Wow, I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed Martin Jaspers’ castle characters, but we haven’t blogged any of them since last May! It’s nice to see an update from one of my favorite minifig builders.
An Ice Warrior:
Vikings, both black and tan:
A pair of outlaws:
I missed these in Bronson Rash’s Flickr photostream when he uploaded them (don’t forget to tag your photos with “LEGO”, people!), but this is a very cool, wonderfully sinister Count Dracula:
Japanese builder dellta presents a very large warrior on horseback:
(Click for gallery on Brickshelf, when public.)
It hasn’t been long since I posted something by Moko (is it ever?), but I haven’t posted a mecha by him in a while. Moko’s latest is a rather shiny robot inspired by knights of old:
Mike Rayhawk has created yet another incredible piece of art based on Lego elements:
Mike is an exceptional artist, who has done amazing concept work for Lego, as well as being the Lead Illustrator for the Knights Kingdom Lego theme. Mike has also done freelance work for various organizations, including the Jim Henson company.
Personally, I am a big fan of his art and am very excited about this latest piece. Way to go, Mike, you are awesome!
(There is also an alternate version in red and gold.)
Looks like 2007 is gonna be a great year!
Special thanks to Bruce from Classic-Castle.com for pointing them out!
I never thought about it, but most necromancer minifigs are male, so it’s nice to see Brickshelfer Schvatts break the mold with this custom minifig of a female manipulator of the undead:
Classic-Castler and MCN member fry_slayer presents a very cool “Sun Warrior Princess” custom minifig (click for gallery on MCN):
Here’s a nice shot that shows off her cool face:
You can read a LEGO comic announcing the princess’s arrival in this thread on MCN Forums.
2007 catalog scans are available on 1000steine.de, with pictures of previously unseen summer-release City sets (click to go to the page on 1000steine.de and view full-size images):
Czech LEGO fan site Kostky also has a picture of the new Castle sets for 2007 (via Eurobricks):
I’m very excited about the undead horses, new skeletons (with non-floppy arms) and new accessories (curved swords, round shields, etc.). I can’t tell too much about the castles from this picture, but I like the bone cage on the undead fortress. Wicked!
Here is yet another entry of mine for the Colossal Castle Contest IV (getting tired of them yet?). This one is for the Medieval Bridge category. Spanning a ravine and only accessible through an elaborate cave system, this bridge is rests amid the spray of the famous Crystal Falls. While an intrepid fish trys to leap up the falls, a band of mysterious hooded figures crosses the bridge. Check out the gallery here!
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This was on the top of my “to blog” list before the power went out last Thursday. What I like so much about Patrick Yrizarry’s microscale Edo castle is all the detail he’s packed into it, from the moat to the gate and the courtyard full of trees of various shapes:
Here’s an angle that shows off the gate:
(Via Bruce’s new blog, MicroBricks.)
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