Thursday, May 28, 2009
Two amazing buildings
Back in February of this year, a number of Dutch members of De Bouwsteen gathered in Goes, The Netherlands. Among the many great creations were two MOCs built at Belville scale. You could stick brick-built figs in these quite easily and call it Miniland. The house is he completed version of a Victorian house that Stapelaar has been working on for a long time. The Amsterdamse Poort from Haarlem is by Leo Vermeulen, Legomaat.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Peek behind the scenes
There was recently a Eurobricks event at Legoland Guenzburg and they got to hang out in the buildershop where the Master Model Builders prepare displays for the park. Check through the gallery for a wide array of miniland figs and models.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
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
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
‘49 Buick fastback
Lino Martins presents a rusted out ‘49 Buick fastback for the May Lugnuts build challenge: Junkers and Clunkers.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Space, the Final [Miniland] Frontier
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.
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.
Jolly old England
PhaseTwo has a nice picture of a London scene, presumably from the LEGO Imagination Center outside of Disneyworld.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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.
Monday, April 27, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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
Thanks,
Bruce
Monday, April 20, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
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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