I suspect I’m the last person on the planet who hasn’t seen Avatar yet (though I’ve never watched James Cameron’s Titanic either). Harvey Cu seems to have caught a showing of the latest epic, resulting in a rather nice Thanator beast:
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RT @OchreJelly “@Fredoichi made an amazing shift from super-sharp mecha to adorable cwute animals, in this case, the accursed Twitter Bird…”
Backlog of goodness
Luis Baixinho uploaded a mountain of backlog pictures, and it’s full of greatness. Beyond the sheer coolness of each creation, the great thing is the variety in the types of builds he does. First this Star Trek shuttle . . .
. . . then this great butterfly.
Fantastic range for a single builder.
Happy New Year 2010, Year of the Tiger!
かわいいレゴずき (I Love Cute LEGO) has a great roundup of New Year’s best wishes from our LEGO friends over in Japan, starting with one of their own:
Here are a few more of my favorites.
muntax has built a tiger truck (“寅っく” for a lovely bilingual pun):
Hiro’s tiger burns bright in the forests of the night — or at least in a thicket of bamboo :
Satoru’s tiger bust would look great on any mantle, in any year:
Check out I Love Cute LEGO for the full roundup — click the links in the second half of the post.
Tigers are, of course, the most awesome animal in the Chinese Zodiac. 2010 looks to be a pretty good year.
LEGO entomology
I’m more into etymology than entomology, but I can still appreciate these lovely bugs by Peter Fendrik (pupipupi).
Check out the full photoset on Flickr for shots of the individual bugs in their beautiful black boxes. (This last sentence was brought to you by the letter B.)
Via The Living Brick.
Why doesn’t it run away from me?
This life-sized red squirrel by the Vuurzoon family has a puffy tail and looks just like the real critter. Check out the gallery to see more shots of this LEGO creature in its natural environment.
Flaming awesome!
Bright. Colorful. Creative. Life-like. Suntastic. Not quite a loss for words, too many adjectives to describe this cool sculpture, Helios, by David Pickett (fallentomato).
Via The Living Brick. Good catch, OJ!
I like Hippos
These are some pretty awesome Hippos. Tim Goddard hit this one out the park. You should check out the award-winning zoo he built for them as well.
Lino’s 1960 Chevy Apache will carry inland surfers to the dunes
It’s hard to believe that LUGNuts is already two years old, but the group of LEGO car builders celebrated its second anniversary in October. For the anniversary challenge, LUGNuts co-founder Lino Martins built a 1960 Chevrolet Apache.
The truck is great — with diamond patterns on the interior and a great gas can — but the backdrop is just as interesting. I love the cow’s skull and vulture.
Click the picture to read Lino’s full write-up about his inspiration, and see his roundup of all the entries on the LUGNuts blog.
Dragon Bones
This is what you look like...
….to someone not from here. Da Eart, by Cole Blaq, is freaking me out. I keep looking in the mirror to see if this really what earthlings look like. I think I’m getting there.
Nightmare, the flaming stallion
It’s not easy to build realistic creatures in LEGO on a small scale, but midnightcat have skillfully created a flaming stallion called Nightmare. I really like the use of the new flame pieces for the mane.
