Death by spider

Okayaraman imagines an alternative universe where a bite by a radioactive spider doesn't necessarily turn you into a hero.

Cappie

Kaminoan showed off two versions of Captain America as works-in-progress.

Help me, Mr. Batman

When he's not battling the Joker or other master villains, Batman also rescues cats, according to Crises.

Minifigure Customization

Why live in the box? That's the challenge master customizer Jared Burks raises in his new book Minifigure Customization - Populate Your World!. If you read through the free preview pages, you'll see several comic book custom jobs, both by Jared and by other builders.

Iron Man at a smaller scale

Orion Pax made another great rendition of Iron Man.

Iron Man

Innershade made a great version of Iron Man's helmet.



He even included glowing eyes:

Set 7780 - The Batboat: Hunt for Killer Croc

It's been a while since a set review, so let's take a look at 7780 - The Batboat: Hunt for Killer Croc . This set was released in 2006 and originally sold for US$20. As a build, I personally am not a huge fan of this set. It seems overly dependent on large single-use elements. The little Bat-jetski speeder is an okay play feature, but I think if they hadn't included this they could have made the boat itself much cooler. The coolest thing about this set is the Killer Croc fig, which is great (and Batty, but presumably someone buying this set already had a couple of him). This set is also notable for including two realistic guns. For many years before this, LEGO had refused to create realistic guns in modern themes (there were both pistols and rifles in the Wild West theme, and of course all kinds of muskets, cannons, swords, spears, and other weapons etc in other historical themes). I think this was one of the first sets to go against this policy (though LEGO still says this is a fantasy theme, and they don't make modern military sets).



You can see the instructions on LEGO.com, the inventory on Peeron, or purchase it on BrickLink.

Who knew, both kryptonite and elevators

One of the runners-up in the recent murderous minifigs competition, that asked builders to come up with their own take on the classic Clue game, was Creation Crook's Patient Pumpkin, in the elevator shaft, with the elevator. Apparently elevators work just as well as kryptonite.

Happy birthday, King D!

Gaby Triana, of Cakes by Gaby, made this great birthday cake.

First Knight

Profound Whatever's First Knight project reimagined the Caped Crusader battling versions of his enemies in 1930.

Archie

Pate-possu has his own version of Archie, Nite Owl's ship from the Watchmen.

Superdude

Goonies never say die recreated an iconic scene featuring Christopher Reeve.

Flower power

I'm not much of a gamer. We have a WII, but it gets very little use as a game console, mostly just for streaming our Netflix account. Anyway, I did recently get the Batman game, but haven't played it much. Eventually I'll get a chance to do so and will post more about that in the blog (seems silly to post a 'review' as it's been out for a couple of years). Anyway, o0Randal0o has made some of the vehicles that appear in the game, including this car for Poison Ivy.

Slightly smaller friendly neighborhood sculpture

This Spidey minifig sculpture is also in Dan Brown's Toy and Plastic Brick Museum. I assume this was also some sort of official LEGO store display, as opposed to someone's MOC, given the branding on the backdrop.

Friendly neighborhood sculpture

The Toy and Plastic Brick Museum is a labor of love by Dan Brown, who has been collecting large sculptures and rare models for some time now and opened an actual museum devoted to LEGO. Among the displays is this Spider-Man. I assume this was a promotional model from a LEGO store or similar outlet when LEGO released their Spider-Man line.

Stark Expo

It seems that Lego-Merc is the force behind Stark Enterprises.

Meanwhile, back at the hall of justice ...

Finishing up my little foray into Chris Doyle's world is this great version of the Hall of Justice. Form of ... an ice LEGO brick!

Archie and Jughead

Um, no, different comic book Archie - this one the Night Owl's ship from the Watchmen series. Be sure to click through all of those pages, as Chris Doyle made a few variations and also detailed the interior.

In brightest day, in blackest night ...

Looking at the photos from Brick Bash that led to yesterday's post, I noticed that Chris Doyle also made a great Green Lantern logo mosaic, achieving the effect in an interesting way by varying the texture rather than the color.

Kissing figures or a vase?

Olly Moss took an old optical illusion and gave it a new twist with Wolverine? Or two Batmen?. Chris Doyle took this idea and LEGO-fied it. It even comes apart to emphasize the illusion.