Thursday, October 22, 2009
Sandlug
Some Sandlug member (or members) brought these three minilanders to a recent meeting. Would the real builder please stand up?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Hometown heroes
Last month Legoland California honored Park View Little League baseball team from Chula Vista California (about 45 miles from Legoland), who had recently won the Little League World Series. The team got a banner made of LEGO and LEGO baseballs for each of the kids, but perhaps the coolest bit was that the team members got included into the Miniland display in the park. So park visitors can see four-inch baseball players celebrating their victory. More details can be found in articles here and here. The photo is by John Koster, staff photographer for the North County Times.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Archie
Nathan Proudlove presents Archie and his gang. We get Betty, Veronica, Reggie, and everyone's favorite Jughead. What, no Mr. Weatherbee?
Friday, October 9, 2009
Comic shop
A while back, Mariann posted her comic book shop on her blog, Model Building Secrets. This was one of the things she built when she was applying for a job at Legoland. I think you can see why she was hired.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
NYSE
Sean Kenney was commissioned by the New York Stock Exchange, and came up with this 3-foot tall facade. Pay close attention to the statues near the top. Via Fascinating LEGO Model of the Day.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Miniland Florida?
According to this article, Merlin Entertainment, who operate the Legoland parks around the world, are negotiating with the owners of Cypress Gardens. Cypress Gardens is (was) a recently-closed theme park near Disneyworld. So the implication is that there may be plans underway to open the next Legoland after Dubai and Malaysia in Florida. Makes a lot more sense than Kansas.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Stephen Colbert
Okay, this has been in all the blogs already, but I would be remiss if I didn't post Tommy Williamson's amazing Colbert Report diorama. The figure is great, but also check out all of the detail work that went into the studio (btw, great microscale ship model on the shelf).
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Heavy Bob and the Magical Blue, Brick-built Fairy
I really laughed at Moose Greebles' description of Heavy Bob and the Magical Blue, Brick-built Fairy:
Heavy Bob was the loneliest
тransformaтank in the Flickr group pool. All the other тransformaтanks made fun of his ridiculously large mechanical housing. They told him that he would never be able to transform like them. One day a magical blue, brick-built fairy came to him while he was crushing an old man inside his car. The fairy was touched by Heavy Bob's sad situation and after an excruciatingly long winded motivational speech convinced him that he too had the courage and pistons needed to transform.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Here's a small Capoeira scene I made a few years ago. The girl doing the cartwheel is me (Model Gal) and the guy is my Capoeira Mestre Elias Fonseca.
Elias is holding a berimbau and there is an atabaque (drum) in front.
If you don't know what Capoeira is, its a combination of martial arts, gymnastics, and dance from Brazil. I've been doing it for many years.
You can read more about it at Model Building Secrets' Blog.
Elias is holding a berimbau and there is an atabaque (drum) in front.
If you don't know what Capoeira is, its a combination of martial arts, gymnastics, and dance from Brazil. I've been doing it for many years.
You can read more about it at Model Building Secrets' Blog.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Mixing scales
You don't see miniland mixed with fig scale very often, but Cuahchic uses miniland technique well in this statue of Robert the Bruce.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Hinckley's Miniland Gallery
Mark Larson (aka Hinckley, of eurobricks fame) recently began a job as a model builder for Legoland parks. He's got a flickr gallery showing off some of his latest work, much of it miniland. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery, but here is a small sample:
Thursday, August 6, 2009
World's leaders meet at Legoland
I just ran across this. Last March, when the G20 leaders were meeting in London, they also met in Legoland Windsor.
I'm too lazy to go through and figure out which leader each fig represents (okay, the blond woman is Germany's Chancellor Merkel), but here are Gordon Brown and Barack Obama.
And what world summit is complete without a protest, here as the leaders are assembling outside of 10 Downing Place.
Gotta love those British Master Builders. It seems like they do more of these little changing Easter eggs than some of the other parks (e.g. I know they regularly sprinkle in different Dr. Who characters, and I've seen pics from Windsor of Star Wars and Spider-Man characters making appearances). Of course, California did that huge display of the Obama inauguration. BTW, all photo credits to China A2Z News.
I'm too lazy to go through and figure out which leader each fig represents (okay, the blond woman is Germany's Chancellor Merkel), but here are Gordon Brown and Barack Obama.
And what world summit is complete without a protest, here as the leaders are assembling outside of 10 Downing Place.
Gotta love those British Master Builders. It seems like they do more of these little changing Easter eggs than some of the other parks (e.g. I know they regularly sprinkle in different Dr. Who characters, and I've seen pics from Windsor of Star Wars and Spider-Man characters making appearances). Of course, California did that huge display of the Obama inauguration. BTW, all photo credits to China A2Z News.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Inside tour
Barman went to Legoland Billund for the annual inside tour. He's got a great gallery of pics from their Miniland. BTW, not really relevant to this blog, but it looks like participants got a special limited edition set of Ole Kirk's house.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Model Shop
Blockparadise got to go on a tour of the Legoland California Model Shop. I love these little glimpses into what the park model builders are doing. I just wish we could see good pics of every one of the models crammed around shelves and workspaces.
BTW, note the miniland scale model of this guy.
BTW, note the miniland scale model of this guy.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Begun this [miniland] clone wars is...
I found this over at TBB and must say Ochre Jelly has done it again. This time he takes on the Clone Wars. Some nice action here. And the lightsaber effect is quite interesting . He's got more pictures and figures over at his blog. Its worth a look.
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