Tag Archives: Space

From giant space carriers to starfighters, moon bases to moon buggies, whether you love LEGO models inspired by real-world space programs or science-fiction, you’re in the right place.

BB Gadgets interviews Classic Space LEGO designer Bjarne P. Tveskov

Remember Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnston’s Nine Sets I Have Known and Loved?

Something rather beautiful happened in the comments on that post — a connection between Joel and Bjarne P. Tveskov, one of the LEGO designers who worked on Classic Space sets in the 1980s.

Bjarne designed many of the sets we all know and love from the 80s:

BB Gadgets: What did designing kits for LEGO entail back in ’80s?

Bjarne: My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper…. when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer.

Read the rest of Joel’s excellent interview with Bjarne on BB Gadgets.

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Keith Goldman puts Ley Ward inside a micro version of Dan Hamann’s C.S.C. for Mike Yoder’s contest

Four names in the post title. I think that’s a first.

This may be more “meta” than I can handle, but Keith Goldman has joined Mike Yoder’s Fanboy Cover Contest with a micro’d version of Dan Hamann’s “Container Shuttle Craft”, and then Keith put a vignette of Ley Ward building a nano version of the C.S.C. inside the micro version’s container.

My head hurts. (Via MicroBricks.)

Polish Air Force Sobol-class Fleet Carrier by martinbb

I was despondent last summer over martinbb‘s cruiser. His new Sobol-class fleet carrier doesn’t help me feel better about myself.

I want to spend an afternoon swooshing this around the living room going “Pew pew!”

Doctor Sinister’s Adjudicator tanks

Andrew Summersgill (Flickr) sends word of a cool blue pair of futuristic tanks he’s built.

I figured a bigger solo shot would work better here, so check out the pair of ’em on Tabletown.co.uk.

Mark Kelso takes a break

For reasons that should be fairly obvious, artists seem to make great LEGO builders. Mark Kelso is certainly no exception.

While building his Invisible Hand (previously on TBB), Mark says he took a “break” to build Mian Situ.

What’s so cool about Mian Situ is that it appears to be much bigger than it actually is. The closer you look, you see more and more elements that indicate that this isn’t really very big at all. And that’s pretty cool.

(Via Klocki.)

Nnenn’s Pannax fighter

I’m starting to consider Nnenn‘s starfighters as the apotheosis of minifig-scale and microscale spaceships. When the masterful use of color, shape, and photography cumulate in an all-in-one presentation, you get a perfect Nnenn starfighter.

RogueBantha’s micro fanboy mathematics

Remember Adrian Florea’s beautiful Natai Ugly? It was a combination of the Naboo starfighter and TIE/d for the FBTB Uglies contest.

RogueBantha combines micro versions of both source vehicles to create a fanboy cover version of Adrian’s Natai:

Genius! If you haven’t checked them out before, don’t miss the rest of RogueBantha’s amazing microscale creations on Flickr.

(Via YSAB.)

Mike Yoder is his own fanboy

Mike Yoder has been working on a rather impressive cargo SHIP, but he took a break to build a microscale version of his own creation. Mike’s also running the Fanboy Cover Contest, in which builders create microscale versions of another builder’s much larger creation (my favorite so far, the oMICROn Weekend, one post below).

Does that make Mike his own fanboy? Heh heh… :-D

Micro Omicron Weekend and the founding of ChiefLUG

A band of builders (Andrew Lee, Gary McIntire, and Scotty Whitesell) headed by Ryan Wood created the ultimate Fanboy display. It’s a microscale version of KeithLUG’s legendary Omicron Weekend. Together, this group of brave men have made history; from now on they will be known as members of ChiefLUG. Congratulations!

EDIT (AB): I just think this deserves a couple bigger pictures. :-)

The ring:

The landing pads and vehicles:

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s vampires in space

Thankfully, Jerac has a fleet of very tiny ships, led by the cruiser Van Helsing, to hunt them down and stake their ice-cold hearts.

(Via Brick Blogue.)

Im in ur asteroyd beltz convertin’ yr raw materiyalz

Click the picture to read all about this rather sinister “seed ship” built by Fedde (cthulhu on Flickr). Trust me, you’ll want to read the back-story.

Nnenn goes insectile

Nnenn‘s recent spacecraft have had a decidedly “buggy” look (though others have compared these to Invid or the mobile armor mode of RX-110 Gabthley from Gundam).