Star Wars Miniland

Some big news came out yesterday. On March 31, Legoland California will open up a new section of Miniland recreating the Star Wars universe. We've previously seen miniland Star Wars characters hidden as Easter eggs in the Legoland parks, but this will show full scenes from all six of the movies and from Clone Wars, including all of the characters you know and love in action, and a Millennium Falcon that looks like it's about five feet long. I wonder how big the Death Star would be at this scale (though in the press release, it looks as if the section devoted to A New Hope will be based around Mos Eisley).



Read more on FBTB, the Brothers-Brick and Model Building Secrets.

Here comes the bride

My apologies for my lack of blogging in recent weeks. I've been busy with family and holidays and also with the administration of the Colossal Castle Contest. Anyway, bride and groom pairs are among the most common miniland MOCs. Mariann Asanuma came up with a very humorous take on this theme.

Merry Christmas!

Here's a scene from Legoland California a couple of years ago. Photo credit to Ryan H.

Hi there

Meet Mort, by rongYIREN.

Surfite's up

Peter Blackert built this Surfite, a unique beach car from the '60's.

Tastes like zebra....

A winner has been announced for the recent "A Mime is a Terrible Thing to Waste" contest hosted by the good folks over at The Brothers Brick.  Congratulations to Iain Heath for both his victory and his great building techniques in "Tastes like Zebra."  

I'm dreaming of a white Legoland Christmas

It looks like winter has come to Legoland Billund. It's just cold where I am. If we have to shiver, at least I'd like some snow.

Stolen kiss

Roland Peschetz has this lovely photo from Legoland Germany.

Old McDonald had some LEGO

Peter Blackert made this great Claas ARION 600 Tractor.

Karateka

Csabi presents karateka.

Sax and violins

John Moffat made this self portrait, with a great saxophone design.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I think that MisaQa's turkey is approximately miniland scale. I hope you all have a great day.

Fullplastic alchemist

Sabarrus has started a project to make MOCs from the Japanese manga Fullmetal Alchemist, starting with Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric.

Ballerina

Mariann Asanuma made this great ballerina Christmas ornament. You can even purchase it at her Etsy store.

Blue ribbon models

The LEGO stores regularly feature miniland-scale models. Unfortunately, these are behind little windows and are generally difficult to photograph. Kreativ Snail participated in building these blue ribbon models along with other PennLUG members and posted many photographs.

Blower Bentley

Lego911 presents a great Blower Bentley.

Souvenir booth

One of Loozrboy's photos from Miniland Billund includes some great microscale models as toys for the miniland figures. For more on microscale building, check out MicroBricks.

Dollhouse

Loozrboy has a great gallery of photos from Legoland Billund.

Creepy bricks

City Blocks, a LEGO business, made a whole series of horror scenes that were on display at BrickCon.




Via The Living Brick.

Orange tavern

Okay, I'm a little late for Halloween, but Nelson Yrizarry built what he calls a UCS scale tudor tavern, but I'll call it close enough to miniland scale. Check out the furniture and other great details.