Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) discovered that sand green is harder to come by than he expected while building this mini-scale version of the Pelican dropship from Halo, complete with an itty-bitty Warthog that fits underneath.
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LEGO Space 2009 teaser site launches; can LEGO sets be far behind? [News]
The new LEGO Space theme has been officially launched on LEGO.com. We don’t normally blog something quite this information-free (heh heh), but I’m personally rather excited by this new theme, and it’s clear many of you out there who sent us the link feel the same.
Click the pic to watch the very brief trailer.
Mega-micro mecha crane – and it’s green!
The recent spate of unarmed mecha is a result of the Mecha Hub Civilian Mecha Contest on Flickr. Kyle Vrieze (bermudafreze) has built a pair of my favorites.
Micro mecha aren’t that unusual, but placing the mecha on a microscale background is fairly unique:
This submersible mecha has realistic, utilitarian arms:
See more great entries in the Civilian Mecha Contest thread.
Custom Discworld minifigs by captainsmog
captainsmot brings the Terry Pratchett’s Discworld characters to life in the form of custom LEGO minifigs.
Rincewind, the Luggage, and Twoflower:
Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Cohen, and the Silver Horde:
Setting off on a caravan weekend in a Volkswagen Van
This eight-wide VW Van by Ed (Ed Bricks) had me smiling from the moment I saw it.
Complete with a caravan in tow, this little beauty makes me want to throw everything in the Van and head north to Lancashire on the M6 for a long weekend.
Sadly, I don’t live in England, so I’m stuck with I-5 as my roadway and Canada to the north, not that there’s anything wrong with Canada…
Check out Ed’s photostream on Flickr for tons more pictures of his LEGO VW Van, including shots of the fully detailed underside.
Советский робот ДИ 3204 “Landmate”
If Mikhail Koshkin had survived to design a robotic hardsuit and Mikhail Kalashnikov were to design its weapon, this is what it would look like.
This hardsuit by Chuck Citrin (Chewk) incorporates extensive stickers from the Russian vehicles in the LEGO Indiana Jones sets from Crystal Skull.
Clearly, Soviet-inspired retro-futurism is not the sole domain of our very own Gambort.
Nuhvok-Kal
I think we’re past being amazed that Bionicle builders do some cool stuff, but as a SYSTEM builder, I just don’t have the vocabulary to discuss Bionicle intelligently. Maybe learning the lingo is Step 2 in my 12-step acceptance of Bionicle…
Regardless of my inability to say anything relevant about it, I think this tank thingy by Cameron (Primus) is very cool.
See more pics on Brickshelf, when moderated.
And since we missed it a couple of months ago, here’s Eddie.
LEGO Izmojuki heavy machinery by Dali Zheng
Dali Zheng (MOCpages) recently posted a pair of industrial robots inspired by the designs of Junji Okubo (Izmojuki). Both look like they could turn up in our train yards and factories in the very near future.
CT8A-29/B Maintenance Mech:
R-5 Boom loader mech:
Don’t miss our past coverage of LEGO Izmojuki by master mecha builders like Izzo.
Dragon mecha by DARKspawn
Mecha or dragon? This knight’s mount by Aaron Andrews (DARKspawn) is both.
See more pictures of Aaron’s dragon mecha on Brickshelf.
Burner
Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) tries his hand at LEGO tagging with a 3D version of “PAX” that looks nearly robotic.
10194 Emerald Knight as a hotrod
MrTruck has added to his collection of vintage and classic LEGO vehicles with this beauty inspired by 10194 Emerald Night — thus “Emerald Hotrod”:
Via Klocki.
Holocaust and torture depicted in LEGO
As much as I enjoy the robots, spaceships, and tanks we blog here on a regular basis, there are also those occasional LEGO creations that remind us that we’re part of a broader world — a world in which war is not fun and war is not play.
My brother and I went to see Schindler’s List a few months before I found myself standing in the silence of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Matija Grguric captures one of the most moving moments from the film in this vignette.
Though we haven’t featured her work before, Legofesto has been protesting the torture and abuse of detainees caught up in the Iraq War and “War on Terror” for several years (via VignetteBricks):
For me, LEGO has always been a medium for potential art, and art doesn’t shy away from the world we live in. There is beauty in truth, no matter how ugly the reality. In the very revulsion I feel about what I see depicted in these vignettes — heightened by the fact that the medium is a children’s toy — I find hope that there will come a time when humans rise above our own depravity.
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