LEGO resume

This is an older story from during my blogging hiatus, but this summer a woman built a miniland resume to stand out from the stack of other applicants.

Mini-Brickworld Tampa

Check out this detail from the Mini LEGO Con display at Brickworld Tampa.

Two of them?

I must admit I am pretty ignorant of the new Doctor Who series (to me the Doctor will always be Tom Baker), but if you run around time long enough, you're going to run into yourself eventually, as in Two of them? by Dan.

Morgan Le Fay

A Plastic Infinity built this version of Morgan Le Fay.

1984 redux

Hi all,
First up, I just wanted to apologize for my six month hiatus. I've been blogging about LEGO for nine years now, and from time to time I've just gotten a bit run down and distracted from my family of blogs. However, in the meantime, I'm constantly going through Flickr, Brickshelf, and other sites, and probably every day I bookmark a few more things that I keep meaning to post. I've gotten a couple of nice notes asking where I've been, and I guess it's time to come back. Also, during the year I save up LEGO books to review as people are getting ready for Christmas, and want to get those posted. And so, back to blogging. Hopefully I won't have too many interruptions in the near future. I've certainly got a backlog of great creations to feature.

Build that Pokemon designed Meeting the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz.

Starting things off with a bang, or a hammer to the screen more like, Jason Alleman reimagined the original Macintosh commercial.

Taylor Swift

Legorobo Waka made Taylor Swift.

Use the Schwartz

Chris Rozek built Spaceballs, the playset.

Fancy hats for minilanders

In celebration of the upcoming Royal Ascot horse race, Legoland Windsor brought in the queen's own milliner (hatmaker) to make custom hats for the queen, Duchess Kate, and other women in the royal family.

Abbey Road

Minicoop4 built Abbey Road.

Mini LEGO Con

At a couple of recent AFOL events Steve Oakes and Mariann Asanuma displayed a miniland scale con, full of minilanders displaying microscale MOCs, sometimes renditions of actual MOCs that had appeared at previous cons. Now Todd Webb and Dan Pikora (of Fascinating LEGO of the Day) have expanded on that idea. At the various BrickFairs (and other AFOL gatherings), they are setting up miniland-scale layouts of the entire convention layout. Attendees are invited to bring miniland scale versions of themselves and microscale versions of their MOCs, to recreate the whole convention at a smaller scale. There's a Flickr group to share photos and help coordinate future events. Here's part of the layout from BrickFair Alabama. They're hoping to make much more complete displays at upcoming cons. So if you're attending BrickFair NE this weekend, try and put together a minilander of yourself to add to the display.

Street Fighter

Grantmasters built Street Fighter.

We're off to see the wizard

Dorothy and company by Ezra B.

Play ball!

Members of I LUG NY collaborated on a baseball display, currently at the LEGO Store in Queens. The two minilanders are by Notenoughbricks.

Saint George

Riccardo Zangelmi built Saint George.

Abbey Road

SAB built the Beatles.

Ramming speed!

Mmbace came up with Ramming speed from Animal House.

House of Cards

Atin built the House of Cards.

It's bigger in the inside

Dodge made this great pair of Doctor Who bookends.

Fill 'er up, mate

Tim (?) brought Fill 'er up, mate to Brickvention.

Artax and Atreyu in the Swamp of Sadness

I never really got into the Neverending Story, but this scene by Carl Merriam is amazing.