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On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans...

Shingeki no Kyojin (or Attack on Titan) is regarded as one of the best and most popular manga and anime series. But for some reason, there seems to be a serious lack of LEGO builds of it. Luckily, Funnystuffs built the Attack Titan in great detail, accompanied by custom minifigures of some of the main characters. On the surface, Attack on Titan may appear to be just another kaiju series about cool kids fighting giant monsters, as the original premise has led us to believe. It gradually progressed into “the Game of Thrones of anime,” a dark and heartwrenching series about human nature, war, politics, and so much more. Now that its popularity is at its peak, there is hope for more Attack on Titan creations down the line.

Primarily a mech builder, Funnystuffs did a great job with the organic look of the Attack Titan. Covered with tan LEGO elements to represent its skin tone, it is completely accurate and to scale with the minifigures. The only gray bits peeking through are the necessary joints to give the titan full poseability. Funnystuffs gave special attention to the head – its iconic green eyes, grinning jaw, and long hair.

See more pictures of the Attack Titan in this gallery here. (Includes spoilers for those who may care.)

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A Symbiont to watch over us

The striking Assault Symbiont Syrinx is described by Djokson as a “Surgical precision instrument.” Which reminds me of a precision timepiece. You know, like the LEGO Clikits watch that’s serving as this figure’s head. That’s just one example of the creative part usage here, too. Check out that neck ring made by a Spinjitzu rotor, or those transparent-blue garage door panels. Even the “hands” use uncommon parts like metal train axles. It’s kind of sad that “Assault” is part of this creature’s function – the colors and shaping remind me more of a medical droid. I suppose that’s just the sort of great camouflage an Assault Symbiont would lean into, though.

Be sure to check out Djokson’s other featured creations for even more “is that LEGO? I’m not sure” moments.

Nature is at your fingertips with LEGO bricks

Nature has been manipulated by human hands for centuries. While certainly nature always finds a way, seemingly so do we humans. Simon Liu’s LEGO bonsai model which was entered into Brickset’s bonsai contest, inspires the philosophical mind to produce musings on the relationship between humankind and nature.

Simon’s model is visually striking and compositionally different from most bonsais I have seen so far. Instead of the tree growing out of the typical rectangular pot, this plant is growing out of the palm of a grey hand fashioned out of a number of small elements including 2×2 tiles, diamond shields, and ingots. The bonsai itself is shaped by a number of wiry black elements most notably the whip and twig pieces. The flowers featured on this build are rendered by baby minifigure heads – an unusual but effective choice. This handy bonsai rests on a sea of 1×2 trans-clear blue bricks, which was a nice touch. For whatever reason this model reminds me of the film WALL-E, with the robot’s little hand carrying the plant – the key to our planet.

Daaamn bro, check out this rover’s rims

With the Perseverance recently landing on Mars, rovers are all the rage again. And when you’re building a cool LEGO model like a rover, what better way to make it ice cold than to give it some giant rims, just like Andreas Lenander has.

While I’ve seen the 1×2 plate with rounded corners used as tiny rover tracks before, simply by flipping it up on its side, this rover puts them to work in an all new, spectacular way. By only pressing one side of the pieces together – leaving a gap on the opposite side – it’s quite possible to bend flat or square bricks to make curves and circles. This technique might not fly in an official set, but who says LEGO fans have to listen to any rules when they’re making their own creations. It may just be a simple looking little 1×2 plate with rounded corners, but I know tons of LEGO builders were excited when they first saw it. This is just another innovative use for it.

TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for February 20, 2021

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best of LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the third week of February 2021.

We’ve discovered the secret location of Spiderman’s Spider Lair! Keep reading our Brick Report to get all the details.

TBB NEWS: This week we saw the colorful reveal of LEGO Vidiyo, got our license to drive the Porsche 911 and reviewed seven new sets including Brickheadz Pets, Ninjago Jungle Dragon, the Space Mining Mech and more!

LEGO VIDIYO sets are officially revealed – First look at the just-revealed LEGO VIDIYO sets! Available starting March 1, the first wave will bring 18 sets with 130 printed tiles, BeatBits!
LEGO 10295 Porsche 911 available for sale on 16th February to VIP Members – Sales for the LEGO 10295 Porsche 911 Turbo and 911 Targa is available for VIP Members and is now live
LEGO cancels VIP promotion for Creator Expert 10295 Porsche 911 Turbo & 911 Targa in North America – LEGO has canceled plans to release the Porsche Owners Pack as a VIP promotion in North America. It will still be available in other regions.
LEGO 40179 Personalized Mosaic Portrait: downsized, but not in a fun way – What do you do when a set advertised to include 6002 pieces actually only has 4502? Come along on a very strange journey as we try and figure out what’s going on with the part count in LEGO’s latest Mosaic Maker set.
LEGO Education BricQ Motion is now available on LEGO online shop – LEGO Education BricQ Motion can now be ordered on the LEGO online store and eligible for any prevailing Gift With Purchase promotions.
LEGO Ninjago Season 3 Full Trailer released – The Full Trailer for Ninjago Season 3 is out! What will the Island reveal and who are our heroes off to rescue?

TBB REVIEWS:

LEGO Marvel Spider-Man 76175 Attack on the Spider Lair [Review] – LEGO mixes and matches different realities to create an amalgam of Spider-gadgetry in this new set due out March 1st.
LEGO Ninjago 71748 Catamaran Sea Battle [Review] – The largest of the Ninjago Island sets invites you to take a vacation to some very dangerous waters.
LEGO BrickHeadz Pets: 40442 Goldfish and 40443 Budgie [Review] – Today we’re checking out the two newest Brickheadz sets which include a pair of Goldfish and two cute Budgies!
LEGO 40456 & 40457 Brick Sketches: Mickey and Minnie Mouse [Review] – Our latest Brick Sketches review feature the two most famous mice on planet earth – Mickey and Minnie.
Exploring other worlds with LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31115 Space Mining Mech [Review] – Aliens and mechs, oh my! Come explore another world with us as we review the new LEGO Creator 3-in-1 set 31115 Space Mining Mech.
LEGO Ninjago 71746 Jungle Dragon [Review] – Ninjago dragons can range from the really fantastic, to the pretty lack-luster. Where does the new Jungle Dragon fall on that spectrum?
It’s always time for adventure with the new LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31116 Safari Wildlife Tree House! – LEGO has brought us several treehouses. Let’s see if LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31116 Safari Wildlife Tree House stands above the rest!

OTHER NEWS: There were quite a few other interesting LEGO news articles from around the web this week. Here are the best of the rest:

A Fictional LEGO Character Just Signed a Record Deal, Rolling Stone – L.L.A.M.A., who’s now on Universal Music Group’s Astralwerks label roster, is the first artist to release a song on VIDIYO, Lego’s version of a TikTok for kids
New York Decision Clears Way for Legoland Opening, Theme Park Insider – Theme parks can begin reopening in New York on April 9
LEGO’s Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country, PocketGamer – we spoke to LEGO strategic partnerships lead Ankur Suri about his time in the industry and the challenges of obtaining a job when you live in a developing country.

Oh you know, the Megazords are at it again in the city

The Power Rangers were a staple of any 90s childhood, but I believe the television show is a cross generational piece of children’s culture with many different version of the series popping up over the years. One recurring aspect of the show was battles in the city between Megazords and monsters of some type, because you know such an event is just part of city life. Will Galbraith’s LEGO model brings back these familiar scenes.

The city featured in Galbraith’s build is Tokyo, which is shaped out of many small elements including 1×1 plates, 1×1 slope 45s, cheese slopes, and technic gears. Galbraith’s Megazords similarly utilize a menagerie of small pieces also including slopes, tiles, ingots and round 2×2 bricks among many other elements. Overall this build certainly encapsulates the nostalgia of a very beloved show.

Going nuclear with this toxic villain

Here is a toxic sludge LEGO Bionicle figure built by Rockmonster2000. It’s here to cramp your style, chap you hide, harsh your mellow, or whatever it is they do with toxic nuclear sludge nowadays. This villain is just oozing with personality! It may not be the personality that’ll win over the nuclear safety inspector but it’s personality nonetheless. Where’s the Toxic Avenger when you need him?

Yo, dawg! We heard you like gold so we pimped your ride!

Who could forget the mid-2000’s show Pimp My Ride? You can be forgiven if you had already forgotten it. The premise was the host and rapper Xzibit, would knock on some young pimple popper’s door, notify them that their broke-ass ride is about to be pimped, then backflips and high-fives would ensue. Then the guys at West Coast Customs would install state-of-the-art stereo systems and gadgets, wild paint schemes, spinner rims, and TVs on nearly every surface including seat rests and mud flaps. Stir in a little drama and a big reveal and you have the makings of what entertained us in the mid-oughts. This LEGO rover by Crimso Giger is pretty much what Pimp My Ride would be like if they had worked on space rovers. It’s way more blingy than the practical but boring rover they just sent to Mars. Consider yourselves pimped!

LEGO Ninjago 71748 Catamaran Sea Battle [Review]

LEGO invites you to take a tropical vacation with a number of sets based on the latest season of Ninjago. Sounds nice, but knowing Ninjago themes, by “vacation” they probably mean “a trip into very dangerous waters”. Today we’re taking a look at 71748 Catamaran Sea Battle which will be available March 1st from the LEGO Shop Online. At US $69.99 | CAN $99.99 | UK £59.99 for 780 pieces, this is the largest and most expensive offering in this wave of sets. It comes with six minifigures and two pretty swanky boats. Let’s brave the rapids and take a close look at what this set has in store for us.

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.

Click to read the full hands-on review

There’s more than a trace of creativity here.

The creator of this nightmarish image, Bart De Dobbelaer, has combined cinematic inspiration from Hackers and Tron Legacy with 22 meters of EL wire in Trace initiated – a chilling image of cyberspace done right. I’m not sure exactly what’s happening here, but it doesn’t seem to be good news. Is the creepy central figure reaching out with a red data probe to track a hacker? Or is the trace running the other direction? Could this be a friendly cyber guardian about to be compromised by the outside world? We may never be sure. Where’s Flynn when you need him?? Either way, though, it sure is a spectacular scene.

At that glorious greebling makes me want to break out my collection of tiny parts and get to building myself. And I’m pretty sure I still have some light kits around here somewhere…

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this courier

OK, so I know that title is the motto for the USPS, and I suspect this mail truck is meant to be from another service, but I can’t help but be reminded of the ceaseless work that mail carriers do wherever they are. This beautiful LEGO truck by Łukasz Libuszewski is just about perfect, from the little door handle made with a roller skate, to the brick-built MAIL lettering on the side. The color scheme of black, brown, and dark orange really sums it out for me, though, and gives the postal truck a vintage look beyond its stylings.

Do space police dream of astronaut llamas? Who would we even ask about that?

The current cold weather in the US has nothing on the cold of deep space. The aptly named Frost brings more love to Febrovery 2021 with the Spy-Trak V: “Trakin’ Spies since ’89”. Complete with removable prison pod, this sweet ride has an aggressive stance that’s sure to intimidate any Space Llamas it runs across. It’s also an homage to the classic 6895 Spy Trak 1 set from 1989.

Frost was kind enough to showcase the rover from multiple angles. You can really appreciate the ant-like shaping, and the strong contrast between the transparent red windscreen and the blue of the main body. This is the sort of build that goes to show you don’t have to use a million parts to make a slick creation with outstanding lines.

Frost is building an entire fleet of rovers, and is even writing story around them. Here’s the starting point if you want to read along! And when you’re done, be sure to cruise our archives of other Febrovery builds!