Fire Station

Flickr user Rakanishu1024 presents a fire station built to the micropolis standard.

Be sure to check out the police station, too.

Merry Christmas!

For unto Joe Meno, a MOC is born.

Mars Missle Defense Base

Moctagon Jones uses the new fluted round 2x2 brick in his Mariposa Missle Defense Base.

Fire Brigade

Matthew Raehl created an awesome miniaturized version of set 10197, Fire Brigade.

Nnenn-inspired

T.Oechsner presents LL1012-18 Classic Racer.

Black Starfighters

Three nice, greebly starfighters from Master Shifu Leo J. My favorite is the one in the upper right corner. More photos here.



Bonus white starfighter from Master Shifu Leo J.

Fire truck

Inspired by the vehicles in the Tower Bridge set, Sir Jayko built this fire truck, along with 4 other micro vehicles.

World Trade Center

Spencer Rezkalla recently built the original 7 World Trade Center, destroyed in the 9-11 attacks.

Andy's room

Pepa Quin's Andy's room MOC is one of the best things I've ever seen built out of LEGO. It doesn't really fit any of my blogs, since the scale is significantly larger than Miniland scale, but I can highlight this great little airplane:



Even by itself that would be a nice little MOC worth highlighting - made from only 11 pieces and yet instantly recognizable. If I were more of a masochist than I already am, this MOC alone would be enough to prompt one of the other niche blog ideas I at one point entertained - DisneyBricks. There are tons of great MOCs out there, and over the years there have been various Disney licenses - like the Mickey and Minney Creator sets, the Pooh DUPLO line and the more recent broad license including Toy Story, Cars, PoP, and PotC. If any Disney fans out there are interested in starting a niche blog, I'd be happy to help you get it set up.

Little in Japan

Not sure how I missed this, but Lino made this great Ultraman Vs. Baltan! for the Big in Japan collaborative display at BrickCon earlier this year.

Taaval

Kahal Dare uses the tooth plate to create a dramatic spacecraft which he's named Taaval.

On the fourth day of Christmas ...

Okay, I know, that's actually December 28, but the December 4 offering from the 2010 LEGO City Advent Calendar was this micro crane (here photographed by Dave Bond). This year's calendar features several micro vehicles - or perhaps they're meant to be fig-scale toys.

LL-294

Pete Reid has another excellent micro ship, the LL-294.

Stud Wars

Are you ready for Stud Wars? Ybliss is assembling a few armies.

The late Nate Nielsen

Most readers of this blog probably remember Nnenn, an extremely prolific and creative space builder, whose microscale work was featured here many times. This spring he was tragically killed in a car accident, so you can understand the shock when two new MOCs showed up in his photostream today, including the Arthinean Forces. Apparently Nate had three MOCs left when he died. Peterlmorris and Dablackcat were able to get the photos and Fredoichi helped edit them, so that Nate's wife could place them in his photostream. This was a real labor of love, but also a very bittersweet moment. I guess there is one MOC left to post, so watch Nnenn's stream for his final work.

Trolleys

Rob Bender presents a couple of Philadelphia trolleys.

Deck Designs

Chris Deck recently posted some new MOCs, the F301 Interceptor from Stargate Command and the Imperial Theta Shuttle and the Marauder Corvette from the Star Wars Universe.

That's no moon ...

... it's a Christmas tree ornament. Chris McVeigh even included instructions so you can build your own.

One more Vic Viper

Wondering what to do with those skis from the Series 2 collectible minifigure skier? Mainman used them to build this sleek Vic Viper. In the caption, he offers a few hints about the building techniques he used. Apparently, this piece plays an important part.

Here it is paired with a nano VV.

Spend, spend, spend

In the U.S., the weekend after Thanksgiving is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season. Many stores offer steep discounts to entice shoppers. LEGO retail stores offered discount scratch cards on Friday. I used my 10 percent off coupon to buy set 10197, the Fire Brigade

Could have saved even more if I had just bought the parts for this micro version, created by Alex Eylar.