I’m not sure that I want to win the Game of Circuit Board Thrones. Looks like the “Royal Data Throne” here would skin my bottom up pretty bad when I make a download.
Still, interested parties can actually purchase this odd little sculpture for $500.
Product Page ($500 via Technabob)
Heike Kolpin created this sculpture of baby Chewbacca which is currently available on eBay for $200. I’m not sure, but kid Chewie might even be more terrifying than these Harry Potter babies.
Baby Han, baby Luke and baby Leia also available—you can check them out after the break.
The world’s largest pumpkin (1,818.5 lbs) was recently put under the knife at the New York Botanical Garden, where carving master Ray Villafane created a badass sculpture of zombies busting through the shell. Check out some additional images after the break.
Artist Bill Secunda’s explains the inspiration behind “Mantis Dreaming”—a 3000-pound praying mantis sculpture fashioned out of scrapped steel from a railroad tanker:
All created freehand by myself over the last 6 months. I envisioned this sculpture while listening to a song by a group called The Verve. Catching that butterfly in that dream of mine were the words that inspired the sculpture. I imagined a praying mantis might have that dream, his opposite, the butterfly, beautiful, delicate, and always out of reach. He is so infatuated with it, when the butterfly lands on him he stands frozen. His instincts clash with his fascination, all he can do is hope it doesn’t fly away.
LEGO building team OneLug used 22,000 plastic bricks to create this 145 pound recreation of the battle of the Ents from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The sculpture stands seven feet tall, has an eight-foot-diameter and includes 23 treefolk, over 100 orcs, and one Saruman (impressive – but can it rival this?) The epic LEGO creation was on display at Seattle’s Brickcon this past weekend.
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Artist Mike Doyle just completed the third in a series of decaying Victorian houses constructed entirely from LEGO. The 5.5? x 6? x 3? creation, entitled “Victorian on Mud Heap” required 600 hours and between 110k and 130k bricks to complete. Mike also noted that the structure is “pure LEGO” and that no foreign materials (wood, glue, paint or otherwise) were used. Check out Mike’s Flickr page to learn more.
(Mike Doyle via TBB)
Matheson Harris has amassed an impressive collection of Star Wars spaceships including the Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, Tie Fighter and even an AT-AT – the most interesting part however, is that they were all fashioned from cardboard. As impressive as the works are, Matheson takes an understated approach:
Hot glue, cardboard, sharpie, a few sucker sticks and ping pong balls = garbage armada
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It’s only natural that a sculpture of the Wall-E is made of trash. Kreatworks used old machine and car parts to build this 4′ tall version of the Pixar robot. You won’t be making any field trips to the junkyard with him though—the sculpture weighs in at 150lbs. However, he’ll happily stand guard in your garage or house if you have a spare $2,800 to burn.
Product Page ($2800 via Gamma Squad via Technabob)
For some reason, artist Alexandre Nicolas has taken it upon himself to create a series of superheros, including Batman, Superman and Spider Man as costumed fetuses floating in tanks. The weirdness was recently displayed at the “HEY!” WTF is That? exhibit in Paris.
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Thirteen year olds aren’t exactly known for having long attention spans, but Evan Bacon is an exception. He’s a fan of LEGO and Batman, so he designed a life-size sculpture of the superhero. He used somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 bricks (hey, I wouldn’t keep an exact count after 10,000 either), and the project took him three months. The hard work was worth it too—it earned him a picture with Adam West. I wonder if there’s a LEGO Batcave…
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