Bruce Lowell loves a good double-double. He’s re-created an In-N-Out Burger in stunning detail. He’s captured everything right down to the X of palm trees marking the spot. Speaking of those palm trees, check out the awesome rendition of dried leaves. Make my burger animal style.
Erik Smit (.eti) recently won the LowLUG MiniMocMadness contest with “The mermaid that came from under the ice.”
After winning two prizes in our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, Erik is on a roll. Congratulations!
Dan Siskind (Brickmania) depicts that fateful day in 1914 when a young man named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, plunging the world into the Great War.
This beautiful Rong Yiren could work equally well in a microscale layout as it does here populated by Rong’s iconic primalbots:
But Rong Yiren’s latest is just an excuse to go back a couple weeks and blog my favorite creation in quite some time — “A Museum in an Alternate Universe”:
See more of Rong Yiren’s creations on Flickr or MOCpages.
Richard McCarthy enters the Job Mullers Contest with the “WhiteKnight Pacifist Supply.”
Richard has incorporated cool techniques like a building angled against the base and a big barrel built from tubs. Check it out on Flickr or click through to Richard’s blog for detail and interior shots.
This great big orange Sno-Cat by Ciamoslaw Ciamek is cool enough on its own, but Ciamek builds an interesting story around the vehicle. Click the pic to find out what happens.
See more pictures on MOCpages and Ciamek’s website.
LEGO fans submitted nearly a hundred entries to the GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, which made choosing the Grand Prize, First Prize, and Second Prize winners very hard.
Here are are a few of my personal favorites from among the rest of the entries.
Moritz Nolting packs a crowd of minifigs aboard a party truck, led by a dude with a monkey tattoo on his chest:
Peter Edwards constructs a lovely scene using a megalithic RCX brick:
Second Prize winner dabol_t entered nine photos in the contest. Here are my own favorites:
Fabuland, check! Maxi-figs, check! Retro car, check! This diorama by Aaron Andrews includes so many nostalgic elements, I’m about to pop! Plastic Revolution indeed.
Each of Erik Smit‘s entries was in contention for a prize in its category, and combined, they’re a truly wonderful series (best viewed large):
So, dear readers, what were your favorite entries?
We’re very pleased (and relieved) to finally announce the winners of our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest!
Grand Prize goes to “The Surfer” by tiberium_blue:
Erik Smit takes himself back in time for First Prize in the 1970s category with “Me in the 1970s”:
Al Eisenbart captures the spirit of the 1980s with “Iron Maiden – World Slavery Tour Circa ’84”:
Alex Eylar keeps things musical through the 1990s with “Mid-nineties: The Rise of Indie Rock”:
“30: The Photograph” by keithcku wins First Prize in the 2000s category:
Second Prize winners:
Congratulations to all the winners! And thanks to LEGO Brand Relations for generously providing the prizes and judging. Winners, we’ll be putting you in touch with LEGO for your prizes shortly.
Thanks for your patience as we stepped through the judging process. Look for my roundup of my favorite runners-up shortly as well. ;-)
Andrew Colunga shows that the black fantasy virus is capable of infecting an entire planet, and now the last survivors are desperate to escape the doomed planet in the last remaining spacecraft. Oh the horror!
If you’re wondering why there’s been an abundance of horror action on the blog over the weekend, you should check out the conclusion of Keith’s You Control the Action Contest, ending tonight. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to cast your vote for the crowd’s favorite award.
RoninLUG puts out a diorama depicting the ambush of a squad on their way through Mecha Nature Trail. There’s plenty of insurgents buried in the depths of the greenery waiting to strike the unsuspecting caravan. I tried to find them all, but it was like finding Waldo and all of his friends.
Prepare for an overdose of red as ChiefLUG takes us to the red planet for some horror action. It turns out we’re not the alone (pardon the cliche), and the last band of marines are losing ground at Olympus Mons, surrounded by nasty alien creatures both big and small. Warning: clicking on the pictures will lead you to oversaturation of red.
This is the second time this weekend that we’ve shown flowers leading to deadly consesequences. Look at what Megan Rothrock has created – an overly abundant pink diorama with an insect decapitating a poor space explorer who picked the wrong flower. Lesson learned, don’t pick flowers.
