Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a famous photograph by Charles C. Ebbets taken in 1932 during the construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in New York. Brothers Brick has found 2 great remakes of the photo created using LEGO figures but with very different styles.

Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Marcos Vilariño [via BB]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Marcos Vilariño [via BB]

I love browsing old magazine scans and when it is a combination of retro toys and cars if is just that bit more special. The toys in question are the Matchbox cars which I am sure many of you will have collected. The superb illustration above and the super sweet Ford GT below is a just a sample of the delights in the 1969 Matchbox Collector’s Catalog.

What you see when you look at a LEGO creation is probably very different to the wild imagination of a young mind. These new LEGO adverts are just so superb in portraying that. Or maybe I have these adverts totally wrong..
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You have probably come across tons of Star Wars toy collections but I can guarantee none have been organised as impressively as this Star Wars collection by Josh Budich. He started collecting in 1999 so this may not be the biggest collection around. Upon entering the site you are greeted by a thumbnail gallery of pixel Star Wars characters. By clicking on each thumbnail you open a box of information about the toy along with an image of the toy. I can not stop playing with this amazing site.

Eric Harshbarger has created these stunning LEGO sculptures which fit into any fun loving persons house perfectly. The LEGO desk is built out of approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks and weighs roughly 120 pounds. If you think the desk is impressive in my opinion it does not compare to the LEGO grandfather clock. Eric is a true LEGO master.

LEGO is not just a toy these days as people have some amazing uses for such a simple toy brick. the LEGO salt and pepper shaker may not be an amazing device but it sure is a clever use of the plastic LEGO brick by designer Joel Hesselgren. The instructions below show exactly how to position the brick depending on when if you want salt, pepper or both. Yet another addition to your retro style home.
[via Geekologie]

Check out these neat tutorials on how to make these LEGO figures of loved Nintendo characters and if you have the LEGO pieces lying around you can try it too. If not enjoy just enjoy the video and the theme tunes in the background.
[via Destructoid]

I will never forget Pokemon as it was the last game that I ever bought for my much loved Gameboy and it had me hooked for a very long time. Its great to see there are so many Pokemon fans out there and its even better to see some awesome LEGO pieces created based around Pokemon characters. Enjoy the large Pokemon Gallery at Brickshelf. [Via Destructoid]

The Etch-A-Sketchist creates some superb pieces of art on his travel Etch-A-Sketch but my favourite pieces are the ones that have a bit of retro culture in them from from old movies to classic video games.

How he gets so much detail into some of the pieces is quite astonishing. Here are 3 of my favourite Street Fighter II, King Kong, Chewbacca and Han Solo

There is a nice collection of retro robot toy head photos by Lockwasher over at flickr. Its amazing how much effort goes into the heads of the toys making each robot unique.