Builder of fantastical things Megan Rothrock celebrates christmas with a hilarious comic named the gift. The link leads to the first panel so as to not spoil the surprise (like with ordinary christmas presents). Click “next” to read it through and see the opening up of a giant christmas present!
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It’s that time of year again! Well, at least it is in Japan, where it’s already December 1st. I’ve been hoping MisaQa will start a new advent calendar as she did last year.
She doesn’t disappoint this year, with a “Dressy Dolls” theme. MisaQa’s first stylish lady has a bustle, and some serious curves:
Keep an eye on her Web site, STUD&TUBE, or her gallery on Brickshelf for daily updates between now and Christmas Eve. Thanks for doing this again, MisaQa!
Here’s what things are like in Seattle right now:
…and in Bellevue, and Redmond, and Kirkland, and Mount Vernon, and Everett, and Sedro Woolley, and Shoreline, and — you get the picture.
Excellent minifig/mini-vig, Caylin!
It’s apparently going to be 18 degrees here in the city tonight — and that’s the warmest spot in the area. For a part of the country that doesn’t handle cold weather very well, this is very bad indeed.
I picked up a couple of Racers sets yesterday morning, planning on testing my own in-bag building skills. After Thanksgiving dinner today, I pulled them out and told my dad he could build one of the sets, and he insisted on trying an in-bag build himself. How cool is that?
Here we are with our completed in-bag builds:
A close-up of our amazing accomplishment:
My stepmom was kind enough to play photojournalist for this special family event, so check out the full set of pics on Flickr.
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Spaces are tight and land is at a premium in Japan. Sure, there are enormous construction projects like the Akashi Kaikyo bridge (the longest suspension bridge in the world), but most projects are on a much smaller scale. Always a nation that solves just about any problem with technology, a company named Chikusui Canycom manufactures construction equipment and utility vehicles the size of golf carts and riding lawn mowers (which they also make).
Always one to build just about any real-world vehicle in LEGO, Masahiro Yanagi has recreated several of these — what other word can I use? — adorable vehicles (click for full gallery with individual pictures and action shots):
Regular readers of this blog should be familiar with Nathan Proudlove‘s steampunk work, but I ran across this little beauty in Nathan’s Flickr photostream a couple days ago:
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I couldn’t help but steal that title from Lukas. A hilarious trend I’m seeing in my LEGO feed from Flickr lately is assembling small LEGO sets without opening the bag that the parts come in. Check out three “in-bag builds” from three builders:
Here’s Lukas:
TBB first-timer Tim Tosino:
And finally, Matt Hamann (aka jastermereel08):
Okay, so this wouldn’t work with the Star Destroyer or Death Star, but I’m going to have to try this the next time I get a small set.
EDIT: Commenters to the rescue. Matt credits Tim Gould and Jamie Neufeld as inspiration. Here are the in-bag builds that started it all — Tim’s on the left, Jamie’s on the right (click for full-size pics):
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I have become a big fan of Megan Rothrock’s creations and her Sea Tragon is no disappointment. She posted her newest Tragon on Lugnet and it’s incredible!
Check out the diver-eating gallery.
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Izzo recently posted these cows on Brickshelf and I love ’em. Check out the alien attack too!
Check out the whole bovine gallery here!
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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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The LEGO Company wants to know from the adult LEGO collector community what car they should make as a set. Once again via the furiously typing fingers of LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry, the Brothers Brick has received the following message from LEGO:
The LEGO Design team is considering making a kind of collector’s car, and would like to hear from the AFOL community which car would like to be seen as an official LEGO set. The only restrictions are:- The car should be for display, which means with only few functions.
– The car should get a body build with System bricks.
– The car should be very iconic/well know in Europe and US.
– The car should be from the past 30 years.Please suggest the Make and Model of the car you would like to see as a new LEGO set!
Nelson will collate responses you leave here on TBB and pass them along to LEGO. How cool is that? Thanks Nelson!
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Brickshelfers the Arvo Brothers’ latest LEGO recreation of a real-world object is a Commodore VIC-20:
Hurray for the 1 MHz processor! Three cheers for 5 KB of memory! Spend countless hours in your mom’s basement playing Blitz!