Yay team!

Au_riverhorse built a series of five trophies to be awarded to members of this year's softball team.

More Polywen

Paul Lee and his son came up with two more entries, along with the contest winning 'back to school' from the previous blog post: pirate and football player.

Back to School

If you are a child between 6 and 14, or if you have a child of this age, each month you can visit an official LEGO store to build and keep a free Monthly Mini Build model. In the US this is on the first Tuesday of the month, but check with your local store to be sure. Bill Toenjes has a great Flickr gallery documenting these. Last year LEGO held a contest to design a future model, and Paul Lee (Polywen) and his son won with Back to School. They won a year's worth of MMB models, but most importantly their design will be featured at a store near you in about ten days. Come out to the store, support one of our own, and get your own (er, have your kids get their own) copy of this great model.

Rollin' rollin' rollin', though the streams are swollen

It looks like Lego Monster is making a series of ancient vehicles, with his Mesopotamian ox cart from 3000 BC and a Hittite chariot from 1600 BC. I wonder what's coming next.

Barclay's Bank

Justin Ramsden created a miniland scale version of Barclay's Bank, which is apparently a bank in Darlington, England. This is currently on public display in Darlington as part of an exhibit called Art in the Yards. So if you're in northern England, or planning on visiting soon, stop by and check out this display.

Where to, sir?

Lego911 has posted a lot of great cars, including this London cab.

You call it futball, we call it soccer

Ochre Jelly, of the Living Brick, built the Seattle Sounders vs Celtic.

In my room

Littlehaulic, who is, I gather, Legohaulic's kid, has been constructing some rooms at approximately miniland scale.

Deutschland

Al-nimer recently visited Legoland Germany.

Cypress Gardens, er, Legoland Florida

According to Kristi Klein, Legoland Model Designer and blogger at Brick Star, they are hard at work building models for the next American Legoland, on the site of the former theme park Cypress Gardens, about 40 minutes from DisneyWorld.



Unfortunately she is unable to show pictures of the WIP, but a model of the White House, complete with the Obama family, was on display at a recent preview for the local community. Kristi points out that this can be found on BrickPal, a blog devoted to the future park.

Classic Space

Okay, Technic figs aren't exactly the same as Miniland, but the scale is pretty close, and Barman's Lego Classic Technic Space is just too cool to pass by.

Piper at the gates of LEGO

Sibley posted this bagpiper.

LEGO blogging

I started a topic on LEGO blogging over on Classic-Castle. I'd like to invite anyone, particularly if you have your own blog, to add your thoughts. If you're not a member of Classic-Castle, it's really easy to sign up, just fill in a few blanks and within a day a friendly site admin :) will approve you.

Jose Rizal

From Leo-J: "Jose Rizal was arrested on false charges that he was the leader of the Philippine Revolution that was launched against Spain. He was convicted of insurrection under a mock trial. He was executed by firing squad at Bagumbayan in December 30, 1896."

Memorable characters

Superkalle brings some famous characters to miniland.

LEGO NYC

The newest LEGO Store just opened in Rockefeller Plaza in downtown New York. While most LEGO stores tend to have the same miniland-scale models on display, in addition to assembled sets, this store has a number of New York themed creations at a variety of scales - large sculptures, miniland characters, minifig scale scenes, and even microscale. Here we see a NY firefighter, the Rockettes, a horse and carriage, and pigeons in Central Park.

Happy Fourth of July

In celebration of the founding of the US, here is George Washington by Steve Bishop.

Here comes the bride

I think bride-and-groom pairs are the most popular Miniland MOCs. Here's one by au riverhorse.

Ooh, look, horsies!

I was digging around the 1000Steine galleries and ran across these mounted knight statues by Dirk Delorme.

I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder.

What the heck is chundering? Anyway, Patrick L. brings us a great rendition of Mad Max's Ford Falcon XB Sedan 351 V8. Via the Brothers Brick.