Yearly Archives: 2013

LEGO Tiger’s Nest Monastery, Paro Taktsang, Bhutan

Anu Pehrson is an amazing builder. This particular creation of hers, based on Paro Taktsang in Bhutan, was my favorite build at BrickCon this year. The attention to detail and the faithful representation of the original made this creation something special to behold. I found myself drawn to it over and over. Every time I stopped to look, I noticed more interesting details.

If it’s a little hard to tell the size, here’s Anu standing beside it at BrickCon.

On a side note, Anu also made “a little friend” at BrickCon. I hear that he was impressed as well.

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LEGO Movie sets official drip-feed

For those of you with an interest in Time Cruisers and/or the LEGO Movie, LEGO are steadily releasing pictures of the Movie tie-in sets. Picture below is MetalBeard’s Duel which, upon careful inspection, is indeed a mecha with a shark for one arm and cannons for the other. Enjoy.

Friday Night Fights (Round 27)

Welcome back to The Brothers Brick Arena and another hammer-fisted night of thrills and chills. Our esteemed Announcer, Referee and Controller of The Action is taking a hiatus but I will be here to keep the Fights alive. Tonight we have a battle for the ages between two creatures concocted by builders who are more than adept at blowing minds, young and old.

In the Red Corner, with a stare that will penetrate to your very soul, I give you “Owl” by Mihai Marius Mihu .

In the Blue corner, weighing in with four more legs than his competitor, “Hoppy Hoppy Grasshopper” by Karf Oohlu.

As always, you decide, via comments, who takes home the glory and adulation of the crowds and who is left crying in the locker room. Last week, the two contenders fought a mighty battle that lasted late into the night but neither was victorious and a draw was called with a score of 5-5. Tune in next week, same Fight Night, same Fight Time for another Battle of the Builders!

Lovely Builds, at a Small Scale

Today, I came across two great micro scale creations. The first was this stealth missile boat built (virtually) by Evan Melick (Legoism). It really captures the look and feel of this type of sea-craft. In fact, it’s a style of ship that I’ve long wanted to build at minifig scale. It’s great to see that the shapes can be achieved in a manner pleasing to the eye.

Next up, is a lovely little space ship by Vaughan James (legovaughan). Just look at the angles! I love all the various small and compound angles come together to give a cohesive form, while lending the appearance of extra detail. It’s as if the power loader from Alien and a drop ship mated.

One Silly Centipede

Nick V (Brickthing) takes us to the improv night at what I can only assume is a club near Monsters U, with a legged snake-monster telling hiss-terical jokes. The puns may be atrociousssss but Nick’s use of a Bionicle mask as hair is killer.

Ninjago 2014 Lineup Revealed [News]

Here’s the first wave of 2014 Ninjago sets. No word currently on the prices, but you can feast your eyes on all the cool robot goodness this wave is bringing. I, for one, welcome more robot tech.

70724 NinjaCopter

70725 Nindroid MechDragon

70721 Kai Fighter

70723 Thunder Raider

70722 OverBorg Attack

70720 Hover Hunter

Brickfête is on the road.

Janey Gunning asked if I could share some exciting news. Brickfête, Canada’s LEGO convention, is having a special fan festival in Montreal this month. Details below.

LEGO Fans from Québec (and surrounding areas)…

Do not miss Brickfête Montréal – a LEGO Fan Festival for the whole family!

An amazing, jaw dropping, outstanding custom LEGO display built by skilled and enthusiastic adult hobbyists.

These unique and detailed builds include…

LEGO Robots & Mindstorms Creations
City Layouts with powered Trains
Space, Star Wars & Scifi Creations
Art, Architecture & Design
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Historical Buildings and Castles
Pirates, Steampunk and Vikings
Mosaics & Sculptures and more…

All made with millions of LEGO bricks… 2 days ONLY!!! November 23 & 24 from 10 am – 3 pm

For more information head on over to the event website (or click the logo above)

Thornbird by pasukaru76

This year’s NnoVVember seems to have rolled in with more discussion and politics than most years…and let’s be honest there always tends to be a fair amount of that anyway. But when you boil it down, this month is all about having fun and building some spaceships. And this my friends is a sexy example. Pascal is well known for the minimalist artistic style he puts into his builds, and that is exactly why I appreciate his work so much. Pascal continuously proves that you do not need an incredibly complex creation and abundant parts to create something unique, well designed and interesting.

His epic photographic skills certainly helps as well.

Happy building NnoVVemberites!

New TBB Cover Photos for October-November 2013

Cover photos have once again been updated on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

For Facebook I have chosen this shot by Stefan Schindler because not only was it beautifully composed, but well, it seemed fitting for NnoVVember.

For Twitter, this wonderful shot by Tobias Munzert is beautifully composed as well, and laid out perfectly for Twitter.

Continued thanks to those that are submitting images to the TBB Cover Photos flickr group. I have to say that I am appreciating the quality images that are being submitted.

The City & RG-400

I am sure Andrew can provide some translation as to what is actually going on in these cityscapes by 62778grenouille. But really I think the images can speak for themselves.

Absolutely Beautiful.

EDIT (AB): The photo description in Japanese just notes that the train is a mag-lev, and that the builder used LED light sticks from Ikea for the lighting effects.

Lego Star Wars 75024: HH-87 Starhopper [Review]

75024 HH-87 Starhopper is one of the sets from the summer wave of Lego Star Wars. The set contains 362 pieces and retails for $39.99, which you can buy from the LEGO Shop.

Here is my summary of the highlights of the set, which are elaborated in the review video below.

Pros:

Unusual color for a Star Wars ship
3 unique minifigs

Cons:

Average play features
Hardly any new elements
Messy design on the wing pattern and the nose

This is an average Star Wars ship at an unremarkable price. I was originally drawn to its unusual color scheme. Unfortunately, the dark tan parts are not uncommon and the lime green tiles are very cheap to obtain. I do not recommend this set for its parts. Even for a display set, the design is messy at places such as in the pattern on the wings and the nose. For kids, it’s a sturdy model and will stand up to lots of play, and they will likely not be as picky as an adult builder when it comes to parts selection and design. Thus, this set is best suited for the young ones, as it is meant to be.