LEGO creations by Eann are often inspired by mushrooms. When you browse their photostream, this becomes quite evident. When you take a closer look at this creation, you’ll also notice that mushrooms are somewhat of a theme. There are mushrooms at the base of the building. The minifigures sidekick is a mushroom with a face. Even the build itself looks like the stalk of a mushroom. But maybe that is just the organic shape of the white tower and the fact that it is equipped with a red roof. Maybe it’s me, maybe I am just seeing mushrooms everywhere since autumn is around the corner. Who knows… All I know is that the details on this creation are out of this world and that I need to expand my collection of coral coloured bricks.
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Monastery with goats in the shrubbery
Oddly coloured LEGO foliage always catches my eyes. So this creation by Joe hits the sweet spot. Not only is the trees foliage purple and violet, the grass is lime coloured. The path leading towards the monastery is earth orange. So all of the secondary colours are accounted for, which creates a very pleasing aesthetic. You wouldn’t want to roll down these grassy hills, because the high grass is made using lots of sharp katanas. You can see this is not the living-in-poverty type of monastery as they somehow were able to afford a goat.
Peacefull or ominous house on the floating rock
This LEGO creation by Elias Hübner reminds me of all the family trips I went on as a kid. According to my parents, a family holiday was not complete if we hadn’t visited a cave, volcano, mountain, waterfall or lake. Something I’m still grateful for. They opened our eyes to all the beauty nature had to offer. The rockwork on this creation by Elias reminds me of stalactites and stalagmites. Although this little house looks very peaceful at first glance, it does have an ominous vibe. Why is the door wide open and unhinged? Why is there no person in sight? Even the birds appear to be fleeing the scene. What is going on Elias?
A wickedly fun amusement
The stores are filled with pumpkin spice and 12-foot-tall yard skeletons, which means the Spooky Season has officially arrived. To mark the occasion, James Zhan has crafted a terrifyingly terrific theme park ride to delight your inner-monster. The HallowSwings’ twisted tree trunk base makes a perfect foundation for the ride, with its eerie glowing face and vines. Just do your best to try and hold on. We get the feeling the ghouls who run this park aren’t giving much concern for safety regulations.
If you are not hunting you become a prey
Did you notice how a bunch of building techniques can give a mech a character? This new build by Canadian LEGO fan and builder Student Scissors is a perfect example. Titled Dark Hunter Lariska, it instantly gives hunting vibes: its posture, carefully matched weapons, and even the visor on a pointy head — it just all work together really well. And, oh boy, the head comes straight from retro Robo Riders theme. If only this huntress had some wheels..!
As a fellow plant hoarder Poison Ivy will always be my favourite Batman villain
People who collect LEGO tend to collect other things. My boyfriend calls this hoarding. For me it is plants, mid century furniture, vases and pots. It is nice to see Abe Fortier manage to put all these elements into one amazing LEGO creation. We have a green house inspired by the Batman franchise. We get tall glass windows in a white building covered with lush foliage. Propagation stations on teak mid century design furniture and lots of pots and vases housing various plants and flowers. If you look closely enough you might even spot a sprouting Groot somewhere in this creation.
Check Abe’s photostream for more LEGO Batman creations.
Even reptiles are cute when they’re asking for belly rubs
Occasionally we come across builds on this site that gives us audible reactions, such as a gasp or going ‘wow’. Every now and then though that reaction will be an ‘awww’, as is the case with this adorable gecko by Jesse Åhlgren. Its organic shape makes great use of Bionicle and Hero Factory parts, such as the Rahkshi back covers for the belly.
Reptiles do give me the creeps a bit but there’s just something about geckos that makes them really cute. Perhaps it’s their almost comically-oversized toe pads, recreated here with ball joints. For this build I think it’s the tongue sticking out though. It’s a simple addition – just one part – but it gives this little lizard oodles of character. And if you’re not convinced that geckos are cute, then just look at this last picture of it asking for a tickle!
“You wouldn’t steal a car...” (so just build one instead)
With car builds, I’m always most impressed when a builder can use their LEGO bricks to recreate the most immediately recognisable cars. For instance, take this BMW E36 Coupe by Fuku Saku. He has perfectly captured the iconic front grille that adorned such Bimmers in the 90s. The overall shape has been neatly captured as well, with subtly angled headlights to reflect the real thing’s curves. I’m not sure the front splitter and the massive rear wing were stock though, even on the M3. This has clearly been modified… But by whoM?
It’s none other than a Jack Stone figure! In fact this one is a bank robber, and E36s aren’t cheap these days, so perhaps this motor is an ill-gotten gain. These figures were featured in Juniors and Jack Stone sets in the early noughties. These are some of the earliest LEGO figures I had, incidentally. It’s fairly unusual to see them used in fan creations, so it’s nice to see a whole car scaled (and, judging by the red paintwork, styled) around one!
LEGO Avatar 40554 Jake Sully & his Avatar [Review]
The BrickHeadz line has expanded to cover a wide range of pop culture in the past two years, so it is not at all surprising that the wave of sets coming with the release of the second Avatar movie includes one. 40554 Jake Sully & his Avatar features the main character Jake, both in his original human form and as his Na’vi avatar. It contains 246 pieces and will be available October 1st and retail for US $19.99 | CAN $24.99 | UK £17.99.
The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.
TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for September 17, 2022 [News]
In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the third week of September 2022.
TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Did you miss our Brick Reports? We sure did. Please enjoy this week’s edition with several reviews and news tidbits, including review of The Mighty Bowser and The Hungarian Horntail, the Scranton branch of Dundler-Mifflin, a wonderful Wakandan reveal, and more!
- [REVIEW] LEGO Super Mario 71411 The Mighty Bowser – A boss of a build — King Koopa is the new ruler of the Mushroom (brick) Kingdom in Bre’s review.
- [REVIEW] LEGO Ideas 21336 The Office – Home of the World’s best boss — Daniel mugs for the camera in this review of The Office office.
- [REVIEW] LEGO Harry Potter 76406 Hungarian Horntail Dragon — Chuck wants to know whether you’re going to put your name in the Goblet of Fire for a chance to compete in this Triwizard Tournament challenge!
- [REVIEW] LEGO VIP 5007331 – Retro Tin Lunchbox: Vintage 1965 sandwich not included, thankfully — Chris D reviews another exclusive VIP reward
- [NEWS] LEGO reveals 76215 Black Panther as massive 3,000-piece bust of the superhero — Find a place on your shelf for this massive bust of T’Challa himself – the Black Panther!
- [NEWS] Reminder: TBB-sponsored collab MOCing Memories at BrickCon 2022 — Time is quickly running out to build for our collaborative display at BrickCon!
Click through to read more LEGO news from around the world
Dutch shipping never looked so good!
Right off the bat, I’ll admit that this LEGO 1965 DAF 1800 built by p.vanderloo makes me very happy. My day job is for DAF’s parent company so I absolutely love seeing these trucks produced in LEGO! Make sure to check out the extra images below to see this truck compared with the real live version!
And the award for Best Supporting MOC goes to...
Andreas Lenander has crafted an impressively expansive sci-fi scene by placing a few small accent pieces around his quadrupedal attack droid. The droid, with its intricately greebled legs, is impressive in and of itself. But the beautifully rendered tree and the antennae tower add just the right amount of character to the scene, and they really let your imagination run wild about where and when this droid might be stationed. Bonus points for the muzzle flash that Andreas added in post-production (we hope…)
