Indiana Jones 'Friend'

We don't normally feature the 'friend' size shop display figures on this blog (i.e. the ones with longer legs and proportioned like the Jack Stone figures and not proper minifigures) but I thought this one was worth the web space!

I spotted this one on the top of a retail shelf in 'The Big Shop' in LEGOLAND Windsor.

I don't know why they continue to do figures like this when there are no minifigures like this in current sets, why can't we have a proper minifigure? Anyway, enough of me moaning about that, it is Indiana Jones after all!

x20 Technic Dinosaur!

OK, so this isn't a new model and you have probably seen it before, but this 20:1 scale Technic Dinosaur from the official set 8485 is in the Windsor LEGOLAND park, near the imagination centre. This was the first time I had managed to get a decent photo of it.

It is actually the biggest model in the park. I thought I built big at 10:1 scale!

6 Scale Horse ... finished!

I did manage to get our horse finished for the recent display at LEGOLAND Windsor as part of the world record LEGO tower celebrations. I even had time to do a proper rider and saddle!

And here is a shot of it on display in Windsor.

There are more pictures from the event in this folder along with a some dodgy geezers behind the horse :)

Batman!

This excellent Batman sculputre (inspired by the 3723 official Minifig Sculpture) was designed by Deane VanLuven. There is fantastastic detailing (using SNOT) on the torso.
You can see more pictures on his JadedReality homepage. (Many thanks to Bricktales for letting me know about this and the Lugnet post).

More pics from Galeria Kaufhof !!

After searching around the web for more pics I found these in from Kelley's Picasa photo page.

You can see the huge size of the LEGO window presence in this shot!This photo shows an an amazing Cargo Train! (Looks to be 10:1 scale). I would love to see more photos of this and want to see how they have done the boxcar you can just see on the left of the photo.
There is also these that are similar to a previous post, but thought they were worth including anyway.

New Shop Display Figure Size!

I spotted these pictures in Gracecewu's flickr gallery recently.

As well as the 'Friends' scaled figures, there are some new properly proportioned figures I haven't seen at this scale before. They look to be about 12:1 if I am seeing it correctly.

There are also parts of a Fire & Police Staion and also the police helicopter in the same scale, but bizarrely a smaller scaled Fire Engine! This really must be a very large display to see in real life and is apparently in Königstrasse Street in Stuttgart and it might be exclusively a LEGO store, but I don't think there is a brand store there?

This is great news and hopefully means a much needed move away from the old 'Friends' scale and back to proper minifigs like they used to use for shop displays.

If anyone else has pictures of this type of figure we would love to hear from you.

EDIT: After a bit of searching on the net I found that this display is actually in a department store called Galeria Kaufhof.

6 Scale Horse : Work in Progress

Well, Brick Street (otherwise known as Richard!) came down to stay again at the weekend.
We spent some time building 6 scale figures based on James Sutton's designs. Also Richard did this excellent 6 Scale Horse!

It is really a WIP at the moment and he has left me with the daunting task of finishing it off, but he hasdone excellent work! A bit more work needs to be done to the head, including finishing off the bridle, but is amazing that he put this togther in about half a day! He had pre-prepared some drawing to help him though, I just wish I was any good at art :(

Cheers Richard, great having you to stay again!

Large Duplo Ferrari

Dr. S. took this picture of his kids in a large scale Duplo Ferrari at a Toys 'R' Us in France .

It is approximately a 6 scale version, based on this duplo vehicle.

Thanks Dr. S.! As always, if you have anything about large scale models you would like to see added, please let us know!

Big Technic Truck.

From Jbartosch's gallery.

EDIT by Giz: There are more pics in Nuffel's gallery. (Picture added below)

6 Scale Knights

The figures for the 375 castle were designed by James Sutton, another Brickish member in the UK. I had my doubts that figures at this scale would ever look totally believable, but I think you will agree that these do.




James has also made LDraw files and I think that it is his plan to make them available to anyone who wants them at some point, so I expect to see many of minfigs at this scale in the future!

Well done James, I will certainly be making some very soon. They are sooo cute!

6 scale 375 Classic Castle !

Where do I start with this! This castle was built by Duncan Titmarsh, fellow member of the Brickish Association in the UK and was mostly assembled in the last 4 weeks believe it or not!

Check out this picture to really get a sense of the scale of it! (The original size set is on the table to the right).

I was lucky enough to get to help build and take this apart at the Brickish AGM in Sheffield at the weekend. It really is amazing how big this is and you know it is a big LEGO model if you need to look up at it! I always wanted to know how what it felt like to be a borrower :)

The hinges on the castle worked like the official set and proved very handy for the steady stream of people who wanted to get inside it. (Duncan is the guy inside the castle in the earlier picture).
The attention to detail is amazing, even the drawbridge can be raised and lowered. I will talk about the figures in a separate post or this will get too big.

Congratulations Duncan, this certainly raises the bar in terms of scale building and part of me just wants to give up now as this is way out of my league!

You can see the full gallery of pictures here. I hope you agree that we are back with a bang!

Apologies ...

OK, I have HUGE apology to make for not posting for a long time.

It is amazing where the time goes... I have a lot to blog about from events I have been to, additions to my collection and stuff from the net so will try and post at least every day or two for a while.

Thanks to everyone who is still reading and thanks also for those comments in the period since I last blogged. I will try and respond to them soon.

The next post is truely remarkable and will blow your mind!

6 Scale Collaborative Build

I built a lot of 6 scale bricks yesterday for a collaborative build at the Xmas party of the Brickish Association next week.

I had a lot of white 2x2 round corner bricks (macaroni's) so I built a lot of white ones! I am not sure what the completed model is going to be yet, but will post a report about it after I get back.

Darth Vader Statue

I have also managed to get hold of one of these to add to my collection.

There was only six of these made as previously reported in our post here. I bought one from someone who won it as a competition prize, but then deceided they didn't want to keep it ... good for me!!

He is the same scale as Spiderman and the Harry Potter models, I wonder if any more have been made in this scale? I am probably forgetting some...

Again, it was sent to me in the original box (pictures here) which had interesting information including his birth date (22/01/07).

6041 - Armour Shop X6

This is a very nice x6 scale set of the classic castle set. I saw it at the Skaerbaek event recently.

It looks very impressive and I loved the horse and the sheild detailing. The minifigs look very effective, but are very hard to do at this scale, especially to get the head/face right. I am glad I build to the larger x10 scale as it is much easier to get things looking rounder!

More photos in my Flickr folder.

My Spiderman!

After mising out on one of these as blogged here; http://bigbricks.blogspot.com/search?q=spiderman
I decided to go for it when they same person had another one for sale. It actually looks a lot nicer in the flesh (or should that be brick!) than in the auction photos.

An interesting thing is that it got sent to me in the original packing box which had some interesting info on the label. It gives the year, serial number and the country and name of company that built him. I had heard that all the display models that more than one are made are produced are made in the Czech Republic, so this confirms it.
I am also interested about the 'SM04' part of the name. I wonder if this is the 4th model they did in this type, or if there was other Spiderman models?

There are a couple of different views over in my flickr gallery

(1st post for a long while... sorry Richard! I have very busy clearing my house out to make room for more LEGO!! or so people can actually sleep in a bed when they come to stay :)

Too big for his boots ... well one boot anyway!

Ok, so he might have only been around a few days, but he is already causing trouble!

He has already claimed the lounge as his own territory and is planning an assault on the study next!

I was going to make some more of his friends to keep him company, but not sure now as he will probably want to take over the whole neighbourhood!

Aye Aye Captain!!

Harry Potter

Even though I missed out on Spidey, I did buy this! I know you don't particularly like this model Richard :-) but it was reasonably priced so I went for it! I think Hagrid is going to be harder to find ... It is actually in excellent condition.

This Harry Potter model was a prize in Toys'R'Us stores in the UK (and possibly Europe?) and I think that stores had one each to give away as a prize. The US had a different one (as far as I know) which is shown below.

I much prefer my one, but there is one interesting feature with the legs on this model. They have tried to get over the fact the legs slope outward towards the bottom (thanks Richard :-) by actually stepping it out a brick half way down. It looks rather weird! The hands are a lot better than the Euro one though as they can actually hold stuff!

Spiderman Statue!

I saw this on ebay recently. I did bid on it, but got outbidded. I have been regretting this and think I should have gone for it a bit more, but it sold for £272 ($543 USD) anyway, so I was reluctant to spend that kind of money with a seller with zero feedback from Hong Kong.

Was I wrong? Do you think this is even real? (I have never seen one before, but it looks along the same lines as the Harry Potter one).

Mars Mission Astronaut

There is a competitition in the latest LEGO Club magazine (arrived today) to win this 12:1 scale Astronaut based on the new Mars Mission sets. I will certainly be entering!

Sorry about the quality of the pictures, but I had to photograph them as I don't have a scanner :(