Happy birthday, Classic-Castle!

In addition to maintaining my little family of LEGO blogs, I'm also actively involved in Classic-Castle.com, the source for all your LEGO Castle needs. Classic-Castle just turned ten years old! In recognition of that, let's feature something appropriately themed. Here is Jake the Crazy Clown's Batman: Medieval.

Bat Minion

Sorry about the lack of blog posts for three weeks, life has been hectic. In the meantime I've bookmarked a lot of MOCs to put here. For instance, PoppaJB posted this Bat Minion.

Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 Round 2

In Round 2, Superheroes bracket, the three builders who advanced from round 1 had to either build a pet for a hero, or make a full comic page.

Dave Kaleta built this great rendition of Bat-Cow (actually from an issue of Batman, btw).


Delatron 3000 built Eddie Brock's fish tank.


But Captain Nemo won with his Flash Turtle.

Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 Round 1

In the the Sidekicks bracket for Round 1 of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013, builders could either create a vig for a battle between their own custom superhero and his arch enemy, or have a supervillain creating a trap for a hero. Here are the top three scorers:

Max Pointner came up with a battle between Mr. Stereotype and the Iron Giant.


Seth Bryan built the Mirror House from Batman, the Black Mirror.


LukeClarenceVan The Revanchist built Hu-Man vs Depression.

Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 Round 1

I have been totally neglectful in coverage of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest. Contestants were broken up into two categories, Superheroes and Sidekicks. In round 1, the Superheroes were challenged to either come up with a scene depicting a hero or villain as a parent, or showing them in their own childhood. Here are the top three, who moved on to round 2:

Delatron 3000 shows how Kid Joker solves a math problem.


Dave Kaleta's Lost in the Supermarket showed Doc Ock shopping with his daughter.


Captain Nemo's Laughing Together depicts the Joker having some good clean fun with his son.

Hulk building event

This past weekend, a LEGO store in Portland had a Hulk building event.


This was one of those events where participants put together smaller subunits (bricks made of bricks) and then those get put together by the LEGO pros to make the full sculpture. I don't know if they tear these things down right away, or leave them up on display for a while. If you're in Portland, stop by the Washington Square Mall LEGO store and you may see this. Here's the final result. I'm pretty sure the smaller version was made in advance as a template for assembling the big guy.



BTW, it looks like participants got a commemorative Duplo brick.

Superman

I don't know the builder, but this mosaic was on display at BrickExpo Canberra.

MODOK

Spider-Brick built this version of MODOK.

Stark Tower

OliveSeon is, I believe, a professional builder in Korea, who puts together very large and detailed displays. This movie studio theme park includes a huge rendition of Stark Tower and the wormhole opening up for the Chitauri fleet.

Steampunk Batcave

Legopard made this great Steampunk version of Batman, the Batcave, and the Tumbler.

Chibi

DarthKy designed a number of chibi characters as Cuusoo projects.

Spidey

Pinoy Statue Collector made this Spider-Man.

Joker

Hen Peril built the Joker.

Wolverine

Empilebricks built this Wolverine.

Uh-oh

CptBrick discovered Iron Man's biggest weakness.

Marvel Racers

As a follow-up to his DC racers, Oky Space Ranger made a whole series of Marvel Racers.

$20,000 LEGO DC Universe Super Heroes Video Contest

Over on Tongal they are running a $20,000 LEGO DC Universe Super Heroes Video Contest. In phase 1 (deadline july 24), you can win $250 for coming up with an idea for a DC LEGO video. Phase 2 will award $2250 for the best pitch, and in phase 3 the best video will with $17000.

Riddler Chase

The Riddler Chase set was on display at Comic-Con today. Most importantly, IMO, we can see good photos of the figs.

Plenty of fish in the sea

If you're not regularly reading Lego Legion's comics, you should be.

Comic-Con giveaway, sculptures

Alright, as much as I dislike the exclusive giveaways since most of us will never get them, if you are at Comic-Con I certainly want you to get all four figures. From FBTB, here are the instructions to get a fig.

- Starting at 11:30am everyday, you can visit the booth to get your badge scanned AND pick up a ticket. Badge scanning will last as long as they have tickets. You can only scan your badge once and get only one ticket, thus ensuring that the number of figs falls into the most number of hands as possible.
- You can scan your badge once a day for each figure. Trying to get your badge scanned more than once will throw and error and you will be denied.
- Starting at 3:30pm, visit LEGORaffle.com to see if you’re a winner based on your ticket number. If you have a winning ticket, swing by the booth and pick up your shiny new precious.
- The following list is the schedule of which minifig will be given away on which day, and the quantity of each figure available:
Thursday – Spider-Woman, 350
Friday – Amazing Spider-Man, 350
Saturday – Black Suit Superman, 200
Sunday – Green Arrow, 200

For the rest of us, here are some full images from the LEGO booth of Superman and Iron Man sculptures, and another of the Turtles:





And these three sculptures are outside. I assume these are official LEGO displays, but maybe not.