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Tag Archives: Sculptures
Giom’s LEGO Technic Theophile walking machine, inspired by Theo Jansen
Reader Giom sends word of an eight-legged LEGO Technic walker he built inspired by the “kinetic sculptures” of Theo Jansen:
For comparison, here’s a cool video (which happens to be a BMW ad; oh well):
Award-Winning Butterfly
BisonFuehrer recently posted this award-winning creation. Though built back in ’97, it still has the ability to impress.
1912 Ford Model T
edulyoung has built an incredibly detailed Model T. I think my favorite detail is the tires. Awesome.
Sean Kenney’s Lucky 8 sculpture celebrates the Beijing Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, started today, August 8, 2008 (8/8/08). To honor this auspicious day, Sean Kenney built this cool sculpture of the number 8 (with lots of other details):
Read more about this sculpture on Sean’s blog.
10189 Taj Majal pictures available! [News]
UPDATE: 10189 Taj Mahal is now available for pre-order in the United States as well! It’s $299.99 and will ship by September 15, 2008.
LEGO has pictures of the upcoming 5922 pieces Taj Majal set, and gosh do they look great! The set is available for preorder in Denmark at 2299 DK and will ship October 1st. Based on the costs in Denmark, the set is fairly likely to be in the $250-$300 range. Ready your wallets, this one’s a keeper.
Radiohead’s House of Cards video in LEGO by Ian Mackinnon
The music video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards” from In Rainbows (naturally available from 
) just seemed to be begging for the LEGO treatment.
Ian Mackinnon obliges with this strange and gorgeous rendition (with a hat-tip to reader wb):
Ian used the 3D plotting data from the original video to do his time-lapse LEGO interpretation of “House of Cards”. The result is sheer brilliance.
And here’s the original video for “House of Cards”, for comparison:
Previous LEGO + Radiohead on The Brothers Brick:
First pictures of new set 10189 Taj Mahal [News]
UPDATE: 10189 Taj Mahal is now available for pre-order in the United States as well! It’s $299.99 and will ship by September 15, 2008.
Brickshelf user whung has a picture showing an upcoming set, the 10189 Taj Mahal. As of now I have no further information regarding this set, but from the box it looks like a general release product, and at almost 6000 pieces, it would be the largest LEGO set to date and would rival the price of the UCS Millenium Falcon set.
Massive LEGO Eurocopter Tiger ARH by Peter Edwards uses 5,866 bricks
Peter Edwards was commissioned to build a Eurocopter Tiger ARH for Australian Aerospace, the company building the real thing.
As you can see from the minifig in the photo, the LEGO Eurocopter is absolutely huge. It’s over 51″ (130 cm) long, with a rotor span of more than 44″ (113 cm).
Peter designed the helicopter in LEGO Digital Designer, ordered the necessary parts from Pick-A-Brick, and then put together the 5,866 pieces over a weekend.
To withstand the rigors of long-term display at Australian Aerospace, Peter then took another 150 hours over 5 weeks to glue the model together.
To see lots more photos, check out Peter’s Bodville site and click ARH Tiger in the menu on the left.
Sadly, for those of you hoping to build your own Tiger from Peter’s design in LEGO Digital Designer, many of the bricks Peter used are no longer available from Pick-A-Brick, making this truly a one-of-a-kind creation.
Big, mean and hunched
Allister McLaren (CaptainUnderpants) has been slowly building up a series of large and awesome LEGO action figures which somewhat evoke Danger Mouse to me. Henchbot (the big guy) is his latest but do check out Doc Grok (also pictured) and Sgt. Destroy.
Miffy by Legokinsfolk
When I saw this at first, I thought it was another Sanrio LEGO creation from Legokinsfolk. However, it turns out to be Miffy, a picture book character created by Dutch author Dick Bruna.
Legokinsfolk’s version is spot-on, with an interesting technique to create the head.
LEGO StarCraft Terran battlecruiser
Brickshelf user vana treats us to an amazingly designed and photographed UCS scale Terran battlecuiser from the game StarCraft. The traditional greebles on studs technique prevails once again, making the model extra detailed.
