Video: HISHE does Lego Movie

"The Lego HISHE" by How It Should Have Ended

The LEGO Movie was super awesome! Maybe I'm too old too appreciate it properly, who wouldn't love watching minifig Batman as he helped Emmet and WyldStyle defeat Lord Business. In this video, How It Should Have Ended points out where the film went wrong - when the heroes were somehow captured by Bad Cop despite the ranks of superheroes siding with Emmet.

Lego Creation: Battleship Orion 1

"Battleship Orion 1" by Tim Clark

Lego Creation: Normandy and Mako

Mass Effects Normandy and Mako by Ben Caulkins aka Benny Brickster

Lego Creation: Venator Star Destroyer

"Venator Star Destroyer"

Source: Imgur via Reddit

"A few months ago I was browsing rebrickable and I stumbled upon this glorious creation.

After careful consideration (read: 4 seconds) I decided I needed to have one. So I clicked the option to buy the instructions and got the email of a really nice guy named Regis who sold me the instructions for 5 Euros.

He can be reached at setechnic@gmail.com by the way... Send him 5 Euros if you can(I would highly reccomend you send him a little more as the instructions are of very high quality) and he sends you the link to download the instructions.

 I then spent about 1 month and a half bricklinking all the parts for this bad boy. Thankfully I was able to source about 85% of the pieces locally as I've got a few REALLY good Bricklink stores in my city (I live in Edmonton, Canada). As for the rest I ordered them mostly from the US except for one or two orders."

Lego Creation: Firefly

"Serenity" by Adrian Drake

Adrian Drake built  this painstakingly accurate model of Firefly's Serenity over the course of 475 hours over twenty-one months.  The model is composed of over seventy thousand bricks, weighs 135 pounds, and measures seven feet in length.

Drake debuted his minifig-scale Serenity this week at Brickfair in Chantilly, Virginia. He based the design on the Quantum Mechanix blueprints, and he even managed to build most of the compartments from the set with the exception of the engine room, which was impossible to build while maintaining structural integrity of model.  

The cargo bay and drive light up, both engines rotate, the wings swing out, and Inara's shuttle detaches. It's an incredible feat of Lego engineering.  Check out the full 75-photo set on Flickr. Also, check out this gallery by Jeff Stevens from Brickfair.

"You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the world. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down. Tells you she's hurting before she keens. Makes her a home."

- Captain Mal

Lego Creation: Eclipse Class Destroyer

Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyer by oPHILcial

Source: Eurobricks Forum via Reddit

This is the Eclipse Class Star Destroyer from the Empire at War video game.  It was the flagship of the resurrected Emperor Palpatine.  It was even more massive than Vader's flagship, Executor, and in the game, it was armed with a superlaser, the "Eye of Palpatine," was was capable of cracking the crust of a planet (but not blowing it to smithereens.)  And thanks to the movies, it's no longer canon.  This model was constructed of roughly eleven thousand pieces.

Lego Creation: XS Freighter

"XS Freighter" from Star Wars: The Old Republic by EM1sw

Source: Imgur via Reddit

"SWTOR XS Freighter that I built to cope with the fact that I can't afford a UCS Millenium Falcon and they aren't coming out with a new one this year. Started out as an attempt at modifying the 7965 but ended up being nearly a complete overhaul. Didn't count the pieces but it took me around 40 hours altogether. Here is what it is supposed to look like if you aren't familiar."

Short Film: Action Bill

"Action Bill - A LEGO Stop Motion Short Film" by AMAA Productions

Austin, Texas-based movie studio AMAA Productions created this LEGO stop-motion film in which William Shatner travels back in time inside a giant robot to kill William Shakespeare.  But Shakespeare receives a little unexpected help from Patrick Stewart.

Lego Creation: Winterfell

Winterfell by Marco Cancellieri

Photographed by Itaria No Shintaku at ItLUG Latina 2013

Marco Cancellieri exhibited this enormous 288 studs by 576 stud (2.30m by 4.60m) Game of Throne diorama at the ItLug Latina 2013 Lugfest that includes Winterfell, the Twin Towers, and Castle Black (complete with The Wall). It's clearly based on descriptions from the books, rather than stills from the HBO series, but the scale of the diorama is impressive.

Lego Creation: Castle Black

Castle Black by Marco Cancellieri

Photographed by Itaria No Shintaku at ItLUG Latina 2013

In Game of Thrones, Castle Black is the headquarters to the the Night’s Watch, the group of armsmen who devote their lives to defending the Wall.  The castle is mostly built from ice and rock, and is nothing more than a small keep, but it's defining feature is the man powered elevator to the top of the wall.

Lego Creation: Twin Towers

Twin Towers by Marco Cancellieri

Photographed by Itaria No Shintaku at ItLUG Latina 2013

Lego Creation: Wierwood Tree

"Wierwood Tree" by Flailx

A Game of Thrones Tribute.

"I wanted to build this as soon as I saw the dark red leaves in the Mirkwood Hobbit set.

I wanted to make a few more limbs but it was breaking my bank. Those dang leaves cost $.70+ on BL. :/"

Lego Creation: The Iron Throne

"Lego Iron Throne" by Spuriusantonius

Source: Imgur via Reddit

The only thing more uncomfortable than sitting on a chair made of metal swords is sitting on a chair of Legos.  My poor tender feet ache just thinking about it.

Humor: Sith Simpathy

"Sith Simpathy" [Sic] by Rooster Teeth Comics

Lego Creation: Starcraft Siege Tank

Starcraft Siege Tank by Drakmin

5,000 Lego parts went into this remote-controlled tank.

Lego Creation: Hyperion Battlecruiser

Starcraft 2 Hyperion Battlecruiser by Sven Junga

"The final addition to my SC II collection. Raynors Raiders Battlecruiser as it appears in the campaign. All in all I've been working 6 month on this model which is 115 studs long and includes around 15,000 pieces."

Lego Creation: Star Destroyer Time-lapse

"Building the LEGO Star Wars Super Star Destroyer (10221) Time Lapse" by The Brick Show

The OCD part of my brain is going absolutely bug-crawling crazy over the wrong-colored bricks.  Yellow in a Star Destroyer?  I know you'll never see them once the thing is assembled, but you'll know.  You'll just know.

"The Brick Show is building the 2011 LEGO Super Star Destroyer in just over 3 minutes. This is LEGO Star Wars set 10221 built in time lapse form."

Lego Creation: Star Destroyer Time-lapse

"LEGO Star Destroyer Time Lapse" by Twigge2k

If I spent that much money on a set of Legos, I would definitely make it last for more than nine hours.  That would be my brick-a-day project for a year or two.

"Construction of a LEGO set at 3.1 minutes per second. It took eight Mountain Dews and nine hours to complete."

Lego Creation: Falcon Time-lapse

"Star Wars Ultimate Millennium Falcon: 16-hour Build" by jonthepymm

I would much rather be building with Legos than watching someone else do it, but given my age, I don't think that I'm ever going to be able to justify spending what it would cost to own an official Lego Millennium Falcom set... not unless I think of a way to make it tax deductible.  So, this video is probably the closest I'll ever get. 

"We built the 5,197 piece LEGO Millennium Falcon in a day. Stop motion from 44 seconds in where one second of film equals two minutes of real time... see our 16-hour build in 8 minutes!"

Lego Creation: R2-D2 Time-lapse

"Lego Star Wars R2-D2 Time-lapse" by Reed Stoner

R2 has always been my favorite Star Wars character.  I don't have the Lego set, though, because it drives me crazy that he's not properly round.

"Composed of 22,299 individual images at 30 frames per second. Over 4.5 hours to build in 3 separate sessions."