Vid's Hovercraft

Vid' from Flickr is always amazing us, and that is certainly the case with his latest creation, a steampunk hovercraft. Full to the brim with greeblies and with some good Bionicle part integration, this is clearly a great representation of the Steampunk style and world. I particularly like the aeroplane engines on the bottom.

More City set reviews and images.

As John mentioned earlier, I've been engaging in some heavy duty LEGO buying and I snapped up another four City sets from a Toys R Us not too far from me.

As tempted as I was to get a fifth, I do have to be wary that Mrs S doesn't divorce me, so I refrained from going that far and set 7642 - Garage - was left on the shelf. Nevertheless, here are some sample images and links to the full set of pictures and reviews of the sets I did buy.

To start with, we have set 8402, the Sports Car.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

Next up, set 7638 - Tow Truck.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

Time for set 7686 - Helicopter Transporter.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

And last, but definitely not least, set 7639 - Camper.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

The highlights for me have to be the Minifig in the camper set - complete with front and rear torso printing and lovely new hair. The camper van itself is lovely of course, as is the helicopter from the transport set. There is however one small negative issue - in the two sets containing lots of orange, it seems that LEGO continue to suffer quality control issues in keeping the colours the same, and the following image neatly summarises the problem.

Nonetheless, this is a fantastic release of sets and I recommend each and every one of them!

Thanks for indulging me in this longer than usual Brickspace entry - hope I'm not in trouble for taking up so much space!

Dr. S.

New Lego set pictures for Summer '09

Firstly, I'd like to thank Doctor Sinister for posting pictures of his new pre-release TRU set here on Brickspace, and I hope he'll do the same for the next batch he got from 'TRU' (aka his illegal Lego dealer), including the amazing Elsa hair in the Danish hippie camper-van.

But, enough of that. I've got some great new pics of the soon-to-be-released Star Wars and Indy sets...

The graveyard scene of KotCS, including a great looking bike and what seems to be minifig-sized tubing! Hoorah! Tubing can be purist again! This set also includes minifigs in one of many new fleshie skin colours.

There's some bright colours and minifigs galore in this small set from RotLA.

Including many black telescope pieces, this set from The Last Crusade is one of the least liked sets of the whole bunch, due to the fact neither aeroplane has doors and it's also very expensive (30$ or so)

There's nothing better than a good fez or two, and there's two in this Venice set from The Last Crusade, along with some grim-faced minifigs and that Elsa hair (this time on Elsa).

There's a new Clone Wars skiff set with some ugly-looking minifigs (that garish Obi-Wan included).

And there's an exciting Mon Calamari 1 base set, marking the 10th anniversary of Lego Star Wars. It includes a host of great minifigs from Lando Calrissian to Mon Mothma to an A-Wing pilot and even to Admiral Ackbar and his Ackbar-like friend. All together now, "It's a trap!"

And finally there's the 'Midi-scale' Milennium Falcon, which is really what they should have done in the first place instead of all these huge (in cost as well as size) sets and UCSs.

So, that's it, enjoy!

~John

Firstborn by Tekka Croe

Firstborn, originally uploaded by Tekka Croe.

Fantastic builder Tekka Croe on Flickr strikes again with this fantastic space MOC taking techniques from both his own creation FireFli and from builder Peter Morris. And on a side note I dig this new Flickr "Blog This" format I plan to use.

~Zack

Reclaiming Space!

The Reclamation is the latest ship from Uspez Morbo and it's pretty radical. I love the use of the revolvers along the main fuselage, and the angled wings are cool. The whole thing is like a gothic cathedral, in space.

Dr. S.