Microscale Cats!

I whipped up these quick, four piece kitties since we don't have any actual LEGO cats.

 There are a few variations I made, my brother added the tail on one.
All you need to build them is

• 1 1x2 slanted brick
• 1 1x1 plate
• 1 1x1 rounded plate
• 1 1x1 vertical clip tile (Or a 1x1 slant, or anything else to use for ears.)

 The tail is a 1x2 plate with a handled bar on the short end, with a thingymabobber attached. It might be called a robot claw or hand or something like that.

 Three little kitties! They can be any color you'd like. I stuck to the pieces I had. The one on the left is a tabby, light gray with dark gray stripes.

Kitties!

 One has a clip plate for ears, the other has a slope, which makes it look as if its ears are folded back. You can use whichever option you wish, though in my opinion, the clip plate looks better.

Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow.

Arcade Machine

Time for a tutorial! (Joe's commentary after I made the post is in blue.)

 Pieces Needed:

• 2 2x2 slanted bricks
• 1 2x4 plate
• 1 2x2x2 slanted brick
• Those two 2x2 rounded/slanted pieces that I have no idea what to call them.

 Attached the slanted bricks to the plate, slanted parts pointing towards the middle. Hey! You did it wrong! This thing *points* is supposed to support this thing! *points*
Yes, I realized after the fact that the plate is on top of the slanted bricks, not under. Whoops.

 Stack the tall slanted brick on top of one of the other slanted bricks, slanted end pointing to the middle.

 Now add those gold pieces like so for the controls and top.

 Ta-da! You have a retro video game machine! (Stack of quarters (Metallic gray 1x1 rounded studs) optional.) They're not quarters! They're studs!

Hey, I just realized! Those studs do look like controls!

Doctor Who LEGO Set!!

 Attention all Whovians! There is now an official LEGO set for Doctor Who! It came out in time for Christmas and we just got our set today, thanks to some Christmas money.
    It comes with the TARDIS, the console room, two Daleks, 11, 12, Clara, and a weeping angel.

 The control room.

 The TARDIS opens up and attaches to the control room to form the entrance. It even has the round things!

You can see in the picture that we're missing one of the 1x2 grilles.

 The outside of the TARDIS.
 For you non-Whovians out there, the TARDIS is a spaceship that's bigger on the inside. It travels in time, and anywhere else. The name is an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. It has a chameleon circuit that allows it to blend into it's surrounding, but it landed in the 60's and got stuck as a Police Box.

 Close up of the console. So many buttons!

 The control panel on the railing. The one on the other side is the same.

 To open the TARDIS, you remove the top (attached by just two studs) and flip up the police box signs.

 Then, you can pull it open and attach it to the console room.

 This technic piece plugs into the technic brick under the door.

 Even the under side of the console has details.

 The console is several sections, held on by clips.

 Now onto the minifigures.
Here is the twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. He features his typical scowly face and attack eyebrows, his purple jacket and his old screwdriver.

 Here is the eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith.

Bow ties are cool.

 And here's Clara, companion to 11 and 12.

 Clara and Eleven have alternate expressions, though twelve keeps the same face.

 Eleven comes with a fez!

I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

If you are wondering why I am referring to the characters as numbers, the Doctor is a Timelord, an alien who can change his appearance to avoid death. 11 and 12 are different incarnations of the same person.
 The set also includes a weeping angel, which first appeared in the season three episode 'Blink' which if you aren't a Whovian, is a good one to start with.

 The angel's head turns around to reveal its scary face!

Don't blink!

 The set also comes with two Daleks.

EXTERMINATE!!

 The TARDIS can also hold a minifigure!

 Two studs outside the door allow a minifigure to be attached and the TARDIS can be closed with it inside.

 Unfortunately, the front doors don't actually open. It opens up in the back to attach it to the console room.

 One more shot of the Doctor and Clara in the TARDIS!

The set is available on Amazon for 70 dollars. (I got it on sale for 60) If you love Doctor Who, this is definitely worth the purchase! Me and my brother have been playing with it all afternoon after assembling it.

Zach

Zach is a character me and my brother made up a while ago. He was part of a minifigure family we came up with a few years ago (The same one that appears in the LEGO Ferris Wheel post.). Years later, we never take him apart, he just keeps randomly appearing. The cast of mix and match LEGO people we play with changes around constantly, but Zach is always there.

He wears a jester hat, white shirt with black sleeves and jeans.

Zach is a notorious prankster. So much in fact, that he started a company of things to prank people with, making him a billionaire. He like to hand away his millions for random things, because he'll always get more.

He also appears in his jester uniform.

Another thing about him is his juggling ball collection. Besides, pranking, juggling is his favorite hobby. He stores all the juggling balls in these chests.

His goal is to have every color possible. So far, hes still missing solid green, transparent dark blue, and a clear one. (Out of the colors I know we own.)

We started him out at age 11, but unlike many of our made up characters, we aged him to 13. (We might have started him out at 8 or 9, the age my brother was at the time, but I don't remember.)
So, there's Zach. You'll probably see him again, demonstrating a future LEGO creation.

Purple Truck

I've decided to add my brother's commentary on this post when he saw it. It will appear in blue.
My brother designed this awesome purple truck. Mmm, I love you little flowers... *presses LEGO flower to his face*

Front view. Criss-cross fence piece is the grille on the front. The method used for the headlights is the same as in the LEGO Harry Potter Knight bus set (Which is where all these pieces are from.)

He used the knight bus sticker brick from the front of the knight bus for the bumper plate. (For you non Potterheads out there, the Knight Bus is a "violently purple triple-decker bus" used by witches wizards for transport.)

View of the bottom. Heh heh heh heh heh... ...bottom...

The doors. (When he originally built them, there was no way to open them because he neglected to include handles. I redesigned the door to make it possible to get in, hence the handled plate built into the door.)

The cab.

And one more outside view. Why'd you leave the doors open?

National Talk Like A Pirate Day

Avast! Today be National Talk Like A Pirate day, and to celebrate, here be some piratey minifigures!

(My apologies for the low picture quality,  this was taken on me mobile device.)

As a bonus, you will not get keel hauled  get some links to other past piratey posts!

Microscale Pirate Ships

MetalBeard!

Pirate Catapult Game