NO! It won't dissapear

This blog will be temporarily shut down, as my lego blogging skillz have moved to Moyblik. This might become a more "personal" blog, but that's okay. We'll see what happens.

Bandwagon

Since my post of my favorite space MOCs, Snoikle, Brendan, (HM for Micro-Space) and hopefully linus, have all done [similar] things. Now, let's see if the guys over at Review'd will get their butt into gear.

Side Note: I declare this not-so-sooper dooper sekrit-- Micheal C (from Snoikle) Chuck, and I are planning on starting a new blog. This will be dropped (but not deleted... yet) and snoikle will be dropped (but not deleted...ever, of course) in order to make room in your "lego blogs" bookmarks folder (I know you have one.) We just need a name now pretty much.

p.s. Chuck wins!

Best of Space (IMHO!)

'member, this is in my opinion.
The [1] and [2] are MOC examples as to why I put them in that category.

Best Micro Space:
==Soren [1] [2] (plus some other micro bits in his flickr stream)
==Ken-Tucky [1] [2]
==Spook [1] [2]
Honorable Mention: Jerrac
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Best Minifig Space
==Giddins [1] [2]
==Teh Phil [1] [2]
==Rice [1] [2] (plus some cool non-space things)
Honorable Mention: The since-passed Travis
2nd Honorable Mention: DanR
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Best SHIP
==Goldman [1] [2]
==Drake [1] [2] (okay, it's steampunk, but whatever.)
==Jassim [1] [2]
Honorable mention: Sandlin
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Best Mecha
==Sun Yun [1] [2]
==Soren [1] [2]
==Mladen [1] [2]
Honorable Mention: Pete (mecha, bots, does the difference matter?)
Another Honorable Mention: Kyle (cool gunships too)
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Best Land (this one was hard... so gimme a break, k?)
==Paul [1] [2]
==Gil [1] [2]
Honorable Mention: Jamie
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Best... Misc
==Chuck [1] [2]
==Moko [1] [2]
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Best Steampunk (YES IT COUNTS AS SPACE FOR NOW!!, so shut up.)
==Jonesy [1] [2]
==Kee-voh [1] [2]
Honorable Mention: Andrew

Other People who win:
Squieu
Monkey

And the grand awesome dude is.....

ME! YAY!

(okay, actually it's Soren because he got awards in two categories, but I beat him anyway)

I don't mean to... offend anybody with this list. If your name is not on there, don't feel bad or anything. Please? I just wanted to show some big things that I get inspiration from.

Yay

Mechahub got a make-over... and now it works just fine with Mozilla! YAY! I think I'll build a MCP module, just to celebrate.

On another note, the new lego catalog has arrived at my house, filled with heart-warming pictures of the new SW sets (WITH NEW BLASTERS OH YEAH UH HUH) and the Aquaraiders. Aaaand this freakin awesome Ferarri set, that has a base "chassis" with removable red/yellow exteriors. Sweet.

Plus, I got Final Fantasy III for DS... so don't expect me to be communicating for weeks on end.

Okay, so it was a bit fast.

Oh! Look! I wish lego sets were like the one on the top. That would be awful nice. [here]

ps- this blog is gonna get a makeover.

Ummm

I'm going to take a break from blogging until I find what I want from this hunk-0-junk. BBv2 will still be here, but I just won't be posting.

THIS IS A POST ABOUT LEGO

A while a go Weird Al released a new CD, Straight Outta Lynwood, it's called. Most of his new CD's have Polkas in them. They aren't the traditional Al parodies, just him singing blips of the popular songs in.... polka. His newest, Polkarama!, has these songs in it:

• "Let's get it started"--Black Eyed Peas

• "Take Me Out"--Franz Ferdinand

• "Beverly Hills"--Weezer

• "Speed of Sound"--Coldplay (yay nick)
  

• "Float On"--Modest Mouse

• "Feel Good Inc."--Gorillaz

• "Candy Shop"--50 Cent

• "Drop it like it's hot"--Snoop Dogg (Thanks Brett)
  

• "Gold Digger"--Kanye West

and then 3 other songs I don't know. Figure it out. Keep in mind that half the artists there I don't like... just FF, MM, some Weezer. BTW, for christmas I got the Wright flyer, the Holiday train, another train set (heh) and... that's it. Well, and some DWR Cubits, A sweet scarf, and an iTunes gift card. So I bought some new music (As well as The Arcade Fire's album "Funeral", Mr. Baron)

We'll see what I blog next. After a week-long skiing trip to Utah with some relatives.

I is be in very sorroful.

It's okay guys. I'm still alive. I recently posted some stuff on flickr... but that's it. We had a nice day (christmas eve.) No snow, I was walking around in a T-shirt and jeans. Although it is nice, I would rather have snow on Christmas. Oh well.

I have absolutely no lego to display, even though many a great MOCs have been tossed around by the other lego blogs (TBB has MOVED! Go check it out). I dunno... I haven't really been in the "lego" mindset recently. I've been thinking about other things. I don't want to start another blog (cuz that would suck) but this one will either slow down (although it has been slow recently anyway) or change a bit. To fit the things I've been doing. I thought about joining Review'd or something.... but I'm not sure. Maybe I'll just take a (longer) break from blogging. Sorry you guys had to read my intrapersonal rantings, now one last thing to say:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

p.s. a cool new blog I'm checking out is "Indexed." It rocks. Also, The new TBB (TNTBB) has some SWEET pics of 2007 sets... those skeletons look wierd but I'm looking forward to them anyway. Cheers.

New Blog list.

I just want to point out a couple new blogs on my "Lego blogs" link list!
-Imperial Inspection
-Review'd
-Microbricks

Yup, that's it. Except for this Orange 'beut made by brickshelf "Fox-Primus." It's... so... smoove! Just that one little ugly bit, but that's okay. We can forgive him, right?

Also, two questions to "all my readers" (pshh like there are more than 3), Should I change any colors and what order should these side-bar things be in?:
-Archive
-Tags
-Basic Lego links
-Lego Community
-Lego blogs
-Lego sites
-Other links

It may not look like much, but I had a lot of tabs open at the time.

Whoooo man. It's been a while. Busy with... wii.... and.... other things.
But this has been turning into too much of a jibber jabber blog, onto the lego, right?

Well today I have a mega-roundup of MOCs! YAY!

First off, brickshelf kerouac has built two really awesome Zaku-esque things from Gundam. Red and Blue. They are both excellently made (though I disagree with the wizard hats on blue) and continue his theme of small mecha that look bigger than they are. I also like the way he did the tubing around the mecha...

Flickr User Don Solo has made a really funny bot- he started off working to make Bender from the TV show Futurama, but he ended up with this little guy! (It still looks like bender too) We all love Roy... until he kills us.

And the ever-present Moko has been building up a storm with his "SMF" (Small mecha frame), check these out!
-BEAST!
-NINJA!
-INSTRUCTS!

B-shelf nnenn, who I blogged before, is taking the exo-force theme and revamping it, with two new mecha- Paladin and Blazer. Now if these were actual lego sets.... well, that'd be awesome. He used the basic exo-force frame with some armor and better shapes slapped on, I especially like the armor on Paladin's legs. I'm just not sure if those flaps in the back are official lego pieces...
He also made some funny ships based off the micro-sized versions, much like Mark Stafford and his Mantis. They aren't too great in a building sense, but they are accurate from micro-minifig scale.

And I think I'll just wrap up with a little RLOSIDWTTA
-Squieu mech
-David R. schweet hardsuit
-hopeso009 funny hardsuit
-Chocobabee!
-Yay cool halo moc

I will hopefully be updating on a more regular basis from now on.

Musical Motivation: Nothing.

Wii Wii Wii Wii Wii Wii Wii Wii...

Okay:
Last sunday I waited for 3 hours in front of CompUSA (I was second in line) and it turned out they didn't have any Wiis. Yesterday, I visited over 10 stores to check for shipment times. Best Buy is getting TONS tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get one after waiting in line and playing DS with my friend. Hopefully...

So other than that, all I really have is a RLOSIDWTTA (I know, nothing much):
Soren's new Lifter
sugegasa's Viking Robot
MACHA's Tachi

Mecha Mecha Mecha...

Greetings.
Life is swell. Kinda. I didn't get a Wii. But, Twilight Princess is sitting in my basement. Sad, cold, and lonely. Just sitting. It makes me want to weep. Kinda.

Brickshelf Pratt (master of tanks and that kinda stuff) has made some cool basic brick-built hardsuits. Nothing special really, I just thought they were pretty cool.

And Izzo... who's mecha/animal building have been carefully documented by dunechaser, has made an insanely cool Elephant mech. It definitely resembles an elephant, and has great use of those annoying wheel-wells. The Feet are off a bit though... last I can remember Pachyderms don't have sharp claws.
Izzo also made a mini- documentation of Sugegasa's popular mecha frame (which he has ALOT of.)

A rather random bit, oldhamk has made a diorama called "homage to the southwest." I'm not sure exactly where they originated, but he has made the best mexican (cuz that's where I always see them) clay house. It's so smooth and beautiful!

Countblockula, always the tinkerer has made a neat-0 way to get those rockets you see R2 use in ep II and III (I think...?) in lego! He provides some cool little tips for it too.

Just a little mid-week update.
Musical Motivation: 16 military wives (I listened to it 2 times) by The Decemberists (on Picaresque)

His ribs our ceiling beams, his guts our carpeting, I guess we've got some time to kill...

Guess what? The ps3 came out today. Guess what? The Wii comes out on Sunday. Guess what? I'm gonna camp out for the Wii!! hehehe. I'm such a geek it makes me awesome.

For all of you who actually checkout the most recent edition of Brickjournal you already know of it, but Mark Stafford has recently officially announced his new Gothica! YAY! The coolest part of the ship is all the little things that fit into it. I especially like the Venator... and then the mecha that pops out from behind it! The scout ship is also really awesome. All that sand green....

Brickshelf Lomero, who Dunechaser blogged a little bit ago, has made another awesome barge, this time a (little) more modern. Steam. yeah, modern. It just has great construction, a cool propellor, and a nice design... even the engine room is cool! I'm gonna keep my eye out for what else he will make.

Another small-time builder on brickshelf, " k1089" made an interesting Alchemist's hut. It's nothing specialy really, but the interior is nice and I think he used a lot of colors in a good way (look at the roof part of the hut red, green, brown, etc.) I just don't like the top of the "tree", it looks way to sparse and wimpy. A cool idea would make it at a slope, like the tree had gotten chopped by some sort of giant. That would be cool.

I know this is a little old, but for those wanting to help AIDs in Africa, (and get cool looking gear) check out (RED). I think it's pretty cool. Plus that red iPod is just too awesome to pass up.

Now for a RLOSIDWTTA!!!:
-A squieu Samurai bot
-Izzo makes a cool little robot frame
-Space camp song!!

Musical Motivation: The Decemberists, Picaresque (I got it for my birthday)

EDIT: Don't ask about the font color change... I'm not really sure how to fix it anyway.

I really don't feel like it.

Tomorrow r b my burphday. Yipee. I'll post a picture of all the presents coughlegocough I get. As for making an actual post... everything in my "blog stuff" bookmarks folder got blogged on Snoikle or TBB. So yup. Nothing today. Nothing at all. Except for an ill-known fact: I am building. Yes. I have a new G2 sub-sonic racer in progress and this industrial digger... I'll get to it.

Steampunk

This weekend I have a french essay... Math homework... A science pretest to do... A social studies project to finish... and an English book to read. Oh yeah, then I want to build lego, have a sleepover, Work on a game my friend and I are making, among other things. Geez.

Steampunk is a now common lego building genre it seems. Generally idealized as 19th-century european steam-powered inventions, it has grown to be a vast theme of many varieties. It embodies the idea of "What if the combustion engine (or fancy-shmancy electricity) was never invented?" then we would end up with planes like this and cars like this.
A quick search on brickshelf gets you lots of different models, from smooth wood and boilers to clunk junk machines. Steampunk to most people is really a way to use interesting parts that you usually wouldn't, like for most space builders they can throw in some technik gears and barrels for wheels and boilers. Many people interpret it differently too... like marakoestra has made the wood-only (more magical) inventions of Professor Nutbolt (steampunk is also notorious for outrageous inventor names), while smartiac seems to see it as more of a society, everything is steampunk and that's the way it is, Even [steam] craft carriers!. He even brought steampunk into the future (weird thought, I know) with a steam-powered robot.
The [near] inventor of the genre is Kevin Heckle (aka Jonesy), has built steampunk, (click the letters) for a while now, and the other kevin (Kevoh) jumped on the bandwagon just afterwards. Kevoh has even more steampunk (click the letters again), but his is more "fantasy" (like marakoestra.) This brings up an interesting point, how magic is steampunk? Kevoh's cyclopin (k) and Hitodama (u) are totally outrageous in real life. Some of the others too. The Cars are a little more reasonable, but still, how long would that last before you need to re-fill on water and coal?
Magic/Fantasy has really become part of the "steampunk" genre now. Mr. Yrizzary's floating rock ship is a great example of total fantasy, but to understand it you need some background on the "floating rocks." Jonesy, is most definitely the creator of this mini-theme. It started with an innocent little MOC, a rather random "floating village." I'm not quite sure where it went from there, but after a few years floating rocks were popping up everywhere! From the small (but pretty, you gotta admit) to the amazing, it was a staple in the new steampunk! Now, why do the rocks float? This has been discussed and discussed, but soon enough, Bossy 'ol Jonesy gave this semi-conclusion:
"The minifigs in my world don't know how or why the floating rocks float, and I think it's better to keep it mysterious and have lots of legends and theories about it. I like to think that floating rocks move in the sky at tectonic speeds (i.e. 1 inch per year or so), if they move at all. However, in the anime series Escaflowne there were airships that used floating rocks for lift by heating them, which is an idea I will endorse.

Aaron's idea is nice and interesting, except replace "hydrogen and helium" with "fizzy lifting juice" or something similarly goofy and magical, because hydrogen doesn't have the lifting power. The coral thing sounds pretty close to Eureka Seven's "scab coral", which would be a huge spoiler if I explained further.

I will share some of my ridiculous and embarrassingly fantasy-genre theories:

1. Aftermath of a War of the Magi (yeah, FF6 ref): About a thousand years ago, all the wizzards had one great big war over something or other, and where a wizzard died in battle, the immediate vicinity became a floating rock. (OMG emo)

2. Pocket Universe: The universe of floating rocks is stuck to another universe in untold millions of spots, like plastic wrap. The other world has a vastly different landscape, and the core of a floating rock is rock that's deep underground in the other world.

3. Magick Crystals: Floating rocks are where magic whooshy crystals grew underground at the convergence of two or more magickal ley lines of magic, and the crystals took the surrounding rock with them as the ley lines changed.

4. Magick Redux: Did you ever put raisins in 7-Up as a kid? You know how like the raisins float and then sink and then float again? It's like that with rocks, except magic.

5. STFU: They float because I say they float. I will break you if you ask any more questions.

Okay, I feel retarded now. Damn you all for making me explain.

P.S. Death to Castle!!!111"

So there ya have it. Floating rocks float. Because they float. Just a note too, Jonesy didn't really "invent" floating rocks. They have probably been around in books and TV a lot longer, like skyland and stuff like that.


Please remember that this is just a prototype article, it isn't done and isn't perfect. Enjoy.

RLOSIDWTTA:
Jerac's steampunk boat
A great topic on inspiration and sorting
A sweet little mecha by tim

And I will hang my head, hang my head low...

I'm feeling kinda weird today. I'm having trouble with my math homework. But other than that, good things have been happening. I got The Decemberists new CD, The Crane wife. Remember? It rocks. Nice, slightly upbeat songs that are just great background music. And I have a sleepover tonight with one of my best friends...

But onto lego. Kyle Vreize, who I've featured before, has built a new mecha. Except it's halve-mecha halve-tank. "Chrome hounds" which is for the Xbox, I do believe. Kcaster (nick) built something like it a little while ago, same deal; mecha+tank and chromehounds. Both pretty cool, great building guys! What I like about Kyle's model is the great color blocking, but I think the sand red should've been a different color... maybe dark bley to match the guns up front. 3 color rule! It also has some cool controls.

Kerouac... has built a gnarly (tee-hee) yellow robot. It is so sweet and industrial, using those wheel-well pieces so well to cover up where the two tanks connect, and it looks so real. Like Izmojuki too... dang. It would just shuffle around the construction site like *beep beep* shuffle shuffle shuffle *braaaap* *clunk* shuffle shuffle *ga-chunk*
Heh.

Tim Gould, who I know I have blogged a buncha times before. He made a sweet iddy-biddy hardsuit, too bad a minifig doesn't actually fit in there. : P

Plus, a simple, lovely little floating rock by Arpy.

Musical Motivation: The Decemberists - The Crane wife (DUHHRR)


(KA-PWING!!)

I hate my Math Class

I'm in a special "smart class" where I have one math class a week, on Thursdays, for 2 and a halve hours. I like math, my teacher is fine, the work isn't too hard, but what I really hate is the speed. She talks way too fast. And I can't write, think, and look all at the same time. I just have to hang in there by the skin of my teeth until 3:30. Then I have to catch up at home over the weekend and don't have time to do much at all. And then I don't have any more time that week to go over what I learned, and next time class rolls around, a whole new slew of problems and processes are hurled at me. This weekend I have a lot of other homework too. French, Social Studies Homework, and a Social Studies Project. And then an English essay I need typed. Ugh.

But I guess I can still try to eke in another blog post.
Dan Rubin, Lego ambassador, Brickfest Organizer, Among other things, has polished off a new spacecraft deemed "Lightning." It's pretty cool, with some SNOT in the front, cool intakes, a nifty engine, and lightning bolts on the wings. Sweet.

Legohaulic, who I've known for almost 2 years now, from SSLF, and his brickshelf, and MOCpage, has made an interesting study, almost, as a skeleton. My favorite bit is the minifig-sized skeleton arms used as fingers. Heh.

Chuck Citrin, who I met at brickfest, has made a Lightcycle, from the classic sci-fi movie Tron. He got some great SNOT work in there, but it is a bit bulkier than they are in the movie. It can't be helped really, as lego has it's limits.

Countblockula has also created some cute crab designs.
And Justin Harvey made a sweet gundam-thing, with some sweet colors and some insane SNOT stuff.

And this post I will not blog squieu nor Moko. I have self-control, even if his newest MOC is pretty cool. A nice frame going on there.
Dammit.

Oh oh oh, and Make sure you download the newest Mozilla, it has an auto-spell checker thingy. Hehe.

Musical Motivation: Nothing. Yep, nothing at all.

I should stop blogging moko, fer totally.

So anyway, Toshiya has made a rather cute Zaku from gundam. The scale ruins some of the cool details, like Soren could include in his model. He used some interesting joint techniques and stuff like that. Makes a nice frame too...
He also made a schweet orange (ORNJ) industrial-type mecha. It's pretty stylish. And the "layered" look he got on the legs is great... very realistic (kinda) looking.

Miyazaki... has inspired many a lego models. Jonesy and Kevoh especially, a lot of his movies include steampunk ideas and stuff. One of his movies, "My Neighbor Totoro" really doesn't prove any lego ideas. But I was proved wrong... Totoro gives the two sisters a ride on a living bus, the cat-bus that can fly and turn invisible. Probably has warm seats too. I wish I had a bus like that.

Moko (Sorry) has built a really intriguing hover bike-ish thing. I just love the smooth shape he was able to get on it... and the pedals for the minifig, and all that. Overall just a smooth, complete model. Cool colors too...

EDIT: Dunechaser has some nice info on it too.

Brickshelf tkh, who I've mentioned before, has build a really crazy mecha this time. It's G- umm... Godannar? I guess what I like is the simple brick he uses throughout all of his models, and this is no exception. Just cool ol' bricks, plates, and click hinges, (for the most part.) Plus, anything with a flaming head gets kudos in my book of awesomeness.

And (a day early, cuz I probably won't have time tomorrow) HAPPY HOLLOWEEN!!!!
Don'tcha just love the online lego community? They're so great. Ah....

Musical Motivation: The Long Winters

SPACE! MICRO! CASTLE! DISHWASHER!

Just a second little update for the weekend.

Spook (0114) has made 2 micro-scale ships, the Iron Titan and Laser Frigate. The Titan is okay... too much bley/grey mixing and not enough little details to be fantastic. The white stripes are nice though.
It's the laser frigate I love. Such a great, simple anime-esque design, with some sweet engine detail to boot. The screwdriver use is great, to get that spreading out kind of engine.

Plus, check out "Airborne's" cute little "Q-cars."

Aaaand, the Collossal Castle Contest IV has begun! This might make me have to build castle once more... It has great prizes and some great entry categories! Check out the Classic-castle thread.

Last, this was too good to pass up. A dishwasher with a lego wash cycle. Here's more [info]

Musical Motivation: System of a Down

Bluh-Bluh-Blubbity-Bluh

A bit of a late update this week, I try to post every friday but I've been pretty busy still.

I normally try to avoid blogging things other blogs have blogged (whoah) but Felix Grecko's New Airship is too good to pass up. Even the two shades of Brown look fine together! The "bubbles" on the bottom are awesome, give it a real good idea of how it would fly (in... a fantasy world) and the use of the Jabba's sail Barge Sails is excellent. Plus, the crew looks cool.

Kyle Vrieze, who I got to meet a brickfest, has made 3 models highlighting some other builder's ideas. The Cheribum inspired this guy, Soren's frame for this one, and one of Jamie Neufields for the bike. I just thought that was great, being able to add a builder's own style to other people's designs. I wish I could do it that well!

And what would a post be on bbv2 without either squieu or Moko? This time you can have both! Squieu built a tiny mecha person, but what I like is the "cross-section" veiw. Moko, on the other hand, built big this time. And strangely enough, he has a sort of "cross-section" veiw too. Some Japanese contest maybe? Maybe...

Tim Gould, rendering extraordinaire, has made a nifty semi-futuristing cargo carrier. I've been trying to build something like this with propellors for a while now, but in steampunk. It's a really nice model, but the colors look kind of jumbled and could have gone without the blue.

Now for a RLOSIDWTTA!!!
-Spook's awesome Laser Frigate
-Junker Bandits Build-Off!
-Mini-Maersk Carrier VTOL

That's it really. Nothing much this week. Check out other blogs fore more info on stuff, I gotta go.
I've also decided to do what Dez has been doing, musical influences!

Musical Motivation: Franz Ferdinand