Vulture

Nelson Yrizarry has made a great number of scenes staring Spider-Man and foes such as the Vulture.

Emblematic emblems

Michael Taylor made a series of iconic superhero emblems.

New Gothopolis

Here's one that really takes me back. About ten years ago, Tim Saupe, creator of FBTB visited LEGO's North American headquarters. While there he saw a great creation sitting on the desk of Master Builder Erik Varszegi, New Gothopolis. This 48x48 baseplate was packed with buildings from both the Marvel and DC universes, like the Daily Planet building and Dr. Strange's mansion. Of course it was also populated with custom figs, ranging from Two-Face to Galactus and Thor to the Flash. Doors pop open to reveal furnished interiors, and there's even Clark Kent changing to Superman via a revolving door. Follow the link to see all the great details.





A big thanks to Ace Kim, admin over at FBTB, for re-uploading these pictures for me.

Ooh, new Spidey

Another brand new MOC, a builder named 'Okay' gives us a street battle featuring our favorite web-slinger, his darker side Venom, and foes Doc Ock and the Green Goblin.

Friendly neighborhood official theme

In recent years, LEGO has released two lines of licensed comic book sets. From 2002 to 2004 they released a series of Spider-Man sets based on the first two movies starring Tobey Maguire. Then from 2006 to 2008 they released a number of sets based on Batman, with inspirations that seemed to come from comic book, TV and movie versions of the Caped Crusader. The first set that I got from these licensed themes was 1376, Spider-Man Action Studio



It was a little frustrating that I had to pay $24 essentially for just the Spider-Man and Peter Parker minifigs. The building and car were sort of uninspired, in my opinion. They included the movie director fig and a camera, which sort of ruined the suspension of disbelief. Rather than act as if this set were really taking you into the Marvel universe, it made clear that you were on a movie set. On the plus side, the Spidey fig was a really cool addition to my fig population.

You can see the set inventory on Peeron, the instructions on LEGO.com or buy a copy on Bricklink.

Your friendly neighborhood cube-dude

Cube dudes are brick built characters first developed by Angus MacLane, who has built over 300. His dudes have covered all areas of pop culture, including comic book characters, such as Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus.




By the way, Angus' day job is with Pixar Studios, so you can see that he uses his artistic skills for both work and play