“A spiffing way to go to war I decided as we powered through the veldt. Mr. Roberson’s patented Triterrortops steam powered terrible lizard replica was performing above the expectations it has been set by His Majesties Royal Calvalry Corp. My report to the Generals will be that the vehicle has proved more then adequate to combat the clone-vat monstrosities of the Zimbab bio-shamens.
The noise is reasonable as all three of us were capable of hearing each other over the roar of the steam pipes and the clashing gears if we raised our voices a little. The back of the steam beast also proved astonishingly fine as a gunnery platform, this afternoon we dispatched over half of a shocked pride of lions before the roaring animals had gotten out of range of our rifles! It was jolly good fun watching them run for their lives. Yes, God willing, with machines like this and with the innate superiority of our race The Albion Empire will soon conquer this dark and uncivilized continent!”
The above is an extract from the personal journal of Sergeant-Major Flashman Von-Gerbil. Like most of the Albion forces in West Africa he died in the Zimbab 'Double-Helix' uprising that led to the eventual African annexation of Europe.
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Um-bop 14 months ago | reply
Wow! Amazing creation man!
Agent WHO 14 months ago | reply
This creation has a wonderful story behind it, The colors are really perfect giving it the fitting "Hey look at us" sense. The name,by the way, is lovely.
lego_nabii 14 months ago | reply
But I do love the romance of the era. There was so much still unknown about our world and I love the alternate history aspect of Steampunk and being able to point out that it was largely luck and cascading technological breakthroughs that allowed the European powers to dominate the 18th and 19th centuries not any kind of superior civilization or intelligence. In this case I wanted to hint the ancient African kingdom of Great Zimbabwe survived and that they have achieved advances in biology and cloning equivalent to that of steam technology for the European powers. The term 'bio-shamen' is intended as a bad (and patronizing) translation of whatever East African word would mean Chief Biologist.
I clearly think too much about the worlds my MOCs might exist in!
Bruno VW 14 months ago | reply
This should go on CUUSOO!
[jaster] 14 months ago | reply
poast a video!!!!!!!!!
bermudafreze 14 months ago | reply
Great series of photos for this one, the richness and sharpness of the colors really comes through in the pics.
vìnn 14 months ago | reply
I love this thing.
Imagine™ 14 months ago | reply
Oh yeah... love it. :D
gruntzooki 14 months ago | reply
May I blog this on Boing Boing? Thanks.
ka.lego 14 months ago | reply
lego_nabii 14 months ago | reply
Yeah, of course - that would be cool!
sunstrider04 14 months ago | reply
I think Tri-terror-tops would be a good name for this monster. Great job. It is what every mad scientists or would be conqueror should have in their garage.
Dreadbaron 14 months ago | reply
There needs to be a official Lego steampunk theme
13inthirteen 14 months ago | reply
I have featured it on Brick Fanatics with link back to your Flickr account Mark. The images are link direct from your photostream (I use a flickr plugin). Awesome work :)
moddamn 14 months ago | reply
Love steampunk and adore dinosaurs -- and Legos. I love the look on your minifigs faces...
Danny-Longlegs 13 months ago | reply
This is such an interesting shape! Great Job!
: VolumeX : 12 months ago | reply
Mark thanks so much for personally showing me this at the LEgoShow, I know it was not on display and still boxed but seeing this in real life was awesome of you. Thanks again for the insight on development and bringing actual working samples. I had a blast man!
Speak soon.
;)
Exxtrooper 9 months ago | reply
This is incredibly rad.
spacecolonel 8 months ago | reply
It is simply wonderful!!!
magnus_lauglo 7 months ago | reply
Just saw this now. Wonderful!