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.

Bugs bunny welcomes you to the space jam

Space Jam was a staple film of any 90s childhood; which kid back in the day wouldn’t have enjoyed the movie? It had everything kids wanted – Michael Jordan, basketball, great music, and of course, the Looney Toons. Ian Hou brings his best 90s game to the world of LEGO bricks in this awesome brick-built Space Jam model.

“Look at our facilities! We’ve got weights! We’ve got hoops! We’ve got balls!” well, Hou’s build doesn’t have any weights, but certainly, there’s a brick-built orange basketball in Bugs Bunny’s hand, and this basketball court fashioned by way of the SNOT (studs not on top) technique features a basketball hoop element from the LEGO sports sets dating from the 2000s. Bugs bunny is also brick-built himself; his build utilizes slopes, tiles, bricks, and some technic elements along with hinge pieces granting his figure some articulation. As a 90s kid, this build brings absolute joy to my heart; seeing a happy and expertly fashioned brick-built bugs bunny shooting hoops in his basketball garb is a very welcome sight.

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This travel poster will get a rise out of you

Frequent visitors to The Brothers Brick will recognize the name Eero Okkonen. We’ve featured a great number of his amazing sculptural works over the years, most featuring large figure builds. His departures from that theme are just as impressive, though. For Those About To Rise Up, an entry into the Travel Poster challenge for Space Jam 2020, is a marvel of gradient color and design. And, yeah, with a pretty impressive face in the foreground, too. I really like the green hair and coral eyeshadow, but my favorite detail has to be the tiny spaceship that is rocketing to the stars.

Thanks to Corona, it feels like I’ve been stuck at home for a thousand years. This poster makes me hopeful there will still be vacation opportunities in the distant future, too.

The 8 approved LEGO Ideas winners under development to be released as LEGO sets [News]

LEGO Ideas has never been so popular with so many projects in the pipeline. With a total of 8 projects in various stages of being developed or being prepped for final launch dates, it’s almost hard to keep track and remember them all. We list the projects here as a refresher of what’s to come to be a reality and an official LEGO set.

Click to see the 8 project submissions that will become LEGO sets

Beautiful on the outside and on the inside

I had to look really good to see that this model by Tong Xin Jun is built and rendered digitally. The fact that only existing colors were used certainly helped fool the eye. This cute little house is complete. It comes with its own vineyard and wine cellar, and what more could a person ask for during a pandemic? The brick build base makes this model look very polished. Creating a difference in texture between the path towards the house and the lawn adds to the feeling that the lawn is filled with autumn leaves. And have you seen those roof dormers? The best thing about this house is that it is fully furnished from the basement to the attic. And the furniture wasn’t an afterthought. It is designed beautifully. Sometimes a fan of LEGO uses a part in a way it was not designed for, but it just makes sense. The round 2×2 tile with wood grain pattern used as a cutting board/charcuterie plank is an example of this.

A fresh take on a retro Star Wars set

While LEGO releases newer versions of Star Wars sets — usually popular vehicles such as X-Wings and Tie Fighters and occasionally revamps of notable settings such as Palpatine’s Thrown room — one set that we haven’t gotten a remake of is the Bounty Hunter Pursuit, the original set dating from 2002 coinciding with the release of the film Attack Of The Clones. Hachiroku92 gives us a glimpse into what this LEGO set could look like modernized.

Hachiroku’s speeder builds could work great in the microfighters line of sets with their utilization of smaller pieces and simple but effective appearance. The models pictured are mostly comprised of slopes, tiles, and bricks in the speeders’ signature yellows, oranges, and lime green colors – a rare color-scheme in the LEGO Star Wars universe. Of course a few trans-clear elements are used for lights and windshields to complete the vehicular look.

A couple modernized flesh toned figures for Obi-Wan and Anakin are included in one of Hachiroku’s speeder models. It would definitely be great to see these speeders make their way back into modern LEGO Star Wars canon, and of course a new Zam Wesell minifigure would be embraced by many fans I am sure.

Babies are keeping the seas safe for babies, baby

Who doesn’t love babies, especially when they are dressed as sailors in the Imperial navy. Here they go resupplying at the port before setting sail to root out evil in all its baby-hating evil ways. But the babies aren’t the only adorable things in this scene by Kev.the.Builder —- take a closer look at that port, with its tiny red roof and tiny door made from an arched window piece, and that tiny working crane. The tiny tree is also very… very… tiny, and cute.

TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for February 6, 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 first week of February 2021.

We get some hands on time with the epic new Ninja City Gardens set! Keep reading our Brick Report to get all the details.

TBB NEWS & REVIEWS: This week we discovered the finalists in the LEGO Ideas LEG0 90th Anniversary Set vote, got a look at the next two LEGO Ideas sets going in to production, checked out some new Star Wars, Monkie Kid & Technic sets, and more!

LEGO Ideas fan results – Bionicle, Classic Space and Pirates shortlisted for LEGO 90th Anniversary Set – The winners of phase one are announced and one step closer for either one of these themes to be revived for the 90th Anniversary set – Bionicle, Classic Space, Pirates and Castle Who will you vote for?
7 new LEGO Monkie Kid sets revealed for Spring 2021 – The Spring 2021 wave of Monkie Kid sets has just been revealed! With 3 sets over 1,000 pieces, there’s a lot to look at here.
Hands-on with LEGO 71741 Ninjago City Gardens, the biggest Ninjago set ever [Review] – LEGO’s new Ninjago City Gardens (71741) is the fifth-largest LEGO set ever. We’re bringing you a hands-on review to see if this massive set is worth the money! (spoiler alert: it is)
New LEGO Star Wars revealed including the Imperial Shuttle, AT-AT vs Tauntaun Microfighter and a Resistance X-Wing – We have a closer look at the new Star Wars releases for 2021 including an Imperial Shuttle, Microfighter and a 4+ X-Wing set.
LEGO Gift With Purchase (GWP) offers for Week 1 February 2021 – Here’s the latest update for February on the current Gift With Promotion (GWP) items and the VIP Redemption points update.

MORE TBB NEWS & INSTRUCTIONS

Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night has been selected to be the next LEGO Ideas set – Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night by Truman Cheng will be made into an official LEGO set.
LEGO Ideas Sonic Mania Green Hill Zone to be next fan-designed set – LEGO Ideas has revealed the results of the first 2020 Ideas projects review, and Sonic has won the race to become the next official LEGO Ideas set!
LEGO Brick Sketches Mickey (40456) and Minnie (40457) Mouse revealed – We get a first look at the latest lineup for LEGO Brick Sketches – featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
LEGO Ideas 21325 Medieval Blacksmith available for sale on 1st February – The LEGO Medieval Blacksmith IDEAS set goes on sale on 1st Feb. If it’s something you’ve been eyeing, grab them early!
Build your own LEGO Cahuil gull [Instructions] – In just 72 pieces, Luis Peña García (@_luispg_) creates a beautiful Cahuil gull, also known as the Brown-hooded gull found in South America.
New LEGO Technic product pictures: 42120 Rescue Hovercraft and 42121 Heavy Duty Excavator – Product pictures of two more LEGO Technic sets, 42120 Rescue Hovercraft and 42121 Heavy Duty Excavator, appeared on JB Spielwaren’s website. Both sets will be available starting March 1.

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:

LEGO Group joins forces with European Commission by signing up to the Green Consumption Pledge: a pilot initiative on climate action, LEGO.com – The LEGO Group has joined the European Commission’s new Green Consumption Pledge pilot initiative
Episode 53 – Talking with Lego artist Nathan Sawaya about heroes, dreams and inspiration, The Geek Of Steel – An podcast interview with LEGO artist, Nathan Sawaya.
The people wanted LEGO bike lanes, and LEGO is finally listening, The Verge – The quest to get one of the most popular toymakers in the world to make a little space for bicycles.

Champion of the velodrome

Fixed gears, no brakes, and eye-watering speeds – what more could an adrenaline junkie want? If you’ve never watched the sport of track cycling, I’d highly recommend visiting a velodrome (or at least watching it on TV during the Olympics this summer). It’s not just biking in circles. These insane athletes zip around the bowl-shaped track, vying for position like gravity-defying daredevils. Being aerodynamic is key, as demonstrated by this LEGO kinetic sculpture, built by George Panteleon.

Though the mechanism is simple, it’s so satisfying to see the rider’s legs “pedal” the bike. My favorite elements of this build (other than the fact that it actually moves) are the paint-roller handlebars and the shoulder armor turned helmet!

We’ve also featured several of George’s vehicles, a giant watch, and some outstanding character sculptures!

Roam around in a rad rover

Even been in one of those situations where a massive rover vehicle would do a lot better off-road than a minivan? I have, and I almost got stuck! Builder Andreas Lenander shows off the ride I should have been driving that day.

I love how untraditional this vehicle is compared to a normal LEGO car. The wheels are built from scratch, using angled bricks that really give off a rugged vibe. Looking closely you can see that the central spokes of the wheel rim are made from a pirate ship steering wheel! Incredible!

Also, the tree in the background is made up of brown whips wrapped around an antenna. Very clever.

Clearly, this thing can crag up any canyon and still come out without a scratch. I mean, would you want to mess up that sick paint job?

7 new LEGO Monkie Kid sets revealed for Spring 2021 [News]

LEGO’s new Monkie Kid theme debuted last year and seems to be going full steam ahead. The initial Spring 2020 wave included 8 sets, while last Fall we got another 4. Now thanks to Chinese retailer Momo, we’re getting a first look at 7 brand new sets releasing March 1. The sets range in size from the 203-piece Monkie Kid’s Cloud Bike, all the way up to The Legendary Flower Fruit Mountain, a massive 1,949-piece fortress. There’s no word on the exact prices for the sets yet–although the Chinese retailer has local prices listed, they don’t bear much reflection on what prices we can expect elsewhere.

Be sure to check out these other upcoming LEGO sets, too:

Click to see more of the LEGO Monkie Kid Spring 2021 sets

Rotor is coming in hot!

What would Bionicle characters look like if they were designed by fans? That’s what some LEGO fans have been exploring, and one recent example is this Bionicle villain by awesomenessborn. The answer seems to be that they’d be a bit bigger than most Bionicle characters were, a whole lot more detailed, and totally cool. At first glance I thought this character was much smaller, and then I spotted the orange wheel used as a shoulder. And I was nearly fooled into thinking that was an official Bionicle mask he was wearing, but it’s actually made out of a handful of pieces, including a Pakari mask on top. With the huge chopper blade on top, I’m almost getting the vibe of Roboriders/Slizers.

And speaking of fans and Bionicle, don’t forget to check out the official LEGO Ideas fan vote to revive a classic theme, where Bionicle is one of the four finalists!

This stunning DeLorean takes us Back to the Future

One thing we never get tired of here at The Brothers Brick is LEGO versions of the DeLorean from Back to the Future. Yep, it’s pretty much the formula for success around here. Let’s see, the rules are clean photography, good build techniques and DeLoreans from BTTF. Also it doesn’t hurt to mention The Mandalorian or The Child. Alex Jones (no relation to the chemtrails turning frogs gay conspiracy guy) has followed all our rules of success and that is why he’s a frequent flyer here. I love the details, the gull-wing doors, the greebly bits around the back that makes time travel stuff happen. The complex angles are recreated masterfully using some pretty advanced build techniques. Even Marty’s hover-board is represented nicely!

Oh, the Mandalorian DeLorean. Now that’s a great idea! Somebody get on the horn with Disney and Universal Amblin Entertainment and make that happen!