Boo Bear!
A little bear I made, who's berry, berry cute, and very boo-tiful!
(Also, Boo Bear sounded better than Blue Bear... and he's not blue...)
Rendered and built in Studio.
It was also featured as a staff pick on Bricklink!
On your marks, get set, build!
Race day is almost here. The drivers are ready, the track is set, and the crowd is waiting. The only thing missing is the cars!
Choose one of five chassis from the “Vehicle Chassis” Sub-Assembly palette in Studio, then build it into the race-ready ride of your dreams using the "Build it. Race it." palette. Make it sleek, speedy, or think outside the box and build something completely unexpected. One car built from each chassis will be featured, so pick your starting point and get ready to race!
Build it. Race it. - Bricklink Building Competition Submission
Brought to you by the minds behind Elephant Toothpaste and Baking Soda Volcanoes, here’s a race car that’s guaranteed to cause a reaction at the starting line!
Meet Sodalite — a race car powered by the chemical reaction between its fuel, grape-flavoured soda, and its catalysts, mints! Add the mints, release the pressure, and watch Sodalite blast its way towards the finish line!
I had lots of fun building this car - considering it was the first time I'd ever designed a car! This was a nice way to step out of my comfort zone while still having lots of fun. See below for details that I've hidden throughout the design!
For this competition, the original submission was called 'The Fizzler' but it was disqualified due to it using intellectual property (The Coca-Cola and Mentos brand).
Here's what it looked like!
A Dandylion!
Meet the Dandylion!
True to his name, he loves frolicking in the fields and letting the wind pass through his fur. When he's mature enough, you'll see him shed his yellow mane for fluffy white seeds (pictured here). His tail doesn't have any seeds since it's very small and they would have flown away ;)
Rendered and built in Studio.
It was also featured as a staff pick on Bricklink!
Blooms from Beyond - Bricklink Building Competition Submission
Using long-range scanners and sensors, our space explorers discovered something unusual. The desert planet Arid-08 was… hollow. How strange! To uncover what was really going on, the exploration team drilled a hole to investigate further—for their technology could only reveal so much.
What did they discover?
To survive the extremely high temperatures during the day and the deathly cold nights, these plants (now dubbed Aridpods) do most of their growing underground. The bulb of this strange plant hides a glowing seed pod. To reach the cavernous space below, the plant is equipped with a drill-like growth at the base of the bulb, allowing it to break through the hard, sand-like soil and burrow deep beneath the surface.
There, the seed pod stays safe and warm in its black cocoon (as without the absence of the sun on this planet, it is frightfully cold). Once the seed pod matures, it breaks free and takes the place of the adult plant, continuing the cycle. To prevent competition, the plant also sprays its brown seeds, launching them as far as possible to spread across the planet.
It may seem that planet Arid-08 is home to a barren wasteland, but surprisingly, its true beauty and wonder lie below the surface.
You’re a botanist aboard an interstellar exploration ship that has just landed on a planet unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Strange blooms rise from the ground, unfamiliar vines sprawl across the terrain, and every horizon promises new botanical mysteries waiting to be explored.
What grows in its forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, and mountains is yours to imagine. Choose one of these five extraterrestrial ecosystems and document your discoveries using LEGO® elements.
Pictured: Two space explorers from the expedition stand on the barren landscape of Arid-08. One looks down into the freshly dug hole, peering through it to see his teammate below. Beside him stands a fully grown Aridpod, and next to it, a smaller, younger version. Below, his teammate has pried open the black bulb of the Aridpod and gazes in amazement at the glowing seed pod inside—protected from the elements, and revealing that there is far more to this planet than meets the eye.
Here are some of my sketches of other ideas I had for this competition!
He Who Walks on Two Legs
I created this dog-human hybrid character (that looks a lot like a Shih Tzu).
He travels the world, sharing stories with other dogs about his travels, and sharing his wisdom of what he learnt - especially if two legs are better than four!
Rendered and built in Studio.
Fanged Flower Beetle
Fruhstorferia dohertyi
I found this interesting creature and decided to build it. It helped me practice building curved surfaces and allowed me to play around with different LEGO parts in Studio.
It was also featured as a staff pick on Bricklink!
Stylized Bird
Inspired by the LEGO® Creator 3in1 Wild Animals: Tropical Toucan (31173) building set
Can a match box? No, but a pelly can! The idea came from the two yellow shells I had from the LEGO Petite Sunny Bouquet set. They looked so much like a beak that I decided to make a bird out of it, leading to this pelican-duck hybird!
Rendered and built in Studio.
An Anglerfish (he bites!)
I made this anglerfish that has a chomping mechanism! It's a simple pulley system.
The anglerfish is designed so that the user can use their finger to access the mechanism (through the gap at the back - see the second photo in the gallery below) and turn the pulley, which in turn, opens and closes the mouth.
Rendered and built in Studio.
Other builds!
These are other builds that I have done, for fun!
These are quick builds that I've done to practice on my LEGO building skills (using the parts I have, hence the colour mismatch)
Building Big Benny - The Story
While building the Up-Scaled Blue Astronaut Minifigure, I thought it would be fun to construct a little story on what my little Benny gets up to as I'm building it!
Click through the slideshow to view the whole story!
