Screenshots released today of Harley Quinn from Lego Batman: The Videogame, which means this is probably what the actual minifig will look like in a kit released later on this year. I like the head, but I still think my torso design is better. More screenshots at Shacknews. On a related note, I love Paul [...] » Read more

You did know I was a comic book/Lego geek, yes? ‘Cuz I would hate to have misrepresented myself. Custom Justice League & Harley Quinn Lego minifigs — click to enlarge So I may have mentioned a silly Lego minifig customization project a few posts ago. It started out with deciding that the current line of official Batman [...] » Read more

It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrrr. That’s little enough excuse for today’s digression about Lego string, specifically: the thicker cord used to rig pirate ships, like the Black Seas Barracuda or the Skull’s Eye Schooner. Lego isn’t just about acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. There’s a few string and canvas elements, particularly in the Pirates line used [...] » Read more

Last week, Lego started selling their new Castle kits on their online store. Someone in Denmark must have missed the memo about Harry Potter being a bad influence on kids, because by golly they’ve one upped them. Instead of bandits or rogue knights as villians, they’ve gone for an Evil Dead theme this time around. [...] » Read more

Coinciding with my eight year anniversary at Pixar, I found out today I’m moving offices soon, to another building. Neither my current office nor my new one is in the main Pixar complex. This will be my sixth office move. This is probably about average for employees of my tenure – as productions wrap up, [...] » Read more

A co-worker and I were discussing Lego, there being plenty of bricks of various colors and shapes scattered about within a few feet of where I sit at work. As such conversations do, it turned to custom Lego creations of the Star Wars variety, and then to B-wings. “What an odd ship. Was [...] » Read more

Wednesday I went to the opera to watch Manon Lescaut. Does Puccini ever put anything to music which doesn’t involve the miserable demise of the heroine? Dying of thirst (Manon – in the middle of Louisiana?!), or of consumption (La Bohème), or jumping off a tall building (Tosca), or self [...] » Read more

Lego has this new line of kits called World City, and they scare me. Kids see police toys made from building bricks; I see an indoctrination into an Orwellian future populated by undercover vans (black, unmarked, and sporting a camera), G-men in black suits, high tech surveillance trucks (monitoring all communications), helicopters with more [...] » Read more

Anyone looking for l2rib should note that I finally fixed the download links. The files they used to point to were certainly present on mac.com’s disks, the corresponding web service was just refusing to acknowledge their existence – until I shortened the filenames. Sorry about that. By the way, I’m also aware that [...] » Read more

There’s thunder and lightning outside at the moment, and I can’t watch TV – taping Black Adder for Mimi – so it’s back to updating. Spent some idle time last week building a juice can-powered trebuchet out of Lego bricks, of course, from the collection that I hauled back from Vancouver. The first prototype pictured [...] » Read more