LEGOWORLD

from elex's gallery.

Racing Car

From lluisgib's gallery.

Inflatables

From
lluisgib's gallery

Luke

Available from Shop Online America.

Click on the picture to enlarge.

Even bigger wow!

Clearly made from real LEGO Bricks - and it can actually be driven!

From vkessesl's gallery

Wow!

I've been looking for this pic for ages.

From RMing's gallery.

Pictures from BrickCon 2007, Oct 5--7, Seattle

From
tgarriso's gallery.

STEAM

Met up with Darren and Claire again this weekend at 'Steam' - Swindon's Train Museum. There is a huge exhibition of LEGO there this weekend. If youy're reading this on the 7th October - get down there before 5pm and have a really fun day out.

Here is the table of Darren's collection + a few bits of mine.

Blue prints...

lucajuventino

Dinosaur

From badasscomputer's gallery.

Helicopter

LEGO-DESIGNER

Little Car

From LEGO-DESIGNER 's gallery.

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!!

Thank you.

I'd like to say a HUGE Scaled-up thank you to Darren and Claire for letting me stay this weekend - its just what I needed after my extremely busy week at work.

It was fun taking a trip down memory lane too. Hopefully I will be able to visit again and you vice versa.

I saw an advert for the Train Show on the way home too - how spooky.

Cheers

Richard.

Pirate Captain!

What do you get if you cross a teacher from Hitchin with a Data Analyst from Exeter, a Pirate Captain of course!! This weekend your two blog writers met up for some team building and after 9 hours of pretty intense building came up with this.

The pirate captain is based on the Pirate Lady model that was made by LEGO and displayed in Hamleys. They were also featured in the Bricks 'n' pieces magazine.

We would love to hear from any of the original modelmakers or anyone who has any photographs of the display in Hamleys or if you know where any of the models are now!

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).

Same Scale.

Are these two new minifig sculptures the same scale? - What do you think Gizmo?

It would be brilliant if LEGO sculptors are making 'real' minifigs now instead of 'Friends'. I guess over the ten years or so that the 'Friends' have been displayed there could have been a shift in opinion about them - or even a new generation of designers (who favour the traditional minifigs).

Fingers crossed. (Now - they just need to work on that nose!).

Get Plastered

The red minifig is there to give you an idea of scale.

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 :(