My brother attends Comic-Con just about every year, and has told me all about the great costumes some people wear. “Boba Fetts roving in herds” sticks in my mind. Anyway, Kotaku has a great picture of two people dressed up as minifigs from LEGO Star Wars:
Great find, Kelly McKiernan!
Given the potential for loot, I thought I’d pass on a couple of contests going on right now.
Klocki and zczuba.pl are hosting a sports-themed contest. Head on over to Klocki to read the details and see examples, but here’s some inspiration:
(News via VignetteBricks; “Red Card” by Nelson Yrizarry, currently going through brick-withdrawal. We feel your pain.)
Also via VignetteBricks, LEGO Europe just concluded a raffle for the gold-chrome C-3PO minifig otherwise only available randomly in sets here in the United States. The contest deadline was June 25, but you can see all of the entries on 1000steine.de. In my personal favorite, a rather enhanced R2-D2 steals the scene — as usual:
The final due date for the Classic-Space.com Moon Rover Contest is this Saturday, June 30th. You can see a list of all the great entries so far in this thread. Many of the entries feature wonderfully inventive wheels:
I know there are more contests out there, so leave a comment if I’ve missed something.
Ototoko, a new Brickshelf user, has figured out the absolutely perfect scale — the right balance between detail and hand-held swooshability — for a mini/microscale Millenium Falcon. Thanks for the tip, reader Frank!
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
TBB reader Nathan pointed us to a new entry in Roguebantha‘s series of Star Wars scenes in bubbles — the Battle of Geonosis:
If you haven’t seen these before, be sure to check out all of them!
Chris Wunz gets to be the first person who uses the new lightning pieces in the 2007 Castle sets for what we all wanted to use them for — force lightning! And the new scared face (also from the new sets) is great for Luke’s expression as well.
I’m behind again, so instead of cluttering up the page and RSS feed, I’m going to post by theme again. First up, Space! And…Star Wars!
“Alien Life” by Felix Greco, and “Swallowtail” by Mr. Stenz:
In Star Wars news, the inventory for 10179 Millenium Falcon is now up on Peeron, and details are now available on FBTB about the Golden C3PO Contest (via LEGO Contests).
Tim Zarki‘s evolved X-wing (more from him in subsequent posts):
If the X-wings posted here recently are steps forward in time, and thus evolution, is a Victorian X-wing devolution? Not if it’s this cool:
Very nice, Adrian Drake!
