I had an opportunity to review LEGO Movie 70814 Emmet’s Construct-o-Mech Building Set,
After having built it, though? I can’t say I’d pay full price for it.
Let’s explore more, shall we?
Yearly Archives: 2015
These are probably the worst pies in London.
There’s no denying that Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a dark, dark musical and it covers dark, dark material as only Stephen Sondheim can do.
James Pegrum (peggyjdb), who is no stranger to TBB, has done a lovely rendition of Mrs. Lovett’s meat pie shop. The build is inspired by Tim Burton’s 2007 film.
No cats were harmed in the writing of this post. They were only mildly annoyed.
KABOOM!
Grant Davis captures the exact moment of an explosion in his latest castle creation based on the siege of Helms Deep from Lord of the Rings. If you’re curious to see how the creation is built, visit MOCpages to for more.
Happy New Year’s to ewe!
2015 is the year of the Sheep*. So in celebration of the new year, Moko has created an adorable little mascot to ring in the festivities. The wooly fleece underbelly of this sheep is just too cute.
*Year of the Goat/Sheep/Ram, depending on which version of the Chinese zodiac you look at.
TBB’s most popular LEGO models of 2014
As we kick off 2015 and reflect back at 2014, let’s take a look at some of the great LEGO creations we’ve featured here. LEGO builders all over the world built thousands and thousands of models over the year, but here are the ten that were viewed most on The Brothers Brick.
1. Mayhem in the Mines by Grant Davis (right) gave us a view into the dramatic tension between goblins and Uruk-hai. Apparently, these two kinds of villainous creatures from The Lord of the Rings don’t get along particularly well.
Grant’s multi-tiered diorama features realistic rocks in the cave, lots of wooden structures, and little stories on each level.
I hadn’t encountered Grant’s work until we featured “Mayhem in the Mines,” but with the top LEGO model on The Brothers Brick in 2014, I’m very much looking forward to what he’ll share with all of us in 2015!
2. Build your own Ghostbusters HQ firehouse with instructions from Brent Waller. With the release of his LEGO Ideas Ecto 1 set, I’d say Brent had a pretty good year!
But if your personal Ghostbusters layout was missing anything, it was probably the firehouse that the crew used as a headquarters. Brent saves the day, though, by giving us all instructions to build his firehouse design.
3. They mostly come out at night — mostly…”. Back in May, Xenomorph designer H.R. Giger died at age 74. We rounded up some of the best LEGO models inspired by the Alien franchise from previous years, as well as some great new scenes from Aliens put together by “Missing Brick.”
Red Heron Space Truck
I’m a firm believer that adding ‘Space’ to anything makes it more awesome. So what do you get when you add Space to trucks (which are already awesome), you get Jason Corlett‘s epic Space Truck:
This build actually started off as two separate builds that Jason tells us wasn’t working for him, so he combined it into one really cool mash up:
What I’ve always loved with Jason’s build is his attention to detail and realistic feel to his out of this world creations. A great example is the the awesome cab opening and the engine in the back:
