Nerdy About The Bricks
While playing Elder Scrolls Online The Thieves' Guild builder Xenomurphy stumbled upon this scene. He was so inspired he decided to recreate it in bricks. It shows the aftermath of a great struggle between men and beast, and in the end, nobody won. This is storytelling in a single image/MOC and it's really well done. Oh, and that curved sand dune is especially cool.
So there you are, minding your own business, out for a stroll on a lovely sunny day. Then suddenly this apparently lost plumber comes along, bouncing around like an idiot and comes crashing down on you. You might be excused for going beast mode right? Builder Koen brings us this wonderful Wiggler.
My boys are going to dig this MOC by The real Eric Tsai, unlike me they actually play this game (sometimes for days at a time, get a job!) and know the characters. I dig it because it's a cool design, it's well built and has personality. A quick Google search (yeah, I'm that lame) reveals this guy to be steam powered, which makes him even more endearing in my book.
Way back in 1989 I was working on location on a pretty terrible film called The Boneyard. One day me and some other crew members went to Walmart and I spotted these, the brand new Gameboy from Nintendo. I immediately bought two, one for me, one for my girlfriend, and we played and played. This version by Kloou brings back all the nostalgic feels.
Builder Nick Brick is generally known for his awesome video game and movie inspired weapons and props, but as you can see from this excellent figure, he's got character chops too. Of course this lovely lady is from a video game as well, it's Commander Shepard from Mass Effect. And of course I only know this because I googled it, since I never get to play games any more.
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.
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 perfect evening for me and the future Mrs BrickNerd in the late 80's early 90's would be a yummy dinner, some pretzel sticks and ranch dip and a classic adventure game. The one that inspired this brilliant MOC by Vitreolum was one of our favorites, Leisure Suit Larry. The whole point of the game was to try and get poor hapless Larry a little bit of action, and it wasn't easy, but it sure was funny.
One of the most entertaining aspects of Iron Builder is the smack talk and oneupmanship that happens between the builders Take this brilliant transforming Viking from Starcraft II by One More Brick for example. It was built in direct response to yesterday's amazing siege tank from the same game.
Me and Rayman go way back. I have fond memories playing on my customized Gameboy Advance (I hacked a front light into it). When Rayman 4 came out he had a new nemesis, Rabbids, who turned out to be so popular they ended up being a franchise on their own. Here we see them in one of their numerous natural habitats, a pirate ship, brilliantly recreated by builder bricks.life.idea.
I've never heard of this game, but this brilliant MOC by Gregory Coquelz made me curious enough to look into. It looks amazing, both the gameplay and the design. The aesthetic of the game is awesome, and translates pretty well to this build.
This latest MOC by 6kyubi6 is a total flashback. Being a kid of the 80's I "invested" plenty of quarters in arcades. I especially like the use of the foil handles as air hockey paddles. And those stickers? Totally legit. They're the printing bleed on an official sticker sheet, the overprinting around stickers cut to shape, genius. The only thing that's missing is a classic Star Wars vector game, my all-time favorite.
This brilliant MOC of Professor Layton by Pistash has a puzzle for you...
Following the destruction of the Death Star, rebel leaders tried to determine who deserved medals. Below is a summary of their statements:
Red Eleven: it wasn't Han Solo
it was Gold Three
Gold Three: it wasn't Red Five
it wasn't Han Solo
Red Five: it was Han Solo
it wasn't Red Eleven
Red Two: it was Red Five
it was Gold Three
Han Solo: it was Red Two
it wasn't Red Eleven
It was well known that each pilot was humble and told exactly one lie. Can you determine who destroyed the Death Star?
Hey Nintendo fans, It's Kirby's hammer wielding arch nemesis King Dedede! This guy loves nothing more than smashing stuff, which is sort of odd behavior for a penguin in my opinion. But then again, so is wearing kingly robes and carrying a hammer. Nice build Pate-keetongu.
I didn't see the Adam Sandler movie Pixels. It was so universally panned by critics I decided to pass. But if it was good enough to inspire this much building by OliveSeon, perhaps it's worth a look. Like Sandler, I'm a kid of the 80's who dropped many a quarter at the arcades, so I'm sure there's going to be some cool nostalgia to be had.
The anticipation for Fallout 4 is hitting fever pitch, and the MOCs inspired by it are already making their way online. This one by builder 'rolli almost slipped by it's so good. I genuinely skimmed right past it at first thinking it was just concept art, it was only the top of the rocket that caught my eye at the last microsecond. Wow, what a build and what a shot, perfect!
Feast your eyes on this (and I hope they're hungry, it might take a while). Builder Pierre Import / T1MEK0DE has put together a truly colossal and stunning interior inspired by Fallout, and you're going to love it. Even if you haven't played the game (guilty) there's so much to like here it's worth the time to check out all the pictures. And if you're having a hard time judging the scale, find the minifigure hiding in there.
The Professor Layton games on Nintendo DS have been a favorite of mine. But I have to admit, there's not much that will make you feel more dumb or more smug faster than that game. Some puzzles you reach through, feeling like a genius, then there's those others... Either way, there's Professor Layton to guide you along the way, here brilliantly recreated by Pedro Vezini. So anyway, there's three vessels, one 2/3 full, one 1/4 full and one 2/5 full, how are you going to....
Feast your eyes upon this. When I came upon this stunning MOC by Xenomurphy in my Flickr feed it sort of hit me in waves. First I was looking at the thumbnail and thinking "wow, that's cool" then I viewed the image and went "wait a second, that's not..." then I zoomed in, my eyes bulged, I slowly leaned in and went "whaaaaaaaaaaaa". Seriously, stop reading this and click through and zoom.
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