LEGO Ideas Book

If you're looking for a great gift for the AFOL in your life, check out the DK LEGO Ideas Book (hmm, good sale price on Amazon). Anyway, this includes a large number of models by AFOLs you may know, like several of Debrah Higdon's micro models.

Mini Castle Contest

I apologize for being away from blogging for three weeks. Anyway, in the meantime, the winners were announced in the Mini Castle Contest. And the winner is ... Blego7's Warscape Volume 2, and second place went to the related Warscape Volume 1 by Siercon and Coral. While there were a lot of great entries, and I'll go back and look at some of those in future posts, these three builders really raised the bar by building a series of connected MOCs that all work together to tell an epic story.

Micro fleet is getting bigger

CommanderHawk's micro fleet is getting bigger. (Previous post here.)

Centre Pompidou

Theolego made the Pompidou Center.

WWII

Henning Birkeland made this great airport and planes.

One Penn Plaza

I don't know who 'moctown' is, but they just posted three great landmarks - One Penn Plaza, the Metlife building, and the leaning tower of Pisa.

Monster mash

There's so much to admire in lisqr's monster battle: the scale mixing, the great Japanese castle, the tree design, and that rainy backdrop.

Happy Halloween

The Mini Castle Contest finishes up today on CC. More on that later. For today, I thought Lolino's entry Tartarus had a sufficiently spooky feel to celebrate the day.

Oh Canada

Thadjantzi has made six great Vancouver landmarks.

Warscape Volume 1

Mini Castle Contest VII continues to inspire great MOCs. Siercon and Coral made an amazing series of eight separate scenes, each of which could be a post all by themselves, but tell a whole story and fit together to make Warscape Volume 1. More on Volume 2 in the near future ...

Failed?

Walter boy calls this a failed attempt at forced perspective. Maybe, but that castle is pretty cool.

Love, exciting and new, come aboard, we're expecting you!

CharityBuzz is holding an auction, with the proceeds to benefit Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. Anyway, they are featuring Love to the Rescue, which is essentially a bejewelled version of set 10155, the microscale Maersk container ship. This artist has done several other sculptures where they took LEGO, plated the bricks with gold, silver etc, and then added jewels and crystals to get a fairly stunning result. If you've got a spare $5000 burning a hole in your pocket you can place a bid right now.

Soyuz spacecraft

Pascal Schmidt (Flickr user Pasukaru76) put together a micro Soyuz spacecraft. For comparison, here's a photo of the real thing.

Nano Hogwarts

We've featured a microscale Hogwarts before, but this one from Stacy Sterling is remarkably smaller, while still quite recognizable. Stacy writes that it was created for Guy Himber's Cabinet of Curiosities.

For a better view of the tiny objects in the Wunderkammer, check out this photo, which includes notes about the builders who contributed to the project.

City

This gorgeous cityscape was on display at BrickCon. Anyone know the builder?

Trains!

These wonderful trains by James Matthes were at BrickCon.

Unity Temple

GW Scholbrock, known as The Brick Sho on flickr, presented Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple at BrickCon.

Globe

Lego.Skrysston made the Globe Arena in Stockholm. Be sure to check out how this was constructed.

Mini Castle VII

Over on Classic-Castle it's that time again: Mini Castle VII is being run this year by forum member Wobnam, as previous contest administrator Robin Hood is now busy with college. Try your hand and win cool prizes. This was only announce a couple of days ago, and we've already seen three entries, including Subix' rendition of the Slovenian castle Sneznik.

10230 Mini Modulars

10230 Mini Modulars will be released in 2012. More details and photos here and here.