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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for September 27, 2025 [News]

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 4th week of September 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Since the last Brick Report, we have not seen much in the way of official news from LEGO, but we did get a chance to review the Star Wars holiday-themed set, and the LEGO Ideas Mogway Gizmo set, complete with a pair of 3-D glasses. We have also been in Billund all last week for LEGO Fan Media Days, bringing lots of great content to our social media accounts. For even more news and reviews from TBB, be sure to check out our last Brick Report.

[REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT: a sweet deal for Life Day — Gingerbread Darth Vader sipping (or slurping) hot chocolate by the fire inside his cozy cookie-themed walker…
[REVIEW] LEGO Ideas 21361 Gizmo – Mogwai in the Spotlight — With the new release of the Gizmo set, you can break all the rules without worrying about a nasty surprise.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Between SHIPtember and Minifig Mondays, we’ve been featuring a lot of Sci-Fi the last few weeks, and we top that off with an interview with a prolific mecha builder. There’s also a healthy dose of nature, between National Public Lands Day and a showcase on building pastoral LEGO scenes, there’s something for everyone.

[FEATURE] Meet the 17 artists debuting in the LEGO House Masterpiece Gallery –– every year a talented mix of AFOLs are selected to have their work displayed in LEGO House for all to see and we were there to talk to the builders for the big reveal.
[FEATURE] Prepare to launch into SHIPtember, week 3 — SHIPtember is nearing its epic conclusion as we head into our week 3 coverage
[FEATURE] No Theme? No Problem! A Wild Card Showcase of Minifig Excellence — When it comes to creating custom minifigures and brick-built characters, this wild card edition blurs the lines of LEGO figures.
[FEATURE] Celebrate National Public Lands Day with the LEGO Park Ranger — Celebrate the beautiful lands of our treasured national parks in LEGO style, with an actual park ranger.
[FEATURE] Blast off into SHIPtember – week 2 — Catch up with SHIP builders new and old, as we cover the second week in the month-long build challenge.
[INTERVIEW] Celebrating 10 Years of MOCs with LEGO Mecha Maestro Marco De Bon — Get to know this iconic mecha builder and learn more about his classic anime inspired builds.
[FEATURE] An Ode to the Goatherd: designing a pastoral LEGO diorama — Take a closer look behind the scenes to find out what it takes to create a compelling story with landscape.
[FEATURE] Wake up samurai, these Cyberpunk minifigures have the coolest upgrades around [Minifig Monday] — Bionic limbs, bright colors, and edgy characters are essential elements to any good cyberpunk build, and these crafty creations are perfect examples.

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How do you say ‘brilliant build’ in Spanish?

One of my favorite places to eat is a nearby Spanish restaurant that serves things tapas style – that is to say, small plates that are full of complex and interesting flavors. And “tapas” might be the perfect way to describe this tiny build of a hillside in Spain by seb71. It’s definitely not very large, but it’s full of creative and complex parts use that I want to spend plenty of time savoring.

Meet the LEGO builders behind the 2025 Masterpiece Gallery exhibition!

LEGO House in Billund offers guests an incredible way to connect with the company’s history and playfully engage with bricks, but my favorite wing is the Masterpiece Gallery, which honors fan creations from builders around the world. It’s an amazing way to showcase what LEGO artists are doing with bricks to a wide audience, and for those who follow the MOC world closely, it’s a chance to see favorite builds up close in the best possible venue (alongside three enormous T. rexes!). This year, the space was expanded to include two sections for wall-mounted artwork, bringing the total to 17 artists.

TBB was fortunate to speak with all of the builders this week before their works were opened to the public. Some of the faces and builds are quite familiar to readers of this site – one is even a contributor! Let’s meet these amazing builders:

Seigo Aoki (aka DeRa) – Japan

DeRa has created some of the most popular builds of the last two years featured on Brothers Brick, so seeing the amazing models in person was truly an honor. While DeRa‘s featured builds are organic subjects, the builder studies Architecture and has created incredible buildings from LEGO as intricate as his beasts and mechs. DeRa is proud that Japanese builders have been recognized around the world.

Meet the other 16 Masterpiece Gallery builders after the break

Initiate hunny defense systems

When Winnie the Pooh and his friends entered the public domain, some people jumped at the chance to reimagine the property as a low budget horror film. But Psyro TtunTomato has taken it in the other direction with this Pooh Bear mech worthy of a big budget blockbuster.

The intricate curves of this massive robot perfectly blend a high-tech aesthetic with Pooh’s trademark huggable stuffed frame. I just hope Pooh washes his hands before he hops in the pilot seat. Honey residue on the control panel probably doesn’t help much in combat.

LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT: a sweet deal for Life Day [Review]

Ever since its first Advent calendar back in 2011, Star Wars has been a regular feature of LEGO’s holiday season offerings. Even so, in the last few years, it’s felt like they’ve been ramping up the Life Day celebrations. We (well, LEGO employees) got to see an extremely limited candy cane X-wing in 2019. In 2023, it was a small diorama with Finn, Rey and Chewie to coincide with an animated Christmas special. And this year, we get 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT – a set as unique as it is festive! We haven’t been entirely complimentary of this year’s Star Wars sets; can we end on a high note?

LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT | 697 Pieces | Available October 1 |US $59.99 | CAN $79.99 | UK £54.99

The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

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Brilliant brick beagles are barking bad to the bone

Creating a compelling LEGO model with just 30 bricks is tougher than it sounds. Gregory Coquelz is a wiz at making every brick count. There’s so much personality packed into these micro-build dogs hawking black-market bones. Their faces come courtesy of Dots, but it’s the ears and the black bands for eyes/sunglasses that make them come alive.

Gregory has been on a roll with cartoony characters of late, including this M-rated tribute that hopefully won’t get the builder cancelled.

Prepare to launch into SHIPtember, week 3 [Feature]

Week three of SHIPtember is behind us, and that means many SHIP builders have wrapped on their epic builds. Some have even started a second SHIP. Many have taken their pics to post-production to produce that epic hero shot, along with a side-view pic that will be featured in 2025’s armada fleet poster, like the one I used for my hero image from 2024. My 2024 SHIP is the slim, dark blue ship just to the right of the Supramacy shown on the far left of the poster.

For many builders, the third week is a time for final details, engines, landing gear, or other greebly details that add the finishing touches to their space-bound masterpieces. But let’s not waste any more time as we take a look at a few completed SHIPs, and check out a few builders that flew under my radar in previous weeks, like a stealth ship with ventral optical camouflage.

Read on for our week 3 coverage of SHIPtember 2025

Take a tour around the Galaxy with these incredible Star Wars location builds

With the largest LEGO Star Wars playset soon hitting shelves (and wallets), we thought it would be a prime opportunity to review some of the best location builds from around the MOC galaxy. The Star Wars community is no stranger to incredible landscapes and structures, and these are some of the best that the Holonet has to offer. Whether you’re a Republic loyalist, a Rebel freedom-fighter, or sympathetic to The Resistance, there’s something here for everyone to enjoy.

Where better to start than where it all began? Our first stop is Naboo, where interstellar_bricks shows off a stunning recreation of the Duel of the Fates. The giant beam pillars here are as imposing as they are in The Phantom Menace, making this a perfect location for a Hero Showdown match in Star Wars Battlefront II.

Where to next? Engage the hyperdrive and let’s find out!

The “sword saint” Miyamoto Musashi in LEGO

Ever since LEGO transported the Castle theme to medieval Japan in the ’90s, samurai have inspired countless LEGO builds. artist_davs pays tribute to perhaps the most famous samurai of all, Miyamoto Musashi, in an incredible LEGO vignette that looks more like a museum diorama than a model built from bricks. Musashi, the famous duelist and philosopher, is uses a minifig head and a cloth-covered brick-built body for realistic proportions.

Musashi’s armor is as impressive as the man himself, incorporating cloth and string. The tatami floor, made from profile bricks laid on their side, is artfully raised a half tile above the floor. If you’re wondering where the kanji scroll comes from, it’s a sticker from the Hanzo vs Genji set and reads “Dragon Head, Snake Tail.” I don’t think that comes from the Book of Five Rings, but it makes sense that Musashi would display it as he was famously fond of playing Overwatch.

Heavy haul the American way

Everything is bigger in the United States. Well, maybe not everything, but American vehicles certainly tend to be rather large. Case in point: my Peterbilt heavy haul.

I have been building minifigure scale heavy haulage vehicles for a couple of years now. They are vehicles carrying loads too large or heavy to be carried by a regular truck. Two examples are my modular truck carrying a transformer and a specialised windmill transporter. So far, all of them were European. For my next project, I wanted something different, though. I wanted an American truck.

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A grand finale: The Hollow Knight

In a surprise follow-up to his Bugs of Hallownest series (see our summary here), creature builder extraordinaire Joss Ivanwood (jayfa_mocs) presents the final boss of the original Hollow Knight entry. We’re once again captivated by how well he was able to capture this character, which is also perfectly to scale with the other buggy builds. Joss shared a few unique parts easter eggs, including using fabric wing membranes from the Harry Potter thestral and a rare neon orange Bionicle mask tucked within. He also teased the potential for Silksong characters in the future, and we can’t wait to see what he builds next.

Ekow Nimakow’s mythical turtles swim to a new home on LEGO campus

I’m in Billund this week, representing The Brothers Brick at Fan Media Days, where we’re lucky to get an inside look at what projects LEGO is cooking up for the months to come. As cool as those sneak peeks are, a highlight of this experience has been the chance to see the MOCs on display in the LEGO employee campus, especially The Great Turtle Race by Ghaniaian/Canadian artist Ekow Nimakow. I’ve admired pictures of Nimakow’s work online, with the unmistakable use of black bricks to create large-scale models embodying the spirit of Afrofuturism. Still, pictures didn’t prepare me for seeing the artist’s work in person.

The sculptures are massive, but that alone isn’t noteworthy in Billund where you’re surrounded by large-scale brick installations designed to inspire and delight. It’s the non-system elements, like the Technic plates used for the turtle shells, used at such a large scale that seamless curves emerge. Thousands of feather elements in the fins are layered to create a texture between animal scale and brush stroke. The feeling of motion in the children’s locks stirs the spirit.

more of Nimakow’s work follows