Monday, October 13, 2008
Batter up!
A cool new trend is the production of limited run exclusive sets as giveaways at the openings of LEGO Stores. Starwars4J was one of the lucky first customers at the new store in Braintree, MA, and got this baseball player. His review (follow the link) includes instructions, so you could make one of these for yourself if you want.
Dollhouse, take 5
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Dollhouse, take 4
Next up on Heather LEGO Girl's dollhouse, the living room. More proof that all of those accessories, animals, etc look best at this scale. Great clock. I've seen that green exo-force hair used as a tree at microscale and a lettuce for minifigs, but here it's great as a houseplant. I would have rather seen brickbuilt figs, but in a dollhouse the Belville figs are appropriate.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Dollhouse, take 3
Friday, October 10, 2008
Hey little sister what have you done?
Shawn Snyder showed off big daddy and little sister from the game Bioshock at BrickCon. Thanks to Joe Meno for the photo.
Dollhouse, take 2
Heather LEGO Girl's dollhouse is full of so many features that I want to give individual attention to each room. This MOC really shows the type of detail you can get at this scale. First up, the kitchen. One thing this highlights is the reason so many elements always look a little cartoony and outsized in minifigs' hands is that they really belong at this scale (for Scala or Belville). They work perfect here. Some of my favorite build details are the handle on the fridge, the blender, the knobs on the stove, and the detailed legs of that central table.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Dollhouse
This is a month or so old, but Heather LEGO Girl posted an amazing Dollhouse. This won Reserve Grand Champion in the dollhouse category of the Puyallup Fair. Today I'll give the overview, but we'll look into the details of the rooms over the next couple of days. Oh, Heather was also interviewed about this creation on LAML radio, so give that a listen as well. This MOC was on display at BrickCon this past weekend.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
More cars
Here are a bunch of miniland scale cars on display at BrickCon last weekend. Most of these seem to be by Lino Martins. Thanks to Joe Meno for the photo.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The wheels on the car go round and round
This past weekend, while fans in the US were gathering in Seattle, some of our British colleagues were participating in the Great Western Lego show. Ralph Savelsberg (Mad Physicist), Mark Palmer and Ed Diment built several great cars. Some of these have been featured here before and I'll try to get more pictures of the others up soon.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Hair and there
MisaQa also created a number of traditional Japanese hairstyles. As far as I can tell, she hasn't put these to use. I hope she creates a number of miniland scale figures in traditional Japanese dress (hmm, maybe this year's Advent calendar?).
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Hair, flow it, show it, long as God can grow, my hair
Hmm, not sure if this is a new gallery, but MisaQa has developed a large number of great hairstyles, probably mostly for her .
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Statuary
A little while ago a group of great Japanese builders put together a Brick Town Fan group display at the standard fig scale. MisaQa contributed a great Greek-themed Juno Garden, filled with statues built at miniland scale.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Lino Martins has sympathy for the underdog
The LUGNuts group on Flickr have wrapped up their tenth building challenge: "Sympathy for the Underdog." LUGNuts members built vehicles that have been "under-appreciated," dwelling in the shadow of more popular cars. Lino Martins presents a great '57 Pontiac Safari, "commissioned" by his girlfriend Sue (also depicted in Miniland scale).
(Via The Brothers Brick.)
(Via The Brothers Brick.)
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