Category Archives: LEGO

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Mind if I barge in?

New Hashima, the sprawling cyberpunk LEGO fan collaboration, is known for its towering buildings, but thanks to builders like Gerrit, the futuristic city is home to some impressive vehicles as well. The Aerox C-1 Heavy V8 Twin Engine ICS is a powerful flying tug that can move hover barges around New Hashima with ease. I love the blend of futuristic tech and mundane utility in models like this, but what I love most about Gerrit’s creation is the colors! Purples, azure, and bright yellow orange all contrast nicely with the dark grey utility. Those anime engines and the purple tower evoking a tug’s steam pipe give the vessel an eye-catching profile.

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You’re in good hands with the Imperial Medic Team

Being dispensable, famously banging your head on a doorway, or generally missing your targets can be taxing on the health of your average Imperial Stormtrooper. Thankfully, when calamity strikes, this LEGO stormy presented by Auto’s Builds is in the very capable hands of two Imperial Medics and also the cold steel hands of Medical Droid 2-1B. They’ll have this fellow back in the field and missing his targets in no time. He’s in for the best healthcare Emperor Palpatine’s Imperial medic team can provide; and based on the annoyed looks on their faces, I’m guessing it’s not much.

Announcing the TBB custom LEGO advent calendar for December 2024 [Feature]

As many of our regular readers are aware, come December each year, we here at TBB open up all the LEGO advent calendars, showing off each day’s builds along with some choice witticisms from the staff. Well, of course we’re still doing that this year, but we’ve also decided to add on an additional, TBB-exclusive advent event this year. From December 1st to the 24th, we’ll be posting the instructions for 1/24th of a custom Christmas model, designed by me. Has your Yuletide interest been piqued? Read on to find out more!

Read on to find out how you can participate and for the set’s parts list

Fall in love with this beatiful autumnal temple and waterfall

Journey back in time to Edo-era Japan with this spellbinding “Pagoda by the Lake” by felix-workshop. The part that looms largest, of course, is the majestic multi-tiered temple, with its striking red coloring and the artful curves of its pagoda roofs (inspired by the real-life Seiganto-ji temple and nearby falls). Such roofing has always been a challenge to achieve with standard LEGO bricks, at least until 21060 Himeji Castle and 10315 Tranquil Garden gave us a new upturned roof piece. However, given the minifig scale, felix-workshop opts for a more complicated—and more rewarding—technique to achieve the slopes of the roof, stacking and curving rows of rounded plates. Don’t let the artistry on display distract you from all that’s going on, however—can you spot fishermen fishing, merchants traveling, assassins planning their attack, a Buddhist monk, and a happy couple drinking tea?

Paleolithic paleontology beneath the LEGO ice

We know what dinosaurs are these days. Big, reptilian-avian creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, doing cool dinosaur things. But what would early humankind have made of fossils, had they found them a mere 10,000 years ago? This is the question that photomark6 is pondering. It’s a superbly staged photograph! The eye is drawn to the T-Rex fossil around which the scene revolves. But the bright colours of the minifigures make us focus on the real story here. What are they feeling? Wonder about this new discovery? Fear, that it might break out of the ice and devour them? Or cold, from their outfits that don’t look particularly well-suited to the ice and snow? (I know which one I’d be feeling the most!)

Santana starship is a smooth addition to the Star Wars fan canon

While Star Wars fans eagerly await more reveals of the next season of Andor, over in the Factions role-play community, LEGO builders are busy adding new stories and ships to that galaxy far, far away. Simulterious introduces the Santana light freighter, a ship built for speedy hauls and avoiding Imperials. Based on concept art from the artist Spacegoose, the Santana features smooth teal curves and four impressive ion turbine engines. Simulterious incorporates chain links for a ring of greebly texture, a technique also used in their brilliant take on the classic B-Wing Starfighter.

The two sides of water, captured in LEGO

Take a gander above and below the waterline in this gorgeous LEGO creation by Carter Witz. Color transitions play a huge role in this build, with light gray showing the dry stone and dark gray emulating wet. Common construction patterns are shown above and below the trans-clear liquid laters. However, the nature of erosion is different depending on where you look. Rooted vines and a tree eat away at the air-exposed rock, while seaweed the current buckle the bricks below. Carter once again shows his prowess working in natural forms.

Mindblowing LEGO Warhammer 40k Space Marines reporting for duty

As a fledgling tween nerd, I really wanted to get into Warhammer, but unlike my main plastic hobby, LEGO, the models didn’t look great without some serious painting skills and they weren’t much good for building anything but battlefields. If LEGO and Games Workshop had offered build-your-own miniatures half as cool as this squadron from vic mk2, there’s no way I could have resisted the call! These gold-clad warriors are no mere Space Marines — they’re the Adeptus Custodes, ultra-elite fighters who answer only to the Emperor. I believe they’re joined here by the angelic Primarch Sanguinius. Each of the 10 units has a unique weapon and power armor, which is all the more impressive in how Vic captures the Warhammer style so perfectly using mostly gold elements. There are some deep-cut parts, like Hero Factory robot heads.

As imposing as the Adeptus Custodes are, Vic has also assembled heavier firepower in LEGO, like this Blood Angels Leviathan Dreadnought. Vic achieves incredible curves in the mech’s torso without any constraction elements. Interchangeable arms allow for a range of configurations. This beast could give the Hulkbuster a run for its money.

LEGO cyberpunk creation towers above everything – including its creator!

Few collaborative LEGO builds can surely claim to have the reach that the New Hashima project has had. It’s seen offshoots pop up all over the world, and builders are still adding to it almost two years after it started. Blake Foster is the latest to construct another cyberpunk edifice – and quite a sizable one, at that! Blake tells us that Hashimacorp Tower took almost 18 months to complete, including a 20-hour (!) long building session. That’s commitment! And I think it warrants a closer look, don’t you?

Come and take a tour of this terrific tower!

Here’s one LEGO hedgehog who takes it slow

Small LEGO scenes like this make me smile. With just a few parts and a simple story, Eli Willsea crafts a fun and colorful vignette of a hedgehog taking a walk after a light rain. The chopstick element makes perfect spines, yellow rainboots are instantly recognizable, and he even has a frog friend along for the ride.

A long time ago, in a savannah far, far away...

After a galaxy-wide sigh of relief, one of the first things that will have crossed the newly-formed New Republic’s mind will have been ‘OK, but what do we do with all this stuff?’. After all, the Empire had a some pretty formidable weapons of war that suddenly needed new purpose. Fortunately, budding entrepreneurs like LEGO builder Dominique Boeynams were on hand to transform them into something better suited for peacetime. Dominique managed to get an AT-AT all the way back to Earth (don’t ask how – I gather he had to promise a lot of freebies), chopped its top off, and now arranges safaris with a Star Wars twist. It’s actually perfect for the job; that heavy armour comes in handy when the lions get hungry, see. They tend to have better luck picking off unruly tourists doing their best Luke Skywalker impression…

Botanicals becomes its own LEGO theme; Four new Botanicals sets announced [News]

Today LEGO revealed the next four sets to join the thriving Botanicals line of life-like plant models. Coming on January 1st, LEGO Botanicals Mini-Orchid (10343) and LEGO Botanicals Lucky Bamboo (10344) complete the “Four Gentlemen” quartet alongside the Chrysanthemum (10368) and Plum Blossom (10369) sets that were released earlier this year. They are joined by LEGO Botanicals Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet (10342), a loose arrangement of flowers like the Wildflower Bouquet (10313). On February 1st comes LEGO Botanicals Flower Arrangement (10345), which features some of the largest flowers yet in a decorative vase.

Additionally, Botanicals moves from Icons to its own theme, complete with a new logo.

See what’s blooming in these four new Botanical sets!