More than Cool
There’s just something about seeing creations with your own eyes on a convention that you don’t quite get when you’re looking at your screen. You can walk around models, choose your own perspective...
View ArticleA Droid in Higher Spheres
Technic functions are supposed to make your creation come to life, especially when they’re motorized. However, they often fail to achieve that goal. Only the best Technic builders with well-engineered...
View ArticleThe Planet Before Time
Technically Star Wars takes place “a long time ago”, so then you could say it’s really strange that there are so few builder who build both in historic themes and in that galaxy far, far away. That...
View ArticleWe Won’t Last Long Against Those Star Destroyers, Again!
So what do you do when you’ve already built one of the most epic UCS Imperial Star Destoryers? Well, you just make another one, is Raskolnikov‘s laconic answer. Only this time, you make it smaller...
View ArticleRed, Yellow and Black
“… are the Belgian colors!”, as the song in my country goes. It are also the colors of Milan Sekiz‘ Blacktron creation that was posted just two days shy of our national holiday. Even then we do have...
View ArticleThe Most Wendorful Creation of the Year
Do you have the next couple of hours free? If you don’t, stop reading and come back here when you do. I’ll wait. Ah great, you’re back. The reason why you’ll need a lot of time is that this Endor...
View ArticleFrozen in Constractionite
It doesn’t a lot of browsing on the internet to turn an initial dislike of Bionicle and constraction into a profound admiration for the creations some builders can create with it nowadays. But even...
View ArticleRight on the Nose
It is said of many Star Wars vehicles, but of this one it might actually be true: Jabba’s Sail Barge is one of the hardest to MOC. After all these years, there still is no definitive Khetanna in...
View ArticleNext Stop: Ambush Avenue
Not ready to leave Jedha yet after seeing Marshal Banana’s creation? Excellent, because I wager you’ll be spending more than just the coming couple of minutes pouring over Boba1980‘s wonderful...
View ArticleMesa Like This Mesa
While the opinions on Rogue One vary, everybody agrees that the movie looks stunning, with shots that have already made their way into the collective conscience. The Death Star dish being put into...
View ArticleThe Sound of Silence
There are creations built by AFOLs during spare time over the course of a couple of days. And then there are creations built by a team of professional Master Builders over the course of a month. To be...
View ArticleFlight of the Republic Bumblebee
I spent many hours staring at the LEGO catalog while I was little, studying every detail of my favorite sets. Actually, I still do to today. In all those years, there’s hardly any page that even gets...
View ArticleNot All That’s Gold Glitters
These days you need quite the nerve to try to MOC the classic Star Wars ships. The bar has been set incredibly high by past creations. A smooth and well shaped cockpit, super sleek engines and lovely...
View ArticleRaiders of the Lost Studs
We all love LEGO, right? Isn’t it weird then that ever more MOCs are trying to make us forget they’re made of bricks? Of course those creations are gorgeous and mind blowing and all, but after a while...
View ArticleThe Bowcastermaster
Recently I’ve been really fascinated by movie props. I just love it how pieces of different everyday objects and materials are fused together to create something out-of-this-world. The countless...
View Article[SoNE XV] Total Eclipse of a Black Heart
Prince Xizor gambled and lost. Even though he called in all possible reinforcements, his band of criminals was no match for the combined effort of the Rebels and the Imperials who instead of fighting...
View ArticleSimply ATSTending!
Surprisingly, probably the most iconic characteristic of an AT-ST is not the contour of the viewports or the design of the cannons or even the shape of the head or the spindliness of the legs, but the...
View ArticleAn A+ For Miniatures
It always blows my mind that in Return of the Jedi the Executor, the biggest ship of them all, is in the end destroyed by a single A-wing, the smallest ship of them all. But I don’t remember it being...
View ArticleThey Call It The Dark Side Because You Don’t Want To See It
One of the nice things about bricks is that they can’t scare you. Characters tend to look a bit comedic – just look at those brickheads – and even when they don’t, they’re not realistic enough to...
View ArticleA Roll Down Memory Lane
When you look back at the earliest of LEGO Star Wars sets, it’s hard not to marvel at how sets have improved over the years. Just compare this year’s AT-ST to the one from 2001. But then again,...
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