Back in the 70s, customizer George Barris built comedian Redd Foxx an amazing custom tow truck called the Li’l Red Wrecker. Fast forward 30 years, and Lino Martins rolls out the chrome for his LEGO version of this weirdly cool vehicle:
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BattleTech Battlemaster mecha by Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee takes his inspiration from an old BattleTech novel’s cover for his latest mecha. I love Andrew’s use of the LEGO Agents stickers:
Since we’re rifling through Andrew’s photos looking for stuff to blog, here’s a bonus microspace warship, Yen-lo-wang — one “bad mother”:
Zach picks up the pieces in his Forest Haven
Zach (BabyJawa) enters the Picking up the Pieces ApocaLEGO contest with this vignette titled “Forest Haven”:
Never underestimate the power of well-posed minifigs. For such a small scene, there’s a lot going on, with great landscaping underneath it all. I especially like the overhanging rocks above the pool of water.
LEGO Star Wars A-Wing Interceptor by Jarek
From the narrow gap in the nose to the detailed tail, Jarek‘s A-Wing is a gorgeous little fighter:
If standard red isn’t your thing, perhaps you’d prefer sunny yellow:
Darth Vader has a tough go of it in Gotham City
Reader Chris McVeigh (Flickr) combines excellent photography with recent LEGO sets to tell a funny little story. Captioned “Trading Places,” Darth Vader trades places with Batman:
I think Batman got the better end of the deal.
Bram Lambrecht proves that Cylons are indeed 3vil
To be perfectly honest, I’ve enjoyed the design aesthetic of the new Battlestar Galactica more lately than the story lines. Oh well. So when Bram Lambrecht combined the Cylon Raider with little plastic bricks from Denmark in 3vil livery, I was rather pleased:
Via Young Spacers.
Win $25,000 in the Nicktoons “Built by Me” LEGO movie contest [News]
Nickelodeon and LEGO are teaming up to host the “Built by Me” LEGO movie contest as part of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival.
For your 2-minute (or less) movie animated with LEGO, you could win up to $25,000. w00t! Although Nicktoons is a kids’ network, I’ve taken a look at the rules, and the contest seems open to everybody.
You can download the Entry Form (632 KB PDF) and read the Rules & Regulations (1.1 MB PDF) on Nick.com.
Here’s the full press release:
CREATE A LEGO® ANIMATION FOR NICKTOONS NETWORK!
Nicktoons Network is working on the next Nicktoons Network Animation Festival…and they want YOUR animated short!
Are you a budding LEGO Filmmaker? Show off your talent by creating an animation using your LEGO brick collection! We’ll pick our favorite to be shown live at the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival in Los Angeles in October, and play it on www.nicktoonsnetwork.com/nnaf and LEGOclub.com. Plus, the Grand Prize winner will receive $25,000 to create an all-new animation for Nicktoons Network!
GRAND PRIZE: The “Built By Me” Movie Award!
The Grand Prize winning animation will be showcased at the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival and online. The winner will also receive $25,000 (twenty-five thousand dollars) to create a brand-new original animated short for Nicktoons Network using LEGO bricks and minifigures!FIRST PRIZE
One First Prize winner from each age category will receive a LEGO Premium Prize Pack!SECOND PRIZE
Two Second Prize winners from each age category will each receive a LEGO Prize Pack!CONTEST DETAILS
Create an original animated short 2 minutes long or less and send it to us. Entries must be submitted between July 15 and September 15 2008. All shorts must feature LEGO bricks, and you must own the rights to any music, sound and dialogue featured in your video.Contest is open to all ages. There are 2 categories: 17 and under, and 18 and older.
To enter the “Built By Me” Movie Contest you’ll need to download and complete the Entry Form and send it along with your animation.
WHERE TO SEND YOUR ANIMATION
Send your entry to:“Built By Me” Movie Contest
1515 Broadway, 38th Floor
New York, NY 10036Click here for contest details, rules & regulations, and movie-making tips to help you create your video!
Click here for more information about the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival!
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival is back for its 5th year! Founded in 2004 to showcase the diversity of worldwide animation filmmaking, The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival is the largest multiplatform animation festival in North America. The festival features the best animated shorts from around the globe. Shorts selected for the festival have the chance to make it on-air, online and to be showcased at the live event in Los Angeles in October, 2008.Nicktoons Network currently reaches 50 million homes via cable, digital cable and satellite, and can be seen on Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, DirecTV, DISH Network and Time Warner Cable.
Japanese tea house by Mister oo7
With cherry blossoms, a waterfall, serene pond, and simple, elegant architecture, Nathan‘s Japanese tea house is an excellent example of the Japanese aesthetic ideal:
The tea house also has a lovely interior:
The transforming mecha of Izzo
One of the things I love about Izzo is the building phases he goes through. Lately, he’s been on a bit of a transforming kick.
For several of his transformers (lowercase T), Izzo has included a diagram illustrating the stages of their transformation:
Izzo’s diagrams include a handy chart showing precisely how transformable each mecha is, ranging from “Fully Transforms” at the top to “Does Not Transform” down at the bottom. I suspect Izzo is being hard on himself with his low transformability rating. ;-)
Be sure to check out all six of Izzo’s transforming mecha on Brickshelf. Izzo also has a great roundup post of recent transforming mecha by other Japanese builders. You don’t need to read Japanese — just click the links!
M274 Mongoose ATV from Halo by Vidgamer838
The flood of LEGO Halo creations is so overwhelming that I can make that pun without ever having played the game. Still, this Mongoose ATV and custom UNSC Marine by Vidgamer838 seemed too good to pass up:
Here’s the marine (custom torso decal, painted Rock Raiders helmet, and modified Ninjas armor for shoulder pauldrons) without the ATV, together with a bonus Jayne Cobb from Firefly and Serenity:
Jordan’s Hellboy is the ultimate custom LEGO minifig
With a modified head piece and sideburns from Arealight, decals from Jared “Kaminoan” Burks, and a megagun from the newly relaunched BrickForge, this Hellboy minifig by Jordan Schwartz brings together elements from several LEGO customizers to create the ultimate custom minifig:
Here’s Red with the rest of the Hellboy crew:
CMS-4W utility mecha, with locomotor platform
Jehkay‘s most recent CMS-4W mecha provides construction, maintenance, and salvage capabilities. When it’s not floating, the mecha can dock with a “locomotor platform” (a pair of legs):
Here it is without the locomotor platform:
