I present you another black fantasy creature, this time in a post-apoc setting. There’s gold on the ground, but gold is worthless when there’s no one to spend it.
Interested in building something similar? I’ve just announced a black fantasy contest over at Classic Space, but you don’t have to be a member of the forum to participate. There will be prizes!
Joachim S. Müller attended the big LEGO event in Frechen, Germany and has posted over a hundred photos on Flickr.
Last year’s show yielded the first photos of the upcoming Classic Beetle set, so it’s fitting that the final version would be shown this year:
Lookin’ good!
Don Solo and dWhisper on FBTB Forums have started an interesting contest that should generate some very cool LEGO creations. The idea is simple: Recreate any Star Wars vehicle in a steampunk style.
As a (small) example of the sort of design the judges are going for, Don posted this adorable little steampunk R2-D2:
I can’t wait to see what sort of cool vehicles people will come up with.
Head on over to LEGO TV and check out some video coverage of NWBC 07 and Brickfest PDX.
Via news from LUGNET.
May you eat like a troll and weigh in like a pixie!
MCC III is over, has been judged, and the winners announced! This contest (always a favorite of mine!) always generates tons of excellent microscale creations. This year was no different! Congratulations to the winners and runners up and a big thank you to Robin Hood for running this contest. Its been a great three years!
And the winners are:
1st Place – JediMasterWagner
2nd Place – Sir Nelson
3rd Place – Lord Felix
Runners Up:
DARKSpawn
Snicker
Hey all you castle-lovers out there!
Classic-Castle has announced their fifth annual Colossal Castle Contest! Let me tell you, these are a blast. I’ve entered every year and they just keep getting better and better.
Check out the prizes and the rules, then get building!
You all remember Omicron Weekend by KeithLUG, right? I hope you do. Because its gone. Like, forever. Like giant, robot, Mecha-Godzilla gone…
Check out the carnage….
The Brothers Brick would like to extend our condolences to Mike, Ryan, and Keith (and, of course, the Monkey).
Based on the three I’ve attended, the last day of LEGO conventions primarly seem to involve three activities:
People who’ve uploaded photos since Saturday (includes photos through Sunday):
Invasions
Group Photos
Builders’ Lounge:
Castle:
KeithLUG:
Teardown
Nathan Proudlove ships himself back to Manitoba in his Blacktron II box (I get to keep the SHIP):
This is how The Omicron Weekend got home:
I’ll add more stuff tomorrow (interesting news as well as cool LEGO creations). That’s it for tonight!
Photos from day 2 are starting to show up from the following people:
Here’s what I did today:
9:00 A.M.
LEGO Store Pick-a-Brick at the event venue included large bins of minifig parts (10 pieces for $5). I picked up several more yellow Slave Leia minifigs, along with torsos from the green Scout Trooper torso, among other cool finds.
9:30 A.M.
Saw prototype of some stuff…
10:30 A.M.
Scrambled to do some last-minute setup of my steampunk, post-apoc, and castle stuff.
11:00 A.M.
Public hours began, and I spent an hour stamping people’s hands and handing them raffle tickets. It was nice to meet Arpy in person as well.
12:00 P.M.
Lunch with Josh. Shop-talk about The Brothers Brick with delicious Greek food.
1:00 P.M.
Bumped into Caylin, so Josh and I went with her for a second lunch. At BrickCon, you learn to injest comestibles when you can…
1:37:50 P.M.
Best princess-themed Moonbase end-cap ever (with proud builder):
3:30 P.M.
Presentation by Bram Lambrecht about software he designed to convert 3D models to studs-out LEGO designs. Download the PDF from Bram’s LEGO site (252 KB PDF).
4:00 P.M.
Public hours end. Official Brothers Brick BrickCon 2007 photo opportunity (with honorary brother Steve Vargo in the background):
4:30 P.M.
Judged Steampunk and Castle creations for awards. Next year, I’ll be accepting bribes. It may not influence my decisions, but I will accept any free LEGO you may want to give me. Here I am (on the right) giving a critical eye to the joust pavilians, with Tom Raffert and Jim Foulds (from the LEGO Universe team):
Here’s Steve Vargo’s winning battle scene:
5:00 P.M.
Official BrickCon 2007 Classic-Castle.com photo shoot (look for better pictures later):
5:15 P.M.
Formal induction into KeithLUG. Rites were performed. Sacrifices were made. Swag was received.
6:30 P.M.
Award ceremonies and presentations. Got excited when Andrew Lee‘s name was announced for winning the microscale category (heard “Andrew B.”). I was surprised, because I thought the other Andrew had built better stuff. Apparently the judges agreed. Fortunately, I didn’t actually get up and embarrass myself…
Jim Foulds from the LEGO Universe project provided some details about the game. You can read what he had up on the screen here.
8:00 P.M.
Hung out with Steve Witt, Andrew Lee, Zach Clapsadle, and many others to build Cafe Corner floors for the Cafe Corner Tower. No instructions at our table, so had to reverse-engineer ours from a prototype (L to R: Andrew, me, and Steve):
9:00 P.M.
Watched the Dirty Brickster (LEGO white elephant game) and distributed chocolate.
10:30 P.M.
Drive home, eat chocolate chip cookies (I love my wife!), upload photos to Flickr (187 photos, 218.11 MB), watch Saturday Night Live (meh), and write this.
1:18 A.M.
Off to bed, with an event I need to be at later this morning at 8:30…
First of all, notice that NWBrickCon is now “BrickCon.” Cool.
I actually don’t have a whole lot to report, since the first days at LEGO conventions have become mainly social and acquisitive for me. In other words, I tend to spend most of my time chatting it up with people I haven’t seen in six months, a year, or never (if I only know them from the Web), as well as poring over minifig bins from sellers in the Brick Bazaar. Well, I guess talking with other fans — especially meeting people I’ve gotten to know online — and buying LEGO is pretty much all I end up doing for most of the con, but describing that to all of you out there who can’t be here won’t be especially interesting…
Pictures are a start, though. I’ve just uploaded all of my own photos to Flickr (photoset) and photos from other attendees are starting to show up in the BrickCon group pool.
In terms of LEGO creations I haven’t seen before (at least in person), I’m excited about the Miniland-scale Cafe Corner, a great steampunk section, KeithLUG’s Omicron Weekend, not one but two Mecha-Godzillas, new Moonbase modules, and a fantastic Castle display. I’ll highlight some of the coolest stuff once everything’s been set up and I’ve spent some time taking decent pictures. Of course, you don’t need to wait for my pictures. Check out Lonnon Foster’s photoset or Joe Meno’s setup set for great shots of some really excellent stuff.
Here’s the Miniland Cafe Corner (before complete setup, so still missing the street scene I saw later in the day:
And the afore-mentioned Mecha-Godzilla:
Bruce, yes, I’m excited to report that there’s a great selection of vignettes and microscale this year! Rest assured I’ll photograph both and tag them so you can find them for VignetteBricks and MicroBricks. Looks like you’ve already noticed Shannonia, though. ;-)
I’m off to bed.
NWBrickCon starts tomorrow! Look for daily updates to The Brothers Brick, and follow along at home with the NWBrickCon group on Flickr.
