In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the first week of November 2023.
TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Welcome back to another Brick Report! We’ve missed you since last week! You are in for a treat this week: we had two big set reveals and a whopping four reviews, including of one of those revealed sets!
- [NEWS] 10326 LEGO Icons Natural History Museum revealed as the next modular building set — The 19th(!) modular building in the Icons series is revealed as the Natural History Museum.
- [REVIEW] LEGO Icons Modular Buildings Collection 10326 Natural History Museum – A mammoth modular indeed! — The new modular reviewed by Kyle has the most pieces so far..does that make it worth a purchase?
- [NEWS] January 2024 LEGO sets revealed, including Jurassic Park T-Rex Skull, Minecraft, Super Mario, & Sonic the Hedgehog — Get ready to find out how you’re going to be spending your money when the New Year rings in!
- [REVIEW] LEGO Icons Botanical Collection 10329 Tiny Plants – Lots of itty bitty pots — Our resident brick botanist Bre continues to review the Botanical Collection with the latest offering.
- [REVIEW] LEGO Ideas 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei Gift with Purchase: Will it do the Fandango? — Theo explores the newest GWP from LEGO: does it reach the stars?
- [REVIEW] LEGO Super Mario 71426: Piranha Plant — Daniel goes head to head with the new Piranha Plant.
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OTHER NEWS Aside from our usual news and reviews over the past week, here’s one more story we wanted to make sure to share: Fan-favorite 3rd-party LEGO marketplace Bricklink is down. The facts as we currently know them:
- BrickLink is offline with a message saying they are investigating unusual activity.
- A ransomware message was posted on the Bricklink forums, but it’s unknown yet what, if any, information may have been compromised.
- Bricklink has not issued a public statement on the situation beyond the maintenance message on the site itself. It is still down as of the writing of this article at 13:00 EDT.