<![CDATA[io9: lego zombies]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: lego zombies]]> http://io9.com/tag/legozombies http://io9.com/tag/legozombies <![CDATA[Lego Zombies Celebrate Gay Pride and Ride the Carousel of Doom]]> The Zombie Apocafest has once again overrun the Lego lovers' convention BrickCon. For the past two years, fans of both colorful plastic bricks and the undead have come together to create an enormous diorama of the zombie apocalypse.

Last year was the inaugural voyage of the Zombie Apocafest, organized by the Brothers Brick, and this year, the collaborative diorama doubled in size. Seventeen tables were filled with fortified buildings, zombie killing machines, and of course hordes of the undead. Participants created their own original pieces or "apocafied" existing Lego sets, resulting in a handful of oddball creations like the zombie killing gay pride float and a black and red carousel populated with skeletal horses.

A full set of Apocafest images are up on Flickr, but take a good long look. This will be the last year for zombies, and the Brothers Brick have already cooked up a new theme for next year's BrickCon.

[The Brothers Brick]


Zombie Killing Gay Pride Float — Winner, Best Original Vehicle

Abandoned Factory — Winner, Best Original Building
Dark Carousel — Winner, Best Apocafied Lego Building










]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5377781&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Zombie Apocalypse — in Legos]]> This past weekend, the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall played host to BrickCon 2008, an annual convention of adult Lego hobbyists. The best part? Lego enthusiasts Brothers Brick sponsored a large-scale zombie apocalypse made entirely from plastic bricks. Participants in the Zombie Apocafest created interlocking segments of a city overrun with the Lego undead to form one giant display. Witness the plastic carnage.

The Brothers Brick, who organized Zombie Apocafest, gave out awards for best zombified building and best zombified vehicle, and integrated all of the entries into a single, zombie-battling city. Andrew Becraft of the Brothers Brick documented the tiny apocalyptic horror:

Zombie Apocafest 2008: Children, avert your eyes! [The Brothers Brick]

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