Set 7641 - City Corner - Found!

I dropped into my local TRU this evening (Basingstoke, UK) and what did I spy on the shelf? A single copy of set 7641 - a set I didn’t think was meant to be out until June at the earliest.

Needless to say, I bought it and it's already built. You can see the complete set of pix in my Flickrstream or (blatant plug) over in my own Tabletown forums. In the meantime, here are some pictures for all you loyal Brickspace readers. Enjoy!

Dr. S.

Brickspace Dictionary: Joe Vig

Joe Vig (n.) (Joe Vig)
Joe Vig is a minifigure thought up by Mike Crowley, Nelson and Patrick Yrizarry. He is a common figure used in Vignettes who is always in danger.

Crowley and the Yrizarrys' first idea was to have 'Joe Food', a minifigure which they would photograph in different restaurants and post the pictures on LUGNET. They then changed the name to Joe Vig ('Vig' being short for 'vignette').

Joe Vig has brown hair, a red shirt, red trousers, and the first Ron Weasley face. Other hats and accessories must be white to keep with the Joe Vig theme.

The first Joe Vig contest was held in June 2005 as Joe's popularity soared in the early years of the 21st century. A full list of Vignettes with Joe Vig in them can be found on the LUGNET page here .

Information for this article was taken from the official LUGNET article .

Brickspace Dictionary: URPs

URP (abbrev.) (Ug·ly Rock Piece)
The URP family consists of two large hollow rocky pieces that are used commonly in landscaping and creating mountains. The URPs are also found in many Castle MOCs.

'URP' usually stands for Ugly Rock Piece, though it can also stand for Ugly Rock Part. They are 'ugly' because of their square, blocky and un-rock-like look. There are two types of URP:

LURP, standing for Little Ugly Rock Piece. These are roughly triangular in shape.









BURP, standing for Big Ugly Rock Piece. These are quite wide and square in their shape.

There is also the SLURP, which stands for Sandy Big Ugly Rock Piece. Used recently in a Pirates set as an island, the SLURP (named by Michael Huffman) has no studs and many circular holes to hold bricks with circular technic axels, which in turn can be connected to plates, bricks and other assorted bricks.

BURPs and LURPs are generally meant to be built upon with more bricks in the same colour:

Prototype Attack Mech

Sometimes there's nothing better than a good Mecha, especially one like Happy Weasel 's Prototype Attack Mech which has zoomed to fame and glory with over 1,400 views and more notes even than when Dano posted that picture of Chell in anime, which is hard to beat. With its crosses, brilliant colour scheme, soft lighting and helmet design that reminds you of something you must have seen before, this Mecha is truly the definition of FTW. Brilliant stuff.

~John

The Fifth Terrace of Purgatory: Greed

Flickr user Profound Whatever always astounds with amazing photography and beautiful sets. This latest of his is no exception. Part of a series I can not wait to see what comes next.


~Zack