Careful Star Wars fans! What you’re seeing, it’s a trap! For your money, that is. It’s the wise and bug-eyed Admiral Ackbar, decked in military uniform and a glorious mustache. This fine sculpture is based on a glorious painting by Steven Daily.
The bust only has 500 units available, so if you want a mustached squid man gracing your house, pre-order one from Gentle Giant Ltd. for $175 (USD).
[via Figures via Topless Robot]
A life-size T-800 Terminator is one of those those that I hoped I would never live to see. Thank God this one is made of LEGO pieces and not Skynet parts. Even if he comes to life, so you could just take him apart brick by brick if you had to.
This 15,000-piece, full-scale Terminator T-800 LEGO model was built by Martin Latta. Quick! Hit it with a hammer and watch all of those bricks fall down. No, I haven’t seen the John Connor minifig, stop asking. My jacket is also not your size. Anyway, the detail on this awesome LEGO sculpture is very impressive.
How about a LEGO Terminator franchise of video games, LEGO guys? You have Batman and Star Wars, so why not?
[via The Brothers Brick via Geekologie]
I always admire these guys who can take junk parts and scrap metal and turn them into cool robots. I’ve made some very basic robots out of junk before, but nothing like these guys. The latest inventor to build himself a scrap parts robot is Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli.
Photo: Suzie Wong/Reuters
Just because it is made from scrap doesn’t mean it was cheap. He spent about $24,000, and it took him more than 11 months to build the robot. He made it from recycled scrap metal and electric wires that he bought from a second-hand market.
This beast weighs about 500 pounds and stands about 6-feet-tall. Thank God Tao didn’t give this thing the kiss of life. It would make short work of us humans and make some art of it’s own. With blood and entrails.
[via NBC News via Obvious Winner]
If you are a He-Man fan who finds the 80′s action figures just a little too small, check this out. Oh and clear some floor space if you want to make one of these yourself. This is a giant replica of the Skeletor action figure, no doubt made by the power of Grayskull.
This giant action figure was made by Diego D. Gonzalez of DDG Colecciones. I guess the standard action figure size wasn’t big enough. Skeletor even has his staff accessory, which has been super-sized as well.
Here are some images and video documenting the build…
Boy that stand being used to hold Skeletor up during construction doesn’t look too comfortable.
You can check out more images from the build here if you want to try making one for yourself. Good luck with all that.
[via Obvious Winner]
Jon Kessler is an artist known for his kinetic sculptures formed out of ragged machinery and surveillance cameras. His latest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in New York, is a sensory rabbit-hole into to our hyper-connected world. More »
Do you have hundreds of balloons lying around and a lung capacity that needs to be put to the ultimate test? If so, you can do what Larry Moss’s Airigami team did and assemble a huge-ass balloon dinosaur.
This balloonimal is an acrocanthosaurus, which is a carnivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. You knew that right? Incredibly, this thing is 20 feet long, so it is almost a 1:1 scale model.
It took about 4 days to complete this beast and it could go extinct in a second with a tiny pin and several jabs. This massive balloon beast was installed in the Virgina Museum of Natural History alongside of a resin model of the real thing.
[designboom via Neatorama]
Croatian artist Đorđe Balać has a talent for building things from matchsticks. Now, I’m not talking about some little models you might find gathering dust at a flea market. No, these matchstick models are truly epic.
Balac spends countless hours building his realistic models of industrial vehicles from literally hundreds of thousands of matchsticks.
My personal favorite is the Mercedes cement mixer shown above.
He’s also built bulldozers and several other trucks, but his masterwork is his Liebherr LTM 11200 crane model, made from over 175,000 individual matchsticks and held together with over 44 pounds of glue, and finished with almost 18 pounds of varnish.
Check out more pics of Đorđe matchstick creations over on Facebook.
[via 24 Hours via Oddity Central]
While twist ties can come in handy for wrapping up cables or closing plastic bags, they’re pretty boring little things. But where you may see something of utility, one artist sees a medium for making wondrous sculptures.
In fact, artist Shota Katsube made not just one or two little action figures out of colored twist ties – he built an entire army out of them. All told, there are 300 of the little sculptures, each with unique weapons and stances. They measure from about 3 to 5 centimeters (~1.18″ to 1.96″) in height. They were made without any other structure besides the twist ties themselves, and can stand on their own.
You can see these incredible little sculptures on display at the Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan exhibit at London’s Wellcome Collection through June 30.
[via Frameweb & Junk Culture via Laughing Squid]
The smallest of chunks can become something much bigger with careful construction and a bit of planning. LittleBits—an awesome little building tool that sits somewhere on the spectrum between Lego and arduino, incorporating the best parts of both—is showing off that potential big time in the windows of NYC’s MoMa Design Stores this month. More »
I don’t know about you, but I need a giant steampunk dragon in my home. One that doesn’t actually breath fire, because, well… no more home if it were to breath fire in my living room. This is exactly why Daenerys Targaryen is always on the move. You just can’t keep these things indoors.
Anyway, this sculpture by Kreatworks measures 10.8 feet-tall, 9 feet-long and 10 feet wide. Yes, this is an amazingly big dragon. It is made out of recycled metal and auto parts and weighs over 880 pounds. It may just sink into the foundation of your home if your floors aren’t well reinforced. And you can’t easily move it to vacuum underneath.
The one seen here was sold. Of course. Because large ass dragons are in demand. If you want one for yourself, Kreatworks will custom make one for you for just $11,500 (USD). Totally worth it. I’m gonna start saving today – though I have no idea how I’ll get it through the front door.
[via Nerd Approved]
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