More Halloween

Inspired by hours of listening hours of Abney Park, my son and I went as airship pirates for Halloween. It was too hard to explain steampunk to everyone so Isaac said he's a pirate and I stuck with "I'm a pilot."

Here is pirate t-shirt that I wore under my airship pirate costume. Created using a skull stencil I made and puffy paint.

Here is Isaac's costume:

I added the pirate flag when we went to Toys R Us trick or treat.

Lego Republic Gunship

Here is the latest project my son and I worked on:

We couldn't find all the gray pieces we needed so a last minute yellow color scheme came into play:

The cargo bay is used for extra troop support.

Here is the side view with the pulse cannon:

Here is the rear cannon and back landing hatch.

The top cannons have to be removed to reveal the rear gunner seat:

Pilot cockpits:

Halloween Fun

Here's a few drawings I did with Isaac in art class. Enjoy!

New Agents Sets!

While my parents we visiting we took another trip to the Lego store again. We were surprised to see they had the new Agents 2.0 sets!

The kids got Dr. Infernos Robot Attack 8970 for their birthday presents from Nana:

This has to be the coolest set ever! A huge claw crushing robot with flame thrower! The best part is the light up brick in the hand so the flames light up. A+ Plus we have Dr. Inferno and didn't have to drop $100.

And I got Goldtooth's Getaway 8967:

Very nice new Agent mini-fig and I really like the new Agents vests in these sets.

Lego Agents Agents: Mission 5

Check out my version of LEGO 8634 Agents Mission 5: Turbo-Car Chase. Once again the color scheme turns out gray and black. Oh well. I have Agent Chase and the sticker left over from 8631 Jetpack Pursuit to add. My son finished it off with the chrome engine cover.

I'll post the helicopter when I finish it.

Naruto Vector Art

Vector art of Naruto for a t-shirt.Link: naruto.svg

Lego Pirate Skull

The Lego Pirate Skull on a flag.
Link: lego pirate skull.svg

Vector Art

So I decided to try and put up some vector art for all of you out there. I started using a free program called Inkscape. It is a very nice program for vector art. My actual second venture is the two logos for Lego Agents series out now.
Here is the link: agents.svg

It can be scaled to any size you need and printed.

Jedi Star Fighter

After Isaac got his Jedi Star Fighter, Maryam told me she wanted Ahsoka's fighter. She saw it in the Lego catalog. It hadn't came out yet, so I used the directions from Anakin's fighter to create this ship:
Maryam made up her own girl jedi since we don't have Ahsoka. She likes the ship alot and has thanked me many times for making it. I like that it has saved us $40 for now.

Trip to the Lego Store

Ok, I don't have pictures of the actual trip, but I can say the Lego store in the King of Prussia Mall is awesome! We had a great time. Isaac had problems deciding on what to get. First castle, then Star Wars, then Agents, then finally Star Wars. He got Anakin's star fighter from the Clone Wars.
Maryam got a cup of Legos from the pick-a-brick wall. She got some pretty cool bricks. She also got a brick separator. This is the coolest invention ever. My wife says it will save our teeth. She got me two for my birthday.

I was looking for the Clone Army builder - 8014 Clone Walker Battle Pack but unfortunately they were sold out. I was told I could order it at the store and it would be delivered to our house. The best part - free shipping! Can't beat that. The set was backordered and supposed to ship the 17th of January. It came the 6th. If you get a chance to pick one up, I highly recommend it.

Lastly, Gianna got a cool farm Duplo set. It will go well with all her Dora legos! All in all we had a great day.

Updated Arcade Cabinet

The arcade cabinet is coming along. I added some preliminary graphics. I consulted with my friend Mike and need to make some edits to the Japanese text "Gemu Oataku" Arcade. Will be getting to it soon and will post new pics.

The marquee:
Full Shot:

Our Legos

Here is a shot of our lego studio. I have 32 years of legos mixed in with the kids legos of 8 years.

There is also 3-4 bins in Isaac's room as well. My wife really wants all the legos in the basement. Still working on it.

Pirates!

We decided to build my pirate ship again! It took three days but here it is.

I seem to have misplaced one of the masts but luckily the kids had the viking boat mast for the replacement. I also had to make replacement sails out of construction paper. (And yes those are fire nation flags) :]