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Announcing the LUGNuts Heroes and Villains building challenge

Lino Martins says, “Everyone knows Batman has all the coolest rides.”

As Nathan Proudlove demonstrates above, that’s certainly true! But if you’ve always thought that Spider-Man got hung out to dry or the Green Lantern got left out in the dark, the Heroes and Villains Challenge in the LUGNuts group on Flickr is your chance to give your favorite characters a sweet, sweet ride.

Here’s a bit more from Lino:

Variety is important and I’d like to see this become the coolest and most successful LUGNuts challenge yet, so if the creative juices are really flowing and you can’t decide on just one good guy or bad, then with this and every challenge, each LUGNut is encouraged to “go nuts” and build lots of MOCs! Also, while Marvel and DC offers a vast array of material to work with, you can build for your fave hero or villain outside of the comic book world as well.

Read all about the this challenge in Lino’s official announcement.

Finally, I can’t help sharing a bit of inspiration from one of my favorite builders, MisterZumbi:

Wicked. Okay people, get building! Zoom zoom!

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BB Gadgets interviews Classic Space LEGO designer Bjarne P. Tveskov

Remember Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnston’s Nine Sets I Have Known and Loved?

Something rather beautiful happened in the comments on that post — a connection between Joel and Bjarne P. Tveskov, one of the LEGO designers who worked on Classic Space sets in the 1980s.

Bjarne designed many of the sets we all know and love from the 80s:

BB Gadgets: What did designing kits for LEGO entail back in ’80s?

Bjarne: My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper…. when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer.

Read the rest of Joel’s excellent interview with Bjarne on BB Gadgets.

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LEGO Exo-Force theme to end in 2008 [LEGO]

The LEGO Exo-Force theme was received with mixed feelings back in 2005. Nevertheless, many fans have embraced the theme in the intervening years — if for no other reason than that it yielded a plethora of new minifigs and other new parts.

So, it is once again with mixed emotions that I share the news of the end of the LEGO Exo-Force theme at the end of this year. Personally, I think the 2008 Exo-Force sets were some of the best-designed sets of the theme, so it’s disappointing to say goodbye to the theme just as it seems to be coming into its own.

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BrickJournal episode on LAML radio

Check out the latest episode of LAML radio for an interview with Joe Meno, editor of the fabulous BrickJournal magazine. Learn about the past, present, and future of the largest unofficial LEGO magazine for fans, with the next issue coming out in print for the first time.

Meanwhile, take a look at an informal interview conducted by Joe with the CEO of LEGO, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp.

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LAML Radio lets me ramble on even further

The second part of my conversation with James Wadsworth is up on Radio.LAML.org.

In this episode, James and I chat about some of the current trends in the LEGO “blogosphere,” including the blogs I can’t live without (including VignetteBricks, MicroBricks, How Many Studs to LEGOLAND, Klocki Lego dla dorosłych, and Young Spacers Association Blog) and this past month’s seeming explosion of LEGO-related posts on non-LEGO blogs (including personal faves Boing Boing Gadgets, Gizmodo, and Neatorama).

Check it out on Radio.LAML.org, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes, Zune Marketplace, or whatever floats your boat. Brick on!

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Ultimate LEGO Castle Chess Set [News]

UPDATE: The LEGO Castle Giant Chess Set
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Some people know where to look for leaked pictures of upcoming sets, and many times great treasures are dug up in lego.com’s cache (the specific procedures are still a mystery to me, but I think it involves manipulating image url’s). Check out the upcoming castle chess set, complete with just about everything and probably including a big price tag too.


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LAML Radio humors my opinions

James Wadsworth invited me to join him for the latest LAML Radio podcast. We shoot the breeze about the week’s news, including the new Indy pics, the 50th birthday of the brick, and other topics.

It should come as no surprise to longtime TBB readers (1447 of my own posts and counting) that I have a lot to say (some would argue too much, heh heh), so LAML Radio #17 is part 1 of my conversation with James.

Check it out on Radio.LAML.org.

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LEGO Castle battle packs in 2008 [News]

LEGO is catching on to the success of battle packs and are in turn making castle fans happy as well. Check out the upcoming castle army boosters:

UPDATE: Both the Knights Battle Pack and the Skeletons Battle Pack are now available from the LEGO Shop.

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Congratulations to CC’s newest Master Builder!

Aaron Andrews took home the title in the recent Colossal Castle Contest V!

Our favorite Aussie won one category (Castle Spaces) and was Honorably Mentioned in three others. A big hurrah and round of applause for Aaron!

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And the results are in!

Well, we’ve been holding our breath, waiting for the results of the Colossal Castle Contest V, and the winners have all been announced! (Actually, they were announced a while ago, but I’ve been too busy to post them here. Bad Josh, bad Josh!)

A most hearty congratulations to the winners!

Check them out here:

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UK Toy Fair reveals late 2008 LEGO Star Wars sets [News]

A good day for Lego Star Wars fans, we get to see pictures of the upcoming summer 2008 sets and their minifigs from coverage of UK’s Toy Fair. Check out the gallery!

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LAML Radio covers Brickarms

The latest episode of LAML Radio hosts an interview including content about Brickarms. Learn more about this great customs minifig weapons shop and listen to the podcast.

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