How do you make building one of the biggest LEGO sets ever produced even more epic? You film it in multiple sessions with motion control time-lapse then composite all the shots with some cool speed effects and edit a video. This took over a week, but was super fun. The set is outstanding, with loads of detail and tons of nostalgia. One of my favorite all time movies is now one of my favorite all time sets.
I vividly remember the first time Discworld was described to me. "There's this world, more like a couple continents and a small ocean, and it's flat. And that's being held up by four ginormous elephants, seriously huge. And that in turn sits on the back of a even more ginormouser sea turtle...in space." I can't say I can really wrap my head around it, but this MOC by Fa Brique helps.
Deadpool continues to smash box-office records (I saw it, it's awesome!) and of course he's always been a popular subject with builders and cosplayers so he's been in my flickr feed in numerous forms the last few weeks. But very few of those MOCs have caught my attention as much as this figure from nobu_tary. The pose, posture, styling and detail on this figure is top-notch. And the use of the axe blades for the eyes is sheer brilliance.
Builder Pate-keetongu finishes up his "four seasons" project with this stunning beauty, Foraois (Forest in Irish). She represents summer, not tanning butter and convertibles summer, but nature. Her color scheme is directly inspired by the birch tree, with the white dress being the bark and her black arms being the branches. The cascade of greenery is my favorite part of this piece, and adds life and motion to it.
Yeah kids, there's no screen on this old time laptop. Way back when this is how we put letters on paper, mechanically. This 1:1 replica of a classic Underwood by Legopard is absolutely gorgeous. I can't say it makes me nostalgic though, this baby outdates even my crusty old bones. Besides, I don't miss typewriters at all, not even the least. But I do appreciate a good LEGO prop replica, and this is top-notch.
This one slipped under my radar last month, and almost slipped under it today too. The bars and notes here are so well crafted I had no idea they were bricks, even after looking at the full size image. The only giveaway was the stair stepping on those last two notes. Besides that it makes excellent use of that most underrated form of humor, the pun. Well played, Vakkron, well played (get it? Well "played"... get it? nyuck nyuck, I'll show myself out.)
Sometimes you just need to put some holes in stuff. Deadpool uses pistols, Dr Who uses a TARDIS (in time and space, get it?), Venkman uses a proton pack, and from time to time I use one of these. It's a classic three hole punch, expertly recreated in bricks by One More Brick.
Builder Mike Dung is back with another Fleet Girl MOC from the Kantai Collection web game. This time it's Kongou, who possesses a battleship apparently. I'd like to say I understand any of it, but I don't. But I do know she's beautiful, expertly crafted and is packing some serious firepower.
Sometimes the key to good building (ok, sorry for the pun) is to mess with people's minds, or at least scale. At first it's impossible to tell how big this MOC by Legopard is, or that it's even a MOC really. But it is indeed brick-built and perfectly crafted. And once you study the picture for a bit, you realize just how big this thing is. I'd hate to see the door it opens.
I'm not a skier, I haven't been skiing in 30 years, and I wasn't good back then, in fact I was terrible. But one of the things I did enjoy about the experience was sipping hot chocolate in the warm and cozy lodge after the day freezing and face-planting on the slopes (I won't go into details about the rescue sled incident, but it wasn't pretty). I doubt I'll ever strap on skis again, but seeing this wonderful chalet by builder SEBASTIAN-Z sure makes me crave hot chocolate and a warm fire while the snow falls outside. Meanwhile I'll enjoy the 81º weather here in California.
I've played Mario and his brother in many of their adventures. The stand outs are Super Mario 64 and Luigi's Mansion of course, but there's been a lot of mischief these plumbers have gotten into. Interestingly enough, Mario actually started as a carpenter, and he only had a mustache because the limited pixel graphics of the age made it difficult to make faces. But even with the limited ABS voxels of today, builder 2 Much Caffeine managed to perfectly capture these two intrepid turtle stompers.
I really like this shot! It's one of those scenes where it seems like just another day at work, but you know that something horrible is about to happen. It reminds me of the beginning of an old X-Files episode, for those familiar with Fluke Boy. Conspiracy theories aside, Justin M Winn has been experimenting with a Brickstuff lighting kit, and I'd say it's been a success. Can't wait to see what happens next!
Builder Powerpig is back with just the thing for those lonely hearts out there, some sarcasm and a chimichanga. It's Deadpool, and he's awfully fond of you. That is if you're not a bad guy, in that case he's gonna open a XL can of whoop ass on you, with love of course.
Little known fact: the human heart, pictured here in a model by JK Brickworks, has at least 16 gears, a choo choo mechanism and in some cases an escapement. This is all kept running by a small reactor located in the lower abdomen and lubricated by Bio Lubrication OOzing Dilution, or B.L.O.O.D. This explains the age old tradition of giving a heart shaped box full of mechanical parts (later changed to chocolate) to loved ones.
Here at BrickNerd we like to look back from time to time, especially when we're feelin' the love. It's Valentine's day, and the first thing that popped in my head when thinking of what to post to celebrate it was this sculpture by Bill Ward from 2009, based on Robert Indiana's sculpture from 1970, so we're going deep nostalgia today. Happy Valentine's day everyone, hug someone you love!
The bard of brick weapons Nick Brick is back with another stunning MOC. This time it's the Nornfang, a specially tuned SRS99-S5 AM sniper rifle from Halo 5. It's working features include removable magazine, moving trigger, sliding bolt/charging handle and the ability to widen the eyes of anyone who views it. In the game this thing will drop a Spartan in one shot, in real life it will drop jaws all over the internets.
A few weeks ago, Tommy asked if anyone on the Bricknerd Team wanted to do a review of one of the new LEGO Architecture sets. Yes! I volunteered for Venice. My wife and I went to Venice on our honeymoon, and I had been there a few times before. Tommy informed me that I should be on the lookout for a box from Billund, so I waited anxiously by the mailbox. But since it’s February in Vermont, my wife suggested I come inside. Good thing too, it was almost two weeks before it arrived.
Read MoreThere's been a long time and somewhat baffling fascination with combining the photography of cars with women. I sort of understand it at a "primal man level" (lowers brow, grunts, shiny car, pretty girl). But in the end the practice does neither subject justice if for no other reason than size discrepancy. Back far enough to see the car, can't see the girl, and vice versa. None of this applies to brick-built silhousaics though, like this latest masterpiece by Bricks Noir.
My US contemporaries will remember the Sears Wishbook. That venerable catalog of all things Christmas that we waited for every year and wore out well before the holiday ever came. Well, when I was about 10 years old I noticed an error in the wishbook, they had accidentally swapped the name of the Cylon Raider, as seen here in this marvelous MOC by builder 2 x 4, and the Colonial Viper model kits. Well, I wasn't going to stand for that and wrote a letter to Sears. Flash forward a few months and I got a package in the mail along with a nice letter. I can't remember all the details, but an executive from Sears explained that clearly some of the staff wasn't as big of a fan of Battlestar Galactica as he and I were, and to enjoy both the models for free. I was very happy.
I instantly thought of two things when I saw this absolutely brilliant MOC by Paddy Bricksplitter, the old Adventurer's Club at Disney's Pleasure Island in Orlando (kungaloosh!) and one of my favorite all-time jokes which I won't tell here (it really needs to be heard, not read). There's so much to love here I don't know where to start, I'll just invite you all to take in all that detail and backstory, there were some excellent adventures indeed.
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