Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Yoda, some wookies, and way too many Y's
RogueBantha presents another micro Star Wars scene in a bubble with Kashyyyk. I particularly like some of the vehicles, like the gunship and the snail below.
Monday, July 02, 2007
A scene seared in memory
I'm a little conflicted on this one. On the one hand, it's not fun like most of the stuff I blog here, but on the other hand, I believe that LEGO can be a true art form, and art can (ought to?) often push us out of our comfort zone. At BrickWorld, Todd Webb the World Trade Center during the 9-11 Attack. This won "Best Vignette" (though I'm posting it here rather than at VignetteBricks, so you might guess that this doesn't fall in my personal vig aesthetic, which is more minifig-based). Read more on Todd's site.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Micro-space theme madness
Andrew Lee has posted a whole fleet of great microscale spaceships (also on Flickr).
One of the things that makes these so cool is that most of them are recognizably part of official themes, like his Classic Space Intersteller Freighter or his M-Tron Retrival Craft:
Or also part of fan-created themes like his 3vil Assault Craft or his PCS Shuttle-o-craft:
One of the things that makes these so cool is that most of them are recognizably part of official themes, like his Classic Space Intersteller Freighter or his M-Tron Retrival Craft:
Or also part of fan-created themes like his 3vil Assault Craft or his PCS Shuttle-o-craft:
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Threepy Kong
LEGO Europe is hosting a raffle to give away golden C3PO's. One of the entries is Badgerboy's Empire State.
Keychains
It looks like LEGO is going to release a set of Star Wars vehicle key chains. These are currently not found on the lego.com site, but at StarWarsShop.com you can preorder them for shipping in November.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
That Don Ho classic, Tiny Bibles
Brendan Powell Smith has a huge project, The Brick Testament, illustrating the Bible in LEGO. In many places he uses microscale in the backgrounds to create perspective, as seen here in Paul in Athens.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Set 4886 - Building Bonanza
Today's set is 4886 - Building Bonanza.
"Now wait a minute," you might say, "that's not microscale!" Well, yes and no. The main model isn't (if anything it's large than minifig scale). However, this set is from the Creator line. This line is not so much about creating one main model, but about providing many pieces with instructions and inspirational pictures to make many different models. If you go through the instructions, you will see that the "ideas" (models without full instructions) are at various scales. Thanks to zFERRY for building and posting pictures of the various ideas, including these two smaller scale creations.
Set 4886 on Brickset and Lugnet. Inventory on Peeron. Instructions on BrickFactory.
"Now wait a minute," you might say, "that's not microscale!" Well, yes and no. The main model isn't (if anything it's large than minifig scale). However, this set is from the Creator line. This line is not so much about creating one main model, but about providing many pieces with instructions and inspirational pictures to make many different models. If you go through the instructions, you will see that the "ideas" (models without full instructions) are at various scales. Thanks to zFERRY for building and posting pictures of the various ideas, including these two smaller scale creations.
Set 4886 on Brickset and Lugnet. Inventory on Peeron. Instructions on BrickFactory.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
Castle time
Recently, new AFOL ook22 burst onto the scene with a great castle MOC, his Lake Hold Castle. He followed this up micro-style with the Haunted Keep.
This seems like a good time to celebrate micro castles with some older MOCs. A couple of years ago, Aaron Sneary posted his MINIcastle.
At a smaller scale, Mockingbird has a vig with a tiny castle as part of a Lowlug show.
This seems like a good time to celebrate micro castles with some older MOCs. A couple of years ago, Aaron Sneary posted his MINIcastle.
At a smaller scale, Mockingbird has a vig with a tiny castle as part of a Lowlug show.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Nananananananana - Bat-micro!
Nnenn is an outstanding builder who has presented many great space and related MOCs. Here he digs into the comic book world with a Batwing and a vehicle for Robin (does that one have a name?).
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A classic set
A while ago, there was a bit of a fan fad to creat alternate versions of the classic set 1592, Town Square. Among these, Uli Meyer had a micro 1592 and Cubo had a mini 1592.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Set 4484 - Mini X-Wing Fighter and Tie Advanced
Our next set for review is 4484 - Mini X-Wing Fighter and Tie Advanced
In 2003 LEGO released the first sets from the Mini subtheme of the Star Wars theme. These $4.00 sets recreated SW ships in microscale. The first four sets each contained a pair of vehicles, and what can be more iconic than an X-Wing and Vader's TIE Advanced? The X-Wing design was simple and easily replicated (as in my own Rogue Squadron). One disappointment, to me, was that this set included Vader's TIE Advanced, while the normal TIE was only released as a promotional set, 3219. This meant that you could easily buy a squadron of X-Wings, but you ended up with a squadron of TIE Advanced Fighters, but at the same time it was hard to accumulate many TIE Fighters. I'd have rather had the TIE Advanced as the promotional set, because in the end you only need one of those, and have the TIE Fighter bundled in this set. One bonus in this set was a portion of a TIE Bomber. You had to collect all four of the first line of Minis to get the pieces to make the whole TIE Bomber.
Set 4484 guides on Lugnet, Brickset and From Bricks to Bothans. Inventory on Peeron.
In 2003 LEGO released the first sets from the Mini subtheme of the Star Wars theme. These $4.00 sets recreated SW ships in microscale. The first four sets each contained a pair of vehicles, and what can be more iconic than an X-Wing and Vader's TIE Advanced? The X-Wing design was simple and easily replicated (as in my own Rogue Squadron). One disappointment, to me, was that this set included Vader's TIE Advanced, while the normal TIE was only released as a promotional set, 3219. This meant that you could easily buy a squadron of X-Wings, but you ended up with a squadron of TIE Advanced Fighters, but at the same time it was hard to accumulate many TIE Fighters. I'd have rather had the TIE Advanced as the promotional set, because in the end you only need one of those, and have the TIE Fighter bundled in this set. One bonus in this set was a portion of a TIE Bomber. You had to collect all four of the first line of Minis to get the pieces to make the whole TIE Bomber.
Set 4484 guides on Lugnet, Brickset and From Bricks to Bothans. Inventory on Peeron.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
The crane, boss, the crane
Shinya Fujita created a great Tadano AR-2000M crane for a contest at the ClickBrick store in Chitose, Japan.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Trains
Kecia Hansen has a whole gallery of great micro trains, including a Santa Fe Super Chief and a Mikado
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