Comments on Dark Roasted Blend: The Geekiest LEGOs & Rubik Cubes

Some LEGO sets look almost impossible to build:"M....

2009-01-02T03:01:00.000-08:00

Some LEGO sets look almost impossible to build:
"M. S. Escher's Staircase" -

His name is M.C. Escher or Maurits Cornelis Escher.

The ship is a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser. Not an...

2008-10-07T14:19:00.000-07:00

The ship is a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser. Not an HMS cruiser. Sorry. Love how it even has the AEGIS array and the SONAR bubble on the bow. Very well do

Do naval vessels (American or British) typically have large rocket engines in their aft quarters?

You're both wrong, I'm afraid. It's quite clearly a Republic heavy cruiser from the Star Wars prequels. ;-) It's beautifully done, even duplicating the color scheme of Republic livery.

Sir:I believe that 'crystal Rubik' is originally f...

2008-06-15T14:05:00.000-07:00

Sir:

I believe that 'crystal Rubik' is originally from

http://plasmadesign.co.uk/

The Escher staircase is really something. I happen...

2008-04-08T21:48:00.000-07:00

The Escher staircase is really something. I happen to have a print hanging on the wall right here and the lego version is pretty much perfect. ... And look, he's done other Escher's in legos too. (On his site.) Very cool!

This was always my favorite lego sculpture.http://...

2008-04-08T13:29:00.000-07:00

This was always my favorite lego sculpture.

http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html

The ship is a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser. Not a...

2008-04-07T13:08:00.000-07:00

The ship is a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser. Not an HMS cruiser. Sorry. Love how it even has the AEGIS array and the SONAR bubble on the bow. Very well done.

The red and white cruiser type Lego ship bears a s...

2008-04-05T10:33:00.000-07:00

The red and white cruiser type Lego ship bears a slight resemblance to HMS Endurance

Here on wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endurance_%28A171%29

Oh, and the "geekiest" in the title is meant as a ...

2008-04-03T18:53:00.000-07:00

Oh, and the "geekiest" in the title is meant as a highest compliment :)

The M.C. Escher model was built by Andrew Lipson, ...

2008-04-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

The M.C. Escher model was built by Andrew Lipson, whose page is here. Sadly, that picture has been reposted all over the internet without credit to the builder.

The life-size Han Solo in Carbonite is by Nathan Sawaya, not Erik Varszegi. This is his post about it on LUGNET.

The Homeworld-inspired blue spaceship and the gray fighter right below it were built by Danny Rice, whose Flickr page is here.

Thank you guys for info - post updated

2008-04-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

Thank you guys for info - post updated

Now this is a LEGO model! Over 180Kg in weight and...

2008-04-03T06:22:00.000-07:00

Now this is a LEGO model! Over 180Kg in weight and over 300.000 pieces used!

http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/lego-aircraft-carrier.html

The blue ship is definitely NOT the Sulaco, it's m...

2008-04-03T04:24:00.000-07:00

The blue ship is definitely NOT the Sulaco, it's more inspired by the homeworld ships, and they in turn are inspired by the Sulaco... also, the Predator head is made of Lego!

Very interesting!! Very cool!!

2008-04-03T00:45:00.000-07:00

Very interesting!! Very cool!!

don't forget the Touch Rubik's Cube!http://www.tec...

2008-04-02T17:21:00.000-07:00

don't forget the Touch Rubik's Cube!

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/touch-rubiks-cube

hey guys the blue one i,m 90% sure is the "Sulaco"...

2008-04-02T16:05:00.000-07:00

hey guys the blue one i,m 90% sure is the "Sulaco" first seen in Aliens ;)

I think the "blue lego-spaceship thingy" is the mi...

2008-04-02T13:39:00.000-07:00

I think the "blue lego-spaceship thingy" is the military spaceship from "Aliens" (which carried Ripley and a detatchment of Marines back to the planet where the beastie was found).

I want to say it was the Scirroco, or Suroko, or something like that.

Best of the series, IMHO

It would be so cool to see a slow motion video of ...

2008-04-02T13:07:00.000-07:00

It would be so cool to see a slow motion video of the lego car hitting something head on at a high speed...

The German steampunk stuff is not "Nazi", but for ...

2008-04-02T11:23:00.000-07:00

The German steampunk stuff is not "Nazi", but for a fictional German Empire, doubtless inspired by that of the Kaiser.

("Deutsches Reich" just meaning "German Government"; that's why the Nazis were the "Third Reich", because they were the third notional unified German state, after the Holy Roman Empire and the Kaiser's unification of Germany.

The term has no specific relation to fascism and its repulsive ideology.)

That Blue ship you're talking about is most certai...

2008-04-02T10:17:00.000-07:00

That Blue ship you're talking about is most certainly a Vaygr ship from the Homeworld 2 game.

Or is it ???

I could not be less sure.

Great post, as usual. Keep up the good work Avi !

René - the bottom one does superficially resemble ...

2008-04-02T09:58:00.000-07:00

René - the bottom one does superficially resemble Descent's Pyro-GX, but with some substantial differences.

http://www.funbox3d.com/rebirth/3d_images/3D%20-%20Pyro%20GX.jpg

I wrote these about 10 years ago, sorry if they're...

2008-04-02T05:52:00.000-07:00

I wrote these about 10 years ago, sorry if they're a bit crude: http://byrden.com/puzzles/

what is the blue lego-spaceship thingy?i kind of h...

2008-04-02T04:03:00.000-07:00

what is the blue lego-spaceship thingy?
i kind of have the feeling, that i know it from somewhere. maybe from some computer game?

and did i recognize the spaceship benaeth the blue one right as the one from the game "Descent"?

Speaking of Rubik's Cubes, I was pissed off recent...

2008-04-02T02:36:00.000-07:00

Speaking of Rubik's Cubes, I was pissed off recently to discover that in Korea, they are known as "Edison Cubes." Even in death Edison continues to steal the inventions of better inventors.