Tag Archives: Mecha

We all love a good LEGO Gundam or Macross mecha, but LEGO builders everywhere are also creating excellent models of their own designs. Have a look at them here.

Morgan by Peter Reid

Can you spot all of the rare parts in this mecha by Peter Reid?

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What could you build with just 10176 Royal King’s Castle?

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:

One Royal Smokehouse
Two castle vignettes
One SmithBot
Three microscale space ships

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.

If you’re large and mechanical, beware the Killbot

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:

Fuchs II by Nick Dean

Nick Dean says: “A light, faster APC in the RAMM.” I say that I like the working hatch a lot.

News: Early Picture of 7036 Dwarves’ Mine

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:

A troll
New swords
Mining carts
Bronze or gold axe blades
Red or orange beards
Black or brown beards
Winged helmets

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

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

Aura Battler by Izzo

This one’s worth a closer look:

What’s your favorite detail? I like the bananas. And the shovel.

Link.

Apocalypse, now?

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.

Watari RideSuit by nori

I wonder if nori‘s ridesuit can only walk sideways…

Hither and yon aboard Mr. Zarki’s marvelous Mobile Throne

The pad to the rider’s left is apparently a “portable food synthesizer with voice command.” Heh heh, cool. Oh, and Tim “Spook” Zarki also posted a cool little hardsuit:

Retro Japanese TV Mecha by Izzo

Let’s check in to see what Izzo‘s been up to lately… Why, it’s a series of hyper-colorful mecha inspired by retro Japanese TV!

Growin up in Japan, my brother used to get up earlier then the rest of our family on Sunday mornings and sneak off to his friends’ houses to watch shows like Kamen Rider. I preferred Ultraman myself.

Mike Yoder’s Golden Sentinel

Microscale master Mike Yoder gives mecha a try. And rather successfully, I might add.