Great inspiration can be found just everywhere.  Peter Morris come up with idea of a batstarfighter when he found a misprinted (white) batman torso in his set.

 I wonder how rare is this torso. Does anyone have one of these?

Long, long time ago Jerac built Scorpion, a Blactron-like space tank. Now, he revisited this idea, but with a unusual twist. This twist is…. a pair of PF Medium motors and battery box built-in into the hull! And here’s the beast called Manticore:

And here is how it moves:

Here goes the question then:

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Commander Calamitous presents “Summer’s End” vignette. The expression on the face of this young man is precious…

Mariann Asanuma (a former Master Model Designer in LEGOLAND California) builds a miniland vignette to honour the amazing Olimpic acomplishment of Michael Phelps.

I finished it two weeks ago, but I had no time to post it here. So here it is - my contribution to LUGPol’s Klocki-Zdroj, a hotel:

Nnenn’s starfighters are, with no doubt, one of the most amazing space creations ever. I cannot get enough of them. Here’s the latest batch of his new models:

BS4 Yarn:

Umee:

Viper XR-1:

and (surpise): a hovercraft Paluyoske VBM:

The LEGO Group, the manufacturer of our favorite bricks have recently announced it’s financial results for the first half of 2008. Figures are amazing:  20% better than the similar period of 2007. Congratulations LEGO!

Full annoucement at lego.com

I’m not sure if this is a new creation of Arthur Gugick, but it popped up on Brickshelf front page and China is all over the news right now, so here it is: amazing recreation of a Hall of Supreme Harmony located in Forbidden City, Beijing.

Rocko presents a new diorama: Easter Island crew is defending itself from the attack of sea monkeys. Beautifully nonsensical.

This post is to remember and to invite the AFOLs all over the world to visit the next Club Meeting of Comunidade 0937 taking place in 5, 6 and 7 September, 2008.

This event will take place in Viana do Castelo (North of Portugal) in the Youth Hostel of the city. There will be shown the most recent projects of the Community, such as the Modular City 0937, the new Community Castle display, the western display, contests, debates, theme presentations, the 0937 Water Quest (challenge between AFOLs with LEGO water guns ), and many other things. It will be also here that we will know the winners from the contest of the 50 year Brick by the hands of Jan Beyer.

If you are interested, go to the official site of the event where you can find all the information you need.