About Dan

Dan Rubin has been an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) since he became an adult. He joined the larger AFOL community on LUGNET in 2003, and that was also the year in which he attended his first BrickFest. Dan largely builds space MOCs, so it should come as no surprise that he is also the Main Admin of the forums at Classic-Space.com. He is also the creator of the Galactic Inquisition space theme. Dan has been a member of the LEGO Ambassador program since the third cycle of the program. Read more about the program here. You can check out Dan's LEGO creations on Flickr.

Posts by Dan

Johnny’s Gunship

There have been a lot of really great starfighters posted online lately, and this one by Johnny (Dr. X) is certainly no exception. One thing that does make it different, is that it’s not an entry for the “Show us what you got” contest over on flickr, for which I am a judge. I’ve been trying not to show any bias by blogging about entries, which has been rather frustrating. I was glad to see this ship, which is pretty cool, wasn’t an entry for the contest (he already entered something in the contest).

There’s a neat explanation for the fins that pop open on the side of the ship, revealing a radar array, that has a clever realism to it that I like. More importantly, though, it just looks cool, it reminds me a of a cobra fanning its hood.

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The Pony Express goes airborne

Brent (thwaak) has built what looks like a flying submarine for the Pony Express. I love the sort of whimsy that can go into a steampunk creation, and this is a great example. It even has a periscope! The mix of colors on the hull is a nice touch too, it looks like a mix of wood and metal.

Ricardo Silva gets cannonized

Ricardo Silva (evildead1980) has built an awesome little vignette with the new pirates. The use of flaming hair from the Agents sets as a cannonball is positively inspired. The long thin base is also a nice trick, it gives a nice sense of scale.

The Neo Classic-Space bug is spreading.

Now even folks that weren’t even originally part of the coordinated effort on www.neoclassicspace.com can’t help but get in on the action. I love what Aaron Andrews (DARKspawn) has just posted, a classic-spacified version of an Apollo Lunar lander. AWESOME!

Orion II Mecha

Paul Meissner (Legosamurai) has built a cool new mecha. He’s done a lot of really cool detail work here, like the boosters on the legs and back, and the reserved use of stickers and decorated tiles. I absolutely love the head, it’s a perfect part choice. It even opens to accommodate a fig, but still has an awesome bulbous shape that looks armored and ready for space. I don’t know what the big rod sticking out from the back is, but I assume that there’s some explanation I would understand if I watched Gundam or something.

Fradel’s Power Suit

Fradel Gonzales (Slice151) has just posted a cool little power suit for his LEGO figs. I like his style of beefier looking mecha, it’s nice to see a little variety from the standard frail-looking anime styled stuff. This power-suit has some nice play features (like the opening cockpit) and looks very posable too. I like that you could play with it without worrying about it shattering into a million little pieces.

Neo Classic Space Roundup

It looks like the March Neo Classic Space project is off to a rousing start.

Some really excellent creations have been posted already, like the ones by Mark Sandlin (right) and Tim Goddard (below).

Mark has built a very cool ship. I love the fins, and the slight angle he’s put a traditional windscreen piece at. Tim has built a really cool ship, with a cool windscreen orientation, and then put it on a landscape with some very interesting alien plants.

EDIT (Andrew): I feel compelled to add my own favorite, less vehicular Neo Classic Space creations — Thomas Öchsner‘s “Universe of the Floating Rocks”:

Universe of the floating Rocks by T.Oechsner.

Brian Williams shows us where Indy got his hat.

Indy Tank I’m sure most of us remember the scene from the opening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where teen aged Indy chases down some relic thieves on a train.

Brian Williams has built an amazing rendition of that train. Complete with a chase over a flatbed car. He’s made some excellent custom stickers to add the extra details specific to the movie as well. I just hope that there’s a lion and a whip inside there somewhere.

He’s also built some other great Indiana Jones creations, like the tank to the right, which are on his flickr account.

I just can’t stop building alien stuff

My latest is an interplanetary probe. I wanted to stick with the mix of angles from equilateral triangles and more simple bilateral symmetry at a smaller scale than many of the other creations in the theme. I also wanted to do something a little bit different with the engines.

The Powerpuff Girls

Sugar, spice, and everything nice, these were the ingredients chosen, to create the perfect little girls, but Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredients to the concoction–Chemical X. Matt Armstrong (Monsterbrick) has added another ingredient to his miniland scale rendition of the Powerpuff Girls, LEGO. I think he did an especially nice job on the shoes.

Jehkay’s Defense Drone

While Jehkay‘s new defense drone pretty much looks like it’s just a couple of boxes from above, it’s actually a pretty cool creation. Underneath the two boxes there’s a cool array of weapons and equipment. The eye or whatever it is in front is pretty cool too. He has also found a very interesting color to use for the background of these shots, I rather like it.

Awesome working Technic forklift

Sebastiaan Arts has built a working forklift using the LEGO power functions system. He’s used the infrared remote control to allow him to both drive and steer the forklift. Not only can he drive it with the remote, though, he can raise and lower the fork! Make sure you check out the video of it in action.