Steampunk LEGO Jabba Barge, Slave I and Other Amazing Steam Wars Models
LEGO may have the most amazing sets ever, but the fans keep leaving me speechless at every turn, specially the Steam Wars contest which is now closing. We already showed you the Steam Speeder, the Pod Racer and the TIE Fighter and X-Wing, and here you have an extremely detailed Steam Jabba Barge and Slave I. Those are my favourites, but the AT-sTEam, General Greeves Wheel Bike and the ARC-17 Steamfighter are also quite impressive, as you will see in the big galleries after the jump.
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Am I just the only one here who is just freaking SO TIRED of this "Steampunk" crap? I guess i just don't see the whole fascination in the first place.
Wow... so like sci-fi (which is cool)... but combined with the ancient past like steam driven days (which is pretty much never cool).... WTF?
And then you start getting Legos into the mix, and thats where it starts hitting a lil too close to home ;-)
Steampunk = LAME. There. I said it.
OmBass
Whoops, forgot why I was stopping by... It appears that all of my favorite models made it into the finals with one exception. They can be viewed en masse here, and are as follows (in order of posting):
TIE Steam
Y-Wing Steamfighter
Royal Naboo AirForce One
SteamSpeeder
Servus 1
Greeve's Wheel Bike
I think I'm rooting for the RNAF1 to win, though
Anyways, the one build that didn't make it into the finals wasn't ever actually entered in the contest, and it was this awesome little R2-Steam2 that was made by one of the two contest organizers, which I will be blatantly ripping off at some point and improving.
Purple Dave
@The Chad:
Yes. He's been released in the main Jabba's Palace playset and Jabba's Sailbarge.
@Dunechaser:
To be fair, Nathan Sawaya was earning a six-figure income when he was living in Manhattan (granted, he was also paying $3k/mo in rent, but...). It's not like he had trouble affording to expand his collection, and he mostly worked with basic bricks, which tend to be less expensive.
The thing is, some of us design things in LDraw or prototype in random colors and buy the parts after the fact. People who build large buildings often just buy parts they know they'll need in large quantities and start building where they left off. It's not so much that AFOLs build with limited collections as it is that we've learned to cheat the system.
Purple Dave
STRIDER_MT2K & HYRUU: What's actually so very amazing about most LEGO creations is that they were built from fairly limited collections. Much larger than our childhood collections, to be sure, but certainly not infinite. Most of the LEGO builders I know are professionals -- programmers, lawyers, architects, graphic designers, and so on. For example, Nathan Sawaya was a lawyer in NYC before launching his career as "the brick artist."
WORKINGONYOURINVOICE: Just click through to the post on The Brothers Brick for links to each builder's galleries or photosets. ;-)
THE CHAD: Yup, there is.
Jesus Diaz: Thanks again for the linkage!
Dunechaser
Typically I prefer showing my studs--but this is a deliciously smooth build I must say.
scarbrtj
those lego spaces are the real time warp!! ace, will see if i can find some on the attic..
niice!!!
sold
is there actually a lego jabba the hut? these things are awesome!
The Chad
Damn. That last one deserves more pics. I need to stop at toys r us on the way home today.
WorkingOnYourInvoice
It makes me wish had tons of money and no job so I could do this.... I miss lego's
hyruu
That's incredible work.
They must have limitless Lego resources to build those things.
It makes me want to modify my Lego Hellfire Droid...
strider_mt2k