Soren is an inspiration to us all. Sigh…
Here’s his latest, an MS-14A Gelgoog (info):
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Honda CX500 by Nathan Proudlove
Regular readers of this blog should be familiar with Nathan Proudlove‘s steampunk work, but I ran across this little beauty in Nathan’s Flickr photostream a couple days ago:
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Gundam RX-78GP01 and XMA-01
Cat Bus and Toto-what?!
Most readers probably know by now that my favorite anime director is Hayao Miyazaki. It should be no surprise that I’ll pretty much blog anything Miyazaki-related.
First up, here’s pero’s small round Totoro, or “Totoroll”:
Next, Poizunn-05’s Cat Bus:
Finally, no post of My Neighbor Totoro LEGO creations would be complete without Todd Kubo’s ginormous Totoro:
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MS-09R Rick Dom by Justin Harvey
Back in May I blogged Hiron’s MS-09F Domtropen. Now, Justin Harvey has posted a another version, MS-09R Rick Dom (info) in awesome alternate colors:
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s space! It’s castle! It’s steampunk!
Wow, I’m still here. I’m sorry I haven’t contributed for the last month or so. I blame my new part-time job, college classes, and brickfilms.com, roughly in that order. Anyway, to jumpstart my comeback, I’m going to invade Linus’ domain (please forgive me!) and feature this extremely cool airship by Felix Greco:
I especially like the use of the Jabba’s Sailbarge sails and the bubble canopies as magical air balloons. I only wish there were more pictures.
Soren’s Galbady Gamma with Ballute System
Soren Roberts has updated his Galbady Gamma with a ballute system:
While we’re at it, here’s a bonus mecha, a Soren-original called Gravity:
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Arvo’s Commodore
Brickshelfers the Arvo Brothers’ latest LEGO recreation of a real-world object is a Commodore VIC-20:
Hurray for the 1 MHz processor! Three cheers for 5 KB of memory! Spend countless hours in your mom’s basement playing Blitz!
MaK UDK38 Schenkel Diorama by Tim Gould
Back in July I blogged Tim Gould’s LDraw version of a “Maschinen Krieger UDK38 Schenkel.” Now, Tim has posted pictures of his design in real bricks, complete with a nice diorama to showcase it:
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Dave DeGobbi’s Goliath Steampunk Airship
First, the video:
Dave DeGobbi of Burnaby, B.C., Canada attended NWBrickCon 2006 over this past weekend, and stole the show (well, at least the steampunk section) with his Goliath airship:
Naturally, the Goliath won the Best Steampunk prize for the show! Inspired by my favorite movie of all time, Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky, the airship includes many cool features:
Dave says it took him about eighty hours to build, based on three years of parts collecting. The movement is powered by seven regular LEGO motors and one micro-motor. He estimates that Goliath includes over 7000 LEGO elements, which he spent more than $1000 CDN to purchase. (Multiple Yoda sets on clearance helped with the tan.)
Those of you who transport large LEGO creations may also be interested to learn that Dave included a 3/4″ x 1 1/4″ x 4′ Brazilian cherry beam in the Goliath, which makes it strong enough to survive long trips. As an added bonus, it makes the airship strong enough to hang from the ceiling. Here’s a picture of the DUPLO cradle and straps he uses to secure the Goliath:
Be sure to check out the full photoset on Flickr for lots of detailed shots. Dave’s awesome airship has been showing up in lots of Flickr photostreams, so you might see some new details in other people’s photos as well. Thanks for sharing this info and sending me the video, Dave!
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Jamie Neufield’s akira inspired bikes
So, Jamie Neufeld is just awesome. Proof? His akira-inspired bikes should be proof enough:
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Godzilla week!
It’s Godzilla week! Duane Hess shows that not only Moko can build giant, mutated, army-crushing reptilians:
One can, of course, argue that this is not my forte. I have to ask, then, if giant, mutated, army-crushing reptilians isn’t (science) fiction, then what is? ;-)
(Note: updates from me will be more regular from now on. I have finally gotten hold of internet again! Wee!)
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