Solace of LEGOman Values
LEGO is perhaps the ideal toy. It fosters creativity, and from that creativity and freedom flow myriad works of breathtaking calibre. The LEGO fandom at its best is an incredible creative force, producing amazing works of scale and complexity beyond our wildest dreams, rendered lovingly in perhaps the most versatile childrens' toy there is.
And actually, that's exactly why we're here this time.
Every fandom has its issues and pitfalls, but we're here for the good stuff. We're here to show you some of the best the BIONICLE and Hero Factory fandoms has to offer - MOCs, artwork, fanfiction, comics, even fan games. We're here to remind you that no matter how bad things seem, no fandom is completely bad.
Of couse, if you're here looking for the bad LEGO fandom stuff, you're probably looking for our other blog, the Lunacy of LEGOman Values. Unlike the Lunacy's more general view, we're focusing primarily on BIONICLE and Hero Factory (and maybe their ancestors Slizer and RoboRider); the internet already has countless other blogs with a general LEGO focus, and fanworks other than MOCs for non-BIONICLE / Hero Factory lines are rare to the point of non-existence.
Toa Gali Nuva (Mistika) by Fsnorglepuff
Mass Effect Reaper by Imagine Rigney
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This is a great, short official LEGO “blocumentary” about Angus MacLane and his insane LEGO craft. He was my roommate for a year at RISD and is still a great, close friend of mine. He is an incredible animator and short film director at PIXAR, and on the side he created CubeDudes, which you can see and hear a bit about in this video, or check out in their entirety at this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/sets/72157623336762161/
Bionicle comic shoes!
Spent my Friday night screenshotting panels and sections of Bionicle comics and resizing and compiling them in a word document for printing.
The high heels are a random pair of leather heels I found at the local thrift shop for 8 bucks.
I don’t have a color printer so I lied through my teeth to the tech people to use the color printer at school… Sorry man but I don’t actually take any art classes.
Spent the afternoon mod podging these suckers on. I printed way too many pictures, so I’ve got a pile of them to do what I want with.
I still need to find a way to seal them, as mod podge and printer paper are NOT waterproof or wearproof. If anyone has any suggestions, my ask box is open! <3
FASHION GEEK AWAAAAAYY.
Toa Mata by Hidron Nuva
Made Mo Farah and Galen Rupp after their 10,000m victory, in a sort of minilander-esque style! As soon as I can acquire more parts, I am planning to make bigger versions of them.
captnblue Asks:
solaceoflegomanvalues Said:
nay, thank you for great fanart for a fandom that could really benefit from it!
So it turns out that the “who ate all the pies?” chant the Po-Matoran are doing in MNOG is a football chant done in Britain that goes like this:
Who ate all the pies?
Who ate all the pies?
You fat bastard,
You fat bastard,
You ate all the pies!…Well then.
“Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus”
This project is so awesome we can hardly find the words to describe it. Over the course of one year Alice Finch painstakingly constructed this amazing model of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy using 400,000 LEGO bricks. And it’s not just the castle and its grounds, it’s all the rooms and corridors as well. This makes us want to read the Harry Potter books all over again.
The Brothers Brick has an interview with Finch about her massive Hogwarts, which won both the Best in Show and People’s Choice awards at BrickCon 2012. Finch spent 12 months assembling the campus, combining elements from the books and movies to create a complete structure inside and out.
Be sure to take a moment to visit Alice’s Flickr gallery to fully appreciate the scope of her awesome achievement.
[via Geekologie, io9 and Design Taxi]
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I’m done! \( ﾟ ∀ ﾟ )ノ Midnight crew Lego！!
