New BrickJournal is out!

First - all the speculations from previous post are true! We will see LEGO sets designed by Mark Sandlin and Chris Giddens!

Besides this, a lot of interesting articles in this issue:

• Interviews with AFFOLs
• Interview with Nathan Sawaya
• Town Plan Review
• Very intersting article by Marka Stadfforda (Nabii on BS) about the design process of 2008 Exo-Force sets.

PDF version is only 3,95$, so go get your own issue today!

Today, we found a thrilling announcement published on LEGO Factory web site:

In april we will see Space Skulls and Space Justice. What cound these names stand for?
Majority of the AFOL commenting this speculate that it mifght be sets based on two legendary fan space lines: Pre Classic Space by Chris Giddens and 3vil by Mark Sandlin. If by any chance you missed that, take a look now at Doulous medical frigate and Asmodeus destroyer.

Readers are asked to figure out themselves which faction is the good one, and which is not.

Wanna pick up a girl? The right dress is the key to success. Don’t forget the tie!

(found in Tim Burton’s photostream )

Beware of a toaster! Big-X presents “The coming of Grondenfell the Destroyer” that “has been prophesied for millenia”.

Each time I pass by the Slowacki Theatre, I wonder: how many tan bricks should one have to build a model of it? Recently, when Nexus visited Krakow, theatre was on our route from train station to the market square and we were discussing it again.

But the true is, there is a guy who not only has enough bricks, but also have already finished a similar model. Matija Puzar, Croatian AFOL and a scientist from Oslo University built a replica of National Theatre in Zagreb. It looks just like the Cracow one, isn’t it?

The whole similarity thing is quite interesting. Both theatres were build almost at the same moment. Krakow’s was opened in 1893, Zagreb’s only two years later. Croatian is a creation of duo of Vienna architects: Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, our one was build by Jan Zawiejski . What is more interesting, both Vienna gentelmen tried to win a design contest for Cracow theatre, unfortunately without success. I wonder if the similarity is because these days all new Austro-Hungarian theatres was build the same way or is there somenting more? Take a look at the photos: left is Zagreb, right - Cracow.

OK, back to the bricks. How many? More than 35 thousands! It’s funny that Matija built his model for 12 months, just a four months shorter than the real thing was built. And who says bricks are for kids?

ImpreSariO returns to the classic story of Frankenstein, but places it in the future. The bond-esque laser gun wins it for me:

Inspired by Shaun the Sheep by MisaQa I just wanted to show you few different approaches to LEGO sheep.

bl:

tubtattoo:

annie1:

koumei:

Shaun the Sheep by MisaQa:

Our Misterzumbi is obsessed by hotrods. I’m not, but it does not stop me from loving his newest Road Zombie:

Did you know that is the first time Misterzumbi builds a non-minifig scale vehicle?

Remember Manel, minifig from portugese forum 0937, traveling around the globe? This time he visited one of our friends in Poland, and got photographed in beautiful Lancut.

We can also reveal that we are expecting many more minifigs to visit Poland this summer, watch this space for more details.

One thing you really can`t do without in every sf universe is a dropship. The most famous one was in Alien movie, but have a look at this cool creation by dasnewten.