For the seven years, Lego freaks have descended upon Seattle, for the annual BrickCon convention, to display creations that depict everything from aliens to naked women to war to zombies. BrickCon 2009 just closed, after occupying its biggest space yet, the 35,000-square-foot Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. That's a lot of Legos. Here's some highlights form the show. Images via Flickr, by Chris Blakeley, bread_man_17, and Eyemage.

Detail from a steampunk robot.

A Japanese garden, by Steve Barille, which won a Best in Show award.

One of the most popular attractions is the group exhibits, built by several contributors. This one: Zombie Apocalypse.

The zombies are beseige the Moulin Rouge! Question: Is Nicole Kidman among the living, or has she been a zombie spy all along?

Zombie intelligence is often underestimated. Here, they've managed to bring down a helicopter.

The country's chief defender of truthiness, immortalized in plastic bricks.

This builder's talents should come in handy, if he's ever stranded alone on a desert island, with nothing but a Lego set for comfort.

Ahoy, thar be sea monsters! Arrrr.

Ew, spiders.

World War II

So much death.

Japanese robots: Always popular at Brickcon.