About Nannan

Nannan became involved with the online LEGO community in late 2004. He has been a builder for as long as he can remember. Nannan builds in a variety of themes that often overlap with the science fiction universe; other times they are purely made up ones. You can see his creations on Flickr, MOCpages and Brickshelf. In real life, Nannan is a physician living in Dallas.

Posts by Nannan

Hill Valley 2015

Alex Jones (Orion Pax) built a Back to the Future diorama featuring various buildings from Hill Valley. Each building has its own unique color scheme and architecture worthy of a closer look. You can see the entire layout on Flickr.

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Speak softly and carry a big stick

If one can say that a weapon reflects the personality of its wielder, then I need not say a word about this hardsuit by Cam M. For those who prefer more agile combat tactics, you may prefer the version with the dual-blades.

Teens send Lego minifig into space

Two 17-year-olds from Toronto made a balloon to fly a minifig and camera 24 kilometers into the air. Check out the news article for photos and a video of this amazing feat.

Via Toys N Bricks

UCS scale ARC-170 starfighter

Martin Latta’s (thire5) UCS scale ARC-170 starfighter is very easy on the eyes with its smooth sculpting on the nose, engines, and pretty much everywhere else.

Introducing r/afol on Reddit

Matt De Lanoy made a Lego version of the Reddit alien for the newly launched subreddit for Lego fans, r/afol. You don’t have to be an AFOL to join as the group seems to focus more on MOCs and building techniques.

Temple of Jugatinus

James Pegrum’s (peggyjdb) vignette caught my eye with its slanted rocks and angled placement of the temple, making it look more refined and realistic.

Registration for Brick Fiesta 2012 now open

Brick Fiesta is taking place in Houston from July 4 – 8 and registration is now open. This is the second year of this growing Southern Lego convention, and you can see pictures from the first event on Flickr.

Art Nouveau inspired modular bank

The combination of exotic colors and shapes from nature in Dita Svelte‘s modular bank makes this a standout build among fan-made modular buildings. The different gradients of green and earth tones add a complex layer of texture on top of that formed by the bricks.

Registration open for Brickworld Chicago 2012

Registration opens today for Brickworld Chicago 2012, the highly-attended Lego convention from June 13-17. I want to remind anyone planning on going to register and pay a few months in advance because registration always reaches its cap and MOC display space will run out. Check out photos of Brickworld on Flickr to see displays from the previous events.

Looks real enough

Bruce Lowell has been building some real-life objects recently, and the products are comparable to the uncannily accurate things that the Arvo Brothers made. You can see more in Bruce’s Flickr photostream.

LEGO Friends with headgear

If you’ve wondered what the Friends mini-dolls look like with other LEGO headgear, then L D M has what you’re looking for:

Raising the bar for building floating rocks

Barney Main (SlyOwl) built a floating rock sculpted in complex angles. There have been a few notable instances of this technique used, but it has never been applied to a floating rock due to the instability of angling the bricks. Here is the technique he used.