From New Year’s Day through Christmas, each year is full of holidays celebrated by the diverse cultures of the world — Setsubun in Japan, Halloween in America, and so many more. LEGO builders love to create seasonal models to celebrate these red-letter days.
Mark Kelso (Amhakia) shares with us his vision of Dracula’s castle inspired by the classic black and white horror films. One of the standout features of this shot has got to be the visible rays of light piercing through the window. The interior is disheveled without being messy.
Following last year’s Winter Toy Shop, LEGO will release 10216 Winter Village Bakery for this holiday season. If the release schedule follows last year’s, then the set should be available on October 1st. For $55, you get 7 ½ minifigs and almost 700 pieces. Here’s the official announcement from LEGO: 10216 – Winter Village Bakery Continue reading →
かわいいレゴずき (I Love Cute LEGO) has a great roundup of New Year’s best wishes from our LEGO friends over in Japan, starting with one of their own: Here are a few more of my favorites. muntax has built a tiger truck (“寅っく” for a lovely bilingual pun): Hiro’s tiger burns bright in the forests of Continue reading →
Love the composition, photography and sentiment. It’s always nice when photographers and artists like Marco Pece (udronotto) use LEGO in their work. It’s worth checking out the rest of his photostream. Not exactly purist, but a lot of fun stuff.
Lino Martins wishes everyone a very happy holidays, as Santa and Natasha make a second appearance next to this sweet 1966 Ford Galaxie, part of this month’s LUGNuts challenge, A Galaxie of Possibilities. Click the pic to read Lino’s full write-up.
Andrew Colunga wishes you happy holidays with this colorful X-maspunk ray gun :)
Ricardo Prates wishes you a Merry Christmas with this adorable little scene.
Chris McVeigh (powerpig) is posting an advent calendar of spectacular photos throughout the month of December. Check this gallery often to see what’s new each day. In my opinion these photos would make for some excellent greeting cards.
One of my favorite holiday traditions in the LEGO fan community is MisaQa‘s annual Advent Calendar, taking us day by day from December 1st through Christmas Eve. This year, she’s presenting a new microscale building each day. Keep an eye on the Flickr photoset or MisaQa’s website, STUD & TUBE.
I’m excited to announce a new online charity event that has just started! The event, called Creations for Charity, sells custom LEGO creations from fan builders to raise money to buy LEGO for underprivileged children. All funds will be used to buy LEGO sets for the charity Toys for Tots. From now until early-December, there Continue reading →
Even though today is Guy Fawkes Day, I do not recommend burning this CubeDude effigy built by Paul Lee (polywen): LEGO does, after all, give off a rather acrid smell when burnt…
Jamie Spencer (Morgan19) once again posted some very creative and creepy minifigs throughout the past several weeks. Most of them use custom non-LEGO accessories but some are made from all LEGO parts. Here are a few of my favorites: See the many more in the gallery on Flickr!
This haunted house by Mos Eisley is one creepy place you don’t want to venture in at night. I don’t want to think about what lurks behind those boarded up windows. Via Eurobricks
With Halloween approaching, Douglas Hill creates a chilling mosaic that uses so many shades of colors that I lost my head trying to keep track of them all. Can you identify all the brick colors that were used? I’ll bet it ain’t easy. Thanks for the tip Chip Philson! ;)
With much relief, I’m pleased to announce that 10199 Winter Toy Shop is now available from the LEGO Shop online. For $60, you get 7 minifigs and 815 pieces. The set also has some great microscale detailing inside the shop. No luck yet on 6299 LEGO Pirates Advent Calendar, but rest assured we’ll be talking Continue reading →
