Master Oogway

First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and now an ancient Kung Fu tortoise, what's next, midlife crisis karate terrapins? All joking aside this amazing build by Bruce Lowell from the movie Kung Fu Panda captures the essence of Master Oogway to a T. Bruce has pulled off some cool new tricks, from the white minifig heads shrouded in space helmets for eyes to the excellent use of Ewok glider wings for the back of the sash.

LEGO Master Oogway

"No One Back Home Is Going To Believe This"

While I've always thought that the name oliphaunt was just silly, these four-tusked behemoths were quite impressive in Lord Of The Rings. And this mini fig scale version by Simply Complex is every bit as impressive, and huge. This was built for the Middle Earth LEGO Olympics over on MOCpages, and will be certainly turn some heads.

UNSC Spirit of Fire

After four years of planning and building, Mark Kelso has finally unveiled his monster reproduction of the Halo ship Spirit of Fire. And the results are spectacular. At a massive 7 feet long, no detail is too small to include in this masterpiece. Mark took every effort to hide as many studs as possible and successfully pulled off some great angles to model this ship as close to the original as possible. In fact, if you weren't reading a LEGO blog you might think this ship is an actual 3D model.

Now if only someone could convince him to bring it to Brickworld Chicago 2014 so we can all see it in person...

UNSC Spirit of Fire

Blacktron Brood Stalker

Blacktron MOCs are rare anymore, especially ones as cool as this offering from -=Steebles=-. The mechanical linkages look real enough to make this thing walk. And all black or mostly black models are notoriously hard to photograph (no really, don't do it to yourself!) especially in such a way they can be seen against a black background, this is well done.

Beautiful Abandonment

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Here at BrickNerd we like to look back from time to time, like that time some guy no one had heard of came out of his dark ages and BOOM, we get this. I believe my original response to this jaw-dropping MOC was "whhaaaaaaaaaa?". Mike Doyle has since established himself as a brick artist of the first calibre, and his book Beautiful LEGO has been a big hit. I'm honored to have been included in it.

TwoStory with Basement