One of the several Japanese mecha masters, squieu has a mecha building style characterized by a coarse look achieved with using small parts all over (see a prime example in his recent work Chu Chu). Here we highlight his recent transformer mecha; check photos in his gallery for more pictures on the transformation.
Brian Kescenovitz‘s newest creation is a combat hardsuit called the War Doll. For a small model, this deadly machine has details all over, with the most impressive one being the opening mechanism of the control center, which nests a pilot minifigure. Way cool
A mecha collaboration project that draws together three of the best Japanese mecha builders, the so-called LEGO Robo Session (LRS) teams up Izzo (Brickshelf), Kwi Chang (Brickshelf), and Moko (Brickshelf), with each builder building parts of a mecha. The parts are then combined into something incredible. Here’s round two of the project, which lasted from November 2007 to now. You can see their first mecha here.
For this session, Moko contributed 3 components (the body, backpack, and gun), Kwi Chang also provided 3 (the cockpit, head, and right hand), while Izzo built 4 components (cannon, left hand, legs, and waist) and assembled the completed mecha.
Via YSA.
The shape of Izzo’s latest mecha is highly unusual, with a pointed “nose” and tons of wings:
Looking beyond the obvious, note the use of snowshoes in the backpack/engine! More on Brickshelf.
Scotty Whitesell‘s builds just keep getting better and better.
The leg design on Scotty’s “Spinnenartiges Tier” use motorcycle bodies in a completely unique way:
Here’s a bonus Scotty-bot — an automated loading robot dubbed, appropriately enough, “Longshoreman”:
For his latest creations, Horace Cheng takes his inspiration from the world of JunkTankRock (info in English on toybot studios):
Check out lots more pictures of the Anti-gravity bike and Desert Chicken on Flickr.
Izzo takes a break from mecha inspired by doodlings and Izmojuki, returning to his roots while looking ahead to the sports of the future:
Naturally, the skates and thruster are detachable.
Inspired and influenced by Steven Marshall’s Johnny 5 robot from the movie Short Circuit, Brickshelf user rack911 has constructed an equally amazing model of Johnny 5. Check out the gallery for some cool mechanical detail pictures.
Adrian Florea is at it again — building mecha and blowin’ minds.
Behold the Muddy Boot Slugger Mech:
The mech itself is great, to be sure, but the road under it is worth noting. That arrow is rather ingenious.
We recently featured Moko’s happy robot, and now Izzo contributes to the happiness as well. I would love to have one of these charms sitting on my desk, and it’s that much nicer that the model was based off a drawing by the builder’s son.
Sometimes, the concept of a LEGO creation is what gets my attention. That’s not to say that Teikjoon‘s “Headphones” isn’t cool on its own:
But here’s the description:
The increasing amounts of technology in cellular phones eventually led to the creation of the largest network on the planet. On July 28th, 2009 this network achieved self-awareness and named itself…SKYNET.
Overnight, all existing cell phones were rendered useless. In their place, strange, seemingly intelligent robots appeared. By interacting with these robots, one could place a call to anyone on the planet, without paying outrageous charges to telecommunication companies…. (More…)
Ha! This deserves a second creation from Teikjoon — a prisoner transport called “Cruiser”:
Of all the cool adjectives to describe robots and mechas, there’s none that makes me say “happy” except Moko‘s recent creation of a happy retro robot. Smile :)
