Andrew Horvatits recently posted a series of wheeled bots. Here’s my favorite, the “SCREW Bot”:
Super cool indeed.
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Toshogu Pagoda by Thomas Bendt
The city of Nikko in Japan is a major Buddhist and Shinto center, most famous for housing the tombs of the Tokugawa shoguns. German builder Thomas Bendt (Triathletus on Brickshelf) has just posted a recreation of the famous pagoda at Toshogu shrine:
The thumbnails in the gallery (and even the image above) don’t do justice to this stunning creation. Be sure to check out the full-size pictures in Thomas’ gallery. While you’re at it, be sure to check out other amazing creations by Thomas, including Pulguksa temple (in Korea) and a Thai temple.
Life Aquatic Minifigs
Okay, another batch of minifigs I made a while ago that I never posted here and just uploaded to Flickr. :-)
From Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, here’s Steve:
(Click the image for the full photoset on Flickr.)
Moonshiners
With the Tommy gun in the new Batman sets, a spate of Prohibition-era LEGO creations seems inevitable.
I think Nathan Cunningham was the first to put the Tommy gun to use with his 30’s thug, but taltosVT has built a moonshine still, two moonshiners, and the wheels they’ll need to haul their illicit “hillbilly pop” to buyers:
SpongeBob SquarePants Pics
Following up on his Avatar pictures, Lenny Hoffman has posted detailed images of the Bikini Botton and “Build a Bob” set from the upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants line.
Here are the minifigs, Gary, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward:
X-Men Minifigs
For today’s batch of minifigs, I present the X-Men:
And here’s Magneto:
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All right, bring it on!
Flickr user and Classic-Spacer Kotua has posted a cool Terran Vulture unit from the classic real-time strategy game StarCraft, based on an original LEGO design by Mike Psiaki. That, naturally, gives me an excellent excuse to post Mike’s original StarCraft creations.
Here’s the Vulture Kotua recreated:
Here’s Mike’s awesome Wraith:
Finally, several infantry units — Marines, a Firebat, and a Medic:
(If you liked these, be sure to check out Kotua’s version of the vulture, as well as my own Blizzard-inspired minifigs.)
Another Koinobori by Legokou
SwordKirby64’s Space Minifigs
New Brickshelf user SwordKirby64 has posted some cool spaceish minifigs with several interesting weapon designs:
Lord Sinister’s Half Track by Mark Stafford
In addition to his creations inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Stafford’s Adventurers folder includes several cool vehicles. Here’s a new one, a half-track for Sam “Lord” Sinister:
Be sure to check out his other vehicles:
Children’s Day Koinobori by Inago100
May 5th is Children’s Day in Japan. Although called “Children’s Day” today, this day was in the past Boy’s Day, so many Boy’s Day traditions continue to be celebrated on May 5th. One such tradition is to fly multi-colored carp streamers, or koinobori — one for each male child in the household.
Japanese blogger inago100 has posted a nice koinobori:
Alan Saunders’ Family Tree
Alan Saunders (aka Kaptain Kobold) presents a portrait of our relatives and ancestors:
That’s good old Chuck in the hat, a Neanderthal with the spear, Lucy, and a monkey.