Moko recently posted a cool little vehicle Lukas called “bike-ish”:
What’s not in Moko’s Brickshelf caption is that this is based on a hover-bike currently featured in a Nissin Cup Noodles ad (in Japan, of course) that uses footage from a new project called FREEDOM by Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo. Here’s a six-minute clip from YouTube:
You can also watch more footage on the official FREEDOM site.
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Zombie Andrew, Zombie Josh, pumpkin-head Eddie (aka the disembodied head of Linus Bohman), and Necromancer Nathan join classic monsters to wish all of our readers a very happy Halloween! Be safe, and have fun!
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So how do you deal with dirty LEGO? German appliance maker Bosch has a solution — a special cycle in their new “LEGO Edition” dishwasher that gently cleans your plastic toys at 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit).
No, I’m not joking:
Link via Engadget, with thanks to Ben Ellerman for posting this on Classic-Castle.com.
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Today’s batch of “mechanimals” from Izzo (previous post) includes two marine animals.
Proving that Izzo can pun in at least two languages, behold the “whalicopter” (Izzo’s blog post):
As if a flying whale weren’t enough, how about a bird that doesn’t? Here’s Izzo’s multipurpose aquatic transportation device, the “Penguindive” (link):
The vignette above shows the Penguindive in underwater mode. Here it is at rest and on the surface:
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The LEGO Company wants to know from the adult LEGO collector community what car they should make as a set. Once again via the furiously typing fingers of LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry, the Brothers Brick has received the following message from LEGO:
The LEGO Design team is considering making a kind of collector’s car, and would like to hear from the AFOL community which car would like to be seen as an official LEGO set. The only restrictions are:- The car should be for display, which means with only few functions.
– The car should get a body build with System bricks.
– The car should be very iconic/well know in Europe and US.
– The car should be from the past 30 years.Please suggest the Make and Model of the car you would like to see as a new LEGO set!
Nelson will collate responses you leave here on TBB and pass them along to LEGO. How cool is that? Thanks Nelson!
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I always love it when Izzo starts a new series! Whether it’s vignettes based on Japanese proverbs or industrial mecha, I know we all have something great to look forward to.
Izzo’s latest is a series of creature-inspired mecha he cleverly calls “mechanimals.”
The first is a rat-car with a detachable rat-bot (blog post):
That certainly looks fun to drive around the neighborhood, but Izzo’s second mechanimal is much more useful. The “Pelicargo” (wonderful name, Izzo!) is capable of transporting your cargo wherever it needs to go (blog post):
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These won’t be news for those of you who saw the work-in-progress pictures on Flickr or who saw them at NWBrickCon, but I finally took decent pictures of my three recent steampunk creations. Enjoy!
H.M.A.S. Fearless
The brave women of Her Majesty’s Royal Flying Corp pilot the steam-powered gunship Fearless into most certain danger!
Leftenant Cavendish’s Marvelous Amphibious Contraption
On a voyage of discovery in deepest uncharted Asia, Leftenent Henry Cavendish of Her Majesty’s 13th Expeditionary Forces improvises a means of vehicular transport, using a native canoe, wagon wheels, and a boiler of his own invention. His musket also spews Greek Fire.
Mr. Renoir’s Ornithopter
Unbeknownst to most modern historians, Pierre-Auguste Renoir followed in the footsteps of great artist-inventors of the past (including his hero Leonardo Da Vinci), fabricating fantastic winged contraptions and flying them throughout the French countryside.
And of course the full photoset on Flickr.
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Soren Roberts has updated his Galbady Gamma with a ballute system:
While we’re at it, here’s a bonus mecha, a Soren-original called Gravity:
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Editor Joe Meno has announced the release of BrickJournal issue 5. Click the image to download the “BIG” issue (10.9 MB):
Of particular note for long-time TBB readers are articles and photo essays by Mark Stafford, MisaQa, and Malle Hawking, among many others.
On a related note, LEGO Shop@Home will be donating 1% of all purchases to BrickJournal (up to $10,000) between now and December 31st — which of course includes Christmas shopping — if you start your shopping from the following page:
http://shop.lego.com/landingpages/brickjournal/
So, how does one pick up sponsorship from LEGO? Hmmm…
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Eurobricks reports that Amazon Germany has posted more pictures of the January-June 2007 LEGO sets. Check out the Ferrari, Technic, and Exo-Force sets in this post, and the Aqua Raiders, Star Wars, City, and Creator sets in this thread.
Here’s my favorite new Aqua Raiders set, the as-yet-unnamed 7776:
A shipwreck?! Unbelievably cool.
And check out the set Jamie Berard designed, 4953 Fast Flyers:
Finally, LEGO is releasing two official mosaic-building sets with some cute designs, 6162 and 6163:
For those of you who want to see all the 2007 set pictures from Amazon.de in one place, Brickshelfer HJR has them all in a set of conveniently organized galleries.
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Pantsbots are adorable, convivial characters who want nothing more than to help their Spacemen friends:
(Spider-Pantsbot, Schizo-Pantsbot, and Bodyguard-Pantsbot by Arpy 2.0)
Sometimes, though, Spacemen take advantage of the loyal little fellows:
JordanTN put it best:
One day when pantsbots become Minorities they will use this image to show young PantsBots how cruel the spacemen were to them all those years ago…
Arpy, you’re a bad, bad man.
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