Category Archives: LEGO

You’d probably expect a lot of the posts on a LEGO website like The Brothers Brick to be about LEGO, and you’d be right. If you’re browsing this page, you might want to consider narrowing what you’re looking for by checking out categories like “Space” and “Castle.” We’re sure there’s something here that’ll fascinate and amaze you.

Back Bay Brahmins

The building was nothing special — a little Boston Brownstone I built mainly as filler for the zombie display — so I decided to have a little fun with the presentation.

Check out the full building if you must.

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Brent’s MA-X Medical Android can’t save them all

Brent Waller‘s medibot arrives just a few moments too late to rescue an ill-fated minifig.

Don’t miss the gallery on MOCpages for more shots of this adorable mecha.

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Battleship Yamato... in space!

Vincent Cheung spent just 10 nights to build this amazing creation from the anime series Space Battleship Yamato. The model measures about 150 studs long, that’s the equivalent of four feet.

Via Klocki

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Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads...

Really, is there anything that needs to be said?  It’s by Legohaulic, and it’s everyone’s favorite time-traveling DeLorean.

 

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A train contest no less

Baldwin contest banner

I started a little building challenge for trainheads (and those that might want to have a go) and Peter Norman donated a prize so it became a contest. An interesting aspect of train building in LEGO is that it’s one of the few areas where a number of people work from the same or similar prototypes. For these challenges I decided to take this one step further and get everyone to work from exactly the same source material.

The rules are in the flickr trains group but I’ve copied them here for those who don’t use flickr.

This time we can all build a US diesel switcher: a Baldwin AS-616 as it comes in a variety of liveries. I found a nice side-view projection and there’s a flickr group dedicated to Baldwin’s.

Peter Norman has graciously donated a prize to the first challenge so there will be judging. The winner will receive a very valuable Lego train related item. Peter, I and possibly a third judge will decide the winner based on no fixed criteria. There will not be a rankings system.

* The deadline for entries is February 28, 2009. Deisgns must not have appeared in public before the 1st January 2009.

* To enter the contest provide a small link to the image in the flickr thread using the [FLICKR-URL] technique (copy the URL for the model’s flickr page and surround it by square brackets). If you are not a flickr member email a direct link to a 240px wide version of your entry to me and a link to more pics and I will enter for you.

* The Challenge is open to 6, 7, or 8 wide, powered or not. All entries must be able to at least navigate Lego train track.

* Entries may be in CAD format but the file must be available for inspection and must be deemed to be buildable by me to be eligible for the contest. Similarly non-LEGO components may be used but it is best to be aware of the judges’ prejudices.

If you have any questions just post them here but read through all the text first.

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A T makes us an offer we can’t refuse

Inspired by Alex Eylar and Tim, brilliant young builder AT94 (Flickr) tries his hand at cinematic photography — to great success, I think.

I’m most intrigued by the hood of the car poking into this picture:

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Steaming into the depths of space with Legohaulic

For a LEGO fan theme heavily influenced by Jules Verne — whose work includes From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon, and other space-faring 19th-century novels — there’s rather a dearth of LEGO steampunk creations set somewhere other than the surface of the Earth.

Tyler Clites fills that gap with his great set of vehicles. That’s a great, atmospheric photo (above), but the ships are worth a look on their own, too:

See more photos on Brickshelf or MOCpages.

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Nash’s Mobile Medical Unit to the rescue!

With a full interior and removable roof for access, Nash‘s Mobile Medical Unit is just the kind of LEGO model I’d love to see as a set.

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Hobo4Evar’s M6 Cobra

This little spaceship by Hobo4Evar is very pleasing to look at – I love the light gray/dark blue/trans orange colors, and the cockpit windshield is wonderfully done.

 

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SlyOwl stings...Tse-Tse style

The ball-shaped cockpit on this Tse-Tse scout, by SlyOwl, is incredible. I should know, I tried building one today. I failed.

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My LEGO fire engine is ready to be apocafied

I’d always admired the great fire engines by Steven Asbury and Ralph Savelsberg, so when I built a fire house for Zombie Apocafest 2008, I knew I needed a fire engine like theirs.

The fire engine seats four and includes various compartments for their equipment. See more photos on MOCpages or Flickr.

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Chrispockst visits a wasteland...

Chrispockst has created disturbing and disgusting wasteland full of toxic spills, rotting corpses and creepy mutants.  Surely I’m not the only one reminded of Half-Life and Half-Life 2…

 

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