Yearly Archives: 2012

First Look at New Hobbit Sets [News]

Revealed just a short while ago at the San Diego Comic Con, this first official look at one of the new Hobbit sets is exciting! While there’s no official description to accompany this photo (yet) for those who weren’t at the SDCC, it’s pretty obvious that it’s not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: [it’s] a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort, aka, Bag End. And it looks gorgeous. Also, that’s a big hammer.

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Battle for the Imperial City

A P (Sirens-of-Titan) just built and wrote chapter 10 in his Rise of the Mage series. You can again take a look at a couple of beautiful creations built to follow a very cool story. Here are my favorites – Street in the city of Prestlaff and city slums.

Yoshimitsu

Andrew Lee (onosendai2600) builds one big bad mean looking samurai.

He says it is because every good guy needs a worthy opponent from time to time…well those weren’t his exact words.

Isla Guadalupe, a Keith Goldman Production

…well and Mike Rutherford too ;)

Keith Goldman (Don Quixote 2×4) unfailingly puts out absolutely brilliant large scale dioramas. His latest one was a collaboration between he and Mike Rutherford (Seadog1098again). Keith said that this work was pretty well the brainchild of Mike. In his own words:

“Rutherford was the driving force on this effort and definitely deserves all credit/blame for the overall concept. With limited access to his bricks (weekends) Mike once again found himself in a position to talk more than build, but I think it worked out within our constraints for this particular project.”

I agree 100% Keith…this most definitely worked!!!

No matter what the subject matter, whether it be apes, spaceships, and anything in between, Keith’s ability to portray a story is second to none.

One of my favourite things about these displays is the propensity to arrange the minifigs into vignettes within the larger overall diorama. There are micro stories to be found within the larger work…and it is always fun to find them all :D

You simply must be sure to check out all the pictures in the photo set.

Fencing

Breaking my break again. This time because of an amazing broken fence by Maciej Drwiega.

Dude...surf’s up!

I can just hear the noise in the background, with the waves, and sounds of people laughing, shouting, and generally having a fabulous time. Dave Ware‘s Surf Shack is just packed with little details that really bring it all to life.

Rolls Royce Trent 1000 Engine in LEGO

Ed Diment & others at Bright Bricks are apparently responsible for this half scale model of the Rolls Royce engine used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The model is comprised of over 152,000 pieces and was designed using actual CAD plans of the real thing. Weighing in at 677 lbs. (307 kg) it is only a fraction of the 1.25 tons for the actual engine.

Via Gizmodo

ITV News also has a video on the build.

Big thanks to Stijn for the heads up.

Marvelous Makeshift Micros

Flickr user iridescent nohow has been quietly filling his photostream with delightfully ingenious little microscale vignettes. His clever parts usages are par excellence, and they often come at a scale a great deal smaller than most LEGO microscale creations. It’s well worth your time to peruse his photostream and ogle the magnificent miniatures he’s created, such as the scene below of Alice’s rendezvous with a certain infamous hatter of dubious sanity, followed by a terrific mountain temple.

LEGO Step Sequencer

I’m on a bit of a blogging hiatus lately thanks to a massive work overload, but when Moritz Nolting (nolnet) linked me to this LEGO tenori-on I absolutely had to break my break and share it. Some help to make your own can be found here.

Beat Bricks – A LEGO Step Sequencer from superquadratic on Vimeo.

Giant LEGO Bridge

If you happen to live in Wuppertal, Germany you are lucky enough to get to cross an actual LEGO bridge. Well I suppose it is just a regular bridge painted to look like LEGO by street artist Megx, but it would still be awesome to cross.

Cheers to Will Page for the heads up :D

Guy H. Getting All Decked Out With Steampunk Playing Cards

That fantastic gentleman of steampunkery, Guy H., aka V&A Steamworks, has concocted a plan wherewith he shall mix up our plastic toys with our card playing and brass goggling.

His latest endeavor is a Kickstarter project to fund the creation of a terrifically designed full deck of Steampunk Lego playing cards. He’s packed it out with lots of fictional Victorian interest, like Jack the Ripper, a nunchuck-wielding Abraham Lincoln, and my favourite: an amusing choice between Edison and Tesla for the King of Clubs. Impressively, he’s even getting these printed by Bicycle. Evidently, however, the only way you’ll be able to purchase one is by supporting the project, so, gentlemen and ladies, prepare your pocketbooks.

To Boldly Build what No Man has Built Before!

Well, this may not be the first time Star Trek devices have been built out of LEGO bricks, but it definitely is one of the most impressive. Tommy Williamson beautifully and masterfully recreates the Phaser Type-II, Communicator, and Tricorder from Star Trek: The Original Series.

Like a good citizen of the 23rd century, he spruces up the models with Power Functions from Lego!