Monday, February 16, 2009
Common objects
Miniland building isn't all about the people (or cars). You could build just about any common object to fill up your miniland world, like this snowblower by Alexandr, a treadmill by yck888, or, perhaps my favorite, a porta-potty by Jarda. On this last, from his Brickshelf it looks like Jarda is assembling the pieces to make a construction site at this scale.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day
For the first ever LEGO Miniland Challenge, romantic couples, Nolnet built 6627 Supersized, a miniland-scale version of the set from the '80s.
Friday, February 13, 2009
LEGO Transportation, part 2
A couple of days ago I noted the Wheels, Wings and Waves—a LEGO® World of Transportation currently showing at the Science World museum in Vancouver. Apparently part of this display was built by Robin Sathers, of Brickville Designworks. He said that after the exhibit is done in Vancouver, it will go to Regina in May. If you're in Canada, or can get there, keep an eye on the Brickville events page to see when this display will come to a museum near you. I'm hoping this will come south eventually so those of us in the US will have a chance to see it as well.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Let's take some ABS!
Ochre Jelly presents Talk Soup. The scale may be a little large for the focus of this blog, which gives me an excuse to point you to Ochre Jelly's new blog The Living Brick, where he'll be highlighting small sculptures. He actually notes that he won't be holding to the Miniland scale, so that blog will be a good complement to this. Someday there will be blogs running all the way up the scale from micro to full scale. Thanks to the Brothers Brick for the heads-up.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round
Science World, a museum in Vancouver, is hosting an exhibit called Wheels, Wings and Waves—a LEGO® World of Transportation. Flickr user Roland has a great photo set. I'm not sure yet whether this will be a traveling exhibition - I'll try to find out.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Li
Looking around Nicholas Foo's (Blackbulb's) site, I found this amazing MOC: Li. This was dedicated to the survivors of the Sichuan earthquake. A series of miniland figures in meaningful poses come together to make the Chinese character Li, which means strength, endurance and perseverance in times of adversity. Follow the link to read his whole description.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Cisco
It looks like Cisco commissioned custom kits as a Christmas gift (to their employees? customers?) from a Nicholas Foo design. Thanks to Mhuffman for the pointer.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Just in time for Valentine's
It looks like the LEGO Miniland Flickr group is following the example of Lugnuts, holding regular build challenges. The first challenge is to build a romantic couple at miniland scale. C'mon, love is in the air. Let's see what you can do (keep it clean, kids).
Friday, February 6, 2009
Memorable characters
In their visit to Legoland Windsor, members of the Brickish Association got a peek in the modelmakers' workshop.
Ski Windsor!
The Brickish Association held a New Year's Party at Legoland Windsor. Members received a custom skier kit as a party favor, probably designed by Guy Bagley, Chief Modelmaker at LLW. They had some fun posing these around the park.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
More secrets
Two more entries for the LUGNuts "Who is Agent Janus" challenge. Firas Abu-Jaber presents everyone's favorite talking car with the Knight Industries 2000 (K.I.T.T.). Rabidnovaracer brings us a Lego Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG. Both of these are packed with features that any secret agent would love, so check 'em out.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sexy but deadly
Lino Martins has revealed his entry in the Agent Janus challenge that he teased us with previously. His secret agent drives a ‘63 Ford Thunderbird that's fully tricked out with weapons, changing license plate and even a working ejection seat. Definitely follow the link to see all the features and read his full description.
Shakespeare in the ABS
Not sure how I missed blogging these. Aaron Sneary built Midsummer Night's Dream for a Shakespeare in the Park display when he was working at Legoland.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Places for Minilanders to hang out
Hey all,
A couple of new groups have been created recently for Miniland fans to hang out. In the new and greatly improved MOCpages there is the ability to make groups, including LEGO Miniland started either by Sean Kenney or Mariann Asanuma. Over Christmas, Mariann started up a LEGO Miniland group on Flickr as well. Just to round out some other Flickr groups, LUGNuts is technically about vehicles, but has several oft-blogged Miniland builders. There are also several groups related to the Legoland theme parks, which will, of course, have many photos of the official Miniland creations, including LegolandCalifornia, Lego Land California, Legoland Germany and Legoland Parks.
A couple of new groups have been created recently for Miniland fans to hang out. In the new and greatly improved MOCpages there is the ability to make groups, including LEGO Miniland started either by Sean Kenney or Mariann Asanuma. Over Christmas, Mariann started up a LEGO Miniland group on Flickr as well. Just to round out some other Flickr groups, LUGNuts is technically about vehicles, but has several oft-blogged Miniland builders. There are also several groups related to the Legoland theme parks, which will, of course, have many photos of the official Miniland creations, including LegolandCalifornia, Lego Land California, Legoland Germany and Legoland Parks.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Rice-a-roni
Alex Eylar built this wonderful streetcar for Down the F Market & Wharves Line. For his first stab at this scale, I'm pretty dang impressed. I can't wait to see where he'll go with his next miniland MOC. Via the Brothers-Brick.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Secret Asian, uh, chick
The current build challenge on Lugnuts is entitled Who Is Agent Janus?. Ralph Savelsberg rose to the challenge with this Lamborghini Miura. Lino Martins has given us a sneak preview with She's Foxy! She's Deadly!, which I assume will be part of his secret agent entry.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Avatar
Steve Bishop adds to his growing menagerie of Miniland characters with Avatar, the Last Airbender. I like how he used those curved slopes on the legs rather than the tall slopes that are usually used.
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