Category Archives: LEGO

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Time to activate your hyperdrive and build The Ghost from Star Wars Rebels [Instructions]

As Star Wars fans will know, the Ghost was piloted by Hera Syndulla and was the starship and home base of a small band of Lothal rebels. She was named for her ability to travel past Imperial sensors without detection. If you missed out on buying LEGO’s 75053 The Ghost before it retired, then this beautifully designed microscale version by Inthert is well worth building.

Microscale Ghost

The simple breakdown instructions show just how well this microscale Ghost has been designed.

See the step-by-step instructions for building your own LEGO Ghost

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New South Wales AD60 class LEGO locomotive

When tasked with building an insanely long LEGO train component (60+ studs in length or 70+ if permanently coupled), Alexander steamed full speed ahead and he didn’t stop until his LEGO locomotive reached an impressive 98 studs in length! Based on the NSW 60 class (which operated in Australia starting in the early 1950’s), Alexander’s choo choo has two XL motors, working headlights and marker lights, and some rather sleek custom vinyl decals. Not to mention, it’s pretty much a spot-on rendition of the real thing.

OcTRAINber: NSW AD60 Class Garratt

To check out more photos, head on over to Alexander’s Flickr. And for even more super-long LEGO trains, check out OcTRAINber.

Crossing the bridge

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I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay

Builder Mike M. transports us to a despondent scene entitled “Late Night Stress”. Here a sorrowful-looking character slumps over a desk whose contents suggest a whole world of financial woes. I really like the various details and printed parts used to create the basement. The view through the window, or lack thereof, creates a real sense of being trapped and confined. Couple that with the gloomy lighting and you’ve got an excellent LEGO scene, but not a place I’d like to spend much time.

" Late Night Stress "

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You may not like spiders, but don’t you love the fear of spiders?

Can you imagine a happy Halloween without a truly terrifying insect, a spider? Fortunately for us, Tobias Buckdahn has stumbled on a very creepy one in his backyard. Eight blood-red eyes? Check. An ugly hairy body? Check! Eight long hideous legs..? Oh… More like six hideous legs and a couple of nasty claws! You’d better run for your life, Tobias!

Happy Halloween

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LEGO Ideas 21312 Women of NASA available now [News]

We reviewed 21312 Women of NASA last week, and the set is now available from the LEGO Shop starting right now (midnight Eastern time, November 1st).

21312_Box3_v29

The set retails for $24.99 and includes 4 minifigures with 231 pieces. We hope that LEGO makes sufficient quantities for everyone to have this lovely little set, but based on the frustratingly limited availability of highly anticipated sets like 21110 Research Institute, 21309 Apollo Saturn V, and 75192 UCS Millennium Falcon, we’re forced to expect limited availability ahead of the holiday season.

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Frankie and Vlad, frightfully good friends

Check out this great LEGO bust of Frankenstein’s Monster by Letranger Absurde. Great use of the Mixel eyes to add character to Frankie-boy’s expression, and all the requisite neck bolts and forehead staples are present and correct. But the best bit for me is the extra angle added to the neckline of the t-shirt. It’s little touches like that which separate brilliant models from good ones — tiny details which aren’t required but are the mark of fantastic building.

Frankenstein Monster Bust

Frankie isn’t alone of course, maybe that’s why he looks a little pensive. Old Dracula himself is lurking around. No doubt getting ready to head out into the night and feast on the bricks of the living…

Dracula Bust

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I want my Mummy

Tyler has been putting together a range of scary LEGO faces for Hallowe’en this year. Here’s a selection, starting off with an excellent bandage-wrapped Mummy. The shaping is perfect, and the angled tiles as cloth strips work perfectly in this style. The teeth look appropriately jagged and broken, and those eyes peeking through gaps in the bandages are properly creepy. This is one of those LEGO models which looks really simple, but I bet took multiple rebuilds to get just right.

Mummy

Tyler’s also been kind enough to provide us with a drooling zombie — complete with cracked skull leaking brains…

Zombie

And it wouldn’t be Hallowe’en without a scary pumpkin carving, would it? Tyler obliges with this cracking little model — a combination of brilliant shaping and smart, restrained colour choices…

Jack-O-Lantern

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Zombie dance off is a real thriller

It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in the dark. It’s LEGO Zombie Michael Jackson, who definitely appears to have the soul for getting down. I spotted one of those red hinges in a brick box and thought it looked a little like a leg. An hour’s building later and Michael appeared, strutting his zombie stuff. It’s a simple model, but I was pleased with the chunky cartoony vibe he’s giving off…
It's close to midnight...
And just in case you missed it previously, Hallowe’en seems like the perfect excuse to remind you about LEGO 7‘s amazing Zombie Michael — a model considerably more complicated than mine! The face and hair are excellent, and I love the overall poseability. Don’t miss that single white glove too — a nice touch (although not strictly correct if we’re being geeks about Thriller-outfit accuracy).

PVZ Michael Jackson

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Come and play with us, for ever and ever and ever

Take a ride on your tricycle down the hall — just look who you might bump into. It’s the iconic Grady Twins from The Shining, recreated in LEGO by Matt Forrest. The use of the Alice In Wonderland minifigure reversed is very clever in capturing the look of the girls’ outfits. It’s not often plastic bricks manage to send a shiver down the spine, but this creation does the job.

The Grady Twins

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‘Cos I ain’t got no body

Here comes Duncan The Dancing Skeleton — a LEGO creation for Hallowe’en that’s equal parts cooky and spooky. Great work on those bones by Logey Bear. I particularly like the ribcage fashioned from Bionicle claws, the Belville spoon as a nose, and the use of pith helmets for eye sockets. However, it’s the jauntily-angled hat and cane which lend the model its fabulous sense of character.

Duncan the Dancing Skeleton

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Legendary warrior revived as huge LEGO figure

Gatot Kaca, from the scriptures of the Mahabharata, is a legendary warrior with magical powers of flight. In the modern world he has become popular once more as a superhero in a game called Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This is the version of the character depicted in LEGO by Dennis Qiu. The model took about 3 months to build, stands 1.4 meters tall, and consists of 19,780 pieces.

"GatotKaca”

To get a better sense of the scale, here is Dennis standing beside the model. The inner frames were built using Technic parts for stability and sturdiness. With a tall build like this, the challenge is to find the center of gravity and the right arrangements of knees and ankle to ensure it stays upright.

GatotKaca

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Giant LEGO F4U Corsair

One of the latest and greatest propeller-driven aircraft of WW2 is surely the F4U Corsair. The American fighter is instantly recognizable with its inverted gull wing. Brought to life in LEGO by Patrick MAGO this monster of a model is built at a scale of roughly 1:10. It has a wingspan of 1 meter and weighs in at a hefty 6 kg (13 pounds).

It took Patrick approximately 10 months to build the model, and he had to redesign it no less than 3 times during the process to deal with the weight. Beyond the structure itself, a big challenge in such a build is the limited selection of dark blue parts available.

LEGO - F4U - Corsair

LEGO - F4U - Corsair

Check out the video to see the wings unfolding, and more details like the cockpit interior…

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