Victor Bartolome (Wafflebottom) calls these little robots “The Exploders.” I call them darn cute. Just by posing the heads differently, he manages to convey different emotional states. I wonder if batteries are included.
Tag Archives: Creatures
Strike a pose
The best trick to make a mecha model look really great, is to ensure it’s got as close to ‘human’ movement as is possible. Nate Descatro has achieved this in a very compact and very stylish design. It looks highly adaptable too.
The many faces of Legohaulic
This is a roundup post featuring some of Legohaulic‘s recent builds, which centers around characters with expressive personalities. Check out his Flickr photostream for more works from this past prolific month.
Making a Big Splash
Flickr user Teabox has built this dramatic scene portraying the summoning of a giant sea serpent, and uses it to illustrate a short comic. There are lots of neat bits about this model, not least of which is the impressive splash of the monster rising from the deep, but also note the brick-built boat, which is very deftly done.
A Tasty Morsel
It looks like the cat in this little scene by Tyler Clites (Legohaulic) is looking for a little snack to tide it over until morning. Really, though, it’s the tiny aquarium buildings (practically micro scale castles) that set this apart for me. The effect is good enough that when I saw a small thumbnail of this image, I wasn’t sure if it was LEGO or not.
Raptors!
This chibi F-22 built by Jack Marquez (Ewok in Disguise) is a nice model in its own right, without considering the pilot. It’s well built and adorably proportioned. The icing on the cake? It’s piloted by a raptor from the new Dino sets!
Impressive Lego Pokemon Creatures by Mike Nieves
Skeletons are notoriously difficult to sculpt with Lego, due to their fragile, spindly nature, but Mike Nieves (aka retinence) has done a superb job with this imagining of a Pokemon Magikarp. His Gyarados is no less excellent, though, translating the serpentine body into Lego fantastically.
Lego Opee Sea Killer and Bongo Submarine
Matt De Lanoy built the Opee Sea Killer and Bongo Submarine 5 years ago but it’s not until now that he posted edited photos to do the model justice. You can see more pictures on Matt’s Flickr page.
Forbidden Cove’s Seed Part Challenge: Week Two
Forbidden Cove is running a multi-week Seed Part contest, where the entrants have one week to build a creation using that week’s Seed Part–and it can’t be whatever the part actually is. Week one was a classic flared helm; this week is a minifig’s chair piece.
Here are some of my favorite entries from week two, in no particular order:
Rapture of the Deep by Guy Himber
Once Cap’n Jack, Always Cap’n Jack by Bluesecrets
Enemy in Sight by Marco den Besten
Description is Useless
What can I say to add to the experience of viewing this amazingly bizarre creation by halfbeak? It does make interesting use of some parts (like car doors on the arms), but that’s certainly not what caught my eye. This is an engaging character, and that’s why I like it.
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Something I look forward to every New Year’s Day is the lovely LEGO creations by Japanese builders celebrating the new year, most often incorporating the animal from the Chinese Zodiac. I generally wait a couple days and do a roundup, but Moko‘s dragon is too gorgeous to share later.
(And since we get at least one comment about this every year, Japan celebrates New Year’s on January 1st every year. Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar, the exact date varies by year, and is celebrated by many other Asian cultures. Just not Japan.)
Bionicle tiger
Mike Nieves (retinence) builds the most unique Bionicle creations I’ve seen. What’s unique about a tiger you ask? For starters it’s not a humanoid warrior.
