In November 2009 Nexus showed his brilliant model of polish bus Jelcz 043. A little bit later it turned out that also V1 was building very similar, to be more precise, Jelcz 272 MEX bus. It took him about half a year to build it in a satisfactory way – all the time he had to buy additional required pieces. And finally he did it. So let’s have a look on this great MOC! Details are amazing …

Beautiful 10211 Grand Emporium store model, the next set belonging to a series of Modular Buildings, has just appeared on LEGO S@H. It will be available since the end of February, but the price is still unknown.
Like the predecessors, the new building presents immaculately, a great impression is caused by lots of details. Designers even took a lot attention to the interior. In the set 7 minifigs can be found, although two of them are shop-window dummies.

As announced - let’s  vote for the best entry in this edition of BTT. Contest organizers selected 5 top creations from each round, which sums up to… 21.

Winner gets the red model of SKODA 706RTO bus (”Ogorek”) designed by Nexus!

As usual - 3 days, 3 votes. Go!

Dirty dump truck, Bobofrutx

The Red Stone, crises

Ural 5323, Wojciech Scrat

Steam boat, Lomero

Oversized Transport, M_longer

The Amazon with Cargo, buriedbybricks

Marcin ImpreSariO - Leonardo Steam Vehicle

Lomero - Hedgehog

Crises - The Mystery Mobile Castle

M_longer - Tracked Steam Dumper

legosamurai - Nikola Tesla’s Magical Steam Electric Bicycle

Burriedbybricks, Latis (a.k.a. The Reach Around)

Lomero, Star 266

Liwnik, Medieval Cart with Hay

Crises, Magnetic Barge

M_Longer, Onloader

Lomero, Catamaran

Bobofrutx, Electromagnetic Barque

liwnik, Ship

Longer, Eco-Transport

Buriedbybricks, USS Olive Branch

I have received a lot of amazing photos of your favorite minifigs at work. Thanks!

I’ll need a moment to post them all here, so give me an extra day or two, ok?

In the meantime, here’s  teaser:

by Misiek.

This one is quote local, so forgive me a this boring explanation, but otherwise you will not get it . December 13 is a anniversary of the proclamation the Martial Law in Poland in 1981. If you are over 30, you might recall tv news with tanks on the streets and this creepy general in sunglasses.

On of the popular songs that recall the scenes from the martial law is “Parade of Memories’ the band “Kult”. Lugpol member Pit created an amazing set of vignettes that ilustrate the lyrics, line by line. Szarikm cut a clip, and the restul is just stunning. Thanks to the talent of Mucia, I can provide the translation, so you can follow the lyrics:

I was sitting in my apartment
When someone knocked at the door
I looked through the peephole
And jumped out through the window
I ran through the snow-covered streets
And heard their voices behind me
I ran, and didn’t look behind
Oh, how great time it was

Around the speech of idiots
Flowed when the radio played
So I ran to my friend
He told me what had happened
The alcohol flown as a river
My friends had their methods
In bathtubs the fish was swimming
Ah, how young I used to be

No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
This time will never return

The streets are covered with red
We have the stones in our hands
May’s sun is so scorching
We are cooled by the water’ streams
From the grim Middle Ages
The crusade against Poland
We pin the resistor in lapels
Oh, how great time it was

And the hard work all nights
To keep up with the dawn
Let the mob understand eventually
For whom we are risking
At noon to stand at attention
Thousands sheets of the paper
Gas is spreading around us
Oh, how great time it was

No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
This time will never return

First the results of the challenge four:

1: Buriedbybricks 8+2p
2: Liwink 7p
3: Lomero 6+2p
4: Longer 5+2p
5: Bobofrutx 4+2p
6: glaz_pimpur 3p
7: Crises 2+2p

And the grand winner is:

1: Buriedbybricks 32p
2: Lomero 31p
3: Longer 29p
4: Bobofrutx 23p
5: Crises 22p
6: Liwnik 18p
7: ImpreSariO 15p
8: Legosamurai 11p
9: UspezMorbo 10p
10: Glaz_pimpur 7p
11: Mienso 123 6p
11: Spacelord 6p
11: Tybort 6p
14: Scrat 5p
15: Filozof 4p
15: tbskorpion 4p
15: The Lego Obsessionist 4p
18: pit 3p
18: Ither 3p
18: Trucker 3p
18: Lipek 3p
18: pupch 3p
18: elfickirogal 3p
18: H20-97 3p
25: kondzios230 2p
25: Kelvin_1 2p
27: Smyk 1p
27: Thangor 1p
27: NewRight 1p

Congratulations to the winner and all the participants!

Now for the good news: there is going to be one more voting! This time for the best entry of the whole competition. It will include entries that took first 5 places in all 4 challenges. We will start the voting in next few days.

It’s this time of the year again!  “Bring Your Favorite Minifig to Work Week” starts on Monday!

This is an old, prehistoric tradition started at rec.toys.lego newsgroup in 1995 or 1996. Be a part of it! (as year or two years ago)

Here’s what you should do this week:

1. Bring your favorite minifig to work (school)

2. Take a photo

3. Publish it on the web and send us a link (or just send us photo) with one-sentence description and your nick. Send it to staff (at) e-klocki.com or use contact form.

We will publish all your photos on Sunday!

Above photo (by sasik aka Darek M.) comes from the ‘2007 edition of BYFMTWW.

The time has come. Let’s vote for the best entry in the last, 4th BTT Challenge:

Your task is to build ECO vehicle capable of moving min. 5 people or 500kg (1000 lb) of load. There is direct relation between eco requirements and the universe in which your are building. The farther in the future you go, the more important eco requirements are going to be. And vice versa, in fantasy universes eco requirements are rather humorous.

Bonus task:

To qualify for the +2 bonus you need to transport any one of the anti-eco vechicles from challenge 1. It needs to be as close to original as possible, but not necessary in mint condition, your task is to haul it to scrap yard.

Submitted creations:

Lomero, Catamaran

Bobofrutx, Electromagnetic Barque

Crises, The Last Transport

liwnik, Ship

glaz_pimpur, Warsaw Trolley

Longer, Eco-Transport

Buriedbybricks, USS Olive Branch

As usual, you got 3 days and 3 votes. Go!

The poll is now closed (222 people voted). Stay tuned for results…

I have done this work several months ago, but only now I managed to take photos of it. It’s called St. Anns Cliff - Royale Trading Post and it’s a small imaginary island near UK with a trading post and a working windmill.

Have you seen it in the water? No. Then, take a look.

It’s a Polish thing. This bus was very popular across the whole country from mid ‘60 until late ‘80. Our Czech readers will recognize SKODA 706RTO bus, on which Polish Jelcz was based. I’ve managed to build two city versions and one touring bus.