Ever since the post-apocalypse theme became popular in the LEGO building community, there have been many interpretations of how the world ends whether through military conflict or zombies. Some of the more exotic visions involve the settings of snow, swamp, and underground.
Now, Julandrius and Eturior add a new element to ApocaLego – the flood. The sunken buildings and worn-down walls are catchy features of their dioramas.
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We see a lot of bright green and dark green Master Chiefs built from LEGO, but the legendary John-117 SPARTAN II super-soldier from Halo
Tyler (Legohaulic) recently picked up over a hundred “cheese” slopes in the new color, and this is the result.
The most accurate LEGO Master Chief? By no means, but this is an absolute tour-de-force in single-part repetition, and certainly the first Master Chief sculpture in the correct color. It’ll be interesting to see what other new LEGO models this new color will inspire.
In the distant future, when humanity has spread to hundreds of habitable planets in the galaxy, when good little boys and girls live thousands of light years away from the North Pole on Earth, how does Santa Claus deliver their toys on Christmas? Why, aboard SCSS Rudolph, the jolly old elf’s Candy Cane-class space corvette, of course!
The Rudolph features a pair of high-gain subspace comm arrays, a Hawking-Kaku event horizon drive, and a cargo hold that takes advantage of Gallifreyan technology to maximize interior capacity.
Build notes: I actually threw this together back in January, during my Chris Foss-inspired microscale phase, when I was trying a variety of color combinations. Red and white looked a little too Christmasy, so I went ahead and added a red nose, a pair of antlers, and some green accents, and then saved it until now. When I start building, I often don’t quite know where a LEGO model is going to end up.
Photo notes: Other than adjusting the exposure a bit, you’re looking at a completely unprocessed photo; everything you see in the photo is 100% official LEGO. BrickCon received some discarded LEGO signage from a toy store, including the backdrops for LEGO aisle displays, and I snagged a couple of card-stock pieces printed with space scenes. Expect to see this LEGO planet in my photos from time to time…
To help raise awareness of men’s health issues like prostate cancer, each November many men attempt to grow facial hair. Some men succeed. Things appear to be a lot simpler in minifig-land, according to Michael Jasper in his latest vignette.
I love a good lander, and this realistic future on an icy planetoid by Ludgonious certainly doesn’t disappoint. The melted pool and vents are also wonderful elements of this alien landscape.
And since it’s been a couple of years since we’ve featured something of his, be sure to go check out Ludgonious’s photostream on Flickr — lots of fun dioramas and scenes we’ve missed in the intervening years.
The latest video from BrotherhoodWorkshop gives us a behind-the-scenes view of what happened during the Battle of Helm’s Deep.
The whole video is funny, but the punchline at the end is priceless.
I’m always pleased when Tony Sava (sava_the_aggie) posts pictures of one of his trains in situ. He’s got a camera with a great depth of field, and a great skill at using it.
We expected LEGO to hold on to their 2013 sets until, well, 2013, but they’ve just released the new LEGO Space theme, Galaxy Squad, on the LEGO Shop online.
Here’s the full list of new LEGO Galaxy Squad sets:
Pascal (pasukaru76) calls this little cottage a shack, but I call it adorable.
Demonstrating that repetition of a part can yield some interesting results, Pascal uses yellow arch/fender pieces to build a gorgeous thatched roof for his stone cottage. The little tree-shaped hole where the arches meet is also a fortuitous touch.
As Ace rightly guessed over at FBTB, Amazon.com has followed the lead of another store and discounted 10188 Death Star
With free shipping and no tax in most states, it’s a pretty sweet deal (if you don’t balk at $340 on a four-year-old LEGO set, but your mileage may vary).
As you may recall, the Internet has been swooning over this set for more than four years now, making 10188 Death Star one of the longest-lived LEGO Star Wars sets in history. With most LEGO sets now on the shelves for no more than two years (many for only a fleeting few months), this might be your last chance to pick up this iconic set.
EDIT: Bob notes in the comments that 10212 Imperial Shuttle
There have been so many new custom items coming out recently, it is almost overwhelming. I’ve been meaning to highlight several of these items and more of them keep coming out!
First on the list is Guy Himber’s Crazy Arms. Guy sent me some of these awhile back but I never got pictures uploaded because my camera was on the fritz and then I forgot. But luckily he has restocked them and they are a lot of fun! They replace the existing minifig arm, allow other “crazy” poses and are currently available in black, brown and white.
Brickarms released their Xperimental weapons in October and they look good. I don’t own any but I got to look at a few of them at BrickCon. They definitely live up the standards that Brickarms fans have come to expect. On a side note, Brickarms has reached an agreement with the makers of Offensive Combat. Brickarms will be releasing weapons from the game and some of the Brickarms product line will be appearing in the finished game. I did get some of the prototypes of these weapons and they are fantastic.
Brickforge has been busy as well, releasing new Shock Trooper armor, Camo patterns and baseball bats in the last couple of months. I haven’t seen the Camo and baseball bats in person, but I got a set of Doomsday Shock Trooper armor in my swag bag at BrickCon and it was pretty cool!
Lastly, BrickWarriors has been heating up their molds with all sort of new products, including Androids, Demon Armor, Two-Headed Ogres, new plumes and RPGs, among other things. I haven’t picked up any of these yet, but I have been impressed by the number of items they have been putting out lately. I see that some of the items are already sold out, but hopefully they will be restocked soon. Also, BrickWarriors is donating a percentage of each order to Toys for Tots through December 1st.
That is all for now, but I will be doing another Custom Roundup this weekend. There was just too much for one post!
Mike Nieves built an infestor from StarCraft II in his trademark style, which I thought was perfect for depicting this Zerg creature.
