Okay, not minifigs, but I couldn’t resist the James Joyce/Dylan Thomas reference. Nannan’s post the other day had me looking for more interesting portraits of LEGO builders:
That’s Ronald “woordenaar” E. (Web) on the left and Alan “Kaptain Kobold” Saunders (blog) on the right.
As Ronald says, LEGO is indeed addicting…
With three fantastic creations in a row, Horace Cheng (Flickr) gets his own roundup post. :-)
A Daihatsu Midget inspired by hitahita-05:
Wildschwein, a steampunk version of the droid tank from Star Wars:
H.A.F.S. Cataphract:
Here’s another great entry for the Heroes & Villains challenge — Plastic Man as a steam shovel!
Click the pic to see more of this great creation by Peter “Graznador” Aoun, including action shots and a reference pic that emphasizes just how perfect this thing is.
How did I miss this?! I’ll admit to being a bit behind, so MasterGongfu‘s link to this great LUGNuts Heroes & Villains entry by Nathan Proudlove was very much appreciated.
The dominating feature on this great car is of course the roof — a brick-built Ace of Spades that begs the question, are decals and stickers ever necessary when something like this is possible?
If you’ve ever wondered how you’d fare (yes you, reader, you’re staring at a computer screen right now, aren’t you?) after the LEGO apocalypse, Flickr user Terry’s Clockwork Orange has the answer.
The man with the keyboard chest plate is “Barry Norman, former I.T. technician and now the Mystical Keeper of the Data.” Ha! Click the picture to read more geeky post-apocalyptic profiles.
Reasonably Clever is holding a LEGO challenge to build a steampunk creation in 50 pieces or less.
Adrian Florea joins the fun with a 44-piece cuirassier (Wikipedia in case, like me, you had no idea what that was).
Ralph Savelsberg latest military vehicles are a pair of helicopters — a CH-46 Sea Knight (above) and a Mi-24 “Hind”. Click the pics to check them out on Flickr.
Andrew “Doctor Sinister” Summersgill has posted a photo review of 7048 Troll Warship on Flickr and Eurobricks.
7048 Troll Warship is one of the forthcoming 2008 Castle sets, which are starting to show up here and there. As always, here’s a separate shot of the minifigs:
It looks like the new goblin helmets we saw in early prototypes of 7036 Dwarves’ Mine are finally making it into sets, along with new goblin armor.
I found the Saturday Night Live skit spoofing There Will be Blood a week ago highly amusing, but not having seen the movie yet, I never imagined the milkshake bit was actually in the movie (as I learned during the Oscars the next night)!
Sir Nadroj creates minifig versions of the entire cast (his Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday above), while Jordan takes a different approach by putting the characters in a vignette (below).
Finally, Graeme “Littlebrick” Allen reminds us that we missed James Morr’s “There Will be Bricks” (thanks Graeme!):
You’ve probably seen the paintings of surrealist artist René Magritte, even if you didn’t realize what you were puzzling over was by him. Uli Meyer has created a wonderful LEGO version of Magritte’s “Time Transfixed,” complete with a microscale train that’s great in its own right.
(Thanks for the tip, Tim David!)
Click through to Brickshelf to find out what happens to the dutiful cook whose food is poisoned, in this vignette series by Tom Sneller.
