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Hey you guys! LEGO reveals 21363 The Goonies, complete with 12 minifigures and lots of booty traps [News]

Goonies never say die. Especially when there’s still a chance for a comeback in LEGO form! Available on November 1, LEGO Ideas 21363 The Goonies turns the beloved ’80s classic adventure film into an elaborate 18+ playset based on a fan design from Vaggelis Ntezes. One side of the model shows One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship, while the other retells the story of the film as a series of connected vignettes. The set contains a whopping 12 minifigures, including the ensemble of teen actors who would go on to star in films like Lord of the Rings, Avengers: Endgame, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood. We love the film, but as Cyndi Lauper asks, is R the Goonies good enough? Have a look at the official reveal and read our thoughts from seeing the set in Billund last month.

LEGO Ideas 21363 The Goonies | 2912 Pieces | Available Nov 1 |US $329.99 | CAN $379.99 | UK £269.99

This is OUR time to read about The Goonies!

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Builder Aesstog mixes Bionicle, bricks, and textiles to create stunning Souls-like Knights and Nightmares

The dark fantasy aesthetic of games like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and the Witcher have cast a huge shadow on the minifig community in recent years, but perhaps the most Souls-like character models I’ve ever seen are at constraction-scale. Noted knight enthusiast and “occasional moccist” Aesstog has been creating Bionicle-based characters inspired by FromSoftware’s aesthetics. The secret to their success? Textiles. Fur, fabric, and even knitwear serve a dual purpose, shrouding sharp angles with soft shapes, and providing a contrast that lets specific armor pieces pop. The effect is incredible. Just take a look at the builder’s latest creation, this Lycan Knight.

The Lycan Knight’s helmet comes from the shoulders of Tahu – Uniter of Fire and the head belongs to Panthar from the Chima buildable figure line. Of course it’s the fur, not an official LEGO element, that brings the character to life.

More of Aessog’s incredible Souls-inspired character follow

Green antlers for leaves. Grey trunk potted in a tire. It’s LEGO Bonsai.

Isaiah Kepner has always been a strong LEGO arborist, finding new ways to create bark, branch, and foliage from interesting parts. After a busy 2024, the builder has been on a MOC hiatus, but Isaiah found time to get back to his roots with a fabulous bonsai pine. This tree uses almost exclusively green antlers for the leaves, inspired by this tree by Ryan McBride. The greebley tree is full of fun (and often illegal!) connections. It reminds me a of Niina L’s greeble tree. Using an inverted tire for the pot adds a nice contrast to the hard angles in the tree trunk.

If you’re interested in experimenting with green antlers in your tree builds, Isaiah shares a tutorial here. I also shared my experiments with the leaves earlier this year.

Poké-builders celebrate the release of Pokémon Z-A with Mega Evolutions in LEGO

If you want to be the very best trainer, it’s not enough to collect ’em all anymore. It’s not even enough to evolve your Pocket Monsters. These days, to be the best there ever was, you have to MEGA Evolve those Pokémon. In celebration of last week’s release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A on the Nintendo Switch, nine LEGO building Poké-fans teamed up for the #megabrickevolution collaboration, rendering the new upgrade forms of some of their favorite monsters.

First up, from Matt Goldberg, we have the Mega Charizard X, an evolution of Charmander so smoldering with power that he burns blue. The head is wonderfully sculpted and the body has the right mix of cute and fierce. My favorite technique is the use of Ben 10 scales on the underside of the tail, a part I couldn’t recognize without reading Matt’s description of the build on his blog.

@margits_mocs dares to build the Mega Evolution of Pokémon 303, Mawile. This deceptive critter uses its cute face to catch foes off guard, then chomps them with the steel horns on the back of its head that form a fearsome maw. Margit’s model reallly captures the nightmare potential of that second mouth.

Meet more Mega Evolution MOCs after the break

Party like it’s 2002 with Bob DeQuatre’s latest Neo-Ice Planet creations

Blacktron might be the most popular Classic Space subtheme in numbers, but all the cool kids stan Ice Planet 2002. It has amazing colors, chainsaws, and courtesy of the CMF space series, penguins in space suits. Bob DeQuatre heats up the Ice Planet Renaissance with his latest retro tribute, the Ice Falcon. The classic color scheme is there with the addition of medium azure for subtle gradation in the blues and a little extra black for those incredible engines. Of course a classic printed slope graces the nose.

From the front, the ship is sleek and studless. The engines bring in more greebling and cables. To give the ship texture while minimizing studs and seams, Bob incorporates Hero Factory leg elements into the engines. It’s a bit odd seeing a transparent color other than dark orange on an Ice Planet ship, but the glowing engines look great.

Best of all, as a modern Ice Planet ship, Bob make’s room for the penguin co-pilot. Beautiful.

Keep chilling with more of Bob’s Ice Planet models

A humble medieval home with waterfront views

Joel Tyer titles this medieval structure a “humble dwelling,” but when it comes to building techniques, there’s much to crow about. The rounded tiles in the brickwork, both 1x1s stacked within the wall and 2x1s applied to the exterior, add a stylized texture without getting messy. Similarly, the slope of the roof tiles is clean with a hand-crafted touch. I love the landscaping, from the giant moss-covered rock that the house is built around to the earthen path dotted with flowers and a pink frog. And the irregularly-shaped SNOT base of light blue on top of black evokes an island on a lake with minimal water. It’s a miniature masterclass in medieval building from one of the pioneers who shaped the look of LEGO Castle MOCs today.

Looking for a job? LEGO Yubaba is always hiring

Yubaba, the witchy proprietress of the bathhouse in Spirited Away, is my favorite type of villain: powerful, grandiose, nasty without being evil. Yubaba has a big head to match her ego, which makes the character the perfect subject for builder Rokan Cheung, who specializes in creating character busts in LEGO. The builder sets the character on a mosaic mat, complete with the witch’s rolling “Kashira” head pets.

You can see the builder’s skillful facial sculpting in play with Yubaba, like the plates with bows under her baggy eyes or the bold lashes created from minifig hands clipped to hotdogs.

You can see Rokan’s talent for brick-built likenesses in this kindly old man (clearly no relation to the witch above).

Mooncakes and tea under a fish lantern’s glow – Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in LEGO

While in much of the world, October is spent getting in the Halloween spirit, in much of Asia, the month aligns with the Mid-Autumn Festival (it fell on October 6th this year), when mooncakes and tea are enjoyed to honor ancestors. Khang Huynh celebrates the festival with traditional cakes and tea alongside a Vietnamese-style fish lantern. The builder photographs with his usual care, lending a soft glow to the tableau that makes it easy to overlook as LEGO.

The sand green and turquoise teapot is a beautiful sub build. Dinosaur tails are used to create the ornate handle and spout, while leaves lend subtle texture to the sides.

While the pot and lamp are new builds, the cake comes from a Mid-Autumn festival tribute that Khang created three years ago. That year’s tableau featured an equally elegant teapot design.

Bricknap’s LEGO spacecraft paint a colorful, cyberpunk-cool future

LEGO Spaceships don’t need to be 100+ studs long to amaze. Oftentimes, it’s the crazy angles, color blocking, and creative use of parts at a smaller starfighter scale that hit like a supernova. Take the KLR-420 starfighter from French builder Fabien (bricknap), a craft so dense with fun detail it’s dizzying. Fabian first started designing the ship a year ago and completed it back in 2024 as an addition to his sprawling sci-fi universe of Fantapolis – which is a bit like New Hashima with a heavy dose of the Friends color palette.

There is so much to love about this ship design, from the cockpit module for a pilot to lay down between clear windshields, to the arms from the Mobile Construction Crane used for the wings, to the pair of Nexo Knight hubs/grinders wrapped with a Dots bracelet.

The S-foil wing formation and engines are clearly X-Wing inspired, but the aesthetic brings in so much more whimsy. The color combination of blue and bright light orange is gorgeous (and also a favorite combo of Simon Liu!)

Click for a quick tour of some of Fabien’s other spacecraft

LEGO Trogdor comes in the night to burninate your peasants

In the pantheon of great dragons, you have Smaug, Falcor, King Gidorah, Toothless, and of course, Puff the Magic, but all of these legendary beasts pale in comparison to the greatest dragon~~-man~~ of all: Trogdor, the Burninator. Trogdor was introduced to the world back in 2001 with Strongbad Email #58, one of the greatest memes to arise from the pre-social media internet. Builder Grant Holyoak recreates Trogdor with all of the dragon’s essential features – smoke, fire, wing-a-lings, spinedies, and angry eyebrows. He even includes peasants mid-burninating. My only nitpick is that there aren’t enough consummate Vs!

Minifigs of spooky season – Return of the living bricks [Minifig Monday]

We’re back for a second roundup of Halloween minifigs, ranging from slightly spooky to downright terrifying. Warning – some of these get pretty dark!

Our cover image goes to 2brickmonsters who breaks out the trans neon green for an oozy splatterfest. There’s so much creative parts usage on display, but I think the green crowns as popping pustules takes the creepy cake. Excellent use of the Blacktron mutant CMF legs.

Zakar.ion gets into the Halloween spirit with The Grove’s Curse. Apparently the pumpkin patch got tired of getting carved up and decided to uproot and do some carving of its own!

_motherofcatdragons_ gets medieval with a perfect plague doctor. The Kubaz mask is a little bit creepy no matter what galaxy you’re from.

It’s a nightmare on minifig street after the jump!

Six years in the making, this massive 25,000+ brick haunted house is spookily spectacular [Feature]

From Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion to the clanking metal doors of the midway ghost ride, haunted houses are the best part of any theme park. Tomáš Kašpařík reminds us why, with this incredible 25,000+ piece tribute to spooky amusements. The model debuted at Skærbæk Fan Weekend last month, where we had a chance to explore the display in person.
To make it easier to transport, the model is divided into two sections – the spooky ride queue, with winding lines and a few interior set pieces – and the ride itself, a two-story motorized build. While the physical build is new, the design itself started six years ago as a collab with Jason Pyett of Playwell Bricks. We asked Tomáš about how this project came together and he was gracious enough to share his story:

It all started in March 2019 when I decided I want to build a LEGO Haunted house just like the real thing in theme parks, with carts where people (in this case minifigures) can sit in and enjoy the ride. As you can see from my other builds I am a big theme park fan :-)

Tomáš continues the story of this haunted collab after the break