Posts by Jake Forbes (TBB Managing Editor)

This LEGO carriage puts the hart before horse

Here’s one LEGO knight who’s not horsin’ around with his wagon needs. This charming medieval moc comes from a new face on the afol scene, a French builder who goes by Slippin’ Jimmy, and like his namesake, s’all good, man. Jimmy’s cart is pulled by cleverly designed stag that incorporates wands and minifig hands for its spindly legs. The antlers augment the classic samurai headpiece for an impressive rack.

While small in scale, the wagon is a surprisingly complex build that uses SNOT elements, round plates, and slopes to hit the perfect curves. The star elements are those white Technic panels that work perfectly as a cloth covering for the wagon.

If the green paper background and layout look familiar to regular readers, that’s because Jimmy photographed the scene with help from good friend Syrdarian, who wrote a guide for the site about building in this “ground-based” style.

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The quest to make the ultimate Knights of the Round Table minifigs

LEGO collaborations between creators are always fun, especially with minifig creations, as it takes a type of building that can feel quite small assemble into something epic. It’s also inspiring, when working with friends and those you admire, to see what your fellow creators will make of a theme.

This particular constellation of minifig builders first came together for a dark ronin-themed collab called Prism of Shadows that we all posted on last Halloween. We had such a good experience that we wanted to keep the group going, and so, for our next theme, we chose the Knights of the Round Table.

We started by curating a list of knights, then randomly assigned one to each builder. We all did a little research on our respective knights to inform our interpretations. As a small side build, we all made a chair, so our Knights could sit at the Round Table. David (@artist_davs) made an awesome logo for the collab, allowing us to tie them all together.

King Arthur by @brickbot_studio

“I am Arthur, once a boy who drew a sword from stone and became a king by destiny and resolve. In my long reign, Camelot stood as proof that justice, courage, and fellowship could shape a better world. I gathered knights not for their birth, but for their honor, and together we turned hope into law and legend. Though I have known loss and betrayal, they never outweighed the good we forged or the peace we defended. As I look back across the years, I see a life well spent in service of a dream that will outlive me.”

Ride forth to Camelot and see Arthur’s knights in Minifig form

Take a gander at this robot goose (An build your own with free instructions!)

Here at Brothers Brick, we love a good goose. Even (especially?) robotic ones! Paul Friesen designed this wired goose as a gift for Mechatronics students at the University of Waterloo, based on the program’s mechanical Canadian goose mascot. The mischievous bird even comes with a hammer for constructing chaos!

Paul’s design is compact, highly-poseable, and built from common elements, and with these free LEGO goose instructions, you can build your own. With a few color swaps, you could easily modify the metal bits match your favorite flesh-and-blood goose.

Iron Forge 2026 Round 2 builders break some eggs!

The Iron Forge contest challenges builders to make mocs (and puns!) showcasing a specific LEGO element to demonstrate skill and entertain judges alike. We spotlighted builds from the first round here. With Round 2 complete, here is a selection of the amazing creations built using the eggshell/crown element.

Twenty builders participated in Round 2, eight of whom advanced to Round 3. We’ll start with them.

Grant Davis unearths this happy Count in a delightful build packed with one eggshell… two eggshell… three eggshells… twenty eggshells, ah ah ah! Using them as teeth is bitingly clever.

Xiheng Xu creates a perfect Forgge entry that is also a tribute to one of Xiheng’s favorite creators, Eli Willlsea.

See creations from all 20 builders after the break

A charming Charizard to tide over Pokéfans

Hot on the heels of LEGO’s Charizard reveal, a wild Loke (byggi_l) appears with a personal spin on Pokémon #0006. Loke is a phenomenal character builder who packs every build with personality drawn from surprising parts. Take, for example, the LEGO skateboard used for Charizard’s lower jaw, the wheel clip of which creates the appearance of teeth.

Loke was inspired by the stunning Charizard build from Mitch Builds, but whereas Mitch blends Tehcnic and Bionicle elements into the build, Loke sticks with system parts and those loveable Mixel eyeballs, comically crossed for added goofy charm.

Viva New Vegas! LEGO Fallout builds escape the vault

The Last of Us may have garnered more acclaim with its prestige trappings, but Amazon’s Fallout is the most video-gamey show to grace screens, and it’s much better TV for it! Season 2 lets “plot” take a back seat to side quests and larger-than-life NPCs, which is very on brand and always a hoot. Just in time for the new season, Philip T (brick_head_nz) returns to the franchise with new slices of Wasteland life, like this immersive scene showcasing New Vegas.

The impressive sign utilizes some brilliant techniques, such as a star made from minifig hands clipped to a drone. Using feathers for the “S” is a trick borrowed from last year’s LEGO employee gift set.

Down on the ground, Philip brings back his excellent Deathclaw build. Tauntaun horns pair perfectly with a Ninjago dragon helmet.

See more of Philip’s Fallout builds and behind-the-scene pics below

Color and form and contrast in brick

In her LEGO creations, Kat (@klegofan3000) regularly switches between tiled mosaics and modernist architectural creations. For her latest work, Kat blends her skills into an evocative sculpture that contrasts busy zigzagging lines with negative space from round holes. I love the unusual color combination of pink, orange, and green, and how the mosaic pattern wraps down the sides while being gloriously asymmetrical on the top.

The build was created for the #letsbuild26x26 challenge running through the end of the month on Instagram. Click here to learn how to join in!

The little fox and the white reindeer

In Finland, where Thomas (thebrickdwarf) and his LEGO friends live, winter offers a chance to capture beautiful outdoor scenes in the snow. Here we see Fjallraven, the arctic fox, encountering the Ghost Reindeer of Greenland. It’s a haunting image, thanks to the creature design that takes inspiration from Salvador Dali for the reindeer’s spindly legs.

Thomas has a knack for using small builds in natural settings to make the tiny world of minifigures and LEGO animals feel epic. Fjallraven’s adventure continues with another spooky encounter, this time a face-to-face with the skeletal King of Greenland enthroned inside the remains of a whale. Wil we see more adventures of this little fox?

Rush hour in Makuria

In recent years, the LEGO castle building community has seen an explosion of mocs looking beyond Europe for inspiration. Andreas Leander researched the medieval Nubian kingdom of Makuria for this amazing immersive scene in which a merchant transports Nile-grown grain with an ox-drawn cart. Everything on camera is built from LEGO, including the equatorial sky and cloth headwrap. The earthen road is a beautiful effect created from a mosaic of brick yellow between sloped nougat bricks (with no connection points, I would be terrified of bumping the table!). I’m impressed by the wheel, created mostly from 2×1 round ties. The driver’s headwear includes a few fun elements, like a pool ring and tutu. But the highlight (appropriately, as this was made for Brickscalibur’s “Beasts of Burden” category) is the ox, whose looks both strong and soft with that textured broad back.

A fantastic fanged monster with sprinkles on top

Is there anything sweeter than a fantastical creature built out of bricks? The Frosted Valley Viper, a confectionary creation from BigBrickStan, bares the sweetest teeth this side of Candyland. The serpentine shaping is incredible, especially with the use of pink quarter-circle tiles with sprinkles that cover the body, giving the beast the look of a frosted donut when coiled. Speaking of donuts, those glazed eyes are quite menacing! Icing aside, Stan works in a few other cleverly employed elements, like a raptor’s jaw for the tip of the mouth and an array of capes for the menacing head frills. The result is a sugary build that temps one too take a bite, if only the viper wouldn’t bite back!

This LEGO Monkey’s Gone to Heaven

Sun Wukong, aka the Monkey King, or just plain Monkey, is the most enduring mythological hero in the world, inspiring so many retellings, including LEGO’s own Monkey Kid franchise. Chinese Builder Jin Chen took on the legendary character at the height of his power, armed with the
Ruyi Jingu Bang staff and standing atop a fallen demon. Monkey’s white face markings are based on the traditional depiction seen in Chinese Opera.

Jin’s makes excellent use of the range of elements in pearl gold to sculpt Monkey’s ornate armor, tightly packing every surface with horns and shuriken. The tattered cape is especially dramatic with its mix of rounded tail elements and angular plates.

Take a peek at the making of Monkey after the break

Celebrating Bionicle’s 25th Anniversary with Minifigures

“The tales tell of six great heroes who will come to aid us in our darkest hour. A powerful toa of fire. A wise toa of water. A strong toa of earth. A mighty toa of stone. A courageous toa of air, A brave toa of ice.” Has it really been 25 years since LEGO introduced us to the heroes of Mata Nui?

I created this series of minifigs for a collaboration with @majestyminifigs where we reboot a cancelled LEGO theme with custom minifigures. Of course I chose Bionicle. It took me a hot minute to figure out how I wanted to convert the toa mata into minifigure form, but I overall, I’m proud of the result!

Jacob’s figs and story follows