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Registration for Bricks LA ends December 12th [News]

The Bricks LA LEGO convention will be happening in just over a month, January 8-10, 2016, in Pasadena, California. Builder registration ends December 12th.

Here are the details from the Bricks LA organizers:

– January 8-10, 2016
– Public Hours are Saturday January 9 and Sunday January 10 from 10am to 5pm
– Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA (300 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101)
– Deadline to register as a VIB: December 12th, 2015
– Deadline to register MOCs for MOC cards: December 20th, 2015
– VIB Registration cost: $55
– Admission to public show is just $5, kids 5 and under are free.

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This is my jam

David Hensel presents two pieces of musical equipment at what appears to be full scale. First up is a mini guitar amplifier that makes clever use of a LEGO net, as well as sword hilts as dials.

The second build from David is a replica mechanical metronome. Notice the tempo markings are created with stacked individual track links. I can just hear that constant ticking looking at this build.

At a smaller scale than David’s musical builds, Jimmy Fortel shows us a rock-n-roll drum set played by a rock-n-roll drummer with a rock-n-roll haircut. 16 hour drum solo!

2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 4)

We continue our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series new mini-kits from Star Wars and Friends on Day 4.

We’ll be unveiling the mini-kits or minifigs from each Advent Calendar around this time every day, and we won’t ruin the surprise — you’ll need to click through to reveal the LEGO behind the tiny doors.

Click to see the Day 4 mini-kits!

The greatest build since gingerbread

I swear I can feel a strong smell of ginger while I’m looking at the latest confectionery masterpiece by Koen. The key to success here is that this gingerbread cottage is actually the second version; the first one was baked and served a little more than a year ago. Compare both and you’ll easily notice how much the Friends sets have added to the official LEGO color palette just in this past year. Excuse me for now, I have to go and ask for the recipe.

The wandering stranger

thisisnothingatall brings us this eerie humanoid nomad. The creator doesn’t provide a backstory, but it’s easy to imagine eons of history in this sculpture. It reminds me a bit of Tali, one of the more intriguing characters in Mass Effect.

Gold standard in space

I’m loving this neat microspace build by Chris Perron. The careful selection of pearl gold parts adds some excellent texture and detail at this scale, and the light blue cockpit sets it off brilliantly. All in all this is just a classy little build.

2015 LEGO Star Wars & LEGO Friends Advent Calendars (Day 3)

Our virtual LEGO Advent Calendar series continues on Day 3 with a new mini-kit from Star Wars and Friends.

Click to see the Day 3 mini-kits!

TBB cover photo: December 2015

The highly anticipated new Star Wars movie opens in just two weeks – as if anyone actually needs reminding of that any more. So what better excuse to whip you all into a frenzy, dear readers, than by having a Star Wars themed TBB cover photo all month! And this previously featured AT-AT habitat by markus19840420 seemed like the perfect choice:

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The Church of Tiny Things

This microscale cathedral by David Hensel is a lovely piece of work. A handsome splash of dark green in the roofing breaks up the light grey, as do the various pieces David has used to add texture. The corrugated tubes and telescopes are nice touches, but it’s the use of Mixel joints as flying buttresses that’s attracting all the attention over on Flickr.

I’m less convinced by the loose tiles David has employed for the ground around the building. It’s making me think of those photographs of lonely churches standing amidst the ruins of bombed-out towns during WW2. Unless that was the look David was aiming for, I think I’d have preferred some kind of “properly built” surroundings.

Never trust a model you can’t pick up and turn upside-down – that’s my motto. However, the rest of this is so well put together I’m going to let it slide. Nice work.

Life’s a beach, and none’s better than this

Toronto native Melanie F. brings us this awesome recreation of her city’s beautiful and vibrant waterfront row houses. Melanie’s a fan of Unikitty, and she’s found exceptionally clever uses for several of Unikitty’s pieces here, with the horns as lovely little microscale trees and the tails as picture-perfect rolling waves. The lime green ice cream scoops are also brilliantly put to use as topiaries.

The best part? She’s built the homes in minifig scale, too!

2015 LEGO Star Wars & Friends virtual Advent Calendars (Day 1-2)

Because we here at The Brothers Brick have a time machine, we feel that there’s nothing particularly odd about starting our coverage of the new LEGO Advent Calendars a day late.

Each day until Christmas Eve, we’ll be revealing the mini-kits and minifigs from that day’s LEGO Star Wars and Friends Advent Calendars. Why not LEGO City? Because meh. To keep the secret alive, we’ll be posting pretty late in the day here on the US West Coast (GMT -8:00), and we’ll put that day’s reveal after the jump.

This isn’t really a review — we’ll save our thoughts until the end — more of a virtual Advent Calendar we can all enjoy together. So, follow along, and let us know what you think about each kit in the comments.

Click to see the Day 1 & 2 mini-kits!

LEGO Pikachu Superman

Like our recent post of a classic space mecha dinosaur, this one mashes up quite a few things. Courtesy of Greed (승훈 이) we have a Pikachu that has taken to dressing up like Superman. Maybe this takes inspiration from the “cosplay Pikachu” mechanic from the new Pokémon games. Regardless, mixing up three franchises that I’m a huge fan of is a definite win for me.