50 Years of the LEGO Brick book now available from LEGO Shop

Following the release of the LEGO® Collector’s Guide, the English-language version of the 50 Years of the LEGO Brick is also now available from the LEGO Shop.

VW Lego Samba-Bus

I guess we are on a car kick. Check out this rendition of the VW Samba-Bus by Scandell. I love the color scheme and that interior is pretty sweet. I’m loving those seats!

LEGO Sport City Exhibition – Beijing Olympic Games

With Lego celebrating 50 years in the brick game and the momumentel Olympic Games around the corner it is welcoming to see the city featured in large and replicated in great detail by Lego. Beijing’s newest centres hosting the games have been created using 300,00 Lego bricks along with 4,500 mini figures with the city featuring a sports complex, swimming arena, and even residential housing. This remarkable exhibition will be up until August 31th at the Grand Century Place in Hong Kong.

LEGO Technic F-14 Tomcat by Jeroen Ottens

This F-14 helped get Jeroen a job as a LEGO Technic set designer. Indeed, the open framework and functionality are reminiscent of official sets, though the scale is off the charts.

Gugick’s Lego Taj Mahal Makes It To The Movies

The skilled landmark modeler Arthur Gugick’s recent landmark lego sculpture is made for a special purpose; it is a commissioned piece for an Australian movie called Taj (more details on MOCpages). Here’s an interesting fact: the model was constructed to be purposely damaged in the movie, and specilized fracture-points were incorporated so the model would break apart into about 40 pieces when it gets tipped over in one of the scenes.

LEGO Castle Giant Chess Set

Lego personifications are nothing new and neither are the varieties of Chess sets that I have come across in the past. But marry the two ideas and you have the LEGO Castle Giant Chess Set, which is simply astounding. You can pre-order the 2,481-piece (576 of which are the individual shiny block tops on the playfield) set now, and it ships July 1st. If dungeons, evil witches, trolls, dwarfs, knights, kings, are your style, then get ready this exquisite indulgence.

Huge LEGO Yellow Castle Version Looks Bigger Than Most Apartments

 

Huw Millington sends word of a Brickish Association event he recently attended, where the centerpiece was a 6x version of 375/6075 Castle — aka “The Yellow Castle” or “What I wanted for Christmas 1978 and why I’m still not speaking to my parents, 30 years later.”

Check out more photos in photosets from Martin Long and Huw.

Via: BrothersBrick

The Art Of The Brick – Lego?

Nathan Sawaya is currently touring the United States with his “The Art of the Brick” exhibition. He just finished exhibiting at the Lancaster Museum of Art where record crowds came to see his work.

The director of the museum said “On opening day, we had to open the doors five hours early to accommodate the hundreds of guests waiting in line outside. In my 28 years in this business, I have never seen a response to a show like this before.”

The Art of the Brick has now opened at the Discovery Center Museum and will run through to September 3.

The unusual thing about the sculptures of Nathan Sawaya is that they are made entirely from LEGO bricks! The Art of the Brick exhibition has more than thirty works on display with almost one million pieces of lego used to make them.

I wonder how difficult it is to convince collectors that LEGO is of as much value as oils or marble to create art. I like his mosaic portraits here.

Arvo’s Lego Diving Mask And Headphones

 

I have been asked to expose some more of Arvo’s creations… well, there you go Brian.

Arvo builds An Amazing Lego Iron Man

A masterful Lego builder that goes by the name of Arvo is the man responsible for this unbelievably awesome Iron Man figure. And with results like that, the dude doesn’t even need a last name. Just whispering “Arvo” will get grab the attention of geeks the world over. via Brothers Brick