The Answer to Military Laygoes

The setting is AIM, roughly midnight, The actors are Spook and myself. We're pretty much funny dudes.

Spook:I think lego politics would be worse than lego military though
Dez: haha
Spook: John McCain vs Barack Obama final duel set!
Spook: with flick-fire insults
Dez: John Kerry set includes realistic flip flopping!
Spook:hahaha
Dez:Hilary set never goes off the shelves
Spook:with the turn of a gear!
Dez:even after the store goes out business
Spook:hahah
12:15 AM
Dez: or, refuses to be taken apart
Spook: rigged poling location!
Spook: you decide the vote!
Dez: GWB set, now with falling approval rating action!
Spook: yay!
Spook: hours of fun

Half-Life 2 Jalopy

4 people have made the 'jalopy car' from the game Half-Life 2 recently. The first, a maxi-fig scale one by the popular Adrian Florea.

Second, a WIP by our own blogger, Dean.

Third, a minifig version by Crusty.

And Finally, another minifig scale one by Don Solo.

It Gob b.

The title is what happens when I get a hair stuck between the V and B keys on my keyboard. FYI.


Our very own Jacob gives us this dandy little half-track truck with a few tricks up it's metaphorical sleeve.
Take a look.

Taniec

If this Polish Wikpedia page is any indication, I'd say that Taniec is some sort of dancing. Perhaps one of our Polish readers could enlighten me?

Slow day... for everyone else.

Nothing worth blogging showed up today. So, in the interest of keeping the pace here, I built something to blog:



Its'a halftrack!

Funny Mecha Story

So, I saw this ferocious mecha (it's made of freakin' guns) by squieu today, and knew I had to blog it:



While I was procrastinating, I saw this cute tank in his gallery, and it struck me as the perfect inspiration to get me out of my building slump momentarily. So, I came up with this little guy. As soon as I post this, I'll type down the description and upload some more pictures to Brickshelf.

Bark Mulch Is Awesome

It's light and easy to move, and is invaluable for adding the finishing touch to any landscaping that needs work. That is the first of two valuable lessons I learned this past week. The second is that a wedding ceremony can take less than ten minutes. Thanks for keeping the blog running while I was away, guys.

Why has no one posted this? It's beautiful!



PS- Happy Robot Day!

Aliens APC

The oft-made APC from the Alien films returns again in a large, playable version by brickshelf user Havoc.

Wall-E

I saw Wall-E yesterday. Excellent. Pixar cannot make a bad film... As usual, it was lovely animated action with some subtle (and not-so-subtle) undertones. Anyway, members of the lego community also seem to like the movie!

Prior to it's release, both Joe Meno and Angus MacLane built relatively large-scale Wall-Es (Via TBB, obviously), and now Mark Sandlin joins the fun with a smaller Wall-E!
Also, the prolific Jordan (Sir Nadroj) produced a wonderful realistically-scaled M-O today! [reference pic for those who haven't seen the movie]
EDIT: Jordan tells me the M-O is scaled to Joe Meno's Wall-E, making it about 1:3 scale. Smaller than I thought!

Crazy Izzo and those CRAZY JAPANESE PEOPLE

Izzo made this mech that reminds me of IGPX.

Look!.....More Brown

Gallery

Jerac Builds Brown

And big. And Microscale. It's hella classy.
Gallery
(Via TBB)

Micro Cowboy Bebop

Brickshelf user unpy has a little gallery of 3 micro-scale ships from the anime show Cowboy Bebop. I'm sure if I had seen the show more I would recognize them, but I only saw the movie and therefor only recognize the second two. Don't forget about Adrian Florea's amazing minifig-scale Swordfish II.

Post-fest poodlidoos

I am experiencing the lego fan equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder; post-fest lack of excitement disorder! [See Nannan's photos for the whole run-down] It has been a slow two days since the conclusion of Brickworld for me, but not for others. Nick Dean, for example, has whipped out a sniper vignette that includes a not-yet-released brickarms weapon, the M21!
In other news, Jeremy, on flickr, made a lovely diorama for the post-apoc "Picking Up The Pieces" contest. Check out that mech!

Holy Shit

Niels Bugge built the most amazing fighter I've seen this year. I love the curves this baby has, and the color placement and distribution is perfect. But my favorite part is the shape. The engines and gun tucked under the body igve this craft a stern, no nonsense kind of look. Be sure to check all the pictures, including Bugge's usual construction shots. [Link]

CSF Buggy Group Build

Look! A blog post that isn't about a MOC!

Are you lacking inspiration to build? If that's the case, you might benefit from heading over to the Classic Space Forums and participating in the (unofficially named) CSF Buggy Group Build. The concept is that everyone builds a MOC off of the same concept art, and at the end, everyone can compare how they each interpreted it, and the techniques used to build it, etc, and thus hopefully become a better builder. There have been other group builds on CSF in the past, and they have all turned out some very interesting MOCs. There is no deadline, so if you have some time, why not head over to the build thread and try it?

JK builds a thingy-ma-bobber

Jehkay built, I blogged, you read. Gallery

Tattun does it again!

Check out this Patlabor mecha by tattun:



When I saw this, I was struck by the brick hinges at the back.

Oh, and guys, I'll be away for a week, so I hope you can keep the activity up until I return. ;]

Mobile Long-Range Artillery Platform

Tim Zarki's latest build is a real eye-catcher:



There's definitely something special here; I think part of it is the way the body rises to meet the turret at the back. Also, there are stabilizers that unfold from the back. Nifty!

Modularity Rox0rz

Nnenn is awesome. I love these things to death. Almost enough to make me want to build.