I think Lukas put it best: *GASP*
Here’s Danny Rice’s Porphyrion from the bow:
And from the stern:
Now someone just needs to build an Arrow of Heracles… Get to it, Spacers!
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Tora, Tora, Tora!
After seeing the beautiful Boeing B-29 bomber Josh posted, I could hardly neglect JUNLEGO’s swooshably cool Mitsubishi A6M2 “Zero” fighter:
(The Zero was the primary Japanese fighter in the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the code phrase “Tora, Tora, Tora” was transmitted back to Tokyo to indicate that total surprise had been achieved.)
JUNLEGO has also posted a floatplane version of his Zero. Incidentally, he’s been working on a battleship Yamato that may rival Malle Hawking’s Harry S. Truman when it’s done!
Sugegasa Rides the Air
Mecha master Sugegasa’s dozens of “unmanned control experiment machines” are generally controlled from afar by adorable minifig girls. According to his most recent blog post, this sometimes presents a bit of a problem:
At first, the girl simply ran after the unmanned machine, calling out instructions, but being too close proved death-defyingly dangerous, and ambient noise also sometimes prevented her commands from reaching the mecha. So, with parts she had lying around, the girl built a vehicle with enough speed to keep up with the mecha and a transmitter to clearly relay her voice commands from a safe distance.
Now, I’m generally not a fan of convoluted backstories for LEGO creations, but that is just too awesome not to pass on to all of you English-speaking LEGO fans.
Without further ado, here’s Sugegas’s flight-board:
Kokekokkooooo!!!
That’s the sound a rooster makes in Japanese. Here’s MisaQa with another batch of her great brick-built birds:
Legohaulic’s Flare-S Swoop
Minifigs of Mordor – custom Lord of the Rings minifigs
I made so many Lord of the Rings minifigs that I have to split them into two posts. Minifigs of Middle Earth was the first, and you’re reading the second, rather darker post.
The Dark Lord Sauron:
Sauron’s Ringwraiths, or Nazgul:
Saruman’s Uruk-Hai:
A bunch of motley goblins, or orcs:
Some evil men, the Haradrim:
A Haradrim oliphaunt-driver, and Grima Wormtongue:
And finally, Gollum:
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Minifigs of Middle Earth – custom Lord of the Rings minifigs
Well, I got stuck trying to make more musical minifigs, so I’ve revamped the Lord of the Rings minifigs I uploaded to Brickshelf a couple summers ago.
First up, the Fellowship (Flickr photoset includes individual shots and alternate versions):
Arwen and Elrond:
Galadriel and Bilbo Baggins:
Faramir and Eowyn:
Theoden and Eomer:
Next up, Minifigs of Mordor!
Rock on, my little Norse dudes!
How cool is that?
Jonathan Coulton is a musician who releases his songs under a Creative Commons license, just as I do with my LEGO pictures and blog content. The idea is that you allow other people to use your creations (music, artwork, text, etc.) as part of their own creative work. The type of CC license Jonathan and I use is called Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. That means you can copy and redistribute my work, as long as you give me credit, don’t use it for commercial purposes, and re-release your work under the same license.
When I changed my blog content and LEGO pictures from a standard copyright to a Creative Commons license, I never thought someone would actually use it, so it’s nice to know the system works. Thanks to Classic-Castler Sir Dillon for sending me a link to the video!
Now I’m off to build Jonathan in minifig form so he can join the rest of my musical minifigs. ;-)
Finally, some more links for you to click:
- Original Norse deity post here on TBB
- Blog post on The Jonathan Coulton Project
- Blog post on Jonathan Coulton’s official site
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News Roundup: Week of June 18, 2006
It’s been a busy week of LEGO-related news.
The good:
- Microsoft Announces Robotics Studio (via The NXT STEP)
- LEGO and Microsoft Enter Robotics Collaboration (via The NXT STEP)
- South African LEGO ad wins print category in major competition (via TWENTY FOUR)
The bad:
The ugly:
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I work alone, understand? Alone.
Nelson Yrizarry mentioned recently that he has a bit of extra time on his hands. This is a wonderful thing for all of us, because he’s posted sixteen vignettes based on Spider-Man (I’m hoping Nelson will re-post some of the great minifigs separately).
Possibly lost in the Spider-Vig hubbub is a wonderful vignette based on the 1994 movie The Professional starring French actor Jean Reno, alongside Natalie Portman in her debut role (click for gallery):
Here’s Léon with his rather formidable sniper rifle:
Heavy Swiss Freighter Titan by Jerac
Classic-Spacer Jerac (who, it turns out, isn’t Swiss after all) has posted another awesome entry in his fleet of micro-scale Swiss-themed space ships, the Titan freighter (click for gallery):
The awesome bridge:
A smaller container that slides in and out of the freighter (labeled “7”), which clamps onto the bigger, black container shown in the first picture:
