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Don’t bad guys always have cool HQ’s? If you watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the First Order Garrison base was pretty incredible. Now LEGO master builder No More Bricks builds a big custom First Order Garrison HQ. It was displayed in Philadelphia at the 2016 Philly Brick Fest.
The Back to the Future movies have the DMC DeLorean an iconic star and just for October 21, 2015, here is a custom LEGO flying 2015 DeLorean Time Machine by Brian Williams.
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Play Zelda not on a Nintendo console, but on a game board this time. From USAopoly, this is The Legend of Zelda Monopoly game. This Monopoly version is all for Zelda fans.
On this episode of Vinyl Pulp we visit Woot Bear SF where they join forces with Boundless Brooklyn and Outre for the Art on Guard: Lifeguard Tower Art Show. This show featured over 40 different artists and their custom lifeguard towers. Vinyl Pulp also interviews the man behind Outre apparel brand.
New Balance classic running sneakers the 998 gets the NB1 treatment. Don’t you just hate it, when you’re at a club and another girl has the on the same outfit as you? That’s one of my annoying pet peeves. Now you can create your very own one-off 998 kicks from New Balance.
When LEGO Friends appeared in retail shelves 2012, it weathered the controversy and has become a successful product line for LEGO. Lots of fans and third-party companies have been making custom LEGO minifigures, but not many have done customization of the LEGO Friends mini-dolls. Now, hopefully that’s about to change. LEGO fan JustJon works on customizing Friends mini-dolls.
Do you really want to feel special and have your very own one-of-a-kind sneaker? For around $220 bucks you can with New Balance 990 v1 kicks. You have your choice of materials, colors and basically 12 options to choice from to customize your NB 990’s.
If you ever feel nostalgic about past technological wonders like old video game systems, CRT tube TVs, rotary telephones and what not, and you are a LEGO builder, then check out – Chris McVeigh’s site Building Guides. I admit I am not a LEGO mad-genius builder, I’m like a Emmet who needs an instruction booklet and details before I can build anything.
Custom vinyl artist Christopher Avalos aka Evilos takes a regular Android vinyl toy and makes R2D2 from Star War Wars.
As a kid I could never get the G.I. Joe Skystriker and because of Robotech and Top Gun, I wanted this toy even more. When Hasbro re-issued it 2011 for it’s 30th Anniversary, I was able to pick one up. I think this is one of the coolest G.I. Joe toy vehicles ever. And now fans have been building really amazing custom Skystrikers.
Ever wonder how you would build your own LEGO Batman Tumbler and Batwing? Well, Taiwanese LEGO fan builder Velociraptor provides incredible detail step-by-step instructions and LEGO pieces you will need. Oh, since the guy is Taiwanese, the site is all in Chinese writing, but hey, you can just look at the JPEG images.
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Here’s a video clip of Marco den Besten’s custom LEGO build – Ondylion City.
For more in-depth details and images, go to Marco’s Flickr page @ Ecclesiastes – Ondylion City.
Want a men’s boutique that caters to various “Lifestyles” (Seriously….they include Wall Street, Professor, Sportsman, Old School, Hipster or derivative, thereof)?
Then On the Fly is just within reach in SF’s Financial District.
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