Bike monster cycles straight into my heart

Made by the vastly talented Carl Merriam as a prize for the I Bike Fresno Million Mile Challange. Adorable! But not enough to get me on a bike ;-)


 

Totally Pants

It's not often we see LEGO tributes to that defining anime movie Akira. Up to this point it's basically just been renditions of that futuristic motorcyle. So kudos to crises_crs for creating this model of Tetsuo on his makeshift throne.

And how was that awesome cloak made? You probably don't wanna know!


 

Suspended animation

If you're in the Toronto area any time soon*, make sure to track down Aviarageddon, a LEGO art exhibit currently touring the area, from Canadian builder Ekow Nimako. Through the miracle of string, over 30 species of bird are depicted dropping all manner of miniature ordinance. Which I guess might be preferable to what they normally drop!



For closeups of the various birds, check out Ekow's full Aviarageddon set on Flickr, or candid shots of the installation by fellow ToroLUG member ROOK.

* Yes, I know you were expecting some lame Canada quip there. I'm trying to behave. Too many Canadians know where I live now. And the last thing I need is a bunch of passive aggressive Post-It notes bearing frowny faces being quietly stuck to my front door.
 

Dial Z for Zombah

I must admit I remain perpetually baffled by pop culture's ongoing fascination with zombies. Why does a dog lick its balls? Because it can. Why is the cesspit tea cup of modern screen media so completely saturated with zombie-themed sugar cubes to the point of giving us all mental diabetes? Because BRAAAAAINZZZ. Perhaps years from now we will look back on the past decade, and feel slightly embarrased by it all. Much like we do when we look back at the 80's, and suddenly remember David Hasselhoff.

But zombies are still hip and that gives anything zombie-related a certain caché, which is just one of the things I love about this LEGO vignette by Polish builder bobofrutx...



It's not often a LEGO model tells a story or builds suspense, but this one does it in spades (...nyuk, nyuk). And it also goes to show you don't need a million fucking bricks and twenty seven tubes of superglue to make an interesting piece of LEGO art that only uses a single color.
 

"DUPLO, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU PLAY WITH IT?"

Maybe Duplo customs aren't a new thing, but these two by Bob Uyttendaele are certainly the first that I've come across. Totally royale-with-cheese-tastic. And I hunger for more!



Coming to a Toys R Us store near you, Summer two-thousand-and-never...