Monday, July 16, 2007

Backup your Brickshelf

Brickshelf is back! Well, at least for the moment. If you go there now you will see the following message:

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

I'm going to try to back up those vigs and micro mocs I've blogged, but will probably save only a single image of each. Not sure when and where I'll be able to re-post them, though.

Bruce

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Brickshelf back????

Is Brickshelf back??? At a slightly different url:

https://www.brickshelf.com/

Not sure how this will shake out. If I were you, I'd back up all of your images from that url. Now!

Hoping that this will stay,
Bruce

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Brickshelf dead?????

If you go to Brickshelf now, you see the following message:

Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.

I'm not sure what this means in the long run. I'm probably going to blog at a much slower pace for a while. I really apologize to VB fans.

How's the weather up there?

It's time for another Lowlug Mini-MOC-Madness contest! This time, the theme is the weather. Entries include Tornado, Rain, rain, rain, and Germanic storm.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Two big headaches

Double Jump is Crises' entry for the Klocki sports building contest.



In a vig by Vdude, Joe Vig is about to have a close encounter with a Meteor.



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Satisfyin' your yavin cravin's

In PipCasbar's R2 Kiosk, our favorite droid has opened an ice cream stand on Tatooine.



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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Sporting vigs

Two vigs with athletic themes, one explicitly and the other potentially for the Klocki z Czuba Sports building contest: Iskra's Shark swimming and Crises' Golf.




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Eury Potter and the Deathly Contests

Two deathly contests are starting over on Eurobricks. The Whack-a-Fig contest invites members to commit acts of violence on other members' sigfigs in vig form. The Kill Jar-Jar contest is hopefully self-explanatory. Early entries from Dillon and Sirnadroj.





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Sunday, July 01, 2007

V is for Vig

Nwrabe has come up with a great new idea, Alpha-Vignettes, or vigs shaped like letters. I think my personal favorite might be the S.




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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Klocki contest

One of my favorite LEGO blogs, Klocki Lego dla dorosłych, is celebrating their 6-month anniversary by joining with a Polish sports blog, zczuba.pl, to sponsor a Sports building contest. One of the three categories asks you to create a 16x16 bignette of a sports scene. You've got a month to submit your entry; we'll be watching along and reporting on the action.



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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007

Golden C3PO raffle

LEGO is using gold plated C3PO minifigs in a number of promotions. In the US you can get one by buying a new Star Wars set, with the gold figures found in approximately 1 in 250 sets. In Europe, you can enter a raffle by building a vig to feature C3PO. All entries will be posted in this gallery. Unfortunately the names are not given, so I cannot give proper credit to all of the AFOLs who built these:

taschenmesser, by Jojo Koehler

I'm going to let it shine

Don't forget the droids (after Jabba's Sail Barge


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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Alpha is for ...

Having completed his medieval alphabet, Steve Bishop is now started on a new alphabet set in modern times, with A is for Architect.



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Friday, June 08, 2007

We work the black seam together

Two vigs recently on Brickshelf from a builder named Crises: Mining is hard work and Swamp snake battle. According to Klocki he is a Polish AFOL from Gdansk.






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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

I've been waiting, for a girl like you

A few days ago I posted on the Lowlug Mini MOC Madness contest. This was won by Martin Jaspers' Delay, but I could not directly link to the picture. I asked Martin if he could post his MOC on Brickshelf and he was nice enough to do so, so here it is.



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Monday, June 04, 2007