Lukas, whose “Jade Empire” minifigs I featured earlier today, has also posted a steampunk dragster:
This kind of reminds me of Bekr’s “Smoke Signal” (which I blogged a few months ago). I think Bekr’s vehicle has better detailing (called “greebling” by us LEGO geeks), but it’s nice to see more builders creating steampunk stuff, and I like the minifigs Lukas uses.
I posted some “Eastern Block” minifigs a while ago, intending to follow up with minifigs from other fan-created Space factions, such as “3vil,” “Pre-Classic Space,” and “Jade Empire.” I never got around to it, but Flickrite and LEGO blogger Lukas has posted some cool Jade Empire minifigs.
Here’s an officer:
And the officer with some troops, including a sweet space ninja:
It’s been a while, but marakoeschtra has updated his castle characters with a pair of “gold carriers” and a “bush robber”:
Japanese LEGO blogger Hiron has been posting work-in-progress pictures of his MS-09F Domtropen mecha (from one of the Gundam TV series). Hiron has announced that DOM is complete, so I thought I’d post a couple of the pictures he uploaded to his Brickshelf gallery:
Very cool. For those of you who aren’t LEGO builders yourselves, I want to point out a building technique Hiron uses called SNOT, which is an acronym for for Studs Not on Top. You can read all about SNOT on BrickWiki, the open-content LEGO encyclopedia.
I featured Antony Lau’s wonderful “maxifig” creations back in December, and he continues to post new creations, from people to vehicles.
His latest vehicle seems to be a noodle truck, and I love noodles. Antony’s truck makes me hungry for phad thai, udon, chow mein, soba, pho, ramen — you get the idea:
I’ve made a number of updates to the LEGO blog lists over in the navigation area on the right. The LEGO Blogs in English section now includes several new LEGO blogs, as well as more established blogs I’ve found via Technorati or on other blogs.
I hate to play favorites, but the LEGO Blogs in Japanese section now includes an updated list of my favorite Japanese LEGO blogs (I also just updated the main list over on PPB).
Thinking beyond these two languages, I’ve added a LEGO Blogs in Other Languages section, where I’ll be adding links to non-English, non-Japanese blogs.
If you have a LEGO blog not listed in any of these three sections, just leave a comment on this post (I’ll get an e-mail).
I don’t want to bump the post from last year because it’s pages and pages long, but I’ve updated my list of Japanese LEGO blogs.
Changes include fixing broken links, updating the titles of renamed blogs, removing links to deleted blogs, and adding new blogs.
Among the many additions, highlights include the addition of The Sekiyama Railroad Newsletter (a LEGO Trains blog), Be-bonest, How Many Studs to LEGOLAND? (sort of the English-to-Japanese equivalent of PPB), and legostyle-BLOG (Izzo’s new blog).
I’ll be updating my (very partial) list of Japanese LEGO builders at some point as well. In the meantime, I hope you find the blog list useful and interesting as well.
“Meh” pretty much sums up my current feelings toward Superman. Smallville has been less than entertaining for a couple seasons now, I’m not especially stoked about the upcoming movie, and then there’s this. So, Superman = “Meh.”
In that spirit, here’s my Superman minifig, about which I feel pretty “Meh” (he’s missing something fairly important, after all):
Classic-Castler Jens (Schlimps on Brickshelf) presents another cool creation that uses rare-colored parts — a Nazgul, or Ringwraith, from The Lord of the Rings:
According to several members of my local LEGO club (SEALUG), rare-colored parts are likely the result of a quality control step in the manufacturing process known as a “color test.”
When The LEGO Company performs a color test, they create a limited run of a LEGO piece in a specific color to help determine what kinds of stresses the acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) can endure in that particular color. For example, a clear minifig was created some time ago, and the speculation at our recent meeting was that this better revealed the kinds of discoloration (due to friction or stress) that might occur where parts are joined together.
If you’re more familiar with the LEGO manufacturing process and I’ve gotten something wrong, feel free to correct me in a comment!
Classic-Castler The Hordesman has just posted an interesting soldier that demonstrates another approach to Michael Jasper’s use of visors as neckwear:
But here’s another, even cooler minifig that I missed when The Hordesman first posted it — a “Hussar”:
Well, if Mike Yoder’s orbital docking station was “drop-dead gorgeous” (from my post last week), I’m not sure what superlatives apply to Mark Stafford’s micro-scale Octan Refinery:
Check out the unique micro vehicles with which Mark has populated his refinery:
Following up on his Moonshiners, Brickshelfer taltosVT has posted a pair of “coppers” with their phone box and classic police car:
