One of the most frequently asked questions we get here at The Brothers Brick is how to get your LEGO creation featured on the blog. We’ve answered this tangentially with Linus’s LEGO is communication series and Tim’s blogging standards, but I thought it was time we helped all of you out there understand a bit [...]
Although we usually try to keep our writing on The Brothers Brick accessible to everyone, LEGO jargon inevitably sneaks in. This page lists the LEGO terms you’re most likely to encounter here on The Brothers Brick, and is not intended to be exhaustive.
For more complete lists, see the Terms category on BrickWiki and read Shiri [...]
First there was cave racing, and then came mech racing, and now there is track racing by Nnenn, who presents a lineup of colorful racers united by their common love of tumbling treads and high speed thrusters. Will this be the next fad to inspire dozens of variations by other builders? Stay tuned to find [...]
Today marks the third anniversary of The Brothers Brick!
I believe that 2007-2008 was the year that The Brothers Brick truly became more than just another LEGO blog. All of you out there make this a community, with LEGO Ambassadors representing the tens of thousands of you who visit the site.
The LEGO fan community has [...]
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After heavily delayed judging thanks to the slackness of one of the judges (sorry!) the full list of winners of PotW have finally been announced. Going backwards by class we find… drumroll…
Class 3 winner: Crocodile Rock by Ean H
Class 2 winner: Arctic Cave Race by Chrispockster
Class 1 winner: RedTRCTR by Polywen
While the special judges [...]
I must be feeling homesick for the land of my childhood tonight. I’ll wrap up this round of Japanese-themed posts with this great troll swordsman by Hamilton Scott:
And in case you haven’t been paying attention, LEGO trolls are the new cave racer.
Our resident virtual LEGO and cave racer expert is dutifully withholding judgement as the Pigs on the Wing contest winds down.
But this virtual cave racer by Matt Wagner is too cool to pass up:
Like Nannan’s Black Fantasy and Tim’s cave racers, Nick Dean’s RAMM theme has become an Internet phenomenon, copied ad nauseum — sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
So it’s always refreshing to see a new RAMM creation from the Feldmarschall himself:
But perhaps Nick is most famous for his future-military vehicles, like this RAMM Bluthund Quadruped:
The title of Brent “thwaak” Wolke’s entry for the Reasonably Clever Pigs on the Wing contest was too perfect not to *ahem* borrow for my own post title here. ;-)
Brent’s Jaws-inspired fishing boat/cave racer manages to hit all the rules while still being completely unlike any other cave racer we’ve featured or that appears in [...]
Another great contest has been announced, the Animal Piloted Cave Racers Contest. Check out the rules here and the discussion thread here!
With everybody distracted by shiny Cave Racers, it seems the end of the world has been staved off for a while, or so it would seem from the dearth of decent ApocaLEGO lately.
Fortunately for us, Horace Cheng has taken his recent snowmobile design and added a bunch of stuff to make it zombie-proof:
Bonus Iron Man [...]
The cave racers fad started by Tim Gould is sweeping the community like a superfast swoosh. There are countless versions of these small crafts made by many builders and in all kinds of styles. While we have attempted to blog some in the past. It’s nearly impossible to keep up, but the majority of the [...]
Adrian Florea (Olog) mashed together some of the curretly hot bandwagon themes into an action-packed diorama. Without scrolling down to the answers, what themes do you recognize?
Answers: cave racers, black fantasy, frogspace, post apoc, and fabuland
If you haven’t seen the recent Cave Racer fad taking over LEGO areas of Flickr, you must be living under a rock. If you haven’t played (or at least recognize) the epic game Portal, you’ve definitely been living under a rock.
Well, while trying to survive school, I decided to try my hand at a Cave [...]
Nathan Proudlove has mainly been building amazing hotrods and other vehicles lately, but that doesn’t mean he’s not also a talented space builder.
Nathan’s “Lucky Strike” cave racer is blocky and colorful on the front and round, spiky, and black in back. The contrast of color and shape is wonderful.
(Via the ever-vigilant Young Spacers.)
As has been previously blogged here I made a cave racer and asked Jas Nagra to make a variant. As a few people expressed interest in doing their own I posted a couple more and marked the blue one with the design criterion. Well it is now developing into a little league with various racers [...]
In honor of Tim, our fellow Brickian Brother, Jas Nagra has concocted a little cave racer and given it some rather unusual colors. Pink and teal anyone?
Instead of writing up the day’s events, I’ve spent the evening getting started organizing my NWBrickCon pictures. I split my pictures into creations and events. I haven’t finished adding titles, captions, and tags to everything, but if you see something you want to know about, post a comment on Flickr and I’ll add the missing [...]