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LEGO Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office – Santa would like a word [Review]

It’s turned to fall in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s a chill in the air and the leaves are turning depending on where you are, and it’s time for Halloween decor… just kidding, of course, it’s time for Christmas stuff already. There’s a Winter Village Multiverse developing between the human world and the North Pole/Santa/Elves world, and this year we get another addition to the the Santa side of the portal. LEGO Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office contains 1,440 pieces and 5 minifigures and will be available October 4th for US $99.99 | CAN $129.99 | UK £89.99. LEGO Insiders will have early access starting October 1st. You might think, oh, of course, Santa probably gets more mail than anyone else in the world, there must be a huge facility to process it! Read on to learn the alleged truth about Santa’s mail.

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Botanical Cruiser carries Earth’s plastic plants across the cosmos

While back-to-school sales, falling leaves, and pumpkin spice lattes might be the more recognized signs of autumn’s arrival, among LEGO fans, it’s the sudden appearance of massive spaceships in our feeds that we look for. SHIPtember is when builders race to complete a spaceship of at least 100 studs in length, aka a SHIP (Seriously Huge Investment of Parts). Space Kook is no stranger to the tradition, having participated for at least four years, even creating five SHIPs in a single month. This year, Space Kook presents the LSS Kew, a Botanical Cruiser adorned with domes to transport Earth biomes to distant colonies.

Click to explore Space Kook’s impressive cruiser from other angles!

LEGO unveils 2024’s Winter Village Collection set as LEGO Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office [News]

LEGO continues to expand its beloved Winter Village Collection with two exciting new additions this year: LEGO Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office and LEGO 40746 Santa’s Delivery Truck. The sets are comprised of 1440 pieces and 224 pieces, respectively, depicting Santa and his elves hard at work delivering letters via truck and hot air balloon to the North Pole. Fans can look forward to adding these festive pieces to their holiday scenes starting October 1 for Insiders (Oct 4th for everyone else), alongside LEGO Icons 10325 Alpine Lodge and LEGO Icons 10308 Holiday Main Street from years past.

Take a look at more images from the North Pole below!

Robot dogs are man(agement)’s best friend

They say that the dog is man’s best friend, right? So here’s a question, prompted by Devid VII‘s excellent LEGO hardsuit-and-robot combo. Do robot dogs still count as being your best friend? Surely there’s no reason why not. Even if it’s your colleague? Well, that might depend on its purpose. With a hardsuit such as this it’s fairly obvious: it makes lifting stuff easier, travelling faster, and gives a bit of extra protection. But what is this dog here for? Quality control? Worse still, could it be this guy’s manager? Don’t get me wrong, I have a good relationship with my superiors. But I’m not sure I’d be taking them for walks or playing fetch with them…

Monorail Station celebrates Classic Space evolution

What could stir the heartstrings of LEGO Classic Space fans more than a motorized monorail? How about TWO monorails and an epic station bustling with intergalactic travelers? That’s just what Martin.with.bricks delivers in this stunning diorama that combines Classic Space with modern techniques and minifigs at a truly epic scale.

All aboard the monorail for more pics of this epic space diorama!

LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog 77000 Shadow the Hedgehog – A shadow of the Helmet Series? [Review]

As of late, LEGO has been providing all kinds of helmets and busts on pedestals for their various IP partnerships. This pattern worms its way into the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise with LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog 77000 Shadow the Hedgehog, set to hit store shelves on October 1st. With 720 pieces, the set is available now for pre-order from LEGO.com for US $69.99 | CAN $89.99 | UK £59.99. It may also be available from 3rd party resellers on Amazon and eBay. But how will this bust hold up to the other plinthed creations from Star Wars and Marvel? Read on to find out!

The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

Check out the Shadow the Hedgehog review below!

Delectable debauchery with LEGO Bacchus

Builder Jan the Creator returns from a LEGO hiatus with a delicious little build of the big D himself, Dionysus, spending all day long on the chaise longue. Combining the new Tiefling horned hairpiece with the Nexo Knight torso, faun legs, and devil tail, is an inspired combination. But the real star of the scene is the furniture, especially the table, modeled on the Stately End Table from LEGO Fortnite. It’s a wonderful use of the diadem accessory and a reminder that every piece of furniture in the LEGO Fortnite game can be built with real elements.

Well, well, well, what do we have here?

For a lot of treasure hunters, the real treasure was the great LEGO builds we found along the way! This build by Eli Willsea portrays a pair of adventurers delving deep into a empty desert ruin, but what it really shows off is a trove of fantastic building techniques! Down on the floor of the lost well the cracked tiles are made from the immensely useful cheese slope, but did you notice they’re embedded in 1x2x3 windows? On the back wall, Eli uses those windows again with minifigure brackets as decoration. Finally, if you take a look at the well itself, you’ll see that it’s a combination of cheese slopes and 1×1 bricks with sideways studs which fit so well inside an 8×8 dish!

Treasure Planet’s Legacy celebrated in LEGO

Treasure Planet features some of the best action and artistry to ever come from the House of the Mouse, and in a just world would have been proudly featured in one of the many LEGO collabs of last year. Alas, it’s mostly remembered as the studio’s biggest box office misfire with nary a collectible Minifig to remember it by. For Daniel Church, the film’s mix of nautical adventure and cosmic spectacle remains a wellspring of inspiration. After many years of building sci-fi sails and futuristic ports, he took on his dream project: recreating Treasure Planet’s signature ship, the RLS Legacy, in LEGO. Standing 40″ tall and 39″ long and assembled from over 3000 pieces, the results are a stunning display of LEGO craftsmanship and a fitting tribute to an amazing design.

Sail on to appreciate the Legacy from other angles !

LEGO noodles fit for a ninja

After an intense day of training for ninja exams, nothing satisfies like a bowl of miso ramen with chashu pork and all the trimmings. This life-size ramen bowl in LEGO from H.Y. Leung, inspired by the signature dish from Ichiraku Ramen in the Naruto anime, looks delicious enough to slurp up. From the perfect marbling of the chashu pork, to the ripples in the opaque broth, to the prominent jelly-textured egg, to the careful arrangement of bamboo shoots and spring onion, Leung’s creation is the idealized form of a bowl of ramen. The naruto fish cakes employ a novel technique of red whips on 3×5 cloud plates. The ornamentation and kanji wringing on the bowl are reproduced beautifully in bricks. Leung’s best trick is the chopsticks, cleverly suspended and decorated with rune tiles. Even more impressive, they hide a play feature, sliding up and down as they pull noodles from the bowl!

LEGO Star Wars 40755 Imperial Dropship vs Rebel Scout Speeder: the battle packs are back! [Review]

We’ve mentioned it a few times already this year, but 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of LEGO’s Star Wars line. Everything from Ultimate Collector Series sets to promotional items has been marking the occasion. The last hurrah in 2024 celebrates an important aspect of the Star Wars theme, and a mainstay since their introduction in 2007: battle packs! 40755 Imperial Dropship vs Rebel Scout Speeder combines two classic battle packs, and re-imagines them in a 383-piece set that will retail for US $39.99 | CAN $54.99 | UK £34.99. It even comes with an exclusive minifigure!

The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

Let’s see if this battle pack can recapture the old magic…

LEGO Wednesday 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure – Spooky or Spectacular? [Review]

Ever since the premiere of the critically acclaimed Wednesday series on Netflix in November 2022, directed by Tim Burton, many LEGO fans have eagerly anticipated getting their hands on official sets. With the second season currently in production, the wait is finally over. The first of these sets getting a TBB review, LEGO Wednesday 76780 Wednesday Addams Figure, features a brick-built figure of the protagonist, which comes with two outfits from the show. The set comes with 702 pieces and will be available on October 1st for US $49.99 | CAN $64.99 | UK £44.99 and may also be found at third-party retailers like Amazon or eBay.

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.

Read on for our full review