Lwelyk, the Lego mosaicist (mosaician?) behind some truly excellent Nintendo block art, has posted his latest masterpiece, a large-scale model of Metroid's final-boss-in-a-jar. This Mother Brain is "about the size of (Lwelyk's) torso" and took "four or five hours." We can only imagine that part of that time was spent shooting little flying rings so he could get back up on the tiny platform on which he was building the sculpture.
Can you imagine how upsetting it would be to walk in and see something like this, especially if you weren't familiar with Metroid? Or, even worse, to wake up in the middle of the night and see this ... mass ... in your house?
The Mother of All Brains
Posted Jan 23rd 2008 10:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff
Tags: lego, metroid, mother-brain, nes
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1-23-2008 @ 11:26PM
T3H WICKERMAN (TMNT DF) (BWF) said...
Thats brilliant! My favorite lego sculpture ever.
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1-23-2008 @ 11:48PM
Elsnerma said...
"We can only imagine that part of that time was spent shooting little flying rings so he could get back up on the tiny platform on which he was building the sculpture."
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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1-24-2008 @ 2:50AM
Dio said...
I almost read that as masochist D:
I'd like to have one of these in my room, but sadly enough I do not have LEGOs anymore ;_;
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1-24-2008 @ 6:19AM
Zack W. said...
That is way cool. I need to bust out my legos.
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1-24-2008 @ 12:10PM
lwelyk said...
Wow. Thanks for putting this up again. ^_^
I wish Joystiq/Kotaku would post it, but I like DSFanboy just the same. Thanks for the compliments, and the platform thing was pretty funny.
I've already dismantled it, it took me 3 hours just to dismantle it.(I keep my legos nice and organized) I've begun work on Wart from SMB2 now.
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1-24-2008 @ 4:26PM
FantomRedux said...
you should have sold it, unless you're not really into that. although it'd probably break in the post.
1-24-2008 @ 4:40PM
lwelyk said...
I'd only sell it if the person sent me the legos to make it with too. And I don't feel like opening up a lego shop right now. ;P