I spent an hour or two before heading to the SEALUG meeting this afternoon building a few new minifigs. One batch I was pretty happy with was this group of four robots inspired by ancient Japanese warriors:
I also built a couple more futuristic minifigs. Here’s my Blacktron-ish commando:
I’ve always loved jetpacks. I just started adding pieces to the old Spaceport jetpack to make this one. Naturally, it also fires rockets that go boom:
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Nearly six months ago I blogged Brickshelfer arvo’s LEGO Nord Lead synthesizer — so realistic it fits right in with a collection of real synthesizers.
A full-size version of a synthesizer is all well and good, but arvo proves he can reduce the same concept down to a much smaller scale (which I argue is harder) with this new version:
I’m going to take a wild guess that this Technic musician is sequencing a techno beat:
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I’ve been blogging a lot of Izzo’s minifigs lately, so it’s only fair that I feature some of his creations that I’m sure required a bit more effort. His latest series is a batch of mecha for future industries.
A loader and a cement mixer/dauber:
A demolition mecha and a high-legged carriage-bot:
Be sure to check out the full gallery on Brickshelf for more pictures and action shots.
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Izzo hasn’t just been making musical minifigs lately. Look for some new mecha here on TBB soon, but I wanted to go back a few days to one of Izzo’s earlier posts.
Tremble in fear before the mighty Amazon!!!
I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this. She’s so, uh, top-heavy!
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What I like about steampunk is that it’s inherently anachronistic — Castlers and Spacers alike can claim the theme and build in it. Most of the recent steampunk LEGO here on The Brothers Brick has been from Spacers, but Classic-Castler marakoeschtra presents two vehicles from the “eccentric inventor” Professor Nutbolt.
First, a “Pitchfork Walker“:
And here’s Nutbolt’s “DragonFly“:
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I’ve been unable to access Blogger since my last post, but I think I have a workaround that will enable me to post now.
Stand by for some major updates to the blog (observant readers will already notice some changes on the main page), as well as the usual minifigs, mecha, castles, spaceships, and everything else wonderful and cool in the world of LEGO.
allmusic lists over 80,000 artist biographies, so Izzo has a long way to go before he runs out of material for his musical minifigs.
His latest is inspired by The Gorillaz’ Demon Days album art:
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The steampunk bug has taken a huge bite out of Lukas. That’s a good thing.
Here’s his latest, a “steam chimney”:
Now with a bonus floating rock!
But wait, there’s more! Flappters inspired by Miyazaki’s Laputa:
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The Seattle Weekly reports that families hoping to leave their kids in the “LEGO pit” at Bumbershoot (our annual arts festival) while they run off to see Of Montreal or Rogue Wave will be disappointed this year. Just so ya know.
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Advance Wars is by far my favorite Game Boy Advance game, Advance Wars 2 is just as good, and Battalian Wars for Nintendo GameCube totally rocked. As if the game’s units weren’t tiny enough, Soren has successfully distilled them down to mini-scale:
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What batch of catch-up updates (say that three times fast) would be complete without something from Mark Stafford?
His A-29 Mako is a “multi-purpose atmosphere or space fighter.” Nice. (Via the speedy Snoikle.)
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