LEGO Donkey Kong (with Mario for scale).

Then I built my niece a Lego jewelry box.

This left my youngest nephew (the middle kid) feeling a bit left out.

I had to build him something and it damn well better be impressive.

No ideas for months.

So I came up with the idea of a Lego globe (like of the Earth).

Not very original but I figured I would make up for it by having the top removable and put something cool stuff inside (someone recommend liqueur but I ain’t sharing and certainly not with a kid).

Plan was to put a support wall down the middle, have a ship wreck/island scene on one side and on the other a jungle temple or a Lego version of hell ( not the best idea for a 12 year old (or well I think he’s 12 it’s hard to keep up with such things) but seemed funny to me).

To make up for the unoriginal idea I figured I would do it from scratch without looking up how others had done it.

Several nights of trying to work out the scale, where the continents would go etc I had nothing and I was tired.

I found some nice instructions and got to work (lazy can’t find the link right now but very nice instructions).

The instructions were for a hollow globe (no internal support) but I wanted to make sure it was sturdy so I was going to add “beams” of Lego running through the bottom half (I apparently don’t have or am too lazy to look for a picture of these) and the top and bottom halves would be built separately so I construct the fancy scenes in the bottom and the top would be a removable to reveal them.

Lego Globe - The Start

Lego Globe - Make Progress

Lego Globe - Half Way?

The half way point wasn’t reached before I was pretty much out of blue and tan Lego. So several orders were placed on BrickLink.

At this point in time I was already tired of the damn thing but I figured I should finish what I started (unlike my first go or three at college).

Lego Globe - Done?

So there we have it.

A Lego globe of the Earth built with someone else’s instructions (once again very nice ones) and some of my own changes: internal support in bottom half, the poles were white (like ice), a opening left in the bottom in case I wanted to mount it on a stand ( the idea of the scenes died as I went along, not as much room as I had hoped and I wanted done with it).

All I had to do was stick the top and the bottom together and I was free of it.

Just a bit of gentle gentle pressure to get the bricks stuck together.

Just a smidgen, not too much.

Just a tad.

Lego Globe - Really Really Done

Too much pressure and not enough structural integrity (remember kids to always use sound engineering).

All I could do was chuckle.

It seemed fitting that this thing I had poured more hours and Lego into then I wanted to think about, this thing I had really come to despise, was in pieces.

It could have been fixed, couple of hours more, not much compared to how much time I had already spent.

Instead, being me (who is a fan of using commas and line breaks more frequently then needed), it was broken down into it’s base parts, sorted (by color and size of course), and I was left with nothing for my nephew except for some photos and a crap load of blue bricks.

So I needed a new idea and it better be blue.

That is also the first You Tube (or any) video I have put on the internet.

So Donkey Kong! 

LEGO Donkey Kong (with Mario for scale).

Had to order extra pieces from Brick Link. Used lots and lots of brown.

No more.

Total cool fun time LEGO statues.

Seen other people do stuff like this.

Thought it would be fun to try. 

Not bad. Still suck at using a camera.

Black LEGO statue. Possibly a gangster.

Blue LEGO Statue. Space racer laser driller guy?

Brown LEGO statue. Super cool janitor.

Red LEGO statue. Caped space guy.

White LEGO statue. Space guy with strange gun.

LEGO NES With Cart

So it’s not perfect but neither are you.

Apparently while there are dark grey and light grey bricks they still vary in color and I didn’t have enough to only use the darker dark grey or the lighter light grey.

Dimensions are off a bit.

Would have been cooler to use smooth bricks for top and front but didn’t have enough.

LEGO NES Open With Cart In It

LEGO NES Side View

LEGO NES Back View

Brick color mismatch aside it looks good in person. 

Did this today as well. 

LEGO Mosaic Link With Tri Force

Mosaic style instead of the “brick” style I did for others. Colors different then actual NES game. Don’t really care for it.

Lego Mario Items and a Fish

Another exciting night in my life. 

This time the theme seemed to be “Items from Mario games”.

Lego 1Up From Super Mario Bros 2

Lego Flower from Super Mario Bros

Lego Mushroom from Super Mario Bros

Lego Star From Super Mario Advance (I think)

Lego Some Other Thing from Super Mario Bros 2

Lego Turtle Sheel from Super Mario World

Probably should find some other theme.

A bunch of 8 bit lego stuff

So last year I wanted to build something with the LEGO Digital Designer and actually order it. I have spent a ton of time playing around with the program before but most of the stuff I screwed around and did ended up being $100 bucks or more.

So I did Mario. Only cost 6 or 7 bucks and was cool as hell to get a box that said LEGO on it and had a picture of Mario.

Shortly afterwords I wanted to try a larger 8 bit NES charecter. So using pieces I had already I built the White Mage.

8 bit LEGO White Mage from Final Fantasy 3

So I was fine. I had got the need to build something double geeky (LEGO and Nintendo) out of my system and I went on with my life.

Until last night.

I had meant to only build one but apparently OCD took over and I cranked out four.

First was the Black Mage from Final Fantasy.

8 Bit LEGO Black Mage from Final Fantasy

The black and the orange are off a bit from the actual game but bite me.

In the groove I figured golly gee lets do Luigi. Mario looks lonely and it should be easy.

8 bit LEGO Luigi from NES Super Mario Bros

Then sinking deeper into madness I saw Mega Man, oh glorious Mega Man.

8 Bit LEGO Mega Man

Color probably off a bit again and once again bite me.

He was kind of a pain because if you look at the very left part of his arm and the end of the gun there is a column of black bricks that aren’t attached to other black bricks, unlike the Black/White mages that have a solid connected black outline. So I ended up using some bricks that snap in sidewise to get those columns on and to add support to him in other places.

I figured I should do one more since who needs sleep.

8 Bit Blaster Master

Blaster Master was on of those games I remember playing the hell out of so figured it could eat some more of my life several decades later. 

It also ate up most of my black bricks so I swear I am done.