Bentcreations has posted a sweet Viking Hut on Brickshelf. It uses the viking warrior and wolf from set #7015. The landscaping is especially well done.
The Viking Hut:
Here’s the Viking Hut Gallery
Tag Archives: Castle
The Dragon Attacks!
Well, I’m finally back and with a rather unusual creation too! It isn’t often that you find really cool things built out of Duplo but this is an exception. For those of you who don’t already know, Duplo is the version of Lego made for the younger generation and this castle is simply incredible…
I give you, the Duplo Castle:
Besides being very well built and really, really big, this scene boasts some fun details too. Here is the dragon, having lept atop the wall, as he prepares to burn the vegetable booth:
In this picture, the valiant defenders attempt to quench the flames:
Here’s the Duplo Castle Gallery
Greeple and Urple the Podagons
Megan Rothrock is at it again — creating truly unique, wildly colorful creatures. Her two latest beasts are inspired by X-pods. There’s a green one and a purple one.
Greeple, who loves “pizza, and pizza delivery boys”:
Urple, whose palate is equally sophisticated:
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Samara the Witch
Eurobricks member and Brickshelfer “Apophis Voo” presents Samara the Witch. Given that she’s a minifig, I suspect she weighs less than a duck:
What I like about Samara is that Apophis has combined bits and pieces from lots of different themes to create an awesome fantasy minifig. I also think this is the first time I’ve seen Draco Malfoy’s head used on a female fig.
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Chad Ivany’s Gate House
The castles I built twenty years ago were merely extensions to official LEGO sets, in the same, predictable style. These days, builders like Chad Ivany don’t limit themselves to rows of those wall pieces with little windows in them. Chad’s latest creation is a gate house fit for the greatest of medieval kings (click for full gallery):
In addition to lots of great detail on the outer wall, Chad has included wooden structures and a scene full of minifigs on the inside:
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Momotaro: The Boy Born from a Peach
There once was an old woman who could bear no children. One day, she was washing clothes at the river, when all of a sudden she saw an enormous peach bobbing toward her on the water. The woman was poor and she thought, “That peach will feed me and grandpa for many days.” She caught the peach as it bumped against the shore and carried it home, where she used her biggest kitchen knife to slice into its bright pink flesh.
So begins the tale of “Momotaro,” or “Peach Boy” (well, with a little creative license by yours truly). “Momotaro” is quite possibly the most popular Japanese children’s story. Now, go read the rest of the story!
Back? Izzo has recently recreated Momotaro and his ragtag band of animal warriors in LEGO minifig form:
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Possible new set: G577 Vikings Chess Set?
Mumu seems to have run across a new set on LEGO Shop@Home, G577 Vikings Chess Set. That link doesn’t work anymore, but Mumu lifted this picture before the set disappeared from S@H:
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Sugegas’s Figs 12 and 13
A Forest Road, and a Necromancer
I really respect builders who can cross thematic lines with ease, and Chris Malloy is one such builder, active in the LEGO Star Wars, Castle, and Space communities. His latest creations include two great dioramas that reflect a slice of medieval/fantasy life.
Here’s Chris’ “Road Less Traveled” (I love the mushrooms):
And in this scene, a necromancer finally gets what he deserves:
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Ballchoi’s Castle
Brickshelfer ballchoi presents a nice three-tiered castle reminiscent of a much larger one in Himeji:
Minifigs of Middle Earth – custom Lord of the Rings minifigs
Well, I got stuck trying to make more musical minifigs, so I’ve revamped the Lord of the Rings minifigs I uploaded to Brickshelf a couple summers ago.
First up, the Fellowship (Flickr photoset includes individual shots and alternate versions):
Arwen and Elrond:
Galadriel and Bilbo Baggins:
Faramir and Eowyn:
Theoden and Eomer:
Next up, Minifigs of Mordor!
Rock on, my little Norse dudes!
How cool is that?
Jonathan Coulton is a musician who releases his songs under a Creative Commons license, just as I do with my LEGO pictures and blog content. The idea is that you allow other people to use your creations (music, artwork, text, etc.) as part of their own creative work. The type of CC license Jonathan and I use is called Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. That means you can copy and redistribute my work, as long as you give me credit, don’t use it for commercial purposes, and re-release your work under the same license.
When I changed my blog content and LEGO pictures from a standard copyright to a Creative Commons license, I never thought someone would actually use it, so it’s nice to know the system works. Thanks to Classic-Castler Sir Dillon for sending me a link to the video!
Now I’m off to build Jonathan in minifig form so he can join the rest of my musical minifigs. ;-)
Finally, some more links for you to click:
- Original Norse deity post here on TBB
- Blog post on The Jonathan Coulton Project
- Blog post on Jonathan Coulton’s official site
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