Excitement about 10182 Cafe Corner has been building in Japan ever since it was announced that a new specialty store called Toys R Us Select will be carrying this set. As Japanese fans start to get their hands on what some are calling the best LEGO set ever, it has started showing up on blogs and displays.
mumu couldn’t wait to get his, so he just made a microscale version instead:
(Link. Via Klocki and MicroBricks.)
With Wizard’s Challenge contest now over, voting has opened. Head on over to Eurobricks to review the entries and cast your votes. Here are a few more of my faves…
Brickster’s Snake Oil Salesman and Lorenz J’s Mihangel Yorath:
Sir Dillon’s Larry of the Metal Arm and Optimus Convoy’s Namron the Necromancer:
The Prague Post has a brief interview with The LEGO Company’s senior director of logistics for Europe and Asia, Egil Moller Nielsen. He discusses issues such as overcoming hard times at the company, moving production to The Czech Republic, and competing with other toy companies. Head on over to the Prague Post and read the interview (in English).
If the X-wings posted here recently are steps forward in time, and thus evolution, is a Victorian X-wing devolution? Not if it’s this cool:
Very nice, Adrian Drake!
Derjoe presents Captain Haddock from Tintin:
If you like this, be sure to check out Tupperfan’s Tintin figs featured here last year.
Early Bird Registration for NWBrickCon 2007 is now open through the event website.
Shirts, Brick Bazaar Spaces, and the 2007 Commemorative Model are also now available for pre-order.
Early Bird Registration offers all the benefits of Advance Registration with the added benefit that registration is only $38, while Advance Registration is $44. (On-site registration is $50.)
Early Bird Registration closes May 22, so act fast! On May 23 we will move to Advance Registration.
NWBrickCon is a convention and exposition for adult fans of LEGO. Starting in 2002, every October has featured a progressively larger convention in the Seattle area. NWBrickCon 2007 will be October 5, 6, and 7 in the Seattle Center Pavillion.
LEGO.com has a page dedicated to an upcoming LEGO Factory set called 10190 Market Street. The photos are still very small, but this looks like it’s going to be a gorgeous set:
According to LEGO.com, the set was designed by LEGO fan Eric Brok, and the set is modular — various components of the set are interchangeable (as demonstrated in a Flash animation), and Market Street can be integrated with 10182 Cafe Corner.
I’ll post more information as it becomes available. (EDIT: Let’s bump this to the top.)
Scaled-down versions of classic Technic sets by the Arvo brothers (via Klocki) and Sugegasa’s Waterside Station:
LEGO Design School on LEGO.com (via LegOficina dos Baixinhos.
NXT Rubik’s cube solver by Daniele Benedettelli (via LEGO.com MINDSTORMS NXT News).
Tim “Spook” Zarki’s microscale Maintenance and Repair Vessel (via Moyblik):
Third link post. I hope everyon’s getting the hang of this. I’ve run across a bunch of these in Richard McCarthy’s LEGO SigFig Flickr group.
Chuck’s Templar Hardsuit and Chris Bragg’s vampire:
Legohaulic, as himself:
Moko minifigs:
TsoAutTmo’s Sandman and Patrick Morgan’s Ultramarine from Warhammer 40,000:
Great entries in the Castle Contest and Wizard’s Challenge are coming so fast and furious I can’t keep up. On to the creations…
Lolas’ King’s Castle and Lomero’s Black Falcon’s Tower:
A couple of Nelson Yrizarry’s five entries (don’t miss this):
Wizards from Agent oo7, DARKspawn, and Steve Bishop
