Firas Abu-Jaber takes a walk on the wild side with a Volkswagen Hotrod. While I love his modern supercars, this is a refreshing change for a very talented builder…
There are lots more photos to see on MOCPages.
Daily Archives: June 14, 2009
10197 Fire Brigade, vintage LEGO fire station, coming Sept. 2009 [News]
UPDATE: 10197 Fire Brigade is now available from the LEGO Store online.
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In news that I strongly suspect reveals the mystery question mark in the 10194 Emerald Night announcement video, LEGO announced 10197 Fire Brigade at LEGO fan events in Germany and Portugal.
Here’s the full announcement from The LEGO Group:
10197 – Fire Brigade
Ages 16+. 2,231 pieces.
US $ 149.99; CA $ 199.99, UK £ 97.85, DE € 149.99
Build an authentic vintage fire station!
Ding ding ding! There’s a fire in town! The fire brigade drives to the scene from this detailed and realistic 1930’s fire station. Designed to fit with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer, the station features rare LEGO® pieces and innovative construction techniques. It includes a ‘30s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures, a fire-dog, an opening station garage door, and a removable building roof for interior access. It also includes 2 fully-furnished floors with fire-fighting tools, racks for the firemen’s helmets, fire-pole, ping-pong table, kitchen with fully-stocked fridge, couch, bookshelf and a roof with a water tower and bell. Measures 14″ (35 cm) high and 10″ (25 cm) wide.
- Includes a 1930’s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures and a fire-dog!
- Features lots of realistic details including fire-fighting tools, racks for firemen’s helmets and even a fire-pole!
- The station house features an opening station garage door and 2 fully-furnished
floors including a kitchen with fully-stocked fridge and a ping-pong table!- Remove the roof for interior access!
- The roof is equipped with a water tower and bell!
- Fire Brigade features rare LEGO elements including bricks and plates in dark tan, 1×1 dark red tiles, a red hot dog and the 3x6x5 Belleville® arch. It also features gold fireman’s helmets, a tan hand bag and a red sliding garage door!
- Measures 14″ (35 cm) high and 10″ (25 cm) wide.
- Add Fire Brigade to your LEGO® Town and combine it with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer!
September can’t come soon enough for me, and you can guess where my second fire station will show up in October.
I’ve uploaded a full gallery of photos to Flickr:
UPDATE: Andreas Haase has photos from 1000steineland 2009, showing interior shots of the upper story:
Check out the album on 1000steine.de for more event pics from the event in Berlin.
LEGO tank with full interior by mad_a0
Flickr newcomer mad_a0 recently exploded onto the scene with this awesomely detailed minifig-scale tank.
Very cool, certainly, but what sets this tank apart is that mad_a0 has built a fully detailed interior. Most LEGO tanks are lucky to fit a minifig driver, much less components like a removable engine.
The exploded view itself is a study in excellent presentation. See more photos on Flickr.
Boeing 808-200 Starliner by Nick Dean
I’m sitting here in my Seattle backyard watching the jets fly overhead as I type this. Perhaps someday, our homegrown Boeing will develop the sort of spaceliner Nick Dean has imagined in LEGO, and I can watch it streak across the starry night from my cabin on the moon.
The underside features working landing gear and a scramjet scoop. See more photos, and read Nick’s fanciful description, in the full photoset on Flickr.
Tengen Taishi mecha by Phong Chang
I hadn’t encountered LEGO mecha builder Phong Chang until recently, but it looks like he’s been building some pretty cool mecha for some time. His latest is apparently an update to an earlier version, titled “Tengen Taishi” — inspired by the recent anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann.
More photos on Flickr and MOCPages.
King Kong scales the LEGO Architecture Empire State Building
Matt Wagner (jedimasterwagner) has created a CAD version of the LEGO Architecture Empire State Building, complete with King Kong and a bunch of angry humans.
I also really like this Space Shuttle launch scene that incorporates a shuttle designed by Matt Holland.
LEGO Battles for Nintendo DS now available [News]
The early impressions about LEGO Battles (a new real-time strategy game for Nintendo DS) weren’t entirely positive, but Destructoid played the game at E3 2009 earlier this month and has a different viewpoint.
Conrad Zimmerman writes:
I’m looking forward to playing this, in part because it looks adorable but also because the simplification of what can often be a convoluted style of game really appeals to me. I avoid RTS games not because they aren’t really fun but because I can’t keep track of everything going on and wind up just getting wiped out when the second or third attack on my forces is made. LEGO Battles looks just simple enough to play that I may be picking this one up when it comes out.
LEGO® Battles is available for – Nintendo DS™ now.
