I believe this is from this year's show, which ends later today.

Statler and Waldorf of course are two geriatric cranks who've been jeering the Muppet Show since 1975, safely ensconced in their upper-level box seats. They were named after two landmark NYC hotels, the Statler Hilton and the Waldorf-Astoria.

https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/1200/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/statler_waldorf_1.jpg

You can probably approximate the piece's overall dimensions from this closeup:

Credit to builder Caleb Sheard. Here's a video interview in which you can see all the great work he put in to the lighting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNKAjIgVpks

This will be on display at the Michigan State Fair starting tomorrow until Monday.

Unfortunately the build will not be under a black light while on display.

All packed up

Video: https://imgur.com/gallery/hfCcwsQ

This is certainly dating me, but I used to see loads of lovely diorama interiors online, both real-life and CG-produced, around 25-30yrs ago. For example medieval castles, Dungeons&Dragons-type fantasy scenarios, and lush, detailed historical settings that filled up the entire screen, making the viewer feel that they were inside the sets. Wallpaper material, one might say. The feel was like in the OP, as well as maybe this one:

https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2008/06/7832-Indy1-1.jpg

Again, the cropping made you feel like you were inside the piece, as opposed to it being a build sitting on a table or whatnot, like so:

https://media-cdn.brothers-brick.com/2024/08/454274351_426756699686176_4509296452969578543_n-640x428.jpg

Not sure if anyone knows or remembers what I'm talking about, but my basic question is just-- anybody have source for stuff like the former..?

Not Mine, I was just impressed by it and wanted to share

Truck and trailer with a little atv in the trailer.

3d printed parts. Tires and helment. Trial and error progression for helment. Modded ender3 pro. Pushing the limit of resolution for the setup, but fun results!

I'm designing a new MOC for my NeoClassic Space Moonbase: A tracked dumper like the ones from https://www.ntdh.co.uk/ which I've seen at the Whitchurch channel breach, but, of course, "spacified" with a blue cabin and engine cabinet.

Now I'm not the LEGO technic guy, and for the tread assembly, I've found the piece 32272 (Technic, Liftarm, Modified Bent Thick 1 x 9 (7 - 3)), which would make a for me perfect spacing to place the outermost gears. Sadly, this piece has axle holes instead of pin holes at the ends. So I could make a plain show piece where the tracks can't move as the axle with the gear can't turn.

So, what is your opinion: Is a static model sitting on a display OK, or should I find ways to make the tread "spin", even though it will never move?

There are number of similar waterfalls on YT (some using actual water!), but I found this the most charming of the lot. Just that it's only on Instagram, I guess.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/1324105/moc-hedgehog

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/1323788/spice-up-your-lego-city-with-this-one-weird-piece

Part: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=67095pb132#T=C&C=150

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64573151

I really enjoy how well I made these and their articulation points. I felt that the mechs needed some companions, so I created the Shepherds and their corresponding load out kits. They're not 100% functional in a way I want, but boy howdy I enjoy them! I want to make more and create a proper scene for each, some day.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/1287018/moc-eggs-is-tensile-dread

my best one so far

I created this build for the Bricksculpting Discord Summer Challenge. The build resides on a PAB cup and it works perfectly!

Quick video: https://imgur.com/a/neural-devourer-kT7nqHq

You can watch how the build came to be here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2817025513

“The X-Files” Lego set includes a detailed replica of FBI Agent Fox Mulder’s office, along with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Minifigures include Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Walter Skinner, Mr. X, Alex Krycek, Carl Busch, The Flukeman and a grey alien.

Gillian Anderson participated in a promo film featuring a nod to Scully as she embarks on an investigation that leads her to the Lego set. Watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHKsgH39XI

Lego Insiders Early Access members will get first crack at purchasing the set (retail price $199.99) starting Aug. 1; the set will then be available to the general public starting Aug. 4. For those who purchase the set between Aug. 1 and Aug. 10, Lego will also include “‘The X-Files’: Scully’s Lab” as a bonus gift while supplies last.

Video: https://imgur.com/a/nJ7LRgK

She has spawned from the depths of the nightmare.
The bloom is the oncoming storm that will consume
She manifests in the ether, towering over helpless victims.
The canopy of serene floral essence starts to sprout horror
A creature peers over and starts capturing the exposed souls.
Petunia Prime slowly inches closer to her prey.
Her offspring have bound the victims to the nightmare
They cannot escape as the bloom starts to envelope them.
The Dreameater feasts and spawns the next affliction for another night.

I like to build spaceships. So here are some of the spaceships I have built out of the 3-in-1 Spaceship set (31117)

Everything, unless stated are all my own idea. I have had a handful of people ask if the build represents anything already existing. I inform them that I post my madness and it all comes from my twisted brain.

Video and more pictures: https://imgur.com/a/nzsVRdf
First version of the build: https://imgur.com/a/YQfp5TT

Before the skies of Rechidna Prime were blackened by industry and war, there existed a being known only as the Hollow God.
Whether it was a deity, an ancient machine, or something far older, none could say. The Gorath discovered its remains buried beneath the planet’s crust.
It was a colossal skeletal entity.
Their heart still pulsed despite the long since decayed body.
Divinity is what the Gorath collective viewed this phenomenon as.
A cathedral was erected, encasing the dormant beating heart.
The build consisted of bone-like alloys and living machinery.
The red crystals distilled synthetic blood and neural essence.
Embedded throughout the structure to pacify the faint pulses echoing the halls.
The Crimson Reliquary of the Hollow God was established.
With the delusional truths and whispers of limitless knowledge, scholars, and priests sought out an audience with this entity.
Some who entered the structure survived and others perished.
The creature was feeding.
The Gorath for centuries were blinded by the awful truth.
Every desperate plea for salvation nourished the remnants of its consciousness. The crimson crystals lining the reliquary were not holy relics, but vessels. Storing fragments of stolen souls siphoned from those who entered its halls.
As the Gorath rebellion consumed their civilization and the machines turned upon their creators, the reliquary endured. The priests perished, the empire crumbled, and entire worlds were forgotten.
Yet the Hollow God remained.
The Hollow God isn’t dreaming of the universe.
The universe is dreaming of the Hollow God.

I acquired a bulk lot and found this Nintendo DS game case and came up with this mech idea. I didn't like the fact there wasn't a proper backdrop, so I made this cyberpunk industrial scene. I included pictures of the game case and the original build. I used the Nintendo DS game case as the base of the mech build.

Anglorentious. Still working on a backstory for this build.

Continuing on from Bert & Ernie posted here a couple weeks ago, going through my archives yesterday I bumped in to another one of these pretty displays. Happy Pride Month!

I hope this isn't against any rules but I have to preface this by saying that this was a little non-lego (but lego-adjacent) project I was working on for a friend's birthday present. He is really, really into lego, and whilst I do enjoy building the odd set, I'm not really into it as a hobby per-se, so something lego related seemed obvious.

I was thinking what to get him and it is no use buying him a set because he either already has it or doesn't want it...

So I decided to use my own hobby and skills to make him something, and then I got an idea in my head that I just couldn't shake - the idea of a proper little leather tool pouch, with a belt loop, for a brick separator just seemed like such a perfectly silly idea...

So I went about taking measurements of the only separator I could find, utilised CAD (cardboard aided design) to make little mockups in paper to work out dimensions then constructed a proof-of-concept piece to check for fit etc. This version (the red one in the below pictures) has no belt loop and only a simple hole punched in the top to work as a keyring.

So when designing the final version I made some changes, I of course added the belt loop with two rivets but also elongated the top "tab" so that I could fold it over to make a channel for a split ring.

And I'm really happy with the result! I gave this to him today and he is incredibly happy with it and plans to bring it and show it off in a con in Denmark in September. Far from being just silly little project he, and some other people I've shown this to during the initial development, have said that actually this might be weirdly practical... Either way, I had a lot of fun making it and I've made somebody happy so just wanted to share my silly little project.

Companion-piece to my Spyrius Saucer Scout-inspired MOC. This one was way harder... Since Saucer Scout is (almost) rotationally symmetric and has no obvious front/back, I wanted to build something that had no obvious up/down.

It's (almost) perfectly bilaterally symmetric along two axes, and one mirror-line runs through the middle of a stud which created massive construction headaches for me.

I've dealt with half-plate offsets before, but this was the first time I've had to break out graph paper and a calculator to work out how to move things around by a quarter plate thickness to get them to line up.

I wanted it to be highly playable so I put a lot of effort into making it surprisingly sturdy despite its fragile appearance. The wings and neck are locked in tight so you can swoosh it around without breaking anything.

Since there's no definite up/down, you can rotate the center engine on the back to spin the minifig in the cockpit around, so his local "up" can point in any direction.

And just for good measure, it's got two detachable scout drones (also bilaterally symmetrical along two axes because apparently I hate making things easy) that dock on the back of the wings/fins.

Unlike the previous MOC, I tried really hard not to use any illegal techniques on this one. I'm not positive that it's completely legal, but there's nothing egregious. It feels really solid.

Here's what the internal construction looks like in the core - a fair amount of hidden Technic to hold things together (getting this all to line up perfectly was a nightmare):