"It comes in any color you want, so long as you've got the paint..."

"It comes in any color you want, so long as you've got the paint..."
Originally uploaded by Sʎint Zvlkx

Brick Arms fanboyism has finally gone to the next level. A MOC actually showing Will selling his tiny weapons. Brilliant? Annoying? Freaky?


Perhaps all of these.







Also: Bravo to Mr. Chapman for filling a niche and doing it so well. I may not be into guns but I really like the Star Wars/sci-fi and castle weapons Brick Arms has produced.

Windows - Building Sideways Part 1

Windows - Building Sideways Part 1
Originally uploaded by Larry Lars

I missed this when it was posted a couple of weeks ago so I just wanted to make sure I added here as well.

I really like the simple nature of the top window. Personally, I'd be inclined to use a 'wall coloured' 1x4 plate in between the wall and the profile brick/shutter.

Windows - Building Sideways Part 2

Windows - Building Sideways Part 2
Originally uploaded by Larry Lars

While the bottom one isn't anything new it's good to show some of the newer kids just how nice the most basic of snot can look terrific! The other two though, are very out of this world.

I've used these mudguards as window decoration a few times myself but have always found the look somehow....lacking. Most of us know that adding two plates to a bracket gives us one stud of thickness but wow, the use of the 1x2 plate with rail and then a tile? This is really one of those "Duh, of course!!" moments for me. It all makes perfect sense once you see it, thanks Mr. Lars, once again you've taken us to school.

We build what we see every day sometimes

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Originally uploaded by Janey Red Brick

Necessary evils or just evils? These days we can hardly read/see an ad for anything without them telling us to check them out on facebook. At least facebook doesn't really lend itself to the cookie-cutter individualism that myspace puked out hour after hour after hour.
Anyway, these are really nicely done. So nice in fact that I won't tease Janey about the Flickr icon being displayed upside down. Oh, too late. Hehehe.

ogle mag

ogle mag
Originally uploaded by Dr. Monster

'nuff said.

Leaks need a rubber patch, not a whole new tire

Hasbro shows their upcoming Star Wars products in magazines and such months in advance. Sometimes they've been known to show prototypes of figures to generate buzz or even to enlighten the consumer on the process they go through to create the figures. Of course licensed products are more protected through the license owner so it would be really tough for a LEGO competitor to have a leg to stand on if they did copy one of those sets.
There are the issues of movie spoilers to take into consideration as well. As in, Disney is not ready for products from their upcoming movies (POTC4 and Cars2) to be shown to the public. They wouldn't want to give away the plot to a movie that really has no plot. Gawd I love popcorn movies.
It really doesn't seem fair that we are punished for looking at the images that show up on the internet while the source seems to go unpunished but maybe we need to remember that these sources are usually quite anonymous. I have no idea who runs 'supercooltoys.com' but TLG does if they supply the site/business directly. Punishing those retailers, no matter how small they are, would be TLG cutting it's nose off to spite it's face; without retailers, how do they get their product to consumers in the most widespread fashion?
Personally, I think they could/should be a bit more proactive and disribute nice hi-res images for us to drool over much earlier than they do. It's not like the sets aren't already in production months in advance of release and there wouldn't be any reason for us to get wind of the prelim set images that they say causes negative reactions.

What blog?

Three months? THREE MONTHS? Wow, things must be happy happy around my legoverse if I haven't been angry about it in three months. Hmmm, I'll start bitching tomorrow...I just don't have it in me right now. Just kidding.














Or am I?