This is the "Mario Brothers Cat Tree" made by the Instructables user Geckoo_Designs, although the intended user is cats there's nothing stopping you from using it (except your extreme and very rare case of big-boneitis). Although the quality of the tree isn't Ikea quality it's much better than you or I could do - okay, maybe just you, have you seen my blogging skills? They're almost as good as my DIY skills. Via Geekologie
This is a Big Daddy sculpture from Bioshock built out of LEGO, by Finnish LEGO lover Pate-Keetongu. The sculpture wasn't completely made from LEGO, it is built from pieces of the Lego from the "Exo-Force flying mecha sets" and the hand drill is a piece from a "Rock Raiders set" from the late 1990's. "The body is built of pieces from the Lego Exo-Force flying mecha sets,
and the arms use ball joints and are movable. For the the builder used a
"Big ball" or "Tectonic ball" piece, which is held onto the body with
the bricks and tubes around it. The Big Daddy's hand drill is a piece of
the classic Rock Raiders sets from the late 1990s." I would definitely love to buy this as a set and built it however unfortunately it would not meet LEGO's target demographic, but I can always steal his design, ideas and build it myself dream. That and buy other LEGO sets in the mean time. The construction process and loads more pictures of the Big Daddy can be found on his blog.
Unfortunately, I haven't ever made a post about Gears of War 3 because other than the game release, I haven't had much to blog about. The Youtube user PlumBrothers made a replica of one of the guns from Gears of War 3, but with Lego and elastic bands. The unique feature about this replica is that it actually works like it does in the game, however (as you'd expect), it doesn't actually shoot real bullets. As well as being able to shoot the gun, you can reload the gun with several elastic bands at a time by replacing the clip, the gun can also has a motorized chainsaw built in, however I imagine if you tried to use it on someone like in the game it would crumble in your hands and you'd be left there crying.
Skip to 0:40 for a demonstration of the mechanism, 1:30 for the motorized chainsaw, 2:00 for reloading the clips and reloading the gun, 2:40 for shooting and 3:40 for a detailed view of the inside of the gun.
