Neo Tokyo

2 Much Caffeine built this Neo Tokyo complete with police spinners.

Missing person - HeatherLEGOGirl

If you're a regular reader of the variety of major LEGO blogs out there, you've already seen this, but I'm passing it along on the theory that at least some of my readers come from outside the hobbyist community. Heather Braaten, who you may know on various online forums as HeatherLEGOGirl, has been missing for the past week. She was last seen in Seattle, Washington. If you see Heather, or know anything of her whereabouts, please contact Lino Martins at linotopia AT hotmail DOT com , as he is in close touch with Heather's family, or directly contact the Seattle police department. Or use any of the contact information on the flyer below.

Hogwarts

Jbuttles made a great renditon of Hogwarts.



He even included details such as the Chamber of Secrets:



and the Hogwarts Express:

movie theater

Jennifer Heaton's movie theater gives a nod to the art deco movie palaces of the past. There are many delightful details, such as the gaps created by the wedge plates on either side of the entrance, extending above the marquee. The ticket booth is deftly captured with four stacked 1x1 plates. The decorated tile, behind the silver antenna, is another nice touch.

This was one of several new modules displayed at the March TwinLUG meeting. Jennifer also built the mosque, which you can see in the background.

cemetery

This cemetery was one of several new modules that Nathan Stohlmann displayed at the March TwinLUG meeting.

Curious about the building technique? Here's a view of the underside.

Hypercar and moonbuggy

Mantisking made these cute little cars: hypercar and moonbuggy.

MOCathalon

One of the categories in the 2012 MOCathalon is 'elephant and the fly', challenging builders to take a large scale model and microsize it. Dave Kaleta took the newly announce set 10224 down a notch to make his Mini Modular Town Hall.

Master Builder

If you sign up for the LEGO Master Builder Academy, for your $60 subscription you get five kits, access to online content, and instructions on how to build like a 'real master builder'. Anyway, one of the kits last year was 20201 - Microscale.

Triport

I've been meaning to post this one for a bit, Rogue Bantha's Triport Spire.

Mogami

Markosbears amazing model of the IJN Light Cruiser Mogami.

Micropolis at family building event

TwinLUG members Nathan and Jennifer set up a Micropolis display for a family LEGO building event last weekend. That's Gary's maze in the lower left.

The event was held at Leonardo's Basement, which runs science, art, and technology programs for youth and adults in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Photos of the kids' projects can be seen here.



Wish I had taken more photos.

Royal Tour

Si-MOCs made this great castle to act as a backdrop for a fig-scale scene.

Give me your tiny, your poor, your huddled masses

Seth Christie put the new Statue of Liberty fig in an appropriate setting.



Jbuttles also made a version of this.

GoRiLLaWeR made this micropolis version of the Eiffel Tower.

Golden Gate

Mariann Asanuma built this great Golden Gate Bridge just in time for the upcoming Bricks by the Bay. If you like it, she's even selling key chains and earrings based on the design.

Let's fix that lean

Moctown gives us Sumo Power.

Plastic Zeppelin

Jeroen Ottens posted this great Hindenberg to Cuusoo. Thanks to his brother Maarten for the heads-up.

Courthouse

Luap31 built this rendition of the Kenosha County Courthouse for a contest. Presumably it is now being incorporated into his great BrickVille layout.

LEGO Minecraft

The upcoming LEGO Minecraft set chosen by Cuusoo users was recently announced at the LEGO World gathering in Denmark, and it is also showing up on such sites as Brickset, FBTB and the LEGO Cuusoo blog (and, amazingly, LEGO seems to have redesigned the press page of their site - I've complained in the past that they never seemed to post their press releases to their own site, so I'd get things like the official press release of the Tolkien theme, or the DC/Marvel themes via other fan sites). Anyway, I guess this counts as microscale. I don't play Minecraft, but these look like the Minecraft pictures I've seen. Mostly I see these as basic brick, plate, and particularly 1x1 tile parts packs. I'll be interested to see a parts breakdown to see if they are cost effective in this manner. That said, I'm sure Minecraft players will greatly enjoy this set and expand upon it from their collections.

Five Stud Kingdom

Siercon and Coral came up with the micro-est of castle MOCs, a five stud kingdom.