Category Archives: LEGO

You’d probably expect a lot of the posts on a LEGO website like The Brothers Brick to be about LEGO, and you’d be right. If you’re browsing this page, you might want to consider narrowing what you’re looking for by checking out categories like “Space” and “Castle.” We’re sure there’s something here that’ll fascinate and amaze you.

AFOLcon coming to the UK 28th April – 2nd May 2011 [News]

A new type of LEGO convention is coming to Europe next year, balancing the private convention experience I know I enjoy at US conventions with the public exhibition time that’s been bringing in the masses for years.

AFOLcon will be held between April 28 and May 2, 2011 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

Here’s what the organizers say:

Come to AFOLcon and get the inside track on what is happening in the LEGO world. We have a busy schedule of private, AFOL-only events for you to take part in. Listen to guest speakers from LEGO, TT Games and more. Unless you live in Billund, there’s no way to get closer to to LEGO than at AFOLcon!

Read more about the events and activities on AFOLcon.com.

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Announcing PCHLUG – Pacific Coast Highway LEGO User Group [News]

For all you LEGO fans in California between BayLUG and LUGOLA — that means you, dear readers in Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Goleta, and everywhere else along scenic 101 — there’s a new LEGO Users Group founded by one of our favorite people, Tommy Williamson, who’s created one of the classiest LUG logos of all time.

Check out PCHLUG.com for details.

Favorites from the Mini Castle Contest

The Classic-Castle.com Mini Castle Contest wrapped up a couple weeks ago, and winners were recently announced. MicroBricks has a great roundup of the winners and runners-up, but here are a few of my favorites that we didn’t blog already, along the way.

Valentin (Skalldyr) uses excellent forced perspective in this scene showing Roman conquest.

Avocado Butters uses Technic bushes and 1×2 grills to achieve the most amazing detail I’ve ever seen in a LEGO microscale castle.

Mr./Ms. Butters also entered this spooky temple, using the trophy from the Collectible Minifigure karate dude as a statue.

Lego ornaments, buy or build your own!

Thinking about putting up your Christmas tree soon? Here are two ideas to decorate it with Lego ornaments that you can buy or build. The first involves building small models that fit inside Lego’s holiday ornaments. They’re fun to make and offers a unique challenge of balancing size and detail on a micro creation. Here are 6 that I made, which you can buy from Creations for Charity.

Chris McVeigh (powerpig) takes a more traditional approach by building ornaments based on the Lowell sphere. You can use different colored bricks to make variations. Instructions are on Chris’ blog, or you can buy the three that he has kindly donated to Creations for Charity.

Hungry for kills

As best stated by the builder, Huib Versteeg (spacie 11), “this monstrosity will either blast the enemy into a trillion bits or devour it. And if it doesn’t do either of those, well, then it’s malfunctioning and should be disintegrated.”

Did I mention it actually walks?

Master Chief’s helmet looks good in Lego, but won’t stand headshots

Ben Caulkins (Benny Brickster) created a faithful rendition of a gray version of Master Chief’s helmet from Halo. If you’re like me, you’d like to know if it’s wearable. Yes, it is.

Castle fantasy

Dave Kaleta built this diorama called Siege on the Kasbah at Deir-az-Zur for the final round of MOC Olympics. It’s far less often that we see non-traditional castles, not to mention fantasy Arabian fortresses being invaded by giant scorpions and black-hooded figures. I’m not sure what’s scarier: the army of darkness or those mime-faced skeletons.

Training grounds

ACPin‘s newest Star Wars diorama is a visually striking training arena for elite clone troopers. The difficulty of this build lies in incorporating the grid pattern on an uneven terrain, which the builder accomplished to good effect.

Thanks for the tip Christian!

Castle Hadrian by busboy489

Another entry to Classic-Castle‘s Colossal Contest, busboy489’s Castle Hadrian is so full of rich detail that it’s difficult to begin to point them out. There’s the drawbridge, the lovely tree in the lower corner, the wall detailing, the interesting architecture and angles…I’d say just go ahead and stare at it for a while. You’ll be glad you did.

Sir Nadroj captures a Wyvern

Jordan Schwartz (Sir Nadroj) has become quite adept at building organic creatures lately — a particular challenge in our angular medium. His latest creature is the mythical medieval wyvern.

Jordan’s wyvern is articulated from neck through tail, and while it looks like a rather odd dragon, his rendition is quite accurate (as portrayals of non-existent creatures go).

A green speck on our pale blue dot

LEGO newcomer Rakanishu1024 recently posted a really cool “green building” on a Micropolis module.

The rooftop wind farm is complemented by gardens at varying levels throughout the structure.

Via MicroBricks.

Max Reebo and Harry Potter CubeDudes entertain the masses

Speaking of FBTB, their CubeDude Vignettes Contest is now complete, and has yielded some nice results.

Larry Lars captures Jabba the Hutt’s musical entertainers in his vignette:

Andy Grubb deservedly takes home the first place prize, though, with this awesome forced-perspective view of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy pursuing the golden snitch in a game of Quidditch.

Check out all the great entries on FBTB.