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Scarily good DUPLO celebrations of Halloween

LEGO’s big bricks for small hands, DUPLO, doesn’t often feature in AFOL builds unless it’s as filler under the terrain of a giant diorama, a challenging seed part for Iron Builders, or you’re Djokson and there are no rules. For Japanese builder Haru Takatsugu, DUPLO has become the medium of choice for 5 years of MOCs, with the builder recreating everything from lifelike sushi to a recreation of the Spirited Away bathhouse. Halloween builds are especially challenging, given how few DUPLO sets feature black bricks, but Haru has managed to amass enough to make spooky black creations an annual tradition.

Most impressive is the builder’s haunted house from two years back which features a full interior for a poltergeist party.

Some of these DUPLO figures and accessories are exceedingly rare, like the skeleton that appeared in a single set back in 2006 and is almost impossible to find on the secondary market. If you’re wondering who that strange onion-headed figure is, it’s Spud from Bob the Builder, a living scarecrow who is truly the stuff of nightmares.

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Building the Horde: The Clans of Orctober

Every October, LEGO builders around the world turn their attention to the brutal and boisterous denizens of fantasy lore: the orcs. For Orctober, I wanted to explore what makes these creatures tick: not just their monstrous brawn, but the different archetypes that define their place in the horde. We have a lot of noble heroes in LEGO, but now it’s the villains’ time to shine!

My goal was to create four distinct characters: each representing one of the RPG classics: Strength, Intelligence, Dexterity, and Guile – showcasing the diversity and ferocity that defines the Greenskin horde.

Zug zug. Click to read learn how Nick mustered his horde of orcs!

Poland’s haunted history in LEGO

Over the past three years, Polish AFOL Mihał Ch has been documenting his nation’s history in a series of LEGO vignettes. The minifig-scale scenes celebrate the heroes of art and culture, as well as recognizing atrocities, uprisings, and statecraft, with builds paired with a history lesson. Just in time for Halloween, as part of the third series of vignettes, Mihał remembers some of the darker chapters in Polish history. For example, dissidents being exiled to Siberia during the Russian occupation.

Here, Mihał pays tribute to the January Uprising of 1963-1964, when the escalation of “russification” and repression sparked a guerrilla war for independence that, despite early successes, was ultimately quashed.

Here we see Mihał’s depiction of the Galician slaughter when, in order to avert a Polish uprising for independence, the Austrian military incited the local serfdom against the Polish aristocracy in bloody revolt with promises of a better life, only to sweep in after the fact punish the peasants with more oppression.

Not all of Mihał’s scenes are quite so grim. Here he pays tribute to the composer Chopin and here to the writing of the Polish Constitution.

#Cyberpink2025 puts cancer in the crosshairs as LEGO fans build for breast cancer awareness

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when concerned humans raise awareness, promote earlier diagnosis, and support people affected by a disease that affects over 10% of women globally. The campaign is signified by wearing a pink ribbon, but many advocates find other ways to show support, like a group of LEGO fans who are using their bricks and voice to spread awareness under the #Cyberpink2025 hashtag. What started as a six-builder collab has been growing as all are invited to participate with the hashtag. The participants promise to return bigger and more organized next year.

Leading the charge for a cause is zakar.ion with this rabbit-themed Jū Gaito mech. The mech’s eyes come from this year’s Lucky Cat set while the stickered pink elements are sourced from the 2 Fast 2 Furious Honda. My favorite element is the matching minifig.

part_parakeet fights back with this Killer Cupcake, a sweet ally in the fight against cancer.

More pink mecha and cyberpunk heroes follow

Little Shop of Horrors meets LEGO Belville as Audrey II turns over a new leaf

LEGO’s Belville dolls are such strange and wonderful creations – a product of the late ’90s that looks like they came from a much earlier decade – which is probably why the dolls work so well in the amazing nostalgia-steeped dioramas of Victoria Worsley. They’re especially perfect in Victoria’s homage to ’60s set Little Shop of Horrors where she depicts the climactic confrontation as Seymore suddenly stands up to the alien plant. The larger scale allows ample space for potted plants, and of course, the diva plant herself, Audrey II. Hero Factory cocoon shells work perfectly for the petals around Audrey II’s mouth.

Flip the scene around and you can see what happened to demented dentist Orin Scrivello. His ride is the conveniently scaled Creator 3-in-1 Vintage Motorcycle. It’s great to see the Fabuland garbage bin is capable of holding severed limbs.

Victoria’s model is currently on display in the lobby of the LEGO Campus in Billund, along with her darkly delightful Belville tribute to the wives of Henry VIII.

Moko’s latest CUBE-ROBO squares off against Halloween

Mecha master Moko gets into the Halloween spirit with the 14th entry into the builder’s CUBE-ROBO series. At first glance, it’s a cute cubic Jack-O’-Lantern, but like the 13 bots that precede it, the model holds a secret. With a few deft tugs and swivels, it transforms into an impressive and articulated mech!

As Moko explains in their blog, the model began with the cube form, so the robot’s humanoid frame inherited the triangular “head,” which lends the mech an insectoid appearance. Moko leans into the bug-quality with pincher claws.

Fourteen transforming cubes is impressive, but it’s just the start of what Moko dreams of being a set of 100. Although the builder notes that at the current rate, getting to that ambitious target will take more than one lifetime. Here’s hoping Moko is able to square that dream!

You can see Moko tranform the model in real time here:

LEGO Haunted Houses of all sizes to usher in Halloween Week

Builder Kat (klegofan3000) loves celebrating holidays with LEGO creations and challenges, especially Halloween! Over the past three years, she’s built a haunted house or two to ring in Spooky Season. Our favorite is this maniacal mansion brimming with teeth, eyes, and tentacles. The combination of lavenders and greyscale is such a fun Halloween palette and is shared across more of her builds.

Kat’s latest haunted house is a more grounded affair with just a hint of purple. Here, she showcases her talent for mosaics (Kat’s regular star of #mosaicsonmonday) with a cheese slope design under the door and a deft use of tiles and textures throughout. The house is in line with the builder’s other architecture builds, like this modern beauty.

Speaking of mosaics, Kat also also brings her favorite subject and colors to two-dimensions for an all-tile take. Happy haunting,

Finally, we present Kat’s smallest houses of all in this clever forced perspective scene from Hocus Pocus created for the Halloween Habitats challenge.

We’re big fans of this massive minifig and their supersized LEGO spaceship!

LEGO’s up-scaled minifigure models (or MiniBigs, as I like to call them, which is going to catch on any day now I’m sure) have proven to be a popular concept for creative AFOLs to run with. Pascal Hetzel must have seen our April Fool’s post and created his own big classic space minifigure. But, not content with merely creating a massive minifigure, he’s built a supersized spaceship to go with it! And true to Neo-Classic Space form, it’s got plenty of greebles and texture, making it far more than a simple up-scaled model. If you can call such things simple, that is!

This thing is so big, I’m sure it would’ve reached the 100-stud long threshold required of SHIPtember builds. If you want to see more enormous LEGO ships, be sure to check out our archives!

Don’t just wing it, this tiny Star Wars Y-Wing is a force to be reckoned with.

“Why not build a micro Y-Wing on Yavin IV?” -is likely the question LEGO phenom Pascal asked himself just before starting. As he was tinkering with the Y-Wing, he then went on to build a tiny Yavin IV hangar for it too. But don’t let its size fool you – this Y-Wing packs a punch, proving that even the tiniest of rebels can take on the Empire. So long as the Empire is also micro-scaled. All kidding aside, the proportions and shaping are spot on and on par with great Minifig scale and even UCS Y-Wings we’ve seen, proving that you don’t need a hangar full of LEGO bricks to impress us. The Force is definitely strong with Pascal.

Taxidermy is so much easier with LEGO bricks

There are many important events on the LEGO calendar, ranging from month-long build challenges to contests and competitions. But arguably one of the most important is the annual Creations for Charity drive, where LEGO builders come together to raise funds for charity through their builds. Daniel Olvera has thrown this taxidermied centipede into the ring for this year. Taxidermy seems like a much easier job in LEGO; much less gruesome. And no matter how many small LEGO elements you use, they’re surely easier than trying to coax an insect into a frame without damaging it further!

LEGO and dinosaurs: Good. LEGO and zombie-fied dinosaurs: Great!

The twelve-year-old me loved dinosaurs. Who am I kidding? The version of me that’s more than a half a century old with an aching back also loves dinosaurs. Zombie-fy said dinosaurs and build it in LEGO and you pretty much have reached nirvana. That’s what is going on with moptoptrev’s new creation called Primal Plague of Madness inspired by the Primal animated series.

The builder is on a spooky streak of late. Get a load of this Mothman by the same builder. I think we have a budding friendship here.

Xethral, Legacy of the Vanished, where ancient secrets slumber

In the heart of the jungle, an uncanny group of structures pierces the canopy like jagged teeth. Bart De Dobbelaer’s Xethral, Legacy of the Vanished is a haunting LEGO creation that embodies what used to be a shimmering power source of a lost civilization. He states that legends tell that Xethral’s scholars learned to channel this energy to sustain their cities, illuminate the night, and power machines far beyond modern understanding. However, when the stars aligned against them, a great silence fell, an entire culture was swallowed by vines and mist. Now, only their depleted power sources and crumbling crystal towers remain, silent witnesses to a brilliance long erased from history. It’s just the kind of esoteric lore Bart is known for. As with most of what he does, it garners more questions than answers. But at perhaps great risk to our personal well-being, we come back to ask more questions.