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Special Interview with Jonas Kleinalstede a.k.a. Brick Vader


This weeks guest of honor is Jonas Kleinalstede a.k.a. Brick Vader from Germany. He is known for his great vignettes in mostly historical themes. His creations are full of great building techniques and incredible mini-figure usage together with purist customizing. The texturing and details in his creations are also outstanding as well. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.

Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your real name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?

Jonas: My Name is Jonas and i’m from a small town from Germany. I’m 18 years old, and up until a few months ago I was a student, but I graduated in June. I’m currently working at McDonalds till September when I will go to New Zealand for six months. I also did some little videography gigs in the last couple of months. I'm pretty much interested in most forms of art, from film-making and music to fashion. I also force myself to read sometimes and do some sports.


K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?

J: I don’t know, how old I was, but I think it was a holiday day and my sister and I where bored, so my mother took us to the local toyshop and bought the first
„Real“ Lego set, before that I only had DUPLO. It was one of those buckets with a bunch of bricks and those weird Jack Stone Type Minifigures.

Rhosgobel from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey by David Hensel

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidhensel/28238133481/in/contacts/

This astonishing MOC was recently shared by flickr.com user and LEGO fan David Hensel a.k.a. Legonardo Davidy, who is a well known builder for his great historical MOC's. Accordin to the description, with an estimated 20-25,000 bricks and a footprint of a 77cm square, this is his largest creation to date. In this large vignette he presented us the house of Radagast, the brown wizard from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The shaping of the house and the vegetation is really incredible beyond words. Using the tan colored droid arms turns out to be a great great idea and therefor the roof design is truly wonderful and natural looking.

Minifig Scale Erebor!


This magnificent model of Erebor, a city from the movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, is created by Flickr and LUGPol member Michał Kaźmierczak a.k.a. migalart who is also known for his large size MOC's like Avatar which was also blogged here and Mustafar. This creation is realy huge consisting 55.000 pieces. Honostly I like everything in this including the details on terrain and the walls but I like the stone statues the most. I'm pretty sure that this MOC will be one of the unforgettable creations of 2015.  

Smaug from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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Smaug, the dragon from the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2014) is built with LEGO pieces by Flickr member and LEGO Fan Shawn Snyder who is also the builder of the amazing Star Trel bust "Resistance is futile".I like that the wings are build with plates instead of using cloth pieces and the sculpturing of the head is really amazing as well.