Sunday, March 29, 2009
Table full of Lino
BrickFest is on this weekend in Portland. It looks like Lino Martins brought a ton of miniland vehicles, many of which have been previously featured here. Photo credits to Bill Ward of the Brickpile.
Some miniland reading
Three years ago Allan Bedford published the Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide. It's a great entry into learning how to build with LEGO, and at least at one point was sold in the official LEGO stores. Thanks are due to Didier Enjary, who pointed out that you can download and read Chapter 4: L'ECHELLE MINILAND: UN MONDE ENTIER EN MINIATURE for free. That translates to "Miniland Scale: A Whole World in Miniature." As you may have guessed, this chapter is from the French translation of the book, but even if you do not parlez Francaise, I'd still download the chapter as there are many pictures that will help you with building at this scale. Better yet, follow the link and buy the whole book.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Happy Birthday to Legoland
Legoland California recently celebrated it's 10th birthday with the world's largest birthday cake, depicting scenes from around the park, including miniland figs visiting a Miniland scaled to miniland scale and a scaled version of a lifesize sculpture found outside of various LEGO stores. This cake is on its way to Brickfest this weekend, so we'll probably see more pics as people start posting galleries. Thanks to Model Building Secrets and Brick Star for the heads-up and photo credits.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Lovely
Edulyoung presents a pair of Lovers. These would have been perfect for the Flickr Miniland build challenge 1 - romantic couples.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Happy Saint Patrick's Yesterday
Oops, I'm a day late on this. Blame it on the green beer. Every month there is a free event at official LEGO stores where kids are able to build, and keep, Monthly Mini Models. This month, the model was a Leprachaun, designed by Erik Varszegi. Thanks to Dave Shaddix for the photo and Mariann of Model Building Secrets for the heads-up.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Box o' blocks
At the recent Toy Fair, LEGO showed off their 2009 products to retailers. All of the big news seems to be about upcoming sets in the various themes like Star Wars, Castle and Indiana Jones, the upcoming new Space Police line and an announcement of a partnership with Disney for new licensed themes. Perhaps less prominent were some back-to-the-basics Creator sets of simple bricks. Their display shows you don't need fancy specialized pieces to build miniland figs.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Og go fast now
For the What a concept challenge on LugNuts, Nathan Proudlove made Og on the very first concept car.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Speaking of "on my knees" ...
Congratulations to Troy Cobb and Lacey Williams on their engagement. Troy proposed at Legoland California, and the Master Model Builders were in on it. A bride and groom, along with a sign popping the question, were strategically displayed in Miniland for the big moment.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Love is in the ABS
Lino Martins brought back some of his pairings for the romantic couples build challenge on the Flickr Miniland group.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Hail to the chief, again
Kristi Klein notes how they updated the Obama inauguration scene at Legoland to match the clothes the participants were actually wearing. So here is her reconfiguration of the Obama family. More on Mariann's blog.
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).
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