I dug a lot of Edward Hopper paintings in high school, in case you can't tell.
Melancholy modern liminal space, that's my jam.
Tags: LEGO Edward Hopper subway station
Based on a cart design by marinbrickdesign.
This is inspired by a Narnia vignette by @bricktacular_builds; I've always been more of a "card tricks/legerdemain" magic person than a "talking lion/fantasy realm" magic person, so I made a cozy little bookshelf magic shop.
Nobody *goes* to Monster City; you just kind of find that you *belong* in Monster City and the assimilation comes pretty naturally from there.
Manual automaton commemorating that one time Lovecraftian sea monsters attacked the city and drove half the people mad with soul-gripping terror. #neverforget #cantanyway
I got those dark blue panels from Legohaulic's destroyed spaceship at a Lego convention like seventy years ago and I never touched them again, until I needed a dark blue sea for this.
The lesson: hoard everything and dispose of nothing, because you never know when you'll need it again. If they find you crushed under a stack of old newspapers, killed by your own booby trap, this is simply the price you pay for a life of completion.
Tags: lego automaton machine monster sea Lovecraft tentacle