Just in time for Easter, The Brick Testament takes on The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle, or Revelation for short.
Click the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to read all four new stories from Revelation:
Category Archives: LEGO
RAMM Eisendämon tiltrotor by Dean Hofmeyer
Dean Hofmeyer (Unique Name) knows how to build a great RAMM aircraft, as well as appealing to my vanity.
Here’s the Eisendämon with Dean’s earlier Hauptpanzer:
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Oh, and Dean, I would’ve blogged this anyway. ;-) Definitely blogworthy.
Emperor Palpatine finds new ways to motivate Death Star builders
Sjaak Alvarez has just completed the fourth installment in his “It’s Hard to be a Stormtrooper” series. Click through to Bricks3D.com to watch this hilarious video:
As always, Sjaak renders and animates all his videos from scratch.
The future is aqua
Drawing inspiration from the graphic novel Cyann, t-brick has built a beautiful futuristic city diorama. It also reminds me of Silverberg cover art. The use of colour and repeated motifs is spot on and gives the diorama a wonderful consistent overall feel.
It also gets bonus points for letting me use lots of different theme tags.
The TreeHugger 8000 caresses our arboreal friends
No less industrial (or lime) than a Power Miners vehicle, Aleksander Stein‘s TreeHugger 8000 looks ready to roar into a forest and cart off the raw materials for all those disposable chopsticks, paper napkins, and sticky notes in your house.
Now, doesn’t that make you happier that LEGO is made from hydrocarbons?
Aleksander has incorporated lots of nice details in this logging apparatus, including an excellent brick-built warning stripe on the crane, so don’t miss his TreeHugger 8000 photoset on Flickr.
Via Young Spacers.
LEGO Power Miners tractor by Tekka Croe
With a distinct, heavy industrial feel, this Power Miners tractor by Tekka Croe looks like it could crush boulders with its treads alone:
Note the orange Bionicle mask as a cargo compartment on the back.
“Oh yes” indeed.
Sparkly...
The only thing in ixtutetsukun‘s Brickshelf gallery is this LEGO Castle dio crowned with a stunning chandelier:
Don’t miss other great details, from the windows to the arches, in ixtutetsukun’s Chandelier gallery on Brickshelf. Let’s hope ixtutetsukun posts more great creations like this in the future!
LEGO battleship Yamato, largest LEGO ship ever, completed after 6 years
| In a feat of LEGO naval engineering rivaled only by Malle Hawking’s USS Harry S Truman and Ed Diment’s HMS Hood, Jumpei Mitsui (JunLEGO) completed his World War II battleship Yamato today. |
LEGO battleship Yamato has some very impressive specifications:
- Length: 6.6 meters (22 feet) from bow to stern
- Width: 1 meter (3 feet) at the widest point midship
- Scale: 1/40
- Time to complete: 6 years, 4 months
- Parts: 200,000 LEGO elements
- Weight: 150 kilograms (330 pounds)
Jumpei’s LEGO version is based on the way Yamato appeared immediately prior to the fateful Operation Ten-Go in 1945.
Jumpei built LEGO Yamato to answer the question he posed to himself all the way back in elementary school: “How big would Yamato be from a LEGO minifig’s perspective?” A third-year college student today, Jumpei can now demonstrate exactly what that would look like!
Breaking through the language barrier, Jumpei pioneered the use of Bricklink among Japanese LEGO fans to source the two hundred thousand LEGO elements necessary to build Yamato.
Yamato includes wonderful details like the Imperial chrysanthemum emblem on the bow and a brick-built Japanese navy flag flying from the bridge. The superstructure is especially impressive.
See more photos of this amazing LEGO creation on Jumpei Mitsui’s website and in his LEGO Battleship Yamato gallery on Brickshelf (when moderated).
Not to be confused with the fictional Space battleship Yamato, the real Japanese battleship Yamato was launched in 1941, and remains the largest battleship ever constructed by any navy.
Having fired her guns against Allied forces only once during the Pacific War, Yamato was sunk in 1945, taking nearly 2,500 of her 2,700 crew to their deaths.
Six years in the making, Jumpei Mitsui’s LEGO battleship Yamato is major news in the LEGO fan community. The Brothers Brick will get in touch with Jumpei and try to arrange an interview for our English-speaking readers. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the pictures.
Sir Nadroj invents teleportation
Jordan Schwartz (Sir Nadroj) has been working on a project to create the visual lighting and effects of a teleporter. The setup includes lights from LifeLites and a fog machine. These two components creates an out of this world ambience in the final display of the creation.
Nerds in Space fake-interviews a fake me for a spot-on parody of the real me
Derek Almen (Captain Redstorm) posts a frequently updated LEGO webcomic called Nerds in Space on Flickr. I was amused today to see myself seated on the big red couch discussing data, content, advertising, solutions, and exposure:
With my twice-a-year Brothers-Brick.com anniversary and Brothers Brick birthday posts, my love for both content and data (with associated metadata! *drools* ) is no secret. I also have an adorable troll to do my every bidding behind the scenes. It’s hilarious how accurate Derek’s parody of me really is…
Check out all the Nerds in Space episodes on Flickr.
Oh, and Lesson #1 in how to get blogged on The Brothers Brick: Appeal to the vanity of one of the bloggers.
Planet TR-57 is full of hilarious clone trooper misfits
Chris Wunz and his coworkers at Valley Video Services in La Grande, Oregon put together this funny LEGO Star Wars animation, called Planet TR-57:
Planet TR-57: Pilot from Valley Video Services on Vimeo.
Planet TR-57 debuted at BrickFest 2009, where the team also held a stop-motion animation workshop, or Animate-a-thon.
Stay tuned to PlanetTR57.com for future episodes in this series.
Pokalübergabe chugs into your nightmares (with bonus Starscream)
Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) has captured the moment when a rather scary beastie emerges from a train tunnel. I’m not sure what this little scene means, but I think it’s pretty cool.
While we’re at it, here’s Alex’s latest LEGO Transformers mech, Starscream:
See more of Alex’s great LEGO creations on Flickr and MOCPages.