All in the family

Holodoc gave his family the miniland treatment.

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Star Wars

Moodswim has a gallery of well over 50 Star Wars characters at about the miniland scale, including the main characters you know and love and some more obscure characters or Extended Universe characters

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‘49 Buick fastback

Lino Martins presents a rusted out ‘49 Buick fastback for the May Lugnuts build challenge: Junkers and Clunkers.

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Merry Olde England

Master Model Builder Kristi Klein, of Legoland California, is in England on business, and she's taking advantage of the chance to visit Legoland Windsor. She's documenting her visit on her blog, Brick Star. I'm hoping that with her inside connection she might be able to post some real behind-the-scenes stuff.

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Solid Snake

Brickwright presents Solid Snake from the Metal Gear video games.

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Space, the Final [Miniland] Frontier

I came across this great creation by Ochre jelly on TBB and thought it definitely needed to be highlighted here as well:

I'm particularly fond of the facial features, as my miniland creations tend to be mostly faceless. Some nice snotting on the bodies too.

You can find more pictures on OJ's mocpages page.

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LEGO Ball Myth-busted!

Although I already mentioned this on my blog I definitely think this is MinilandBrick worthy. :)


Nathan Proudlove created a tribute to the recent LEGO Mythbusters episode with Master Model Builder Gary McIntire and the Giant LEGO ball in Miniland Scale. I think its a pretty good interpretation.

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Jolly old England

PhaseTwo has a nice picture of a London scene, presumably from the LEGO Imagination Center outside of Disneyworld.

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Lovely day for a walk

A week or so ago Misaqa posted this Spring Promenade.

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Mmmmm, cake

About a month ago, Mariann Asanuma presented Duff, from the Food Network program Ace of Cakes.

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Hoppy April

In honor of Easter, the April build challenge in the Flickr Miniland group was entitled "Hop to it." Submissions included Mariann's Hoppy Easter, SlyOwl's Bouncing Burglar, Lino's Donny Darko and hatgurl's Cow jumping over the moon.

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Thank you for the response!

Hi all,

I've gotten an overwhelming response to my previous call for help with running my blogs. If you've already e-mailed me, I'll be contacting you soon. If you've contacted me another way (e.g. leaving a comment on the blog or at Classic-Castle), please drop me a quick e-mail at bricktalesATgmailDOTcom. To all others, I'm still pretty swamped, but look forward to a reinvigoration of these blogs as we bring in fresh bloggers. In the meantime, I'm trying to do daily updates to GodBricks to get that one fully established. So check there for your daily fix of my blogging.

Bruce

Help! Call for co-bloggers

Okay, I'm in over my head. I get excited about an area and create a framework for that, but now I have four blogs--VignetteBricks, MicroBricks, MinilandBricks and GodBricks--in addition to being an admin at Classic-Castle. Not to mention I'd like to do something on my own LEGO projects now and then. So I'm looking for some co-bloggers for the first three (I'm going to keep GodBricks to myself for a bit until it is fully established). This need not be burdensome - you're already checking Brickshelf, Flickr, MOCpages, etc., when you see a good MOC that's on-topic, post it to the blog. The code is really easy, so don't be concerned about that. I only ask that you try to stay with the same vision of the blog--i.e. if you're helping with MicroBricks, only post microscale creations. Also, this is not just a way to highlight your own stuff, but if you do make something in the theme that you think is good, go ahead and post it. This would probably work best if you're someone I already know from interaction on the various LEGO forums. If I had two or three partners for each blog it would be great. Let me know if you're interested at bricktalesATgmailDOTcom

Thanks,
Bruce

New blog - GodBricks

Hey all,

I've continued my blog proliferation with a new blog, GodBricks. As with my existing blogs, there will be a specific theme - the overlap of LEGO building and religious themes. Religion has been at the heart of much of the great art and architecture for millenia, and LEGO building is no different. I'm going to try to feature creations such as cathedrals, mosques, minifigs based on religious figures, illustrations of biblical or other stories, etc, from all faith traditions. There will be overlap with my existing blogs, as I have already, for instance, highlighted vignettes of stories from the Book of Mormon, a microscale cathedral, and a miniland-scale Mary and Jesus nativity scene. Please check out GodBricks and let me know what you think. I've also started a related Flickr group, LEGO and God, with the same theme.

Japanese event

Xtcbz has posted pictures from a LEGO event in (presumably) Japan. I recognize a display by the AFOL group Brick Fan Town, but there are also some creations that are definitely by LEGO, presumably including this large miniland display. Does anyone know more about this event - where/when it was and who was involved?

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It's a duck blur

While AFOLs in the US were gathering for Brickfest, our Austrian counterparts were celebrating Wunderwelt Modellbau. Doris and Manfred Feichtl brought a wonderful Ducktales layout, with Donald's house and Uncle Scrooge's money bin with all the familiar characters, including the Beagle Boys trying to break in. Photo credit to Brainbike.rider.

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House

Last fall at the Twin Cities Brick Expo, Dave Savage displayed this house at a couple of different scales. The miniland scale version opens up and is at least partially finished inside. Does anyone know if this is Dave's own house? Photo credits to garthdanielson and Bisonfuehrer.

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BrickJournal

I recently picked up BrickJournal 4 Vol 2 at my local LEGO store. I know, I'm behind - issue 5 is coming out already. Anyway, there are a couple of items for the Miniland Fan. Didier Enjeray wrote an article with instructions on how to build a pair of miniland figs. There's also a feature article on the builder MonsterBrick that includes his Tinkerbell. Hmm, does this actually count as miniland? It's miniland building techniques, but since she's a pixie, it's pretty much built at a 1:1 scale.

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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.

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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.

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