Street art from the walls of London to the bricks of Denmark

For such an inherently 3-dimensional medium, there’s an impressive amount of 2-dimensional LEGO builds out there. Mathew Walls makes his TBB debut with one such build – and appropriately, it’s an artwork that was famously drawn on walls! Perhaps Banksy’s most famous artwork, Girl with Balloon was originally made with stencils and spray-paint – and you can’t get much more 2D than a single layer of paint. But Mathew has done a great job of replicating it here, with the help of various curved and angled tiles and plates. Even the girl’s outstretched hand is there, reaching for the balloon that has escaped this 2D frame.

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LEGO Marvel 76329 Miles Morales’ Mask [Review]

When LEGO launched its Star Wars helmet series, it may have seemed like a theme with limited opportunities, after all, there are only so many helmets in the franchise. However, the general structure easily translates to other pop-culture franchises, such as Marvel. The 2021 set LEGO Marvel 76199 Carnage was an adaptation of the concept, as a sculpted head of the red symbiote. And in 2024, LEGO Marvel 76285 Spider-Man’s Mask launched, which was a full head design that captured the look of Spider-Man’s iconic red and blue mask. The introduction of the alternate universe Spider-Man, Miles Morales, gave the titular hero a more gritty black and red mask that joins the line-up with LEGO Marvel 76329 Miles Morales’ Mask, which comes with 487 pieces and is currently available for pre-order and will be available in retail starting July 1st for US $69.99 | CAN $89.99 | UK £59.99

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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This Jurassic Jeep has us jumping for joy

When Jurassic Park hit theaters in 1993, the special effects changed filmmaking – and the public’s perception of dinosaurs – forever. And while those effects still hold up today, I’ve also come to respect the way the non-dino production design of the movie has endured. Take this latest build from Jerry Builds Bricks. Just a quick glance at the gray Jeep Wrangler with slight red highlights probably put the John William’s theme into your head. You don’t even need to see the logo to know this vehicle is park property. And, while LEGO has released official versions of the film’s classic vehicles, Jerry has raised the stakes with a build that packs plenty of clever technique into an 8-stud wide package. Note the inverted cheese slope wheel wells, the gentle slope on the sides of the vehicle’s hood, and the way the roll bar structure flows right into the slightly angled windshield. It might not be as impressive as cloning a dinosaur – or even rendering one in the computer – but I’d still call it movie magic.

Massive power loader takes on enormous Xenomorph in LEGO sci-fi battle of the ages

Alien creations appear to be like London buses. You wait ages for some great LEGO creations, and then two come along within a few days of each other! We featured a wonderful Miniland scale power loader earlier this week (along with an excellent title, I may add). But one-time LEGO Masters Australia winner Henry Pinto has upped the load-rating on the power loader, and then some! He’s made a truly titanic take on Ellen Ripley’s yellow ride. But that’s not the only big build here. After all, what’s a power loader without a Xenomorph to chuck around the USS Sulaco’s lower decks?

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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for June 14th, 2025 [News]

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of June 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS It was a light week for offical TBB news, with only one new set announced, but fans of the model car subtheme of the LEGO Icons line-up are sure to be excited about the new Shelby Cobra 427. If you crave even more news and reviews, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report!

[NEWS] Sixties cool meets serious horsepower with LEGO Icons 10357 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C — Classic car fanatics, start your engines and get ready for the new Shelby Cobra 427 from the LEGO Icons theme.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

[FEATURE] Bio-Cup 2025: The stuff dreams and nightmares are made of — Looking like a page out of Guillermo del Toro’s imagination, the latest Bio-Cup challenge is filled with nightmare fuel.
[FEATURE] Picture Perfect – Life in LEGO Polaroids — Guest writer Nick Lever shares some behind-the-scenes insights into his delightful collection of sculptural polaroid pics made from LEGO.
[FEATURE] Rock Raiders vs. Power Miners: Digging up the dirt on LEGO’s subterranean themes — Lino digs deep into the history and nostalgia surrounding some of LEGO’s long-lost underground themes.
[INTERVIEW] Sakiya Watanabe’s quest for excellence as a LEGO creator — We spoke with Sakiya Watanabe about his journey with LEGO building.
[FEATURE] Netbrix and chill with these LEGO TV tributes — Minifig Monday features an array of characters from the world of the television series. Some from Streaming services and others from the good ole days of network television.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

A picture-perfect portrait parody

If you were going to take set 31213 Mona Lisa and turn it into anything else, what better subject than the artist known for taking someone else’s art and turning it into something else? And that’s what Trevor Pearson-Jones has done with this fabulous rendering of the king of parodies, “Weird Al” Yankovic. Trevor has made fantastic use of tiles and wedges to capture Al’s trademark curly locks and wardrobe. And he’s set a few piano keys into the frame as a nod to Al’s musical career. Not to mention that two accordions flying over Al’s shoulders, one with angel’s wings and one with a demon’s. I imagine the angel accordion is all, “Make this song about food” and the demon accordion is like, “No, make this song about reality TV.”

The Ridgeback Racer is ready to launch!

LEGO phenom David Roberts has mastered the art of building oddball little spaceships, each with baffling complex shapes and striking color schemes. That this Ridgeback, for example. The adjustable stand makes it clear you can launch this ship in a bevy of angles from straight up over the moon to right through your neighbor’s window.

The craft is hard to define from just one angle but this rear view image makes it clear it’s sort of a three-pronged shuttlecock. (Tee hee!) The engine and greebling is pretty sweet.

This short video of the builder disassembling this model is way more captivating than I thought it would be. Hidden deep within the ship’s core is a cockpit. Or should I say -shuttlecockpit? Sorry, I’ll just see myself out. In the meantime, watch the video and check out our David Roberts archives.

Bio-Cup 2025: The stuff dreams and nightmares are made of [Feature]

You may recall our recently featured Tooth Fairy and the brilliant Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep LEGO creations. It’s all part of this year’s Bio-Cup in the theme of Dreams. I liked them so much, I wanted to conjure up a few more entries here. So wake up, shake the dreams from your hair and gather round while I help bring these creations to the forefront of your waking mind. Starting with a doozie, sometimes dreams make your skin crawl and you’d rather just tear yourself out of them. That’s the vibe I get with loafbuilds and their newest creation called Sleepless Cathedral of Flesh and Dream.

TBB’s own Jake Forbes takes inspiration from Slumberland and tells us that There is no surer way to reach Slumberland than atop a Slumberland Dreamwalker, a living bed with legs that bend like Eldritch snakes to cross the nightmare wastes.

Delve deeper into the dreamworld of Biocup 2025

Take me home, country roads

No stranger to The Brothers Brick, Andrew Tate showcases this terrific LEGO build of an old-timey truck with a vignette that is the very picture of rural life. While I don’t believe this is meant to be any specific make or model, Andrew’s use of the 2×6 train windscreen element is an absolutely perfect choice for capturing the character of a truck of this vintage. For me, the whole scene is reminiscent of the nostalgic mid-century pre-war “when and where is this exactly?” idealized look of a Studio Ghibli film, and I’m really digging it. I’d love to get a behind the scenes look at a couple areas of this build, especially the supports of those beautifully spaced fence pickets, and those lovely wheel hubs.

Picture Perfect – Life in LEGO Polaroids (Guest Feature)

This started as a quick contest entry. Just one little diorama for the LEGO Ideas “Picture Perfect Memories” challenge. I thought I’d build a single model—frame it up like a Polaroid, submit it, and move on with my life.

Instead, I made six.

And who among us hasn’t gotten carried away and spent the whole night building? For me, there was something satisfying about having small ideas in my head that I could actually finish. Each one took a couple of hours. Nothing sprawling. Just compact moments, built quickly and intentionally.

I like building small. It forces you to be economical, which I think can be more impressive than going big. It also lets you focus on what really matters—telling a story.

Each of these builds is based on something that happened in my life, or something close to it. They’re impressions. Memories, simplified and captured in plastic. And in sharing them, I hoped to set a kind of template—something other people might follow to build their own.

Take a look at the story behind each of the six Polaroid vignettes and maybe be inspired to make your own

Sixties cool meets serious horsepower with LEGO Icons 10357 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C [News]

Has there ever been a more effortlessly cool roadster than the Shelby Cobra? Combining cheeky British body design with a beast of an American engine, the AC Shelby Cobra remains one of the most sought-after classic cars among driving enthusiasts, and this July, it becomes slightly more affordable as the latest LEGO Icons car model. LEGO Icons 10357 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C promises a sophisticated build that captures the legendary car’s signature curves while packing in enough details to please the pickiest Top Gear critic. Racing into stores on July 1 for Insiders (July 4th for all), the Shelby Cobra is built from 1,241 pieces and can be pre-ordered now for US $159.99 | CAN $199.99 | UK £139.99.

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You want the tooth? You can’t handle the tooth!

The internet’s best Bionicle-based building bonanza, the Bio-Cup, got up and running last week with its preliminary rounds. Margit has busted out her LEGO constraction pieces and is getting in on the action, too, with a tooth fairy! I’m sure we can expect some bright colours, clever contouring with some armour elements, and… Oh. Well, I guess it’s true that no-one’s ever seen the tooth fairy, so who’s to say this isn’t what it looks like? I do like the Visorak leg skirt, and the tooth-filled wings are clever too, using inverted clear dishes to keep the illusion of transparent membranes. I still wouldn’t want it coming anywhere near my pillow though.