The Brothers Brick

Someone apparently snuck into LEGO R&D and managed to smuggle out video footage of a forthcoming electromagnetic device for the MINDSTORMS NXT. This is some pretty unbelievable footage:

We asked LEGO Community Team member Jan Beyer if this was for real, and he said, “We are not happy about this leak, and cannot confirm the authenticity [...]

We probably don’t showcase Halo works here on The Brothers Brick often enough, but this one was crying out for attention. The moment I laid eyes on this masterpiece, I knew what it was.
If you don’t recognize it, you must have been living in a cave somewhere.

Update (April 2): April Fools!

There is something truly breath-taking about a tower. Perhaps it’s the struggle with gravity or maybe it’s just the ego-smashing experience of being dwarfed by something that stretches into the infinite reaches of the sky. Whatever the reason, towers are fun. This one is no exception.
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Check out this nifty little steampunk triplane.

Talk about swooshable!
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When I registered Brothers-Brick.com back in 2006, I was mildly dismayed that BrothersBrick.com was already taken by a construction supply company in Florida named Brothers Brick Pavers and Sealing, Inc.
I was tired of waiting for the BrothersBrick.com domain to expire so we could purchase it, so I recently approached the owners to see if [...]

You have to love it when builders go against the flow. This builder definitely nailed it with this minimalistic creation.
Not only is it very simple, but the use of matching colors just blew me away.

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This outstanding piece of architecture belongs in a museum! The use of color and total disregard for conventional walls really gives this piece that extra special flair. I love it! 5/5!
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After several months of arduous negotiation, The Brothers Brick has signed its first movie deal. Early in 2009, TriStar Pictures will begin filming a feature length movie portraying the history of The Brothers Brick.
According to TriStar spokesman F. Elam Noir:
The time has come to document the rise of this ground-breaking institution that has done [...]

As a practicing poet, I hold Mother Goose in the highest possible regard. I recently attended a reading by her, and the whole crowd of onlookers in the children’s section of the Barnes & Noble clapped when she read new pieces featuring familiar characters like Little Bo Peep and the lady who lived in a [...]

German chemist Wolfgang Blauhardt recently claimed in a a paper that LEGO bricks contain a powerful “cocktail” of addictive substances. The possibility of illegal drugs in the product was first leaked last January by an anonymous copyeditor working for the medical journal in which Dr. Blauhardt’s paper is forthcoming.
The paper alleges that the [...]

As soon as I saw this, I fell in love with its straight lines, not to mention the myriad of colors.
What beauty! What surrealism!

That one brown brick just makes you think. Wow!
Update (April 2): April Fools!

We didn’t cover LEGO’s cruise ship contest all that well and we apologize for that. But better late than never, we always say! This is one entry that definitely got overlooked:

There is so much detail in this creation but that yellow mast really stands out for me.
Update (April 2): April Fools!

Eurobricks is reporting that due to overwhelming demand from the online LEGO fan community, LEGO has apparently decided to resume production of the old light grey and dark grey colors.

According to color psychologist, Carl Renbaugh:
It is very detrimental to one’s psyche when one suffers the loss of an important color in one’s life. Adult [...]

I wish I had a weapon with all these bells and whistles…
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Every train layout needs signs, and stylish signs are even better than boring signs.
There ain’t nothing better to follow than this stylish pointy thing!

Update (April 2): April Fools!

The LEGO Group has announced that the stud is being discontinued. Making the biggest change ever to their iconic “System of Play,” the company said in a private phone call to a select group of fans that the time of the stud is over. They will be releasing a new brick that [...]