The Brothers Brick

This LEGO Voltron is ready to defend the universe and look slick doing it

If your Saturdays didn’t used to involve at least some sort of giant robot on TV, did you even have a childhood? This LEGO build by Marco De Bon captures one such icon: the mighty Voltron. With hardly a stud in sight, this Voltron all clean lines and smooth surfaces, perhaps even more so than the official set from a few years back. I was always more of a Transformers kid myself, but you don’t need to be steeped in Voltron lore to appreciate the talent on display here.

Of course, with this model, there’s always more than meets the eye. (Wait, wrong ’80s robot cartoon?) It just wouldn’t be Voltron if it didn’t split off into five robotic lions — black, red, green, blue, and yellow. Here they are in action:

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