David Pagano, Nate Burr and myself were all recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm to celebrate the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. This is my contribution, 30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure. How many historical figures/events can you name? Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details Continue reading →
David Pagano, along with Nate Burr and myself, were recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm celebrating the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. David’s brickfilm is a romp through time and space, celebrating the best of the LEGO sets and minifigures over the past 30 years: Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for Continue reading →
There’s always something overwhelming about coming back from vacation, a trip, or whatever and seeing 3,000 unread items in one’s RSS feeds. But Peter Morris makes slogging through all that worthwhile with a batch of fantastic starfighters from the past several weeks. First up, a spacey vehicle for Batman that’s my undeniable favorite: A trio Continue reading →
I missed it initially, but Kotaku posted a fairly long video a couple weeks ago of gameplay footage from E3 of the forthcoming LEGO Batman video game. The video shows several scenes with playable characters that include Mr. Freeze, The Riddler, Catwoman, The Joker, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. More recently, DESTRUCTOID has a bunch Continue reading →
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Firefly, and now Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog — everything that Joss Whedon touches turns to gold. Here’s my take on a scene from Act II of Dr. Horrible: Go watch all three episodes for yourself on DrHorrible.com (before the end of the day today, though — they’ll be gone after Continue reading →
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Keith Goldman has joined The Brothers Brick as our resident Columnist. Keith is one of those LEGO fans of near-mythical proportions. Having met Keith in person, I can report that he stands nine feet four inches tall (that’s twelve meters for you Canadians), and is able to levitate his Continue reading →
Reader Chris McVeigh (Flickr) combines excellent photography with recent LEGO sets to tell a funny little story. Captioned “Trading Places,” Darth Vader trades places with Batman: I think Batman got the better end of the deal.
With a modified head piece and sideburns from Arealight, decals from Jared “Kaminoan” Burks, and a megagun from the newly relaunched BrickForge, this Hellboy minifig by Jordan Schwartz brings together elements from several LEGO customizers to create the ultimate custom minifig: Here’s Red with the rest of the Hellboy crew:
We featured Brent Waller’s desert-camo Tumbler back in April, and now he’s released full instructions for the black version of his LEGO Batman Tumbler. You can download the instructions from Brent’s site (4.5 MB PDF), or view the parts list and page-by-page instructions in HTML.
Rong Yiren has continued his primal bot series with a couple of action-packed dioramas. Primal Bot Melee: Jabberwocky Surprise: I’m loving these little guys.
In news sure to please those of you who voted for “LEGO Castle (Dwarves & Trolls)” in the current poll, the full line of LEGO Castle sets for 2008 is now available from the LEGO Shop online. Here’s 7048 Troll Warship (USD 79.99): That’s six troll/goblin/orc minifigs, a dragon, a Crown Knight minifig, a Dwarf Continue reading →
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 Continue reading →
It’s the oldest trick in the book. Simian superhero lures feline antihero in a high-speed chase down a city street. Hero places peel of yellow tropical fruit on the ground. Mayhem and hilarity ensue. Jordan “SirNadroj” Schwartz puts Monkey Man in a slippery situation with “Monkey Man vs. Black Puma”: Black Puma and his sweet Continue reading →
Well, you can’t forget that with this incredible bust by Craig Stevens He’s done another captain too!
Andrew Lee stomps into the Reasonably Clever Pumping Iron contest at the last second with an Iron Man/Gundam crossover: See Andrew’s Iron Man photoset for more.