Tag Archives: Anime

Anime (アニメ in Japanese) is the style of animation or cartoons popularized in Japan, but appreciated worldwide today. Anime inspires lots of LEGO models from builders everywhere. Whether you love the artistry of Hayao Miyazaki or mecha from shows like Gundam and Evangelion, you’ll find many wonderful LEGO creations inspired by anime here on The Brothers Brick.

A pig that doesn’t fly is just a pig

Jon Hall (jonhall18) has built a great Savoia S.21 seaplane, but the centerpiece of this LEGO creation for me is the custom minifig of Porco Rosso himself.

Thanks for the link, Horace!

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LEGO Luigi!

Dirk displays his prowess with sculpture yet again. His Luigi is adorable!

Tengen Taishi mecha by Phong Chang

I hadn’t encountered LEGO mecha builder Phong Chang until recently, but it looks like he’s been building some pretty cool mecha for some time. His latest is apparently an update to an earlier version, titled “Tengen Taishi” — inspired by the recent anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann.

More photos on Flickr and MOCPages.

LEGO to release ‘Ben 10: Alien Force’ sets, due out spring 2010 [News]

According to Animation Magazine, Lego has brokered a deal with The Cartoon Network. According to a press release from LEGO, Ben 10: Alien Force LEGO sets are coming in 2010.

Now I admit that I’m out of the loop on this. I’m not an afficiando of the Cartoon Network. Is this a good thing or bad thing?

Thanks to Bruce of MicroBricks for the heads up. Also thanks to Ean for the press release link.

LEGO Strong Bad replies to e-mails with hands of bricks

Dirk VH (dm_meister) has created a large-scale sculpture of Strong Bad from Homestar Runner.

Dirk even added details like the lacing on the back of Strong Bad’s luchador mask, along with photos of the internal structure that keeps LEGO Strong Bad…strong.

See more photos of Strong Bad in Dirk’s photostream on Flickr.

Day’s turn is over : now arrives the night’s.

From his younger brother, we learn that David Collins (intrond) recently emerged from a 20-year LEGO Dark Ages and began posting his LEGO creations to Flickr. My favorite so far is an Evangelion mecha — Omega:

Laputa ornithopter flaps to Sheeta’s rescue

The first LEGO creation that Jon Hall has posted to Flickr is a LEGO version of the ornithopter, or “flaptter”, from the Miyazaki film Laputa: Castle in the Sky:

I love the shape, and the use of the clear canopies as wings is excellent.

Thanks for the tip, Horace Cheng! Don’t miss Horace’s own Laputa flaptter here on The Brothers Brick.

Alan Yap’s Springer Triple Changer Transformer is cooler than the original

Alan Yap sent us a link to his LEGO version of Springer, one of the Triple Changers from the Transformers comics and TV show:

I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so be sure to check out the full gallery on Brickshelf and Alan’s description on MOCpages.

Photos from 7th annual clickbrick Original Model Contest now online

Although winners of the 7th Original Model Contest (sponsored by Japanese LEGO specialty store clickbrick) won’t be announced until March 7, some great photos of the LEGO creations entered in the contest are now available.

Entrants are free to choose their own theme, but are restricted to 20×20 studs and 30 cm tall, and they can’t use LEGO Baby/Primo, DUPLO, MINDSTORMS, or custom parts.

“Goldfish Balloon” by Sachiko Akinaga: