Category Archives: LEGO

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Shortlist announced for TBB Builder of the Year 2024 [News]

The end of the year is always a time for reflection. At the Brothers Brick, that normally involves trying not to think how much we spent on LEGO sets, or how many times our resident lemur mistook a LEGO piece for a snack this year. (I make it six, at last count.) But we also like to reflect on all the incredible builders to have graced our site in the past twelve months. As we do so, a handful stick out who are clear contenders for the coveted TBB Builder of the Year title. Usually, these will be creators who have shown, among other things, consistency, growth, creativity, versatility, and a mastery of the humble LEGO brick. Basically, the ones that we constantly find ourselves writing about! You can see our shortlist below, and check out previous winners in our archives (there’s a full list at the end of the article, too). Oh, and be sure to let us know who your pick is in the comments!

Ladies and gentlemen, your nominees are…

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Red skull in the morning, EVERYONE take warning!

I know if a giant red skull, like this LEGO one by Tino Poutiainen, was hanging over my city, I’d be sounding the alarm. But to be quite honest, the big guy looks almost as surprised as we are. That skull looks like it might have been built by Sentai Fortress as it shares a lot of stickered parts with the Grand Titan. Below the skull, Tino created an excellent sense of scale by building a neat little blasted cityscape. He weathered it by mixing old and new dark grey bricks, and situated it on a dead sandy hill only available from the Loot Island set from 2009. If they’re looking for names for the skull, I’m going to throw out Yor-brick. What would you call it?

A Christmas morning to remember

Santa’s not getting any bigger. It’s the chimneys that are getting smaller, honestly! A Christmas crisis is averted in this LEGO scene by Jérôme Barchietto as the local fire crew turns up just in time to extract jolly ol’ Saint Nick from a tight squeeze. Hope the family at 10267 Gingerbread Lane left out extra cookies for Santa. He’s had a rough night!

Happy Holidays from us all at The Brothers Brick!

The Christmas good, the bad, and the ...huh?

LEGO builder Kristel Whitaker presents a sweet little Christmas vignette of a reindeer barn. First we have the good, thich is getting to pet a baby reindeer. Very nice! Next is the bad, which is having to scoop the poopy. I wonder what that elf did to get on the naughty list. Finally we have the…ugly? The funny? The weird? We’re not too sure how to categorize this one but Santa is napping on the roof with what appears to be a liquor bottle and a pizza. There’s no judgements here. We’ve all been there, right?

This is sort of tangentially Christmas-related but here is another vignette that we noticed earlier this month of Mrs.Gingerbread baking some delicious heart cookies. Perhaps they’re laced with a little something extra, which could explain why Santa is napping on the roof.

Yo, ho, ho, ho, me hearties!

If ye be dreamin’ of a white Christmas, legend has it that there’s an uncharted isle where snow falls but once a year. Ye don’t believe me? Well, Jo Marte captured the whole jolly affair in LEGO! Featuring crows nests, skull-shaped caves, and shipwrecks, the scene bears all the trappings of classic Pirate, only things are looking a lot merrier for this motley crew of scallywags.

Swap yer grog for eggnog and cozy up by the fire as we await the arrival of White Beard’s booty. Here comes the jolly devil himself on his dolphin-pulled skiff. “On Flipper! On Skipper!” the festive freebooter calls.

Ye best be staying silent about what you’ve seen. Dead men tell no tales. “Now swim away, swim away, swim away all!” Until next year.

Incredible Lord of the Rings sculpture really moves!

Eero Okkonen is back with a fantastic new LEGO creation! This time he’s brought us a version of one the most heroic scenes in the Lord of the Rings film series; King Théoden’s charge at the Pelennor Fields. Both Théoden, and his steed Snowmane, are fully kitted out for battle. Snowmane’s bridle features golden dragon hilt details and his fluffy widdle ears are made from the wings of the collectable chicken man. Théoden is carrying a regal shield with heavy gold-inlay, as befits his station. Eero actually repurposed the first build of his we here at The Brothers Brick ever covered; the mighty viking warrior Ragnfast! But that isn’t this build’s only secret. That train controller means this sculpture is powered, so let’s take a look at Théoden riding at full tilt!

Click here to see this sculpture brought to life

2024 TBB custom LEGO advent calendar – Day 24 [Feature]

All year-round, we here at The Brothers Brick spend our time featuring amazing builds made by the LEGO fan community. But we figured, for the holiday season, it would be great to build something together. For each day from December 1st through the 24th, we’ll be posting instructions to a custom TBB advent calendar build, one part each day. Want to participate? You can find all the parts you’ll need for the TBB Advent Event from our announcement in November. Read on to see what we’re building today!

One last set of instructions on the 2024 advent calendar

Keep building LEGO toys, who knows where you’ll wind up

Few builders in the LEGO community are as prolific and full of surprises as Australian artist Shannon Sproule, whose work we’ve admired since the site’s early years. During the fall of this year, Shannon focused on building “Z-Bots” – retro robots in bright colors inspired by the toy line of the early ’90s, many of which were donated to the Creations for Charity auction. For his latest build, Shannon sticks with the retro robots while bringing in a Zoids-inspired wind-up look for a new type of toy he calls the Strydor.

Click to see more of Shannon’s playful robot walkers

There’s something fishy about this vehicle

Anyone fancy some fish and ships? This flying craft darts through the air without the aid of feathers or wings thanks to the imagination of filbrick. A striking color palette (love that red webbing between the gold spines for the fins) combines with a streamlined design to create a truly memorable vehicle. I can imagine that golden propeller spinning as the segmented body weaves its way through the clouds. The question is: would this fish out of water handle just as well under the sea?

2024 LEGO Advent Calendars, Day 24 [Feature]

We’ve made it to the end. Christmas Eve is here and with it, the final doors of our six advent calendars. LEGO tends to hold a special treat for the final day. Still no sign of Red One… Maybe Moana can ask her friend The Rock to help track him down. Or we could just open the doors and see what we find! We have six calendars to get through: Friends, Disney, City, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man. Which has been your favorite this year?

As ever, our intrepid TBB team is on hand with witty comments, insightful observations, and bad jokes for each day’s builds. And of course, you can add your own thoughts in the comments section each day! So without further ado, let’s crack open the build for day 24…

Click here to see today’s builds!

2024 TBB custom LEGO advent calendar – Day 23 [Feature]

We’ve now arrived at the penultimate day of this advent calendar

LEGO test chamber shows that Portal love is still alive

It’s been over a decade since Portal 2 reunited Chell and GLaDOS for one last round of physics-based puzzles and razor-sharp comedy, but the game still holds a special place in our hearts. Thanks to builders adotnamedstud and _standaartwoudt_, Aperture Labs is open again for testing, this time in LEGO! The scene has it all: A button! Switches! Gravity! Science! Potato! Minifig Chell is joined by familiar friends GLaDOS (in a potato) and Companion Cube, while new sidekick Wheatly keeps an eye on things from above. The Aperture logo made from tiles is a wonderful touch. Seeing this scene makes me want to dig out the game to play through it again. In case you missed the LEGO Dimensions wave of gaming sets, the Companion Cube tiles and Chell minifig were a real thing!