Arvo Brothers are known for updating their gallery by adding only one picture at time. Some AFOLs consider this annoying and perceive it as a cheap way to place a creation on Brickshelf’s “Recent” page and gaining more hits. Some think it’s a great way to build up an excitement about a cool creation.

On Klocki, we are rather reluctant to feature the same creation twice, and we already had a post on Arvo’s Doll. But when I saw the picture posted today, I decided it is worth breaking some rules. And I know will break them again, when we see the rest of the pictures.

I wonder if these yellow parts are in fact pneumatic cylinders? Im’ dying to see the remaining photos!

Japanese AFOL Ryu Kwi seems to be a huge mecha fan, since almost every creation in his Brickshelf folder is a large, humanoid-looking robot. His recent one is a nice heavy industrial robot called Type-D9:

(Via Young Spacers Association Blog)

Singapore’s AFOL Kaye created this pack of cute monsters:

As Kaye wrote, some designs are his original, some are based on other AFOLs’ work. For me, the red one looks a bit like one of the Doom monsters. And the gray on looks familiar, but I cannot remember where I seen it. Hint, anyone?

Ola!

I’m happy to announce that we now speak Portuguese! Just hit the () link on the top right corner of the page to check this out.

Did you know that Portuguese is spoken in 11 countries on 4 continents by 210 milions of native speakers? It makes it the 6th most used language in the world!

We are excited that LEGO communities from Portugal, Brasil, Angola, Mozambique and other countries can now read Klocki in their native language. This is all thanks to Ricardo a.k.a. Evildead, member of the Portuguese Community0937, who recently joined the staff of Klocki as editor and translator.

Ricardo, welcome onboard!

Bruce, a veteran LEGO blogger, owner of excellent VignetteBricks and MicroBricks started his third blog - MinilandBricks. As name suggest, the blog covers the miniland-scale LEGO creations.

I love everything what comes from Bruce and I love miniland, so I will be paying close attention on this one. And I hope you will too. To get you started, here’s the Lino Martins‘ Batman and Robin:

(Via MinilandBricks)

PS. Bruce is searching for blog o-author. Anyone interested?

Vojtek, one of the new LUGPOL members presents this very original USSR symbol built entirerly from transparent bricks.

Looks great when lit from behind!

I’m happy in part of Europe I live in, we can make fun of such symbols without sad consequences.

… and scorching desert, which turned out to be sort of cold, actually, the Truck Trial maniacs participated first GP Mazovia race yesterday. Seven contestants plus two additional vehicles sum up to a very good attendance. The winner was the beautiful and technically sophisticated Oshkosh MTVR by Duke, with Smyk’s Man and Aro_kal’s Star 844 right behind.

From Left - Lomero, Pietruch, Smyk, Duke, Aro_kal, Richard i Pixel

We have fought against moisture, cold and sand through five sections, which was a really hard beginning for all the vehicles. What are our conclusions? First - the heaviest, nearly 3.5 kg heavy model has won, which means that being heavy can be used as an advantage. Second - the victorious model was powered by two PF XL motors, but it barely won against two other, RC-powered trucks. Apparently RC motors are not so useless agains the Power Functions motors, and well designed RC-powered models are still quite dangerous. Third - it seems that bigger wheels don’t mean better outcome. The winner had wheels with radius over 9 cm, but right behind him was a truck with seemingly useless 8880 wheels, and the other big-wheeler won fourth position.

All these conclusions may be confirmed, or not, by the next edition of the race, which is planned for May 17th.

A harsh life of a shivering editor

Most car manufacturers release a new car model every few years without changing its name. Take Toyota Corolla for example - produced with the same name for 20 years. It seems in the future nothing will change - fifteen months after the first Auriga racer Jerac presents a new version, this time using round slopes and wedges:

New Auriga got a huge rear spoiler, huge air intakes, completely re-designed nose and a flat underside. Personally, I miss only the white-blue stripes of the old version.

Arvo Brothers are again into scuptures. After exceptional Calypso and IronMan, the Spanish AFOL team decided to build a doll inspired by Ghost In the Shell 2 and the works of Hans Bellmer (sounds cool). There are only two pictures so far, but the thing already looks amazing:

Saturday, April 19th, is when the Truck Trial season opens in Warsaw. In the Szczesliwicki Park at Ochota, the first edition of GP Mazovia is about to begin at 11:30 AM, at Usypiskowa street. At least six crews are expected to participate the race, so if you happen to be around, feel invited to join us and see one of the most sophisticated Technic models in Poland.