About Josh

Josh is 30+ years old and has more Lego than he has hair. Which really isn't saying much. He builds mostly medieval creations, but dabbles in other genres. He is also a father and uses his kids as an excuse to buy Lego. That justification isn't working as well as it used to, so if you can think of a better justification, feel free to contact him. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Josh's Brickshelf gallery gets messier and messier. Josh also has a Flickr gallery, if you care about such things. He goes by the name "floodllama" there. If you wonder why he goes by "floodllama", you've obviously never owned a llama in flood. Josh feels sorry for you.

Posts by Josh

They’re in for a wild ride!

Lego Wild West Big Thunder Mountain

This action-packed Wild West scene, by Garbageman13, is a beauty. There are lots of little details that I like, but the action is just about perfect. The builder has hit a home run with this one.

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Colossal Castle Contest Winners Announced! [News]

The Classic-Castle Admins have finished the judging and announced the results! Check out the winners. There are some excellent castle creations there. If you need more Castle goodness, take a peek at all the entries. While there were less entries this year, the quality seems to continue to rise. I can tell you, it was hard to judging this year.

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The Pianist

This miniland pianist tickles the ivories and my heart. That piano is gorgeous. Tiago Catarino composed a nice one here.

Lego Piano Miniland

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The Jolly Roger Contest is well under way

Forbidden Cove’s first major contest, the Jolly Roger, set sail on the 1st of the month and there are some very good pirate creations cruising in. Here is a few of my favorites so far.

Lego Pirate Outpost

Dutch Soldier Outpost by Nieks

Lego Pirate Vignette

Under the Waves by Elephant_Captain

Lego Pirate Island

Pirate’s Island by SlyOwl

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How the West was won

This western town by Kris Kelvin is loverly. It’s also a nice change of pace, since we don’t see that many Western creations.

LEGO Western Town

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Jolly Roger contest on Forbidden Cove

Forbidden Cove is hosting a major pirate contest, know simply as the Jolly Roger Contest. Very similar to the Colossal Castle Contest on their sister site, Classic Castle, there is a plethora of categories and prizes. Go check it out and win yourself some loot!

LEGO Contest Pirate

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A cozy cottage

Ricardo Prates wishes you a Merry Christmas with this adorable little scene.

LEGO

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Fatbot rolls out

He’s really just stocky, you know…

LEGO Robot Mech

(L.D.M. built it. Blame him.)

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I like Hippos

These are some pretty awesome Hippos. Tim Goddard hit this one out the park. You should check out the award-winning zoo he built for them as well.

Lego Hippo

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Railbricks keeps you running on schedule [News]

LEGO Trains Railbricks Calendar

Railbricks is putting out a calendar for the first time! I’ve gotten a sneak peek of a couple of the pictures and they are gorgeous. Hopefully this does well enough to be an annual event. They are still working out the pricing and other such details, so look for more information to be forthcoming.

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BrickArms adds a bit of transparency (and some shine)

LEGO custom weapons BrickArms

BrickArms just posted new transparent weapons packs on their site. The packs are available in red, blue, green and clear. You get 34 for $25. I saw the transparent weapons flying of their table at BrickCon, so I would expect these to go fairly quickly.

According to BrickArms spokesman, the ever enigmatic badger, these are color matched to LEGO’s transparent pieces.

Edit: I’ve just been told that they added Chrome Weapons Packs yesterday. The chrome weapons are very sweet. I picked up a couple at BrickCon.

LEGO custom weapons BrickArms

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Medieval Fayre by SlyOwl

SlyOwl busts out of the starting gate with this entry for the Colossal Castle Contest. Packed with all sort of fun olde time carnival action, the dark of side the fair is revealed in the depths below the midway.

LEGO Carnival Colossal Castle Contest Medieval Fair

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