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I'm very hyped for the Star Trek TOS bridge set, but something about Kirk's face print (see slide 2) just isn't quite working for me. I think the confident smirk of the Shrek CMF Prince Charming works a bit better - plus you get a very appropriate "KHAAAAN!" alternate face! What do you think?

After the Enterprise-D we got last year, I really want some Deep Space Nine representation in the Star Trek theme! While we're waiting for that, here's my attempt at recreating everyone's favourite Ferengi troublemakers, Quark and Rom, just using regular bricks. (Gold-pressed latinum sold separately.)

The second slide also shows my Ferengi caller plate from the Enterprise-D viewscreen set I made, and the third shows my microscale DS9 in the viewscreen's starfield box. I hope you enjoy it!

"It's good to want things!" Well, after the Lego Enterprise-D we got last year, I want some DS9 representation in Lego. While we're waiting for that, here's my attempt at recreating everyone's favourite Ferengi troublemakers, Quark and Rom, just using regular bricks. (Gold-pressed latinum sold separately.)

The second slide also shows my Ferengi caller plate from the Enterprise-D viewscreen set I made, and the third shows my microscale DS9 in the viewscreen's starfield box. You can find instructions for them over on Rebrickable. I hope you enjoy it!

Last week I posted my new Lego Ideas project here, The Parthenon Marbles: The Festival of Athena. It's a set which recreates the famous marble frieze from the Parthenon and brings its carved figures to life in a colourful street scene from Classical Athens. I was really grateful to see what a positive response the set received here, with lots of kind and thoughtful feedback.

Today, I'm happy to report that the project has hit 1,000 votes over on Lego Ideas! This means that it gets another six months added on to the time it has to reach 10,000 votes. It's a long haul to get to 10k (maybe in this context I should say it's a Marathon?), and I appreciate any help in spreading the word about the project to like-minded enthusiasts of ancient history. Thank you again, and I hope you enjoy the set!

Archive footage from the unreleased episode 'It's My Party and I'll Q If I Want To'. Picard's BFF is determined to make June 16th a special day in this little vignette from my Lego Enterprise-D bridge diorama. I hope you enjoy it!

My Lego project recreates the Parthenon Marbles frieze and brings its carved figures to life in a colourful street scene from the Golden Age of Athens along with a microscale Acropolis. It's now gathering support on the Lego Ideas website, where projects that reach 10k are considered for production as real sets. You can find more pictures and details and vote to support the project here: The Parthenon Marbles: The Festival of Athena.

Rather than just recreate the marble frieze itself, I wanted to pay tribute to the incredible city and people that it captured in stone - the philosophers, priestesses, warriors, poets, and politicians who still spark our imaginations when we read about Ancient Greece. I selected a sample of the key figures from various sections of the frieze, including:

• aprobates charioteers, who showed off their prowess by jumping in and out of their moving chariots;
• Athena acolytes who presented the goddess with a new peplos robe at the climax of the festival;
• bearded elders of the city, who I've used as an excuse to add celebrity cameos from the philosopher Socrates and Pericles himself;
• sacred musicians playing flutes and cithara lyres;
• ...and the sculptor Phidias at the base of the set, hard at work with hammer and chisel. Just 368 more figures to go!

The minifigures can either be displayed in their procession poses from the frieze, or used imaginatively to recreate your own scenes of life in Classical Athens. The city street build includes a temple, an arcaded marketplace, and a taverna for relaxing with friends. The Acropolis looms over the rooftops, with its giant bronze statue of Athena and the mighty Parthenon itself marking the end-point of the procession.

I hope you enjoy the set - all votes, comments, and shares are appreciated!

My Lego project recreates the Parthenon Marbles frieze and brings its carved figures to life in a colourful street scene from the Golden Age of Athens along with a microscale Acropolis. It's now gathering support on the Lego Ideas website, where projects that reach 10k are considered for production as real sets. You can find more pictures and details and vote to support the project here: The Parthenon Marbles: The Festival of Athena.

Rather than just recreate the marble frieze itself, I wanted to pay tribute to the incredible city and people that it captured in stone - the philosophers, priestesses, warriors, poets, and politicians who still spark our imaginations when we read about Ancient Greece. I selected a sample of the key figures from various sections of the frieze, including:

• aprobates charioteers, who showed off their prowess by jumping in and out of their moving chariots;
• Athena acolytes who presented the goddess with a new peplos robe at the climax of the festival;
• bearded elders of the city, who I've used as an excuse to add celebrity cameos from the philosopher Socrates and Pericles himself;
• sacred musicians playing flutes and lyres;
• ...and the sculptor Phidias at the base of the set, hard at work with hammer and chisel. Just 368 more figures to go!

The minifigures can either be displayed in their procession poses from the frieze, or used imaginatively to recreate your own scenes of life in Classical Athens. The city street build includes a temple, an arcaded marketplace, and a taverna for relaxing with friends. The Acropolis looms over the rooftops, with its giant bronze statue of Athena and the mighty Parthenon itself marking the end-point of the procession.

I hope you enjoy the set - all votes, comments, and shares are appreciated!

My latest Lego Ideas project recreates the iconic Parthenon Marbles frieze and brings its carved figures to life in a colourful street scene from the Golden Age of Athens along with a microscale Acropolis! The project is now gathering support on the Ideas website, where you can find more pictures and details.

Every summer for almost a thousand years, the citizens of Athens gathered for a huge festival and procession honouring their patron Athena, the goddess of wisdom. When the great statesman Pericles ruled the city in the 5th century BC, he commissioned the sculptor Phidias to immortalise this festival in a giant marble frieze which ran around all four sides of the Parthenon - the Parthenon Marbles.

Rather than just recreate the marble frieze itself, I wanted to pay tribute to the incredible city and people that it captured in stone - the philosophers, priestesses, warriors, poets, and politicians who still spark our imaginations when we read about Ancient Greece or see its works of art. I selected a sample of the key figures from the frieze, including:

• aprobates charioteers, who showed off their prowess by jumping in and out of their moving chariots;
• Athena acolytes who presented the goddess with a new peplos robe at the climax of the festival;
• bearded elders of the city, who I've used as an excuse to add celebrity cameos from the philosopher Socrates and Pericles himself;
• sacred musicians playing flutes and lyres;
• ...and the sculptor Phidias at the base of the set, hard at work with hammer and chisel. Just 368 more figures to go!

The minifigures can either be displayed in their procession poses from the frieze, or used imaginatively to recreate your own scenes of life in Classical Athens. The city street build includes a temple, an arcaded marketplace, and a taverna for relaxing with friends. The Acropolis looms over the rooftops, with its giant bronze statue of Athena and the mighty Parthenon itself marking the end-point of the procession.

If you like this project, please do head on over to the Ideas website where it's now gathering support. Direct links aren't allowed here (my last post was deleted by mods for sharing a direct link!) but you should be able to search for it fairly easily. All votes, comments, and shares are very much appreciated!

My latest Lego Ideas project recreates the iconic Parthenon Marbles frieze and brings its carved figures to life in a colourful street scene from the Golden Age of Athens along with a microscale Acropolis! The project is now gathering support on the Ideas website, where you can find more pictures and details: The Parthenon Marbles: The Festival of Athena.

Every summer for almost a thousand years, the citizens of Athens gathered for a huge festival and procession honouring their patron Athena, the goddess of wisdom. When the great statesman Pericles ruled the city in the 5th century BC, he commissioned the sculptor Phidias to immortalise this festival in a giant marble frieze which ran around all four sides of the Parthenon - the Parthenon Marbles.

Rather than just recreate the marble frieze itself, I wanted to pay tribute to the incredible city and people that it captured in stone - the philosophers, priestesses, warriors, poets, and politicians who still spark our imaginations when we read about Ancient Greece or see its works of art. I selected a sample of the key figures from the frieze, including:

• aprobates charioteers, who showed off their prowess by jumping in and out of their moving chariots;
• Athena acolytes who presented the goddess with a new peplos robe at the climax of the festival;
• bearded elders of the city, who I've used as an excuse to add celebrity cameos from the philosopher Socrates and Pericles himself;
• sacred musicians playing flutes and lyres;
• ...and the sculptor Phidias at the base of the set, hard at work with hammer and chisel. Just 368 more figures to go!

The minifigures can either be displayed in their procession poses from the frieze, or used imaginatively to recreate your own scenes of life in Classical Athens. The city street build includes a temple, an arcaded marketplace, and a taverna for relaxing with friends. The Acropolis looms over the rooftops, with its giant bronze statue of Athena and the mighty Parthenon itself marking the end-point of the procession.

If you like this project, please do head on over to the Ideas website where it's now gathering support. All votes, comments, and shares are very much appreciated!

Book your ticket now for the summer movie event of 65 million BC - DINOGEDDON!

When an asteroid threatens to wipe out all dinosaur life on Earth, a team of astronauts must blast off in a pterodactyl-powered spaceship to stop the killer rock. Possibly by biting it really hard, or butting into it with their very thick skulls.

Will the dinosaurs be able to overcome their limited technology, inter-species rivalry, and limited cranial capacity to stop the asteroid?

(No.)

This is my entry for the Lego Ideas Prehistory 2.0 challenge, now live over on their website. It's been a while since I entered one, but this idea caught my imagination and I had fun putting together this poster inspired by the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon. Shame the dinosaur version has such a downer ending, but at least it gave us scurrying little mammals a go at being the dominant species. I hope you enjoy it!

*Okay, when I say 'working'...  I haven't actually invented matter teleportation. But there is a neat Technic mechanism that allows you to assemble your away team on the transporter plate, then spin a lever to watch them dematerialize and disappear. Here's a video version of it working, complete with sound effects: Lego Star Trek TNG Transporter Room

Instructions are available now on Rebrickable. Once you get the instructions, you can use an online parts list to order the bricks. The set is 1,146 pieces and should cost just over $100/€100 to assemble, depending on location, availability, postage etc.

The MOC also recreates the rest of the Enterprise-D transporter room, from the main door and the green girder walls to Chief Miles O'Brien's transporter console. I've used a General Tagge minifig head with some Medium Nougat coiled hair to make a minifig version of the hardest-working engineer in Starfleet.

Finally, the elevated front panel of the transporter room includes a recreation of the iconic LCARS computer graphics from the transporter console, so you can tap at them and supply your own 'bleep-bloop' sound effects while you transport your crew.

If you like this set, check out my Reddit and Rebrickable profiles for more Lego Star Trek builds. Since getting the Enterprise-D set for Christmas, I've been working on lots of playscale builds to give the minifigs something to do, including a bridge diorama and a viewscreen with microscale ships. I hope you enjoy them!

*Okay, when I say 'working'...  I haven't actually invented matter teleportation. But there is a neat Technic mechanism that allows you to assemble your away team on the transporter plate, then spin a lever to watch them dematerialize and disappear. You can find more pictures and a video version with sound effects in this Flickr album.

Instructions are available now on Rebrickable. Once you get the instructions, you can use an online parts list to order the bricks. The set is 1,146 pieces and should cost just over $100/€100 to assemble, depending on location, availability, postage etc.

The MOC also recreates the rest of the Enterprise-D transporter room, from the main door and the green girder walls to Chief Miles O'Brien's transporter console. I've used a General Tagge minifig head with some Medium Nougat coiled hair to make a minifig version of the hardest-working engineer in Starfleet.

Finally, the elevated front panel of the transporter room includes a recreation of the iconic LCARS computer graphics from the transporter console, so you can tap at them and supply your own 'bleep-bloop' sound effects while you transport your crew.

If you like this set, check out my Reddit and Rebrickable profiles for more Lego Star Trek builds. Since getting the Enterprise-D set for Christmas, I've been working on lots of playscale builds to give the minifigs something to do, including a bridge diorama and a viewscreen with microscale ships. I hope you enjoy them!

*Okay, when I say 'working'...  I haven't actually invented matter teleportation. But there is a neat Technic mechanism that allows you to assemble your away team on the transporter plate, then spin a lever to watch them dematerialize and disappear. Here's a video version of it working, complete with sound effects: Lego Star Trek TNG Transporter Room

Instructions are available now on Rebrickable. Once you get the instructions, you can use an online parts list to order the bricks. The set is 1,146 pieces and should cost just over $100/€100 to assemble, depending on location, availability, postage etc.

The MOC also recreates the rest of the Enterprise-D transporter room, from the main door and the green girder walls to Chief Miles O'Brien's transporter console. I've used a General Tagge minifig head with some Medium Nougat coiled hair to make a minifig version of the hardest-working engineer in Starfleet.

Finally, the elevated front panel of the transporter room includes a recreation of the iconic LCARS computer graphics from the transporter console, so you can tap at them and supply your own 'bleep-bloop' sound effects while you transport your crew.

If you like this set, check out my Reddit and Rebrickable profiles for more Lego Star Trek builds. Since getting the Enterprise-D set for Christmas, I've been working on lots of playscale builds to give the minifigs something to do, including a bridge diorama and a viewscreen with microscale ships. I hope you enjoy them!

*Okay, when I say 'working'...  I haven't actually invented matter teleportation. But there is a neat Technic mechanism that allows you to assemble your away team on the transporter plate, then spin a lever to watch them dematerialize and disappear. Here's a video version of it working, complete with sound effects: Lego Star Trek TNG Transporter Room

The MOC also recreates the rest of the Enterprise-D transporter room, from the main door and the green girder walls to Chief Miles O'Brien's transporter console. I've used a General Tagge minifig head with some Medium Nougat coiled hair to make a minifig version of the hardest-working engineer in Starfleet.

Finally, the elevated front panel of the transporter room includes a recreation of the iconic LCARS computer graphics from the transporter console, so you can tap at them and supply your own 'bleep-bloop' sound effects while you transport your crew.

If you like this set, check out my profile for more Lego Star Trek builds. Since getting the Enterprise-D set for Christmas, I've been working on lots of playscale builds to give the minifigs something to do, including a bridge and a viewscreen. I hope you enjoy them!

Q is back to give Picard another headache in a little scene from my Lego Star Trek Enterprise-D set. This version of Q is based on Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode, where he appears as a judge to prosecute the crew for humanity's supposed crimes. It was fun researching the available Lego parts to make him - appropriately, the the red robe comes from a CMF judge minifigure!

I may need to design a more appropriate set to display Judge Q... Watch this space! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the minifigure.

Q is back to give Picard a headache in another little scene from my Lego Enterprise-D set - instructions are available on Rebrickable. It was fun researching the available Lego parts to make this version of Q based on his outfit in Encounter at Farpoint. Appropriately, the red robe comes from a judge minifigure!

I may need to design a more appropriate set to display Judge Q... Watch this space! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the minifigure.