For the month of February, BrickForge is giving away an exclusive Trans-Clear Space Marine Armor Set on any order totaling $25 or more. You can see it in the imminent assassination of this Halo Jackal built by Kyle (Armothe).
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Printed Twi’lek minifig parts now available from Arealight Customs [News]
You don’t have to travel to Ryloth to get your hands on a lovely Twi’lek dancer, jedi, personal assistant, or sith minifig. Arealight Custom Work now sells printed versions of the custom accessories we reviewed last year, as well as new curved torsos.
The heads are 5.00 USD each and the torsos 4.00 USD. Check out more photos on Flickr.
As someone too untalented to try designing, printing, and applying waterslide decals myself, I just ordered a full set and can’t wait to make them dance around on my coffee table. ♫ Jabba’s Theme ♩ as Pugsly observes approvingly…
BrickArms featured in Wired Magazine
BrickArms was featured in the current February 2010 issue of Wired Magazine as part of an article that highlight some of the successes of small scale production and manufacturing. You may be surprised to find out that Will, owner of BrickArms, now makes more income on a slow BrickArms day than he did before as a software engineer. You can read the feature on Eurobricks or click on the magazine cover below for the full article.
The brick-built world of Pandora
While I enjoyed the discussion about Avatar on the post featuring Harvey Cu’s Bionicle Thanator beast, I can’t say that it really convinced me to go see the movie. Nevertheless, we plunked down $15.50 each yesterday to go see the move in IMAX 3D, and I’ll grudgingly admit that it was well worth it — not for the story, which had the audience laughing in several places, but for the sheer spectacle.
Naturally, a major blockbuster movie like this wouldn’t be complete without the LEGO fan community cranking out creations inspired by the film. Here’s our round-up.
Imagine Rigney (imagine’s brickzone) gets us started with a great vertically oriented diorama complete with a Na’vi flying an Ikran, AMP suit on the ground, and Aerospatiale SA-2 Samson hovering in the air:
Harrison (corran101) uses the new Woody legs from the Toy Story sets for the 12-foot-tall Na’vi in the background of his vignette:
JasBrick (Flickr) takes a rather different approach with this pair of highly customized figs. The Na’vi minifig is actually an old Jack Stone figure!
Finally, Colonel Quaritch stomps around in his AMP suit in this vignette by MasterChief 1:
For more LEGO Avatar, there’s already a Flickr group, of course. (As much as I enjoyed the movie and like the LEGO creations I’ve featured here, here’s hoping Avatar isn’t the next Halo…)
They’re in for a helluva night
A heartwarming Coney Island in the bad old days diorama put together by Jonathan Gilbert (Shmails), to show off some of his new custom minifigs inspired by the movie The Warriors.
...and ’tis Thor who shall see to the task!
Classic-Castle member and customizer babyjawa posted a fantastic creation for the Custom Castle Figure portion of CCCVII: Thor!
BJ has a great eye for his custom figures, and Thor is no exception.
BrickArms adds a bit of transparency (and some shine)
BrickArms just posted new transparent weapons packs on their site. The packs are available in red, blue, green and clear. You get 34 for $25. I saw the transparent weapons flying of their table at BrickCon, so I would expect these to go fairly quickly.
According to BrickArms spokesman, the ever enigmatic badger, these are color matched to LEGO’s transparent pieces.
Edit: I’ve just been told that they added Chrome Weapons Packs yesterday. The chrome weapons are very sweet. I picked up a couple at BrickCon.
Nausicaä soars on the wings of her Mehve glider, safe above the Sea of Corruption
Jon Hall brings us more Miyazaki goodness with Mehve, Nausicaä’s glider from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
What really struck me about this creation, though, is the custom minifig that Jon made.
The breathing mask is made from a minifig bandanna, while Nausicaä’s hood is made from a farmer’s cowl.
Latest BrickForge items include printed military headgear, saw, cleaver [News]
BrickForge has just released a huge new batch of minifig accessories, starting with headgear printed to add realism to the helmets and berets. The new medium-blue helmets are printed with “UN” and the dark green berets are printed with a military badge
Other new items include:
- Golf Club
- Power Blade
- Raider Blade
- Sai
- Hook Sword
- Cleaver
- Saw
- Sickle
- Wizard Sword
- Sovereign Sword
- Phaser
See photos of all the new items in the BrickForge Store.
Creepy minifigs invade Halloween... again
Get your bling on!
From a glance at the picture, you couldn’t tell these are made from LEGO. Indeed, Alex Schranz (Orion Pax) shows us that LEGO (along with spray-paint) makes for some eye-catching bling-bling.
Thanks for the tip Dablackcat, otherwise I would’ve passed these up from the thumbnail.
Ook? Oook ook ook. Ook!
I continue to be a sucker for just about any creation that alludes to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. My favorite character finally came to life when Sylvain (captainsmog) created and placed the Librarian in his natural habitat, the library of Unseen University. He’s an orangutan, not a monkey. Do not call him a monkey!
Aside from my easy seduction by Discworld and apes behaving as humans, this diorama features some neat posing, building techniques, and fantastic attention to detail, such as books chained to shelves, metal rods to conduct magic from the books, and of course bananas. I wonder if he even has a Watch badge in his desk.
He also has a great scene of an Agatean farmer that inspires me for an upcoming project of my own, and his diorama of an Omnian inquisition chamber is horrifyingly fantastic. And Hex, and an iconograph demon, and 72-hour Ahmed, and Hodgesaargh, and . . . never mind. Don’t take my word for it. Check them out yourself.