Reinventing Fabuland

More views of Monorail Speed Racer.

Sailing Hydrofoil

If you aren’t following F@bz on Flickr already, now would be the perfect time to start. Known for creating curvaceous builds, this Sailing Hydrofoil delivers curves as well with those forward telescoping arms. Flexible, tentacle-like metallic arms are certainly a classic sci-fi standard; think of alien tripods roaming the planet, the appendages of Spider-Man’s nemesis Doc Ock, or even the ’80s cartoon favorite Inspector Gadget and his go-go-gadget arms. I don’t recall too many other MOCs embracing them to this degree, and the greebling where they connect to the ship’s hull is spot-on. This racing hydrofoil is certainly going out on a limb to take yacht rock to the next level.

Side view.

Steve Marsh’s Corvus

Article by Steven Smyth, Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars Photography by Steve Marsh

raider II class corvette

Galactic greetings! I’m Steven Smyth from Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars. Since the community’s founding in 2016, on an almost daily basis, I have witnessed amazing and creative Star Wars builds in the best Star Wars themed building brick group on Facebook. Steve Marsh took on the challenge of building the Corvus, a Raider II-class corvette, from the videogame Star Wars: Battlefront II and the build looks sleek and stunning. I thought it would be great to learn more about this talented builder and his custom LEGO build.

Steven Smyth: I know you have quite a following in the Bantha Bricks community since you started posting your jaw-dropping builds. The group members have been drooling over your latest Corvus construction, among the others you have shared—but for the uninitiated, please introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do.

Steve Marsh: It is going good, and thanks loads for inviting me to be part of this. I am just an ordinary AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) from the United Kingdom who works as a graphic designer by day and a MOC (My Own Creation) designer by night. I am also a dad of two very destructive and noisy young boys who I have to keep my LEGO collection firmly locked away from!

Rs’s front, showing some “brick bending.” The back of the droid.

Would you say Star Wars is your favorite theme? Or do you have a shocker for us?

Yes! I am absolutely obsessed with LEGO Friends! Nah, just kidding. I guess Star Wars is my favorite theme, though I also adore the color schemes in the Classic Space and Blacktron series. In 2020 I created an entire fleet of Classic Space-themed attack craft. That was something which did not sit right with some members of the community who insisted the spacemen were a peaceful bunch, who would only ever use their spaceships for exploring. I even pushed my exploration of the theme further by creating a mash-up MOC of Classic Space and Blacktron podracers, racing each other across the surface of the moon. Recently though, yeah, it has been Star Wars all the way.

Why do you choose the LEGO brick as your medium to express yourself?

For me, it feels like drawing in 3-D. I have always been creative, plus I have a very creative day job. I do not watch TV because I cannot just sit there doing nothing. I have to create things, and LEGO is one of the most tactile, versatile and satisfying mediums to do this with. When you are making your own stuff, it is like one giant problem-solving exercise, and I love this about it. The fact is, with LEGO, there is almost always a way past every wall you come up against; you just have to find it. I once heard it said that there is nothing in the world

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