Arvo is another favorite builder of mine. His gallery mainly consists of super-realistic recreations of real-world objects, but his latest creations are inspired by the arcade game Bubble Bobble. I aspire to the level of his photography:
(Thanks to RichardAM for the tip!)
Japanese builder dellta presents a very large warrior on horseback:
(Click for gallery on Brickshelf, when public.)
So how do you deal with dirty LEGO? German appliance maker Bosch has a solution — a special cycle in their new “LEGO Edition” dishwasher that gently cleans your plastic toys at 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit).
No, I’m not joking:
Link via Engadget, with thanks to Ben Ellerman for posting this on Classic-Castle.com.
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Just because I’m away people don’t stop building awesome space stuff! There has been a contest running over at classic-space (held by the by now familiar Lukas) that has just ended. It produced some spectacular models – check out Bram Lambrecht’s winning entry for instance:
First runner up, my fellow countryman Joel Larsson’s car, is also very interesting:
Make sure you see all the entrants and read the full story in the contest thread on classic-space!
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*ahem* Moving on from current events…
Brickshelf user snyderman has recently uploaded pictures of a very cool model of a Geisha:
Also check out Anime Character and Cameraman:
I think garden gnomes aren’t half bad. I got one recently for my wife (and not one of those nasty resin ones either). Anyway, Bill Ward puts little plastic bricks to good use in his own garden gnome:
Love the belt!!!
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I’m declaring the Arvo Brothers the Master of Everyday Objects.
I said in my most recent post about his mini Nord Lead synthesizer that it’s harder to make big things small than it is to make big or life-size versions of big things.
This is certainly true of their latest creation, which looks like a real-life typewriter until you realize it’s made from LEGO bricks, and then you realize it’s a teeny tiny LEGO typewriter (look at the studs) less than six inches across:
Nearly six months ago I blogged Brickshelfer arvo’s LEGO Nord Lead synthesizer — so realistic it fits right in with a collection of real synthesizers.
A full-size version of a synthesizer is all well and good, but arvo proves he can reduce the same concept down to a much smaller scale (which I argue is harder) with this new version:
I’m going to take a wild guess that this Technic musician is sequencing a techno beat:
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Nelson Yrizarry gets all nostalgic for old-school arcade games with his latest vignette, a recreation of the classic Q*Bert (via Unique Brique Techniques):
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Brickshelfer siasm presents our favorite Italian plumber, Mario:
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