Friday, January 25, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Mini Greek Temple
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Building Blocks of Life
Reddit user devlinux posted this really neat build to the /r/lego subreddit. The strand doesn't actually code for anything, but it still makes for a rather fun and interesting build.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Life-sized Bag End
This life-sized Lego version of Bag End was built by 12 employees over a period of 3000 hours. It consists of over 2 million bricks and features working lights (my favorite) and actual smoke from the chimney. I'm not sure what this was built for, but it is incredibly awesome nonetheless.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Yay! Sonic Screwdriver!
One of the coolest sci-fi tools ever, from my absolute favorite show. The Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver by Bruce Lowell (bruceywan), effective against just about everything, expect deadlocked seals and wood.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Oh... My... God
I can't even begin to describe how beautiful this is. Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey spent over 800 hours putting together this Batcave. The cave itself is comprised of over 20000 individual elements, weighs over 100 lbs., and has motorized parts and its own lighting system! These men are gods to me.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Rolls-Royce Engine
The most complex Lego machine ever built, this Rolls-Royce engine is comprised of 152,455 bricks, weighs 677 lbs., and is 6.56 ft long. This engine - the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - was presented on the 9th by Rolls-Royce at the Farnborough International Airshow, after having been constructed over 8 weeks by a team of 4 people.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Classic Star Trek Equipment Redone in Lego Form
From Star Trek TOS, these beautiful creations - a tricorder, a communicator, and a Type-II phaser - were created by Tommy Williamson (GeekyTom). The tricorder is especially amazing, with its working compartments and lights. More photos and a video demonstrating the tricorder can be seen in the Flickr set.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Awesome LEGO Retro Video Game Tumblr!
Tumblr user Meufer has an awesome blog showcasing her Lego recreations of retro video game characters and items. Well, mostly Lego. Some of her palette choices are wonky, like this Link, but nonetheless, these 8-bit recreations are really cool.
100th Post! And A Portal Gun!
Post #100! And to celebrate, I present to you this Portal Gun, made by Ted, of the LEGO Store in Minneapolis. It features moving arm things, and changing lights to correspond with the two different portals. All in all, a very cool creation.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Lego Gameboy Color
Today I show you lego27bricks' Gameboy MOC. 27 (as a shall call... um, her) has made a few recreations of Nintendo consoles and controllers, though none of them have decals. decals really could have made these much cooler. As I've said, I love details, and their absence tends to annoy me.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
'Epic Mario'
Some interesting stuff can be found on Kickstarter. This project, created by Zachary Pollock, is asking for $26,400 to build a one-stud-per-pixel recreation of World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. While useless, that is an incredible undertaking. The finished project, which is projected to consist of more than 780,000 studs, will be about 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and 90 ft (27.4 m) long. Pollock plans to showcase this at various cons and other exhibits after finishing.
Looking through the rewards, you see the usual cheap stuff for the cheap people - thank you cards and stuff - but higher up are some really neat rewards. A couple are blueprints so that you can build a panel that will be used in the final product, and others are just neat knick-knacks. Even higher are rewards such as receiving a piece of the display after its exhibition run, wall art, and paid registration for BrickCon 2012.
Kickstarter campaign
Monday, April 9, 2012
1:1 Replica of the M45 Shotgun From Halo: Reach
Nick Jensen (Nick Brick), who last year built a 1:1 Halo sniper rifle with actual working parts, has done it again, with this full-sized replica of the M45 shotgun. This model, with working pump, trigger, and bullet loading and ejecting system, took Nick 2 months to build, weighs 5 lbs., and is about 38" in length.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
My Trip to NYC
This and a couple following were in the LEGO section of the Times Square Toys 'R' Us. This one is the Woolworth Building, one of the oldest skyscrapers in New York. You can't really read the plate, but it says the model took over 784 hours and 188,160 bricks to build.
If you look in the bottom-right hand corner you'll see Master Chief. This, while cool, was made from Mega Blocks, and a blasphemy. I therefore didn't take a picture of it.
And, in order, we have the Empire State Building, with King Kong on the top, the Hearst Building, and the Statue of Liberty.
And this is an almost life-sized Captain Jack Sparrow. Oh, look! There's the sacrilegious Master Chief!
Last one. This was in the LEGO Store in Rockefeller Plaza, actually right to the right of the ice skating rink if you're facing the building. This LEGO sign is made of a whole bunch of solid-colored minifigures.
And that is my trip to NYC, as told by me through Legos. OK, this doesn't sum it up at all, but still. Shiny Legos!
Friday, March 30, 2012
This Battlestar Valkyrie Is 10 ft Long
Gary King, who has built several other Battlestars and Battlestar-related creations, constructed this replica of Bill Adama's command before taking control of the Galactica.
This ship uses 42,341 pieces, weighs 111 lbs., and is about 10 ft long. Unfortunately, the model broke whilst he was taking photographs of the underside.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
"Hey, mister! You forgot your... What the heck is this thing?"
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, originally released in the US in 1983. But this version was constructed by Bruce Lowell (bruceywan) in 2012 for the Iron Builder Flickr contest.
This retro, and I mean retro, phone is incredibly cool. But I don't believe an 8000XL model was ever released. Just 8000X. But still, this is a really cool model. And significantly cheaper than the original $4000 version.