Club Jade

The Steam Wars Contest at FBTBForums has finally come to an end, and the winner is Mark Stafford’s LEGO Steampunk Naboo Fighter, aka Royal Naboo Air Force 1. Some of the other builds we featured also placed. Congratulations to all, and thanks for the great eye candy!

The FBTBForums.net have spoken, and they’ve picked who goes on to the final round. The top five will be picked by the moderators and then put up for a final vote.

Jabba’s Steampunk Barge by ACPin, above, was one of the top picks.

From Monsterbrick, the same mind that brought us the Steam War AT AT ELE Walker, a Turn of the Century Falcon. He also has a variety of original Star Wars LEGO creations.

Yesterday was the final deadline for the FBTBForums’ LEGO Steam Wars contest. Behold the entries!

Above, an impressive latecomer: General Greeves’ Amazing Wheel Bike by “Big Daddy” Nelson.

Who are your picks for the winners?

Everyone’s favorite plastic block toys are now fifty years old. Neatorama celebrates with ten neat LEGO facts and links. I’m going to do much less work and show you another great Steam Wars entry, RocketSeason’s Steam-Powered Speedy bicycle:

And people say licensing killed LEGO creativity…

Be sure to check out the front page of Google, too!

Mark Stafford made a Naboo Fighter for the Steam Wars contest – and it’s pretty damn cool. Even aside from the sheer brilliance of a navigation monkey. Check out more entries at the second link. (via)

The Star Wars Lego fanatics at the From Bricks to Bothans forums are having a Steam Wars vehicle contest.

No actual entries have been posted yet – the one in the pic above is used as an example – so keep an eye out. (via Neatorama, who also link X-Wing origami.)