It would seem Keith Goldman‘s vignettes couldn’t contain minifig Ley Ward. But what’s Ley doing on a monochrome peninsula covered in what looks like hatches?
To find out, click on through to MOCpages.
Posts by Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)
Baby Hawklings will traverse a wormhole right into your heart
What’s more adorable than Ochre Jelly‘s Miniland Stephen Hawking? Why, a swarm of micro Stephen Hawkings, of course!
Check out MOCPages for the further adventures of the baby Hawklings, including guest appearances by micro versions of several of Ochre Jelly’s other Miniland characters.
Here’s a bonus Stephen Hawking by Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley:
2008 LEGO Castle sets (dwarves! trolls!) now available from LEGO Shop [News]
In news sure to please those of you who voted for “LEGO Castle (Dwarves & Trolls)” in the current poll, the full line of LEGO Castle sets for 2008 is now available from the LEGO Shop online.
Here’s 7048 Troll Warship (USD 79.99):
That’s six troll/goblin/orc minifigs, a dragon, a Crown Knight minifig, a Dwarf minifig, Clancy‘s green cousin (a large troll), and Viking ship pieces in new dark brown.
All the other new Castle sets are also available, including 7038 Troll Assault Wagon (USD 19.00) and 7041 Troll Battle Wheel
(USD 39.99):
Also available:
- USD 9.99: 7040 Dwarves’ Mine Defender
(3 minifigs!)
- USD 29.99: 7037 Tower Raid
Castle not your thing? How about some new Batman or Coast Guard sets?
- USD 29.99: 7886 The Batcycle™: Harley Quinn’s Hammer Truck
- USD 59.99: 7739 Coast Guard Patrol Boat & Tower
(Direct link to the new Castle sets for those of you for whom the affiliate links don’t work.)
Tim Goddard respects the planet
Well, at least Kamino, anyway. Tim Goddard recycles two great microscale Star Wars vehicles we hadn’t featured here before into a new vignette showing the intense battle between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi:
Jehkay’s Faerie packs a wallop
Jehkay‘s multi-role fighter may be called “Faerie,” but it looks like it packs quite a punch:
I love the striping on the wings, the “smoke dischargers,” and the engines.
Exclusive LEGO Indiana Jones set at Comic-Con 2008 [News]
LEGO will make its presence known at Comic-Con 2008 this year (July 23-27 in San Diego, California) with a mysterious, exclusive set:
The picture doesn’t say a lot, but here are a couple key facts:
- 200 pieces (comparable to a $15.00-$20.00 set)
- Limited to 500 sets
FMT-2940 torpedo frigate Suyampsis
I love anything green. I also love anything by nnenn. Green nnenn is even better.
nnenn’s torpedo frigate The Suyampsis looks like it could plow straight through just about any planet’s picket fleet:
Alex Eylar’s Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray tells of a man who stays young forever while a painting of him ages instead.
Alex Eylar gives Dorian Gray the LEGO treatment in this eerie creation:
Mike Psiaki’s Savoia S-21
A new creation by Mike Psiaki (Brickshelf) is nice to see, but when that new creation is a Savoia S-21 seaplane inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso, well, it’s that much more awesome.
Previously on The Brothers Brick:
RG-400 construction mecha by Grenouille
It would seem today is mecha catch-up day. ;-) Our final mecha of the morning is by Brickshelfer Grenouille, whose RG-400 construction mecha towers over the urban landscape:
Here it is in action:
More on Brickshelf. (Via Young Spacers.)
Izzo’s bipedal homage to Kwi Chang
Remember Kwi Chang’s bipedal mecha featured earlier this month?
Izzo was inspired to create a tribute version of Kwi Chang’s original:
While Kwi Chang’s version has a definite military feel to it, Izzo goes for more of a law enforcement look.
(More on Brickshelf.)
Hume v.2 by Kevin Guoh
Kevin Guoh (Flickr) has posted a beefed-up version of his Hume mecha. There’s nary a smooth shape in sight on this thing:
Check out the contrast with the original version — what an improvement!
