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News has been kind of slow this weekend, so I thought I'd post this incredible block bot.

He's a creation of Brick Frenzy, who have a site of many different Lego creations.

Coming in at about 16 inches tall in robot mode, and approximately 2 feet in alt mode, Blackout is fully transformable, and modeled after the toy version.

You can see the Blackout gallery here.





I don't know about you, but it makes me want to pull out my LEGOs and start creating again.

Awesome!

wow

Indeed on both replies!!!

I wish I could do that!

i want that one!

The Toy version should model after this one! I like this better than the Hasbro verison. Nice work

wow.... way cool

Oh wow! That's pretty spectacular!
Hehe it'd be cool if there was a little scorponok to go with it!

I see what you mean about wanting to start building again too!

Whoa. Makes me wish I still had my Bionicles to give it more posability. Hey...that's not a bad idea. Too bad I gave them all away to Goodwill............

Now this is how those TF and GI Joe Lego sets from a few years back SHOULD have looked! Hoo-leee wow!

The plural of Lego is 'Lego.' The word 'Lego' is like the word 'rice,' you can have a bowl of rice and you can have a bucket of Lego. You can have a single grain of rice and you can have a single Lego brick. But you cannot have rices, nor can you have Legos. Gaah!

It's face looks more like a decepticon then the movie.

O_o...wow.

Two things go through my mind...

1. Cool!
2. SOmeone has WAY too much time on their hands.

1337W422102 wrote:The plural of Lego is 'Lego.' The word 'Lego' is like the word 'rice,' you can have a bowl of rice and you can have a bucket of Lego. You can have a single grain of rice and you can have a single Lego brick. But you cannot have rices, nor can you have Legos. Gaah!

Got a source on that? I've always used "legos" when referring to multiple Lego bricks. I wonder what Webster's has to say about it?

1337W422102 wrote:The plural of Lego is 'Lego.' The word 'Lego' is like the word 'rice,' you can have a bowl of rice and you can have a bucket of Lego. You can have a single grain of rice and you can have a single Lego brick. But you cannot have rices, nor can you have Legos. Gaah!

Actually, this isn't true, although it is a popular misconception.

I refer you to LEGO's 2004 Company Profile:

http://www.lego.com/info/pdf/compprofileeng.pdf

On the last page (16) of the document, it states:

- The LEGO brand name should always be written in capitals.

- The LEGO brand name must not be used generically - nor should it be used in the plural form or the possessive, e.g. "LEGO's".

- When the LEGO brand name is used as a noun, it must never stand alone. It must always be accompanied by another noun. For example, LEGO set, LEGO products, LEGO Company, LEGO play materials, LEGO bricks, LEGO universe, etc.

So technically, you can have neither a single LEGO nor multiple LEGO (or LEGOs). You can only have one LEGO brick or multiple LEGO bricks.

Radical Ninja wrote:

1337W422102 wrote:The plural of Lego is 'Lego.' The word 'Lego' is like the word 'rice,' you can have a bowl of rice and you can have a bucket of Lego. You can have a single grain of rice and you can have a single Lego brick. But you cannot have rices, nor can you have Legos. Gaah!

Actually, this isn't true, although it is a popular misconception.

I refer you to LEGO's 2004 Company Profile:

http://www.lego.com/info/pdf/compprofileeng.pdf

On the last page (16) of the document, it states:

- The LEGO brand name should always be written in capitals.

- The LEGO brand name must not be used generically - nor should it be used in the plural form or the possessive, e.g. "LEGO's".

- When the LEGO brand name is used as a noun, it must never stand alone. It must always be accompanied by another noun. For example, LEGO set, LEGO products, LEGO Company, LEGO play materials, LEGO bricks, LEGO universe, etc.

So technically, you can have neither a single LEGO nor multiple LEGO (or LEGOs). You can only have one LEGO brick or multiple LEGO bricks.

I always said Legos. Hmm. Learn something new everyday. Even if you don't want to.

Whoa... that's sweet looking!

Hopefully Hasbro releases more sophisticated Lego-esque line (unlike the BTR line) like this.

It's just... 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O

The closest transforming LEGO toy (in deference to the sub-thread on the proper use of the word LEGO ) I had that worked was the StarWars LEGO Technic Droideka, which had a lot of kibble and pales in comparison to this.

Makes me wonder what happened to the LEGO Escaflowne I also drooled over some time ago. Kudos to the Brickmasters!

terc81 wrote:It's just... 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O 8-O

The closest transforming LEGO toy (in deference to the sub-thread on the proper use of the word LEGO ) I had that worked was the StarWars LEGO Technic Droideka, which had a lot of kibble and pales in comparison to this.

Makes me wonder what happened to the LEGO Escaflowne I also drooled over some time ago. Kudos to the Brickmasters!

Terc81 welcome! As you can plainly see Seibertron contains nuts of all sorts. Sorry that I misspelled the plural of LEGO apparently, but fear not, the site is a high quality place to hang out even if the news crew sometimes makes a spelling error. Enjoy the community, it's the best (and obviously smartest) around.

"Let the person without sin, cast the first stone..." in regards to spelling.

Very Very cool!

I like to see the helicopter mode!

Crazy crazy creator.

Love the fanmade lego-bots.

be nice if he showed what peices were used and if any kits were used also?

theres one on youtube like this but with the same colours as blackout, there both really good