Showing posts with label ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ships. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Shh - it's a secret!

The creator's sister is now well entrenched in "the Lego life", and this oeuvre is apparently -
"A spaceship, but it's disguised as a car - see? [indicates the wheels]"
Did she just re-invent Decepticons?

I just didn't ask about the chaining of the head to the deck.
I love the [suspension of disbelief/trance logic] exhibited.
To be honest, I would have guessed spaceship first reflexively, and then perhaps commented on the wheels.

As an aside, generalising on the special items produced by Creator and Creator's Sister- it's interesting how the low hanging fruit is just skipped - I have no records of
LEGO bicycles
LEGO horse drawn carts
LEGO reasonably priced family oriented cars

It's mainly spaceships and flying carpets and "water back speeders".
And a Disco - maybe more on that later.

Thursday, 27 October 2011





Occasionally, out of the maelstrom of smaller items, cobbled together to fit the whim or the theme of the current drama, a bit more time is spent to get a more detailed creation together.

Maybe later I'll pull something together on the key place that the "special pieces" play in the whole enterprise. Nothing though that the marketing bods hadn't already considered, I'm sure...

Quite a complicated number: yes, there is a co-pilot in there.
And I don't know why there's a small racing car on the back.



Thursday, 29 September 2011

Ships, Ships and more Ships

Another one of the memes that has come and gone was the "small ships" idea.

One of the many "Water Back Speeders"
All bases covered
This is either a Ship or a 'Droid
Some of these look frankly quite uncomfortable
Not to mention the overcrowding... 

One of many dioramas


For future generations, and the "hard of cultural reference" - it's the Death Star, with Tie fighters and I think some Star Destroyers.


I did help a little with the Death Star, I must confess.


Sunday, 8 May 2011

Remote working *will* be the future

There are quite a few like these, but this one is the epitome.

Pushing the available figurines and seating space to the limits results in this.

It has been determined that in the future public transport will be crowded.


There was a flurry of ideas like this at one point, which seems to have died down. There were ships and speeders of various sizes with largely one or two passengers/ pilots. This one is an extreme example.

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Das Boot - serious competition for the Creator

Das Boot
This is my boat!

Ok, I'm now pushing it by extending to "same parent  company", but she was rather proud of it.




It's strikingly nuanced, and I couldn't resist the pun!