History built right!

There have been a fair few historically-accurate creations built recently, but not many are as good as this one. Gary Brooks had this beast ready just in time for BrickFair VA, but clearly a lot of time, effort - and not least money! - went into it. It depicts the Battle of Rorke's Drift, made famous by the 1964 film Zulu, though it is based not on what the film shows but what actually happened on that day in 1879. Gary has put together a very interesting account in the description on Flickr, so make sure that you read it. As for the MOC, well...what a beast! The olive-green leaves on the ground make it look like it really is in the South African wilds. The scale is incredible....

This base makes M-Tron even cooler!

How can you not love this epic build from Blake Foster? The four years he spent building it were clearly not wasted at all, as this beauty is absolute perfection. I know this has been blogged elsewhere, but some things are so incredible that they deserve to be recognised just that little bit more. Oh, I almost forgot: check out the accompanying video for more awesomeness.

You cannot pass!

Leonardo Da Brick built this epic reconstruction of the confrontation at Khazad-dum for the MELO. This rockwork should inspire us all, it's truly incredible. I also love the way he made the Balrog tumbling into the abyss. Also mighty thanks to the great J.R.R. Tolkien for writing such an epic scene in his books.
 

The City of Dale

Amazing builder Disco86 built this incredible microscale version of the City of Dale from the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug for an Iron Builder match featuring this part.

And then there were four...

As you may have noticed, we've been a bit lazy about the whole blogging thing over the last couple of months. There are reasons for this, but Ian, Nacho and I decided that it would help to bring in a new member of the team. Introducing...Jackson Salyers, also known as Jackson of Garheim on Flickr. Another member of the Lands of Roawia roleplaying game, hopefully he'll help us get back to our old blogging spree. MOCs wait for no man!

News - LEGO Lost at Sea

Some of you may have seen this on BBC News, but in Cornwall LEGO bricks are often being found on beaches, having been brought in by the sea. This same LEGO is from a container holding five million pieces that was washed off a boat by a freak wave in 1997. The pieces lost include spear guns, scuba tanks, flippers and even octopuses and dragons. It's quite funny that the pieces found so often relate to the sea.

 

 

This picture is taken from the Facebook page dedicated to the lost pieces, and is called Lego Lost at Sea. I find this particularly interesting as I myself live in Cornwall. Here's hoping I find a dragon or two!



According to the BBC News article, here is the list of pieces lost, and exactly how many went missing:

Toy kits - Divers, Aquazone, Aquanauts, Police, FrightKnights, WildWest, RoboForce, TimeCruisers, Outback, Pirates
Spear guns (red and yellow) - 13,000 items
Black octopus - 4,200
Yellow life preserver - 26,600
Diver flippers (in pairs: black, blue, red) - 418,000
Dragons (black and green) - 33,941
Brown ship rigging net - 26,400
Daisy flowers (in fours - white, red, yellow) - 353,264
Scuba and breathing apparatus (grey) - 97,500
Total of 4,756,940 Lego pieces lost overboard in a single container
Estimated 3,178,807 may be light enough to have floated

100 years ago...

Karwik has done a really good job of depicting arguably one of the most world-changing moments in history. The events of Sarajevo, 1914, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot and killed by the Black Hand gang, began the chain of events that eventually led to WW1. As for the MOC itself, there's some brilliant parts usage here, not least the use of an Exo-Force hairpiece as the hat of the Archduke himself. Spot some more techniques yourself, there are plenty there!