Sjaak Alvarez recently posted a third installment in his ongoing series “It’s hard to be a Stormtrooper”.

Watch for the hilarious cameo at the end:

Sjaak animates each of his videos himself, using 3ds max 2009 and final Render 2.0. Very cool.

Brendan Mauro puts a new twist to the LEGO troll figure, making it a cyber-troll with robot arm, eyepiece, and a sharp mechanical hand - all the better to crush those “stoopid space mans.”

Kevin Guoh (Kaye on Flickr) is quickly establishing a unique style for himself, with his super-tall, lanky mecha.

The feet are particularly excellent on Kevin’s latest, Lévinas (above).

Mike Psiaki’s ferocious T-Rex looks like it’s hungry for prey. It might as well feed off Mike’s other two newest dinos: the triceratops and brachiosaurus.

If you drooled over the preview of Brickforge’s new items in our recent review, now’s the time to crack open your piggybank and start shopping because Brickforge has these new items available for purchase on their reformatted website.

Nick Dean has included lots of realistic details in this scene illustrating the life of a sniper:

Check out Nick’s photoset on Flickr and see if you can spot them all.

Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnson recently visited futurist Syd Mead’s house. Mead is of course renowned for the designs he’s contributed to many of our favorite movies, including the Spinner from Blade Runner.

Joel reports that LEGO presented a special LEGO Technic Spinner to Mead when the legendary designer visited the company. The Technic Spinner now occupies a place of prominence in Mead’s house:

Joel — who got to swoosh this beauty around — has a couple more pictures on BB Gadgets. I wonder if LEGO has built many other one-of-a-kind creations for geeky luminaries…

LEGO Spinners featured previously on The Brothers Brick:

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As I said a couple weeks ago, I really enjoy the little descriptions Teikjoon includes with his LEGO photos.

Click the picture to read Teikjoon’s description of the high-powered “Skyscraper” on Flickr:

The “geological research and exploration vehicle” Jehkay posted recently sports more play features than you can throw a brick at.

It has manipulator arms on the front and a motorbike on the back:

The shape of Izzo’s latest mecha is highly unusual, with a pointed “nose” and tons of wings:

Looking beyond the obvious, note the use of snowshoes in the backpack/engine! More on Brickshelf.

Scotty Whitesell’s builds just keep getting better and better.

The leg design on Scotty’s “Spinnenartiges Tier” use motorcycle bodies in a completely unique way:

Here’s a bonus Scotty-bot — an automated loading robot dubbed, appropriately enough, “Longshoreman”:

Big, bulky shoulder armor can certainly contribute to a minifig’s overall ApocaLEGO look, but attaching helmets is difficult and limits the minifig’s arm movement and poseability.

Austin S (MOCpages) has figured out the perfect combination of bulked-up armor and range of movement by using the old Rock Raiders helmet:

Cool. Off to try this on my own figs…

For his latest creations, Horace Cheng takes his inspiration from the world of JunkTankRock (info in English on toybot studios):

Check out lots more pictures of the Anti-gravity bike and Desert Chicken on Flickr.

 Three of the MechaHub's builders will be at the LEGO Store in Glendale California on June 28th from 1pm to 7pm. The event will be a free build with parts supplied by the store and each builder bringing a model of two to show. If you're in the area hit it up!

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After dropping out of the LEGO scene for a while, Horace Cheng is clearly back with a vengeance.

Can a hardsuit be swooshable? Yes, yes it can:

Bonus moon-bot with modular limbs:

Moko has been playing Metroid Prime 3, or so it would seem from his latest minifig, featuring Samus’s Varia suit and her Zero Suit: