Here's a fun fact, I have family roots in the midwest tied to moonshining. I don't know the specifics of it, I just know that back 2-3 generations on my mom's side there was some nefarious shenanigans. So this excellent shine runner by one of my favorite car builders tiler is not only very nicely built and photographed, but echoes a little bit of family history, excellent.
During last year's SHIPtember, Tim Schwalfenberg stepped forward with the quite excellent Hurricane Battlecruiser, which landed him a well deserved win for the contest. Since then, he's been hard at work on the rest of the fleet. Although much smaller, they are no less magnificent. I've highlighted my favorites below, but make sure to check out the entire fleet, as they are all spectacular builds which maintain a wonderful design and color cohesion throughout.
Hey fellow nerds and nerdettes, are you coming to San Diego Comic Con? Me too! In fact I'll be speaking on two different panels this year.
The first one is DC Comics Meets LEGO Art with world renown LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya, builder extraordinaire Brandon Griffith and comic legend Jim Lee. That will be on Thursday from 6-7 in room 25ABC
The second one is Making The LEGO Fan Scene with BrickJournal editor Joe Meno, premiere LEGO comic artist Paul Lee and Nathan and Brandon again. That will be on Saturday from 6-7 in room 23ABC
I'm super excited for both of these panels, and of course for SDCC. I've got a limited amount of swag I'll be toting around so if you spot me say hi and then mug me. See you later this week!
My issue of the new magazine Bricks Culture just arrived, all the way from the UK! In it, there's a great piece by David Alexander Smith about the connection between LEGO building and photography. Starting back in the 70s with the iconic box art, all the way to today's high resolution online digital images, the two art forms are inexorably linked. The selection process for Bricknerd and other blogs is clear proof of that. No matter how awesome the build, if it's just sitting on your coffee table, it doesn't make the cut. So when I saw this shot of Vesa Lehtimaki's Deep Sea Sub, I thought, "This is exactly what David was talking about!"
No, this one doesn't do 88 mph, nor is it disguised as a police call box. This is the 1960 George Pal and HG Wells classic time machine by BMW_Indy, and it's a beauty. The sled itself is meticulously recreated and is a wonder to behold, but the fun doesn't stop there, check out that perfectly detailed interior space. And if all that isn't enough to blow your mind, the whole vignette is lit with LEDs and the dish spins thanks to a 9-volt mini motor. This is small scale building taken to the max.
Mad genius and friend of the blog Guy Himber and Crazy bricks is back with another awesome Kickstarter. This time it's Crazy Arms. How many times have you just wanted your minifigure to reach straight out? How about hold something in front of them? Well now it's possible with these excellent little add-on parts. Check out the video, watch in amazement, then support!
I've lived in my fair share of apartments in my life. Thankfully I own a house now and don't have to deal with the downside of apartment living (but deal with a whole list of other headaches believe me). Cesbrick knows the struggle, and has crafted this excellent MOC representing the inevitable broad spectrum that stacking people leads to. Click through to see them all (totally worth it).
Fans of LEGO, dinosaurs or just far-fetched plot-lines will dig this new tee from RIPT. It's available today only so hear on over and nab one while you still can.
Hey, where are all the domes? I recall as a kid in the 70's that these were the future. We'd all be living in them by the year 2000. Then again, we're still waiting for hover boards and people still watch Gilligan's Island so...so much for progress. But we can still imagine a future where domes like this one from Miro78 dot the lunar surface, and we all rock colorful space suits.
Chunky. Yes, Chunky is the best word to describe this spaceship by builder Rancorbait. Chunky has been a trend lately it seems in spaceship design within the FOL community. And who can blame them? These types of chunky creations offer up some very cool angles with NPU all over the place. Also, in a practical sense, the extra girth offers benefits to the ship in the dangers of space. Like keeping it protected when accidentally running into asteroids, abandoned satellites, other ships, meteor showers, etc. Holy cow is space is dangerous place or what?! Or at least that is what they teach us in the movies right? I looking at you, Gravity!
Check out the clean lines, aggressive stance and retro look of this latest hotrod from tiler. The combination of the Fabuland roof, chrome touches and those fabulous whitewall tires makes for a very sweet machine. Add to that excellent photography and you've got the whole enchilada. In fact, I'm going to nickname this rod "hotsauce".
I'm not a fan of Transformers, especially the Baybominations. But there are a handful of really cool designs in those cinematic crimes. One of those is Crowbar. And now newcomer jake_tp has crafted him in LEGO, and the results are jaw dropping. Seriously, click through and scroll around on the large pictures, this thing's amazing.
Thanks for the head's up Pete
Leave it to those geniuses at Pixar to give all of our emotions personalities of their own. And leave it to builder Mister N to bring them to life in our favorite bricks. My favorite is Anger, as he was in the movie too. It's probably because I'm a ticking time bomb of fury, or something.
On a recent trip to Vancouver my family and I were surprised how "jaunty" their traffic lights were. Just somehow more happy than the ones here in the US. But how much more fun would urban pedestrian activity be with cool traffic lights like this one from Legomichiiiiii? I'd much rather have a minifig tell me it's at least reasonably safe to venture into the street, wouldn't you?
It's so nice to have Star Wars on the forefront of pop culture again. With The Force Awakens just a few months away and what should be a Star Wars-riffic SDCC coming next week we're getting to fever pitch time. So it's the perfect moment to get more "cuddly" with perhaps not my favorite of characters in the saga, but at least they're original trilogy, the Ewoks. Here's Wicket by Nobu_tary.
I'm a total sucker for small, compact spaceships that look functional. This Bugatti Vendicatore by David Hensel is an excellent example of how you don't have to build big to build beautiful. It incorporates a great mix of technic panels and constraction parts that offer up a great bulky shape, and create some really interesting front air intakes. It's easy to imagine a swarm of these offering forth from the bowels of a giant capital ship. Extra kudos on the sharp photography and edit.
Kids from the decade that brought us The Gong Show, bell bottoms and Star Wars will remember these large iconic robots from across the sea. Well thanks to the creative mind of builder MacLane we're going to get a whole series of these soon. It's LEGO meets super heroes meets 70's Japanese robots, and I can't wait to see more.
It's everyone's favorite mercenary with a mouth, Deadpool. When Marvel announced that they were making a Deadpool movie everyone went nuts, but when Ryan Reynolds tweeted the first pic of him in the costume there was a collective nerdgasm around the internets. Now it's a MOC by Tim Lydy, and I'm suddenly craving cuddles and chimichangas.
Okay folks, hold onto your bowler hats, and tighten your corsets! It's VirtuaLUG's award-winning rendition of Jules Verne's classic adventure tale! Beneath the massive globe in the center, the epic story begins with Mr. Phileas Fogg's bet at the Reform Club, and circumnavigates all the way back to London. In between you'll find multiple modes of transportation: trains, steamships, a balloon, the Nautilus, even an elephant! The layout consists of a contiguous topographical map featuring scenes from the movie, plus various landmarks along the way. The collab is flush with Easter Eggs: Gandolf and the crew in the Himalayas, a micro Mount Olympus, and Dorothy and Toto (in India?); all to pay homage to past VLUG collabs. There were over 20 members who contributed to the project, including myself. The Man In Charge, Heath Flor, writes, "With contributors from 5 countries and nearly a dozen states, it's a collaboration that truly is from Around the World."
Check out VirtuaLUG's Flickr group for all of the scenes and their builders.
Beyond the Brick was on location at Brickworld with Heath's guided tour!
If you've been wondering why there's been very little content on the YouTube channel and I always have circles under my eyes, I can finally reveal why. World renown brick artist Nathan Sawaya has a new exhibit in the works, and I'm one of the team members on it. I can't say too much yet, but if you join me, Nathan, Brandon Griffith and DC comic legend Jim Lee at our San Diego Comic-Con panel on Thursday, August 9th at 6pm you'll get all the juicy details. Jim Lee will also be live drawing a new Batmobile that's going to be brick-built and part of the exhibit and you might just score some awesome freebies. Hope to see you then!
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