Not to be a downer, but conventional wisdom tells us that in the future there will be more ocean to sail than ever before, so why not plan to explore it in style? That’s where this futuristic sailing craft by Daniel Church comes in. The sleek hull, with its well-crafted curves, should cut through the waters with ease. And we figure that sail, stitched together from numerous hexagonal patterns, probably doubles as a solar panel. Perfect for long voyages!
Today Piotr Przytuła shared his latest creation: a stunning jellyfish with more than meets the eye. This is a beautifully shaped build with an excellent use of color. And the variety of different plant parts used to craft and shape the flowing tentacles of the jellyfish make it feel completely alive and in motion. There is some great part usage, my favorite being the Minifigure Crown piece that was recently used in an opposite orientation for a micro jellyfish in the Coral Reef Diorama. Upon closer inspection, you’ll notice that the interior of the jellyfish bell contains a miniature world, dubbed Jellyfish Island.
Take a closer look at the world within this Jellyfish!
Right on the tail end of delighting us with this LEGO Zombie-fied dinosaur and Mothman, lightning strikes again as Trevor Pearson-Jones builds Lurch from The Addams Family. At 6′ 9″, the stoic, emotionless giant strikes an imposing figure, but is a gentle soul and protector of the Addams Family, particularly the children. He is often tasked with doing the family’s menial chores, like dumping hot oil on Christmas carolers, but does it with an air of professionalism and formality. The big fellah doesn’t say much, as it turns out, but how can you not love that misshapen face?
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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!
“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.
