All three of the modular building sets are now available from the LEGO Store online.
Left to right, that’s:
Yay! But don’t you find the gaps in the product numbers intriguing? I do…
Posts by Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)
Jas Nagra’s new mecha inspires repeated uses of the F word
Jas Nagra may not be prolific on Flickr yet (though there’s some great stuff in his old Brickshelf gallery), but what he’s got there now is pretty awesome.
His latest mecha has commenters waxing profane. ;-)
Gizmodo interviews BrickArms’ Will Chapman
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of attending a presentation by BrickArms founder Will Chapman, Gizmodo has a great interview you should go read now.
A brief excerpt:
Jesús Diaz: I think the simplification of the real world weapons is amazing. How is the creative process? How do you decide on one weapon or another?
Will Chapman: Mostly, Ian (my youngest son) finds a weapon interesting and asks if we could make it. It is that simple. Once he finds one he likes, I study it and I abstract the design into minifig-scale.
Legend of Zelda stop-motion animation by Michael Inglis
Reader Eric sends word of a great Legend of Zelda video on Kotaku (possible spoiler alert for the three of you in Uzbekistan who haven’t finished Ocarina of Time yet):
What I like so much about this is how creator Michael Inglis used all the right sound effects. Simple things like that make a huge difference. See more of Michael’s videos on YouTube.
More Black and White Classics as LEGO’d by Mike Stimpson
We featured a pair of classic photographs recreated in LEGO by Mike Stimpson several months ago, and I was pleased to see another work of LEGO art from Mike come through my feeds earlier today.
Here’s “V.J. Day Times Square” by Alfred Eisenstaedt (compare to original):
Even more pleasing (though slightly frustrating that I’d missed them), was seeing that Mike had created even more LEGO versions of classic photos.
I found the juxtaposition of LEGO smiley faces and the subject matter deeply moving in Mike’s version of “Viet Cong Captain” by Eddie Adams (Warning: The original is appropriately graphic):
See more in Mike Stimpson’s Classics in LEGO photoset on Flickr.
The Bionicles of Narnia by E.H. Arpy
Reminder: LUGNuts Heroes & Villains challenge ends next week!
The Heroes & Villains building challenge ends on March 15. To get your last-minute creative juices flowing, let’s round up a few of the vehicles we haven’t featured yet.
Here’s a Super-lowrider from Jake (more on Brickshelf):
A Spawn-mobil by bordolego:
Alex Eyler‘s own assassin, the Mad Hatter (not to be confused with the Batman character), gets a sweet ride:
Wash’O’bot!!!
I can’t stop laughing, so I’ll just let Tim Goddard tell you all about his new bot himself:
“Wash day blues? Let Wash’O’bot wash, dry and iron your cloak for you!”
Ha! Excellent.
Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky...
Who can resist a vignette inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost? I can’t.
Here’s the full Milton quote that inspired this gorgeous vignette by Steve Vargo:
Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.
If Lucifer falling aflame from on high isn’t cool enough for ya, here’s another great scene from Steve, featuring my favorite mushroom, Amanita muscaria:
Announcing the Classic-Castle.com Battles Contest
If there’s one thing LEGO Castle fans can do really, really well, it’s put together an amazing battle scene.
So it’s no surprise that one of the contests held each year on Classic-Castle.com is the Battles Contest. Hosted by our very own Josh, the contest challenges Castle builders to throw everything they have into a medieval battle scene, and Josh is putting up some pretty sweet prizes for the winners:
You’re seeing that right — classic 80’s Castle sets in their original boxes (donated by a very generous benefactor)!
We’ve already featured Anthony Sava’s Breath of the Dragon, but here’s another great entry, by Zach:
See more entries in the thread on Classic-Castle.com. Can’t wait for more!
Tall islands are cool
Didn’t you always want to live on a castle perched atop a rocky island? With a face in the cliff that opens and closes its mouth? Well, Chris Edwards makes this possible — at least for his minifigs — with his latest island. I say “latest” because Chris has built two previous islands, and each just seems to get better than the last.
For lots of cool details, check out all the photos on Brickshelf and Flickr.
In the future, the definition of “ornithopter” is murky.
In response to the suggestion that this was not in fact an ornithopter, Mike Yoder provided an insight into the future definition of the term. Well played.
See more pictures on Brickshelf or Flickr.