As we reported back in August in a guest review by Jordan Schwartz, the the LEGO® Collector’s Guide was not available here in the United States.
However, I’m pleased to share that the standard edition is now available from the LEGO Shop:
Check out the review, and let’s keep hoping the premium edition will also be released here in the States.
Jordan Neves, Zach Clapsadle, and Lukas Winklerprins are hosting a very cool contest running through the end of November — the Rebuild Your First MOC, but Good! contest.
Peter Morris improves on a childhood favorite with “SF-109E Eagle”:
David “Xenobuzz” Simmons also gets in on the action with his “JL-79 Cargo Hauler” (named after July 1979, when David was 10):
Read more about the contest on Classic-Space.com and the Classic-Space Flickr group, and then get building!
Chandler (obxcrew) takes on Batman nemesis and former White Knight Harvey Dent in a series of five vignettes.
In his first vig, Chandler explores Harvey’s origins as Two-Face:
Each vignette includes great details and minifig customization, like the safe deposit boxes and two-face himself in this bank scene:
Check out all five vignettes in Chandler’s I Believe in Harvey Dent photoset on Flickr.
Well, not so bad if it’s pulling an adorable dwarven cart, but Rodney “BusterBuilder” Bistline‘s bug is certainly a unique addition to the LEGO Castle universe:
More on Brickshelf.
(Thanks for the link, Peter!)
I’m sorry to have missed meeting Ochre Jelly during the public hours at BrickCon, but I was very pleased when he sent me a link to his latest LEGO creation.
OJ has captured the Alaska governor winking during her debate with Joe Biden:
OJ writes:
This is a new scale of LEGO that I am experimenting with. Not minifig scale, not miniland scale, but I’m calling it “marionette scale”. The goal was to figure out the smallest (which in my mind is the most interesting) scale at which I can create recognizable 3D facial likenesses.
The latest Star Wars: The Clone Wars set available from the LEGO Shop is 7679 Republic Fighter Tank (aka TX-130 Saber-class Fighter Tank).
All orders over $99.00 ship for free, so I’ll just dangle before you some of the sales going on right now:
And now, a quick reminder about why we do this.
Knowing that there are tens of thousands of you out there reading what we post makes our efforts here on The Brothers Brick truly worth it. Running this site isn’t free, though. We use the revenue from our advertising to pay the bills, and then we give every extra penny back to you — through contest prizes, giveaways, and so on. If you don’t believe us, just ask BrickCon attendees! ;-)
So, whether you buy your LEGO through us or through Brickset, Klocki, Peeron, or another LEGO fan site, the next time you buy LEGO, consider clicking through from one of these sites. You’ll be supporting key resources in the LEGO fan community.
Okay, not really (my wife would kill me if that were true), but Casper‘s brother created this stunning bronze sculpture to celebrate the minifig’s 30th birthday.
Casper described the process in a comment on MOCpages:
The technique is that you start out with styrofoam and dig a hole with a very hot thingy. Then you place a Minifig in the midle and place the whole thing in castig and make a molding form(?). Then you burn this in a very hot oven as to make everything plastic and organic to burn away. Then you pour bronze into the mold and wupti – this is what you get.
Contrary to some of the horrified responses, I think this is a beautiful piece of LEGO-inspired art.
Sean Kenney recently posted this poignant sculpture of a “short” investor and a short-order cook. Click the photo to see more pictures on Sean’s site:
After marveling at Sean’s fantastic brick-built newspaper, I started wondering if the economic meltdown has affected how we buy or build LEGO these days.
Are we buying less LEGO? Buying more for some reason? Waiting to buy on sale or clearance? Getting inspired to build things that evoke the times, like the zombie apocalypse? I don’t know.
So, I thought I’d write a quick post and put up a new poll (finally!) to ask you, dear readers, how things are different for you today compared with a few months or a year ago. Sound off in the comments and vote in the new (completely unscientific) poll.
Note: If you see an error when you try to vote, rest assured that your vote is still being counted. It’s a conflict between two WordPress plug-ins.
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Our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest ends in just a couple weeks, on October 31. Thanks for the great response so far!
Since the last time we highlighted a few, lots more great vignettes and dioramas have been posted to the contest pool on Flickr, including “Go Fast Miniman Go!” by Rupi in the 1970s category:
…and in the 1980s category, “The Surfer” by Tiberium Blue:
We’ve got some really great prizes to give away! Let’s take another look at those:
Want to enter?
Finally, for all your LEGO movie-makers out there, don’t forget about the great vintage sets you can win from the GO MINIMAN GO Video Contest over on Gizmodo.
Like his recent test pattern, Nelson Yrizarry has been taking a break from the minifig-scale creations he’s known for, to build LEGO on a more sculptural scale.
Daruma are Japanese dolls most often used to make a wish or keep oneself focused on a goal. You paint one eye when you make the wish or start something, and only paint the other eye when your wish has been granted or you’ve achieved your goal.
My wish is that Nelson will build more great stuff like this!
Not content with the sharks with frickin’ laser beams in 8633 Speedboat Rescue, Hobo4Evar attaches a number of other potentially deadly accessories to the new shark:
If he doesn’t get you with the missile pod or gatling gun, that second-hand smoke is sure to kill.
SlyOwl‘s entry for the Forbidden Cove Castaway Contest uses so many interesting techniques it’s hard to pick just a few to highlight:
The skeleton parts evoke a truly ragged sail. The narwhale in the water takes a moment to recognize, but once identified, SlyOwl’s brilliance is unquestionable. The reindeer head on a stick is, well, interesting.
Oh, and the goats are adorable.