Yearly Archives: 2024

An anime bust for the occult obsessed

The just-wrapped first season of Dan Da Dan, the bonkers series mashing up ghosts and aliens, is showing up on many lists as one of the best anime series of the year. Builder Chris Yu pays tribute to the buzzy series in LEGO with a bust of co-protagonist Okarun in his possessed form. The normally timid makes a pact with the spirit Turbo Granny in a quest to retrieve… the family jewels. Like I said, it’s bonkers. Chris’ bust captures the character’s split personality with bespectacled eyes peeking out above a demonic jawline. There’s lovely brick shaping, especially with the streaked hair and collar swept back to emphasize speed.

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Beam me up, Master Chief!

Oh, have I mixed up my franchises again? Maybe I should lay off the eggnog during my Halo Infinite playing sessions. I immediately recognised Ben Brickson‘s superb LEGO beam emitter as being from that universe. It looks remarkably more peaceful than I’ve become accustomed to, though… Perhaps the Covenant are still on their Christmas vacation. Or they got accidentally beamed up by a passing USS Enterprise. I mean, it’s perfectly feasible that they would come across a Halo installation, right? They’re only separated by a few hundred years. Wait, maybe the phasers are where they got the idea for their plasma weapons! Or – OK, OK, I’m putting the eggnog down now…

Being a cantankerous heckling Muppet really takes it out of you

What does Statler get up to after a hard day’s heckling? According to Jens Ohrndorf‘s LEGO build, having a nice quiet evening in. Slippers on, tea in the pot, cat ready to pounce on his lap when he’s done with the paper – it must make a nice change of pace to having Waldorf around. And he’s lucky to have such a nicely-built front room! The lamp is very nice, with a piece normally reserved for starship engines doubling as a shade. And the grandfather clock goes from four studs wide, to three, then two, then three, then two again – it looks fabulous!

A golden build for those who still idolize Galidor

You know what they say — idle hands lead to LEGO idols. I’ve never heard of Pul’ Ohob before, but according to Mattia Careddu, if you offer this divine being an ounce of gold every day for a year, they will reward you with five years of abundance. Mattia’s idol and offerings are full of weird and wonderfully used parts, the centerpiece being the torso of Galidor alien Euripides. (Not the first Galidor-centric build from Mattia this year!) The cornecopia introduces a building technique rarely seen in LEGO: braiding! Pul ‘Ohob’s offer sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but my gold holdings are low. Does Pul’ Ohob take crypto?

Mattia has been anything but idle in 2024. Here’s a round-up of this year’s creations. No wonder Care Creations made our 2024 builder of the year shortlist!

TBB’s top 10 LEGO creations of 2024 [Feature]

Adult LEGO builders are an amazing and imaginative lot. While most who buy LEGO are happy with building sets as per the instructions and calling it a day, an elite bunch take it a step further when they create from scratch. While opinions may vary, we’ve crunched numbers, done some analytics stuff and came up with The Brothers Brick top 10 creations of 2024 based on views. Without further ado, here’s what you came for.

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Introducing: This Week in LEGO Bricks [Feature]

In 2025 The Brothers Brick will be celebrating 20 years of daily LEGO posts. A lot has changed over those years – from the variety of sets we cover, to the techniques employed by builders, to the people share their love for the hobby. One thing remains very much the same there at TBB, and that’s our mission to showcase the amazing creativity within the LEGO community as inclusive as possible. That’s a mission shared by one of our favorite builders and content creators to emerge in recent years: aBrickDreamer. Every week on “This Week in Bricks,” aBrickDreamer rounds up the most interesting creations, articles, and events in the community. The video format offers a new way to expand on our shared mission, and we think aBrickDreamer’s insightful and generous takes are a perfect compliment to the site’s mission. So starting this week, we’re excited to share This Week in LEGO Bricks here on the site so you have a new way to keep up with the best that the hobby has to offer!

Shortlist announced for TBB Creation of the Year 2024 [News]

We cover loads of amazing LEGO builds over the course of a year on the Brothers Brick. In fact, over the course of the past 12 months, that’s over 700 individual creations! Now they’re all great, obviously – but every year, a handful really stand out to us, and we like to bestow upon one of them the Creation of the Year crown. It might be a creation that uses parts in a new and interesting way. Perhaps it’s a collaborative build, combining the talents of multiple builders to reach new heights (just like last year’s winners!). Maybe it’s so epic in scope and scale that we simply couldn’t stop thinking about it. One thing’s for sure: it will have taken our breath away! The TBB staff have trawled through their memory banks and our site archives to draw up a shortlist of 10 of our favourite builds. These won’t necessarily be the most popular – keep an eye out for that list in the coming days! – but we will announce the winner on New Year’s Eve. Read up on our nominees, and check out our previous winners in the archives!

Without further ado, let’s meet our nominees!

Shortlist announced for TBB Builder of the Year 2024 [News]

The end of the year is always a time for reflection. At the Brothers Brick, that normally involves trying not to think how much we spent on LEGO sets, or how many times our resident lemur mistook a LEGO piece for a snack this year. (I make it six, at last count.) But we also like to reflect on all the incredible builders to have graced our site in the past twelve months. As we do so, a handful stick out who are clear contenders for the coveted TBB Builder of the Year title. Usually, these will be creators who have shown, among other things, consistency, growth, creativity, versatility, and a mastery of the humble LEGO brick. Basically, the ones that we constantly find ourselves writing about! You can see our shortlist below, and check out previous winners in our archives (there’s a full list at the end of the article, too). Oh, and be sure to let us know who your pick is in the comments!

Ladies and gentlemen, your nominees are…

Red skull in the morning, EVERYONE take warning!

I know if a giant red skull, like this LEGO one by Tino Poutiainen, was hanging over my city, I’d be sounding the alarm. But to be quite honest, the big guy looks almost as surprised as we are. That skull looks like it might have been built by Sentai Fortress as it shares a lot of stickered parts with the Grand Titan. Below the skull, Tino created an excellent sense of scale by building a neat little blasted cityscape. He weathered it by mixing old and new dark grey bricks, and situated it on a dead sandy hill only available from the Loot Island set from 2009. If they’re looking for names for the skull, I’m going to throw out Yor-brick. What would you call it?

A Christmas morning to remember

Santa’s not getting any bigger. It’s the chimneys that are getting smaller, honestly! A Christmas crisis is averted in this LEGO scene by Jérôme Barchietto as the local fire crew turns up just in time to extract jolly ol’ Saint Nick from a tight squeeze. Hope the family at 10267 Gingerbread Lane left out extra cookies for Santa. He’s had a rough night!

Happy Holidays from us all at The Brothers Brick!

The Christmas good, the bad, and the ...huh?

LEGO builder Kristel Whitaker presents a sweet little Christmas vignette of a reindeer barn. First we have the good, thich is getting to pet a baby reindeer. Very nice! Next is the bad, which is having to scoop the poopy. I wonder what that elf did to get on the naughty list. Finally we have the…ugly? The funny? The weird? We’re not too sure how to categorize this one but Santa is napping on the roof with what appears to be a liquor bottle and a pizza. There’s no judgements here. We’ve all been there, right?

This is sort of tangentially Christmas-related but here is another vignette that we noticed earlier this month of Mrs.Gingerbread baking some delicious heart cookies. Perhaps they’re laced with a little something extra, which could explain why Santa is napping on the roof.

Yo, ho, ho, ho, me hearties!

If ye be dreamin’ of a white Christmas, legend has it that there’s an uncharted isle where snow falls but once a year. Ye don’t believe me? Well, Jo Marte captured the whole jolly affair in LEGO! Featuring crows nests, skull-shaped caves, and shipwrecks, the scene bears all the trappings of classic Pirate, only things are looking a lot merrier for this motley crew of scallywags.

Swap yer grog for eggnog and cozy up by the fire as we await the arrival of White Beard’s booty. Here comes the jolly devil himself on his dolphin-pulled skiff. “On Flipper! On Skipper!” the festive freebooter calls.

Ye best be staying silent about what you’ve seen. Dead men tell no tales. “Now swim away, swim away, swim away all!” Until next year.

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