete with a chase over a flatbed car. He’s made some excellent custom stickers to add the extra details specific to the movie as well. I just hope that there’s a lion and a whip inside there somewhere.
He’s also built some other great Indiana Jones creations, like the tank to the right, which are on his flickr account.
Chris Wunz (wunztwice) crosses the Castle/Space barrier to give us the Nightfox pursuit fighter.
For his “first real attempt” at a LEGO space creation, Chris’ fighter is full of cool details and interesting techniques, from the angled cockpit to the landing gear.
My latest is an interplanetary probe. I wanted to stick with the mix of angles from equilateral triangles and more simple bilateral symmetry at a smaller scale than many of the other creations in the theme. I also wanted to do something a little bit different with the engines.
The Northland Grimmhaven display from The Brick Time appeared on Brickshelf recently after being displayed at an exhibition in Berlin. This diorama no doubt has much details packed in, especially the the robust plaza at the back.
You can find the builder’s recently created Flickr gallery here.
