Seach for “Optimus Prime” on just about any LEGO site and you’ll get about 1.6 million hits. Of course, most don’t actually transform, and if they do, it’s much easier to build a transforming Optimus Prime at a fairly large scale. astronut1 has created a transforming Optimus Prime in the 4-wide scale of classic Town sets:
I won’t spoil the surprise, so be sure to check out all of astronut1’s Optimus Prime photos.
(Via Biczzz.)
Oh, it gets better:
While we’re at it, here are a pair of Nnenn‘s latest, wildly cool microscale space ships:
Thanks for the tip, reader Preda! :-D
Nelson Yrizarry recently set out to determine what he could make from just the pieces in 10176 Royal King’s Castle. The results are somewhat surprising:
That’s:
UPDATE: Nelson has added several new creations using only the pieces left over after creating all of the ones in his original batch. Read all about it in the thread on Classic-Castle.com.
Mecha fighting each other gets stale. To alleviate our boredom, Aaron Andrews (aka DARKspawn) presents something capable of taking on your hardsuit or mobile suit or whatever:
Standard disclaimer: LEGO hasn’t confirmed that this is “real,” and this could be an early prototype (bear in mind how different the Viking sets were between prototype pictures and their final production versions).
From what I can see, this set has a lot of new parts:
And since I looked it up:
The plural form dwarfs has been traced to the 17th century. The alternate plural dwarves has been recorded in the early 18th century, but was not generally accepted until used by Philologist J.R.R. Tolkien in his fantasy novel The Hobbit. Neither is the historical plural: dwarf was pluralized dwarrow in Anglo-Saxon.
EDIT: And the Exo-Force set — “7721 Bad Guy Vehicle”:
UPDATE: 7036 Dwarves’ Mine was released in October 2007, and returned to the LEGO Shop in June 2008:
BrickWorld 2007 is being held in Chicago this weekend (well, June 21-24). Photos are starting to show up on the ‘net, including the dedicated Flickr group and a large photoset from attendee Captain Redstorm.
As always at events, there are more pictures than we could possibly show here. Here’s a semi-random shot of a mecha:
The world-famous Mos Eisley diorama is at BrickWorld:
I’ll update this post with links to more coverage as I run across it.
First update: Mark Larson has a Brickshelf gallery full of photos from BrickWorld, including the latest products from BrickForge:
Second update: David Pagano has day-by-day coverage. Day 1 Day 2
Third update: Joe Meno is also attending BrickWorld. Thursday (part 1) Thursday (part 2) Friday (part 1) Friday (part 2) Saturday
This one’s worth a closer look:
What’s your favorite detail? I like the bananas. And the shovel.
Link.
Tyler C – or Legohaulic, as he is more commonly known in these circles – have created this fantastic post-apocalyptic diorama:
From the broken statue, to the bullet holes near the dead body, all the way to the mech, the feel is just great. It takes a long time to take it all in. Go put on a pot of tea and take a few deep breaths, then check out Tyler’s flickr or brickshelf.
Done with that? Great. Then you can move straight on to Spook’s post apocalyptic Crab Tank for another mind-blower:
These both look cobbled together with whatever their inventors had lying around. I love the genre already.
