Friday, April 30, 2010
Netherminilands
In early June, LEGO is hosting a Tallest LEGO Tower event in Limmen, in the Netherlands. Robert of Amazing Brick Creations was commissioned to build a giant Dutch girl minifig to be built as part of this event, and he's also created a minland version of her. You can buy it as a commemorative kit or download the instructions on his site.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Legoland California
As noted by a commenter the other day and also on Fascinating LEGO Model of the Day, you can also use Google Maps StreetView to visit Legoland California.
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BTW, I once again took the code to embed that from FLMotD.
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BTW, I once again took the code to embed that from FLMotD.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Miniland Impossible
Now I've got the theme music running through my head, driven by Crazy Texan's Miniland Impossible. Regardless of your feelings about Tom Cruise vs Peter Graves, this is a cool Miniland Vig.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Visit Miniland from home
This is so cool! All credit goes to Fascinating LEGO Model of the Day for this. Google Maps has added a street - er - walking path view to Legoland Windsor. So you can sit at your computer and mouse around the park, zooming in to look at all the details. I think I've just figured out what I'll be doing for the next several hours.
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I completely copied the code for embedding the viewer from Fascinating LEGO Model of the Day. It seems to work for me, but if not for you you can follow the link to the Google Map page and use it there.
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I completely copied the code for embedding the viewer from Fascinating LEGO Model of the Day. It seems to work for me, but if not for you you can follow the link to the Google Map page and use it there.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said "No, I'm LEGO"
Justin Ramsden presents Amy Winehouse. Check out the two little minilanders next to the large bust (well, if you're a minor, don't check out the one too closely).
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Behind the scenes at Legoland
Gary McIntire, aka MrGSnot, is a Model Designer at Legoland California. On his desk, he's got this business card holder based on the recent waterpark addition to the park. He also made this cake topper for a colleague who got married. Finally, we get a peek at his workbench, where you can see works-in-progress to design new models and refurbish old ones for the park.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Cows hate cold hands
MinilandBricks is happy to welcome the newest LEGO community site, Classic-Cattle, devoted to all things LEGO and bovine. Christoph Schweiger took a picture of this milkmaid at an official LEGO store.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Brandenburger Tor
We don't often see a successful mixing of minifig and miniland scales. I was looking through some old galleries from 1000SteineLand 2006, a gathering of AFOLs in Berlin, and noticed this great Brandenburg Gate. Why feature it here? Look more closely at the statue of Victoria in her chariot. Unfortunately, I do not remember the builder. If someone knows, could they leave a comment?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wheels, Wings and Waves
I've previously noted the Wheels, Wings and Waves show. Now it is at the The Discovery Centre in Halifax, NS. Sparechange63 has a great gallery of photos.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Store models
It's frustrating getting pictures of the miniland scale models on display at official LEGO stores, since these are behind these little round windows and it's hard to get close-ups with good lighting. Notenoughbricks apparently works at a LEGO store, and assembled several of these models, which are based on a design provided by LEGO. Does anyone know who designed the originals?
Friday, March 19, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Crawford Residence
I don't usually post works-in-progress here, but making a whole building at Miniland scale is such a massive undertaking that this will merit coming back to a couple of times before it's complete: Stapelaar's Crawford Residence.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Olympic spirit
Okay, I've been bad about blogging lately. While I was slacking off, the Winter Olympics came and went. Hippotam and Shurik* celebrated with Justyna Kowalczyk and a speed skater, respectively.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Skylark
Lino Martins brings us another great car at miniland scale with his 1953 Buick Skylark. I love that curved pinstripe down the side, but also be sure to check under the hood.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The King has been bedazzled! Well okay, not really. :)
I originally designed a LEGO Elvis as part of Miniland Las Vegas several years ago. In that one I used decorated tiles but when I decided to rebuild him I thought that adding rhinestone stickers would be much more accurate.
You can read more about this on my Model Building Secrets blog.
I originally designed a LEGO Elvis as part of Miniland Las Vegas several years ago. In that one I used decorated tiles but when I decided to rebuild him I thought that adding rhinestone stickers would be much more accurate.
You can read more about this on my Model Building Secrets blog.
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