This fantastically-shaped space racer was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr, and it utilises one of LEGO’s rarest colours, making its tessellated composition even more difficult. But we can’t stop thinking it looks like a walrus’s face, which probably isn’t what builder The One And Only Mr.R had in mind.
Still, we’ve written the title now, thus you can head into space via the link above and try to un-see the head of a large marine mammal…
This enormous floating monolith is – according to its maker Vince_Toulouse – a ‘T8-Prospector’, and it’s magnificent.
Whilst we know not what it does, we do know that Bionicle, Galidor, and Duplo pieces are used in its immense construction.
Motorised mechanics including the arm-mounted drill and LED lighting bring Vince’s spectacular creation to life, and there’s more to see of this other-worldly machine on Flickr via the link above.
Amazon just sent Katy Perry to the edge of space to promote her new album or something. Which shows we’re pretty close to space travel becoming as banal as flying to Bakersfield for a business conference.
Of course we know why Amazon sent Katy Perry into space; because it takes it one step closer to plundering its riches. Space’s, not Katy Perry’s. And riches there are, even on the lumps of rock hurtling around our planet, which are filled with rare earth metals including gold and platinum worth literal quadrillions.
Cue the ‘I.E.A Andromeda’, an enormous asteroid mining rig built to bore into the rocks of space in order to extract their valuable innards, built by Chris Malloy, and photographed in spectacular detail.
An astonishing feat of brick-built engineering, LEGO’s red rollercoaster track, giant gas-filled orbs, microscale spaceships, communication equipment, and a whole lot of rock all feature, with over thirty incredible images taken to capture the complete model.
A goldmine of photos is available to view at Chris’s ‘I.E.A Andromeda’ album, and you can join Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, a morning TV host, and Katy Perry promoting her new music in space via the link above.
‘Player 1, Player 2, Choose your fighter!’ is the title of this space-based build by bradk918. Although it hasn’t escaped our notice that the starfighters are actually numbered one and three… No matter, because we don’t understand sci-fi anyway, and Brad’s builds are seriously good.
Top flight building techniques and stellar presentation make these well worth a closer look, and you can get your coin in the slot before the count-down ends at Brad’s photostream via the link above.
Uh oh. Sci-Fi. The genre about which we know nothing. Fortunately the creator of this spellbinding ‘Pterosaur Ship’, which to us looks like the beautiful combination of a bat and a dying butterfly, has bequeathed it with a description; “Just an average guy traversing planets in a spaceship to share inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes.”
Well that clears that up. There’s more to see of this bewitching build courtesy of Oliver Barrell, and you can traverse the planets with an average guy, sharing inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes via Oliver’s ‘Pterosaur Ship album at the link above.
This TLCB Writer doesn’t understand feet. Sure they’re there to hold you up and everthing, but to him they are functional only. Like a trachea. Or a spleen.
But not today, because today’s he’s so into them, courtesy of Caleb Ricks and this fabulous space freighter ‘The Antipodes’. Caleb’s design is a rhythm of angles, with some truly inspired techniques deployed to create the triangulated hull. A stunning interior features too, with jaw-dropping detail throughout, yet the most brilliant parts of Caleb’s masterpiece are the landing feet, which deploy in mesmerising motorised scnyhrinoscity via the ingenious mechanisms hidden within.
Like a hydropneumatic Citroen, we could watch The Antipodes’ feet gracefully rise and fall on loop, and you can join us and our foot fetish on Flickr via the links above.
We’re having a whimsical return after our Christmas break, and it continues with this splendid hovership by Flickr’s Konajra. A quad of hull-mounted anti-gravity engines provide the ‘Zephyr Voyager’ with lift, whilst the traditional masts provide, um…
It looks beautiful though, and perhaps beauty doesn’t need to make logical sense. Float on over to take a closer look at Konajra’s ship of the skies via link above.
*Today’s wonderful title song.
It’s been a while since we last posted a sci-fi creation, which is mostly because, well… we’re rubbish at it. However even we can spot the brilliant ingenuity in newcomer Outer space BRICKS‘ unique ‘BT-SHIKRA’. Classified as ‘Neo-Blacktron’, OSB’s complex trapezoidal design is one of the most original ship shapes we’ve seen this year. There’s more of the creation to see on Flickr, and you can take a closer look at some terrifically clever Blacktron-based tessellation via the link above.
Like regular train, only in space! if we’re honest we’re not quite sure how the overhead power-lines work, but Daniel Barwegen‘s build looks lovely nonetheless. It’s also available to buy in this year’s Creations for Charity fundraiser, to which Daniel has donated it. There’s more to see at his photostream via the link above, and you can click here to check out the fantastic Creations for Charity page.
Measuring over one-hundred studs in length, the family jewels of the Lego sci-fi community are the ‘SHIPs’. This one, constructed by Flickr’s Duncan Lindbo, measures in at 116 studs, and it’s a properly impressive specimen.
A ‘Samovar-Class’ tanker, Duncan’s design utilises an array of orbs to transport various fluids, hung within a plum-straight outer casing which looks like it was rather testy to create, what with LEGO’s limited sand-green parts inventory.
You can head to Duncan’s photostream to check out this nuts creation, bouncing on over via the link above, and fifty TLCB Points to you if you found all the testicular vernacular. Although most of our posts are bollocks anyway we suppose…
…Straight to the Moon! Or from the moon we suppose, as this marvellous lunar base is likely already on one. Flickr’s Chris Malloy is owner of this microscale marvel and you can head to his ‘Horizon Lunar Launch Base’ via the link above.
Losing Disney around $74 million, 2002’s ‘Treasure Planet’ is a film the studios would probably like to forget. Which is a shame, because it was well received, but was sadly at odds with the computer-animation boom of the early ’00s, and Disney’s traditionally animated movies were all but gone within a few years.
It’s this traditional animation however, that sets ‘Treasure Planet’ apart from its computer-animated peers today, being infinitely more beautiful than the CGI films of the time.
Measuring a metre tall and a metre long, this spectacular 4,000-piece recreation of ‘Treasure Planet’s ‘RLS Legacy’ solar galleon captures the movie’s gorgeous animation wonderfully in brick form, and comes from Flickr’s Daniel Church who designed it for the Brickworld Chicago show.
Presented (and edited) beautifully, there’s more to see of Daniel’s incredible otherworldly ship at his ‘RLS Legacy’ album, and you can join the Legacy’s crew at the Crescentia Spaceport at the start of their adventure via the link above.
It’s SHIPtember, the annual spaceship-building bandwagon for sci-fi creations measuring over one hundred studs in length.
This one comes from Flickr’s Ryan Olsen and is a ‘Stiletto Class’ destroyer, so named because of its narrow pointed shape. That and it’s captained by Tiffany and comes from the Stripper Nebula. We may have made that last bit up.
You can take a closer look at Ryan’s gargantuan space shoe via his ‘Stiletto Class Pickett Destroyer’ album, plus you can see the other SHIPtember works-in-progress and finished builds at the SHIPtember Flickr group.
We know nothing whatsoever about sci-fi, but nevertheless we do like Classic Space, with it’s perennially-smiling spacemen, assorted research tools, and spaceships that look like a cross between a fighter jet and a racing car.
This one comes from Flickr’s Wynd, who has brilliantly re-booted the Classic Space aesthetic in the creation of his ‘Galaxy Adventurer’. Funky landing gear, a glowing engine, and a perennially-smiling spaceman all feature, and you can join him adventuring across the galaxy via the link above.
Flickr’s David Roberts has appeared here numerous times over the years with his strangely-shaped spaceships, including those based upon a giant block of cheese, a chess board, and a cat’s anus amongst others.
Today he’s taken inspiration (probably) from the barreleye deep-sea fish, whose eyes look upwards through the transparent dome of its own head, to create this barrel-shaped primary-coloured interceptor.
Neither he nor us know what it’s intercepting, but you just got to look at a properly weird fish, so you’re welcome. Head to David’s photostream by clicking here to cast your eye over it.