Wooly Mammoth, originally uploaded by Sir Nadroj.
The more I see of Jordan Schwartz’s models, the more and more impressed I get. He seems to have an inexhaustible supply of creativity and constantly showcases some new technique or other.
Look carefully and you’ll see the Indy hats and the overturned half barrel used in unlikely but perfect ways. 
For those of you that are Star Wars fans, I’m sure that you know what a Bothan is or at least where they are mentioned in the classic films. But I digress, why am I talking about obscure Star Wars references on a blog dedicated to LEGO? Well there is a very good reason.
FBTB (i.e. From Bricks to Bothans) has just been given a cyberspace facelift. Dedicated to all things LEGO Star Wars related, FBTB is for all who feel one with the force. For those of you who are familiar with the website, don’t worry, all the older posts, forums, etc. are still there. They’ve just updated the look and feel.
I’m looking forward as always to their Toyfair coverage. They always have good detailed pictures of the upcoming sets.
Also, if you are a Flickr fan check out their FBTB: flickr Outpost
I was just sitting at my desk when this vignette seemed to build itself. I saw the starfish and thought “hey, you know what that looks like …” and this emerged.
In the new Futurama movie Bender’s Game there is a LEGO ship being driven by a Minifig during the Demolition Derby.
Its only in a very small section of the movie, but still notable. I love how Matt Groening gives a nod to LEGO every once and awhile. I really like the movie too, but then I am a Futurama fan and the fact that they finally came out with new Futurama is even better!
I was actually inspired to do this by Dave Ex Machina’s pic of a Rabid Batman. So I tried it with some of my different Minifig Heads and you can see the results:
You can see close ups on my Flickr photostream.
Hi all! I am just getting off my BrickCon high. It was a great weekend full of cool MOCs,
lots of people, and tons of fun! Although I will do a more in-depth BrickCon post later on, I wanted to share something from the first day of events.
You can see more images at Brothers Brick
As I am sure that most of you are aware, its been posted on many other blogs and forums all over the net, during the Opening Ceremonies of BrickCon 08 the LEGO Group representatives announced a brand new set — 10193 Medieval Village! Seeing this set in person, it was hard not to drool over all the cool elements including for the first time in about 20 years — the whole turkey!!!! Just that alone will make sales of this little jem of a model go through the roof. But the entire model with all its wonderful features makes this a definite buy when it becomes available in January.
I also wanted to share with you some of the images from the “Minifig Beauty Pageant” that was held by the LEGO Group during the ceremonies. Noting the fact that LEGO is generally geared towards boys, they asked 15 women to come up front and gave us each a female Minifig to “walk the cat-walk” and have every one judge which one they liked the best.
The first few were in already available sets, but most of them were for as yet released sets. One of the figures was even called the “Mystery figure from a Unreleased Mystery Theme” that was a girl in a sparkly top. The figure I was given to display (and yes, we did get to keep our figures) was Asoka from the new Star Wars Clone Troopers sets.
I wasn’t able to get pictures of all the figures, but I did manage to take pic of these three figures:
Pirate Girl and Peasent Girl 2 (Check out the new Fish element)
I am really excited about all these new figures, especially the Mermaid! The “winner” of the Beauty Pageant was the new Troll Hag from Castle. Who knows what exciting sets these figures will be in.
I like to build in all different sizes and scales. Here’s a Micro-scale Mobile Home Park I made as a Christmas present for my Dad. I thought about putting stickers on for the doors and windows, but I decided not to. I did put a sticker for the mobile home park sign, however.
Professor Maple is my second entry in Resonably Clever’s Brick Science Contest. This model is for Class 2 – Evil Scientist Impulse Build. You can only build with a limit of 50 pieces. This is a great challenge, to get your point across without going over the piece limit. Chris Doyle, creator of Reasonably Clever, allowed for the use of Mega Blocks or non-LEGO elements, since the scientist is evil.
I figured that this would be perfect excuse to use my Pokemon Mega Blocks bricks. I got these in Japan about 7 or 8 years ago, and I just never found a use for them. As a general rule I don’t buy Mega Blocks, they are far inferior to LEGO in quality, but the Pokemon were just so cute I couldn’t resist.
As for what Professor Maple — rival to Professor Oak — is doing, he is creating “Poke-cubes” just to upset the balance of things.
