Topic. Must. Be. EXTERMINATED!

Let's wrap up this Doctor Who themed week with a look at the Time Lord's eternal enemy, the Daleks. Despite being born from the earliest era of the TV show, when lumbering tin robots were the bread and butter of most on-screen science fiction, the Daleks had a certain something that made them particularly terrifying at the time, and which still gives them a little cache today. Ok, I guess it's the manic shouty voice and the single roving eye on a stalk, isn't it?! Because it's certainly not their abilities in the pursuit department (...until the 90's, they couldn't even make it up a flight of stairs).

As with the TARDIS, Lego Dalek models tend to fall into two groups: the large accurate tabletop sculptures, and the small minifig-scale approximations. Only the brave few can attempt the big ones. And here are the winners in my book...

Jason Wolfson (who's TARDIS and Doctor I featured the other day)


Steve Locke (who actually did two different scales!)


Over in the minifig scale corner there have been way more contenders, and consequently way more disasters! Given the subject matter, getting anything to be recognizable at this scale with also looking comical is a bit of a challenge. But here are the ones that I think make the cut. I'll let you decide for yourselves which one is best. Hopefully these will inspire some of you to build a squad of shouty little cyclopian foes to terrorize your minifig heros!

"capnbootle"


Pascal (pasukaru76)


Mark Stafford


Ok, this is The Weeping Brick signing off, reversing the polarity, and releasing this blog from quantuum lock! And remember, whatever you do... DON'T BLINK.