The LEGO Company is offering a $25 gift card to whoever comes up with the most interesting facts about the LEGO minifigure.
Here are some specific questions, but don’t limit yourself to just answering these:
Let the comment party begin!
The Pumping Iron: Extreme Armor Building Challenge is wrapping up over on Reasonably Clever.
Chris Doyle has a great example entry, “Late 1980’s Romantic Comedy Armor”. Ha!
With tons of Exo-Force and BrickArms prizes, less than 20 entries so far, and the contest ending on May 2, this may just be your chance to score some sweet loot. ;-)
Even Trolls care…
Gary McIntire celebrates Earth Day with a little vignette illustrating the joy of recycling:
Learn more about Earth Day on Wikipedia.
I posted the winners of this year’s Battles Contest on Classic Castle earlier today. It was a difficult choice but here they are in all their splendor!
1st Place:
Rocko’s Goblin Attack
2nd Place:
Chris Edwards’ Family Reunion
3rd Place:
Adrian Florea’s Stone Golem Attack
Congratulations to these most excellent builders and their award-winning creations!
Huw Millington sends word of a Brickish Association event he recently attended, where the centerpiece was a 6x version of 375/6075 Castle — aka “The Yellow Castle” or “What I wanted for Christmas 1978 and why I’m still not speaking to my parents, 30 years later.” ;-)
Don’t think that looks that big? Think again:
Check out more photos in photosets from Martin Long, Huw, and Darren Smith.
EDIT: Commenters over on Gizmodo point out that this is a 6:1 scale model, not just 6x bigger, which means that it’s actually 216 times as big as the original!
Almost exactly two years ago, we highlighted the Piece of Peace exhibit in Japan, featuring UNESCO World Heritage sites built from LEGO by Japanese Master Builder Kazuyoshi Naoe (photo by SkylineGTR).
Now, a second exhibit (complete with an official blog) has been opened at the Parco shopping complex in Shibuya (an area of Tokyo), and photos of the amazing models have been turning up everywhere since the exhibit first opened in Shibuya on February 1st (the exhibit is now in Nagoya, until March 24).
Check out some of the World Heritage sites featured in the exhibit.
St. Basil’s Cathedral (photo by SkylineGTR) and Horyu-ji Pagoda (photo by Hirotaka Hatayama):
Shirakawa Village (photo by Yuki Koga)
The Acropolis (photo by Koji Hachisu):
Mont St. Michelle (photo by Hirotaka Hatayama):
And what a difference two years makes! I had to dig all over the ‘net to find the handful of pictures I used in my post, but here are just a few of the places where this event has been covered so far:
(Photo of Sagrada Familia by Hirotaka Hatayama.)
For more information on UNESCO World Heritage sites, you can peruse the complete list on UNESCO.org.
Finally, I leave you with the tag-line: “Pieces of piece — the more the better.” Indeed.
Japanese LEGO store clickbrick holds an annual contest, in which creations are limited to 16 cm x 16 cm x 30 cm. We covered last year’s contest here, and winners have just been announced for this year’s contest.
Like last year, Sachiko Akinaga of Let’s LEGO has complete coverage of the contest in Tokyo in her Brickshelf gallery. Here are the winners:
First place: “Catbus on the Roof” by Pisatake:
Second place: “Mally’s Cafe” by sidewinder9r:
Third place: “Jumbo Parfait” by Sachiko Akinaga:
Fourth place: “That Trembling Feeling” by Azumu (previously on TBB):
Fifth place: “The LEGO Trains museum is under construction” by TN Factory (more pictures):
Be sure to check out all the pictures of the entries in Sachiko’s gallery
If there’s one thing LEGO Castle fans can do really, really well, it’s put together an amazing battle scene.
So it’s no surprise that one of the contests held each year on Classic-Castle.com is the Battles Contest. Hosted by our very own Josh, the contest challenges Castle builders to throw everything they have into a medieval battle scene, and Josh is putting up some pretty sweet prizes for the winners:
You’re seeing that right — classic 80’s Castle sets in their original boxes (donated by a very generous benefactor)!
We’ve already featured Anthony Sava’s Breath of the Dragon, but here’s another great entry, by Zach:
See more entries in the thread on Classic-Castle.com. Can’t wait for more!
Toy Fair 2008 is approaching and there have been pictures of the late 2008 sets circulating on the web. I found Joe Meno with some of the first pictures of themes including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Speed Racer, Bionicle, and Batman.
Update (AB): Ace Kim also has extensive pictures from Toy Fair 2008, nicely organized into photosets with lots of great details — prices, release dates, etc.:
Aaron Andrews took home the title in the recent Colossal Castle Contest V!
Our favorite Aussie won one category (Castle Spaces) and was Honorably Mentioned in three others. A big hurrah and round of applause for Aaron!
Well, we’ve been holding our breath, waiting for the results of the Colossal Castle Contest V, and the winners have all been announced! (Actually, they were announced a while ago, but I’ve been too busy to post them here. Bad Josh, bad Josh!)
A most hearty congratulations to the winners!
Check them out here:
