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Showing posts with label LEGO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LEGO. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
LEGO Masterpeice of the Day
Yes, what you are beholding is Godzilla made of LEGO. This model is impressive in both size and execution. For those unaware, Moko is a master builder; his Brickshelf account offers loads of interesting builds and techniques. This creation is somewhat old but appropriate given it's relevance to developments in the Presidential election.
This model is chock full of snot (and no, I'm not talking about buggers) and creative building techniques.
To give some idea of the scale involved, here's a pic of the tail with a minifig.
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| Now that's what I call a nice piece a tail... |
Really, do yourself a favor and explore the rest of this gallery. While your at it, go through the rest of his brickshelf galleries. I guarantee you it's worth it!
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| I'm Godzilla, and I approve this LEGO Masterpiece of the day |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Voyage to Planet X
Take A Voyage To Planet X!
I made this poster, and the LEGO city therein, as a homage to the sawesome sci-fi posters of yesteryear. I just love that old school b-movie vibe and I tried to capture it here. The Robot is part of the LEGO Collectible Minifigure Series 1.
If you like this, I also designed a scene from the movie. You'll find it here.
Oh, and if you are a diehard LEGO fan or know one, I sell copies of this here. It's printed at 24" x 36" on professional stock and looks even better in person!
If anyone has comments or criticisms, I'd love to hear them.
Oh, and if you are a diehard LEGO fan or know one, I sell copies of this here. It's printed at 24" x 36" on professional stock and looks even better in person!
If anyone has comments or criticisms, I'd love to hear them.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The LEGO of Zelda
I love LEGO and Zelda so why not combine them, right? I built this little boat many years ago for my son. I was never too thrilled with my Link - the hat is pretty meh. It's actually a custom job - chopped down ninja hood. The boat is unmodified LEGO save for the sail, which is printed paper. I also made a little island for Link to explore, complete with a Chu jelly guarding a chest. In case your wondering the King of Red Lions looks like this:
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Wolverine in LEGO
"You'd prefer yellow spandex?"
No LEGO masterpiece here, just my take on Wolverine from the X-men movies. If your keeping score at home, X-men 1 & 2 are awesome and 3 kinda sucked. I'm not an X-men comic geek so the sacrilege to the comics in part 3 didn't really bug me. The movie, however bugged me.
Anyway, hope you dig Wolverine!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Lego Masterpiece of the Day
I am so damn jealous of this build. Seriously. I have admired Jon's creations for quite awhile and I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to check out his other creations. Not many builders have an identifiable style but Jon's work clearly does. I absolutely love the way he builds wings. He has a brilliant design aesthetic; his planes look like they occupy the real world. Maybe not this world, maybe some kind of alternate universe, but they still have a very "real" quality to them. I would love to see some instructions. I would totally build the hell out of these.
See more of Jon's stuff here
Saturday, April 23, 2011
She Blinded Me With Science!
An homage to my lovely and brilliant wife.
She's an Anatomy and Physiology Professor. Here she is in her lovely classroom, with her lovely cat dissection. The whiteboard features some of her authentic scientific type gibberish!
Thanks to Mijasper for the inspiration for the microscope.
Monday, April 18, 2011
LEGO Masterpiece of the Day
Larry is a superb builder and he has made the best minifig scale Snowspeeder I have yet seen. This is a tricky model to render due to it's small size, 2 man crew, and complex angles but Larry has nailed it. He has generously added instructions as well. I may very well have to build one myself.
See more of Larry's stuff here.
Top 12 Toys From My Childhood (Part 1)
Top 12 Toys From My Childhood (Part the first)
12. Marx Pit Change Charger
This toy was a Christmas present as I recall. I'm not sure if it was something I asked for or if it was just something my parents thought I'd like. Either way it was awesome. This was a toy/model kit. It was a car, a Dodge Charger, that featured a removable engine, wheels, and doors. You could also remove quarter panels and replace them with "damaged" ones, which could then be "repaired." It came a little tool chest and jack as well as an engine hoist. It was also quite large as I remember. It was fun because my Dad helped me build it. Good times. This toy is now but a ghost.
11. Star Bird by Milton Bradley
Star Bird rocked! A sleek space ship with lights and sound? Hells yeah!
Star Bird was simply made for swooshing. As I recall, it had a couple of different sounds like for firing lasers and engines. The lasers canons on the front and the canopy would light up. Also, the wing tips were actually removable fighters. Awhile back I still had the ship but no fighters. I no longer know where the Star Bird has ventured...
10. Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure
I can still here that cheesy echoey sound effect, "enh enh enh enh onh onh onh onh." I loved me some Six Million Dollar Man show so it was a no-brainer that I'd want the toy. The figure was a fair representation of Major Steve Austin in a snazzy red cloth jumpsuit. It was loaded with features! You could look through a hole in the back of his head and see out his bionic eye. You could lift heavy objects (like the car engine he came with) using his bionic grip and power arm. You could peel back the skin on his bionic arm and reveal his bionic circuitry. You could remove his pants to reveal his bionic - er, no, actually you couldn't do that.
I don't know where Major Austin is these days...probably not better or stronger than he was.
9. Kenner Star Wars Toys
Pew, pew, pew! Han Solo's 'piece' just rocked. I had this very firearm, as well as numerous figures and vehicles. You kids may not realize this but Star Wars was kind of a big deal back in the day. Yeah, I was one of the many zillions of spellbound kids gazing at the big screen, dazzled by the epnormic spectale that was Star Wars. I was moved by the Force. The Force that flowed through me, through my Mother and through her pocketbook to purchase many, many Star Wars toys. As much as I loved these toys, I always had some problems with them. First, the figures had crap for articulation. The heads turned and they could goosestep - no elbow or knee joints. They looked especially stupid when sitting. Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, sitting like a toddler. "I find your lack of cookie and nap disturbing." They looked even dumber in the vechicles which were horribly out of scale. Still they were the only representation of my beloved Star Wars so they were loved despite their flaws.
Kenner had a promo back before Empire came out where you could send away for what promised to be the most AWESOME action figure of all time, some mysterious dude named Boba Fett. I had no idea who or what he was, but he had the most kick-ass outfit ever and I HAD to have him. He had the extra awesome feature of a firing jet-pack rocket launcher! Sign me up! So I rapidly bought figures to get the required proof of purchase and mailed away for him. I was sooooo revved when he arrived only to be given a massive case of childhood blue balls when I discovered that the firing mechanism was disabled. Epic. Disappointment. Thank you, Douche Parent who's kid shot his eye out, for disabling my childhood...
Boba is the only remaining remnant of my Star Wars Collection. I traded most of it to reacquire some of #6 on this list...
8. VertiBird by Matel
I had a couple of different VertiBird sets but they were all pretty much the same; a small plastic helicopter tethered by a metal strip to a central base. A control, connected to the base, allows the copter to go up down forward or backward and fly in endless circles. You could pick up objects with a hook on the copter and fly them around and set them back down and pick them up again and set them down and fly in circles and...you get the idea.
I had one set that had lights and glow-in-the-dark features so you could turn off the lights and fly circles in the dark.
Some days, you wake up and time has slipped away. And suddenly it's hard to find, those memories you left behind. Remember? Do you remem - aw, hell, enough of that. If your old enough to remember that song you may know what I'm talking about here. If not, then GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN, YA WHIPPER SNAPPER!!
Anyway, sometimes I do remember the "times of my life" and some of my strongest childhood memories are of the toys I used to play with. My memory is not the greatest, just ask my wife. I may not recall family trips or special moments but by God, I remember these damn toys! Sadly, most of these toys are just that - memories. I still have an extensive and active collection of one toy on this list, and bits and pieces of another, but most of them are long gone.
Most of these toys date from the early to late 70's my prime childhood years (as opposed to the late childhood years of my mid 40's).
Join me, if you will, on a trip down my memory lane.
12. Marx Pit Change ChargerThis toy was a Christmas present as I recall. I'm not sure if it was something I asked for or if it was just something my parents thought I'd like. Either way it was awesome. This was a toy/model kit. It was a car, a Dodge Charger, that featured a removable engine, wheels, and doors. You could also remove quarter panels and replace them with "damaged" ones, which could then be "repaired." It came a little tool chest and jack as well as an engine hoist. It was also quite large as I remember. It was fun because my Dad helped me build it. Good times. This toy is now but a ghost.
Star Bird rocked! A sleek space ship with lights and sound? Hells yeah!
Star Bird was simply made for swooshing. As I recall, it had a couple of different sounds like for firing lasers and engines. The lasers canons on the front and the canopy would light up. Also, the wing tips were actually removable fighters. Awhile back I still had the ship but no fighters. I no longer know where the Star Bird has ventured...
I can still here that cheesy echoey sound effect, "enh enh enh enh onh onh onh onh." I loved me some Six Million Dollar Man show so it was a no-brainer that I'd want the toy. The figure was a fair representation of Major Steve Austin in a snazzy red cloth jumpsuit. It was loaded with features! You could look through a hole in the back of his head and see out his bionic eye. You could lift heavy objects (like the car engine he came with) using his bionic grip and power arm. You could peel back the skin on his bionic arm and reveal his bionic circuitry. You could remove his pants to reveal his bionic - er, no, actually you couldn't do that.
I don't know where Major Austin is these days...probably not better or stronger than he was.
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| Pew pew. |
Pew, pew, pew! Han Solo's 'piece' just rocked. I had this very firearm, as well as numerous figures and vehicles. You kids may not realize this but Star Wars was kind of a big deal back in the day. Yeah, I was one of the many zillions of spellbound kids gazing at the big screen, dazzled by the epnormic spectale that was Star Wars. I was moved by the Force. The Force that flowed through me, through my Mother and through her pocketbook to purchase many, many Star Wars toys. As much as I loved these toys, I always had some problems with them. First, the figures had crap for articulation. The heads turned and they could goosestep - no elbow or knee joints. They looked especially stupid when sitting. Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, sitting like a toddler. "I find your lack of cookie and nap disturbing." They looked even dumber in the vechicles which were horribly out of scale. Still they were the only representation of my beloved Star Wars so they were loved despite their flaws.
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| (Insert your own joke here) |
Boba is the only remaining remnant of my Star Wars Collection. I traded most of it to reacquire some of #6 on this list...
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| No place to go and all day to get there. |
I had a couple of different VertiBird sets but they were all pretty much the same; a small plastic helicopter tethered by a metal strip to a central base. A control, connected to the base, allows the copter to go up down forward or backward and fly in endless circles. You could pick up objects with a hook on the copter and fly them around and set them back down and pick them up again and set them down and fly in circles and...you get the idea.
I had one set that had lights and glow-in-the-dark features so you could turn off the lights and fly circles in the dark.
7. Hasbro Ghost Gun
This was a fun one. You go in the bathroom, turn out the lights and... (get your mind out of the gutter ya filthy animal!) fire up the Ghost Gun! Soon your blasting the un-living hell out of un-living things. Take that Casper! The gun, which looks like it was based on a WWII German machine gun, was hella awesome. It was actually a projector. You would insert strips of "ghosts" and they would be projected on the walls where you could blast their cytoplasmic asses! The trigger end of the gun featured a lot of 'play' so you could aim at the ghosts. I frequently played with the gun as a gun, blasting imaginary enemies instead of the undead.
Alas, the ghost gun has quite probably met it's maker, which is why ghosts are running rampant these days. Who ya gonna call?
Alas, the ghost gun has quite probably met it's maker, which is why ghosts are running rampant these days. Who ya gonna call?
Friday, April 15, 2011
LEGO Masterpiece of the Day
"Daddy loves Froggy...Froggy loves Daddy!"
If you love Mel Brooks and brilliant LEGO mocs then do yourself a favor and click on the rest of this brilliant gallery dedicated to Blazing Saddles. It's filled to the brim with scenes from the movie. The "French Mistake" scenes are perfect! Genius stuff!
LEGO Royal Wedding
If your like me your in a constant state of panic about the upcoming Royal Wedding. God knows, if I don't know what the Bride's mother's sister's dog is wearing I will rend my clothing and wail at the heavens.
Fortunately, it's not all that difficult (impossible) to miss news about the big event. Also fortunately, occasionally some actual interesting news comes about, such as this. Apparently Legoland Windsor has seen fit to render the affair in the bestest medium of all: LEGO.
So if you were wondering what the Bride's mother's sister's dog might look like in LEGO your likely to find it here.
Thanks to Ellen for the tip!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Lego Masterpiece of the Day
Prepare for trouble! I love LEGO. I love Pokemon. So what's not to love about this MOC? The Pikachu is really brilliant. I've tried to conceive how one might make Pika in LEGO but this is probably better than anything I'd have been able to come up with. The tail is genius.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Lego Masterpiece of the Day
A painting by Albrecht Dürer
Here is a wonderful study of a Stag Beetle by German master Albrecht Dürer. It measures 5 9/16 x 4 1/2 in. and is LEGO on paper.
Wait, what? Yeah, I'm sorry, what you see here is actually a LEGO creation - a spot on representation of Dürer's original watercolor by LEGO master Tyler, aka, Legohaulic.
What can be said about this other than it's brilliant. The Dürer original is below and really, it's just perfect.
To see more of Legohaulic's work go here.
It's definitely worth the click.
Here's the original:
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Lego Masterpiece of the Day
I have admired Mike's work for a long time. I like how he'll work and re-work a MOC until it's just right. Here's his X-Wing and, yeah it's been done to death, but his is definitely one of the best, I've seen.
I love the way he resolved the back perfectly. Those angles are sweet! I also love the tips at the gun ends.
Believe it or not, I actually thought to try that canopy angled as he has it - it's far more accurate that way, but I never got around to my own X-Wing.
I also love how dirty it looks. Great work, as usual!
You can check out more of this builders work here.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Lego Masterpiece of the Day
This LEGO creation (yes, that is made of LEGO) is not new, but it is so very deserving of attention. Please click the link below and check out his other pictures. The level of detail is absolutely stunning. The roof is - really there aren't words that do it justice. Truly, a masterpiece!
Milán Bikics Cathedral
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