Category Archives: LEGO

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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for December 3, 2017 [News]

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 December 2017.

TBB LEGO SET NEWS: When it rains, it pours! Look at all these amazing LEGO sets coming out soon:

Tron Legacy Light Cycle is the next LEGO Ideas set to go to production – The model, designed by two brothers from the UK, beat 10 other review candidates and is scheduled to go into production some time in 2018.
LEGO’s 60th Anniversary set revealed, featuring mini-models of classic sets – This nod to some iconic sets is yours when you spend $125 or more in the LEGO store between January 28 and February 14.
LEGO Star Wars 75204 Sandspeeder revealed from The Last Jedi – Bearing a striking resemblance to the classic Hoth snowspeeder, this 287 piece Last Jedi set is already showing up on store shelves.
LEGO 10256 Taj Mahal, 2nd largest set of all time, is now available – A tough break if you were hanging onto the original for investment value, but a bonanza for fans that missed this set the first time around. In LEGO stores now for $369.99.
The LEGO Ninjago Movie Wave 2 sets now available – Available now and includes the Shark Mech, Volcano Lair, Quake Mech and Piranha Attack.
More 2018 sets revealed with our Nexo Knights, Ninjago, Friends and Disney Princess round-up – We’re excited about the new City sets focused on mining and mountain life, including new bear and beehive parts!
LEGO reveals newest Modular Building 10260 Downtown Diner – This colorful slice of Americana has 2,480 pieces and will retail for $169.99 USD starting January 1st. Teal!

TBB NEWS & REVIEWS: We got our hands on a bigger and smaller set for your reading enjoyment, as well as some other news items as well..

Review of Creator Expert 10256 Taj Mahal, LEGO’s 2nd biggest set ever – More is more! See what we made of this 5923-piece white whale of a set (spoiler alert: the 1 new piece is just a brick separator).
Review of LEGO Star Wars: The Last Jedi 75204 Sandspeeder – Is it just a recolored snowspeeder? We compared it with one to figure that out!
Renault is celebrating 40 years of its Formula One racing team with unique LEGO Certified sets – Guaranteed to make petrol heads everywhere drool with excitement, these extremely limited edition sets are gonna be hard to acquire!
Instructions to build your own Blacktron Rectifier – Build your own little Blacktron scorpion bot today and help wipe out the turtle bot menace.

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Big things come in small cottages

Fall is changing to winter, at least in North America, and it always seems to inspire LEGO builders to depict these changing seasons in bricks. emillide has put together a lovely set of tiny cottages, experimenting with many interesting roof and tree techniques, some of which are truly baffling.

Take this summer scene, for example. I am at a total loss trying to figure out how that tree on the left is holding together, but I love it. Also, each cottage has a different base construction, making a nice finished model.

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Vic Viper or Thicc Viper?

It is the start of December and that means my favourite month project is over. That does not mean, however, that we have stopped featuring recently built Vic Vipers, as you can see here. It seems NnoVVember is attuned to lazy builders, and that means most entries, including mine came in the last week (and apparently there is a wide-spread belief that November has 31 days…). A very unique part of this group is Jussi Koskinen‘s Baryon Vic Viper.

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20% off select LEGO on Target [News]

Did you miss all the good sales during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Or maybe you did find some great bargains but are ready for round 2! Whatever the case may be, here’s another chance for you to grab a deal. Target is running a sale from now until Dec. 9 giving 20% off select LEGO, including some brand new sets such as the 75204 Sandspeeder from The Last Jedi, which we recently reviewed.

[Update] It appears the sale is on select sets only, and does not include the large, hard-to-find sets we originally featured below. We apologize for this confusion—we received this information directly from Target, but the actual sale seems to differ significantly from what Target communicated to us. We’ll be more cautious with info we receive from Target in the future.

Click the banner above to browse the LEGO selection on Target.

A totally traditional and completely unconventional car

There are fast cars, classic cars, utility cars and many other kind of vehicles depending on their purpose. But hot rods are all about making an impression. This is exactly what this beauty by red 2 does; it makes an impression. This 1931 Ford Rat Rod has it all; it’s loud, low, chopped, with giant rear tires, open pipes. What is especially impressive about it is its sand green body; to be honest, it took me a couple of minutes to recall each of these pieces in sand green in official LEGO sets.

2017 LEGO Advent Calendars: Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of our LEGO Advent Calendar countdown. Each day, we’ll reveal the three mini-builds from the LEGO City, LEGO Star Wars, and LEGO Friends 2017 advent calendars along with commentary from our team.

If you’re opening one (or more) of these advent calendars along with us, we’ve made sure the pictures and commentary on each day’s models will be behind a jump and posted in the evening every day, so we don’t accidentally ruin the surprise. The anticipation is killing us!

Click to reveal today’s LEGO advent calendar builds!

A monument to the old world

There is a strange beauty in decaying industrial architecture, with chipping paint, broken metal supports and collapsing concrete walls everywhere. Or maybe I am just nostalgic for apocalyptic LEGO creations that used to be all the rage when I discovered the online community. Whichever is the case, Exetrius has hit the nail on the head for me with this ruined communication tower.

Sand green is the perfect colour to make a creation like this, and combined with dark gray and limited splashes of colour it makes for a beautifully bleak colour scheme. This is further facilitated by great textures of disuse and weathering. The tower is 120 cenimeters tall (47 in.), a task made easy by using train tracks for its main segment. Everybody who uses train tracks in unique ways is awesome!

LEGO’s 60th Anniversary set revealed, featuring mini-models of classic sets [News]

Celebrating the upcoming 60th anniversary of LEGO in 2018, Billund has released a unique throwback set representing four iconic themes. The set will have 421 pieces (40290) with a value of $25, and will be a gift-with-purchase offer to customers who purchase a minimum of $125 in LEGO stores or the LEGO Shop Online between January 28 and February 14.

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These fully articulated LEGO Star Wars figures are ready to conquer the galaxy

With the next installment of the Star Wars franchise nearing once again, we’re starting to see the amazing community of builders turning their incredible skills to a galaxy far, far away. These larger doll-sized builds by Herbert Lee from Hong Kong are a prime example. With a multitude of articulation points to give life-like poses from any iconic scene from the movies, these figures stand about 8-10″ tall and are a considerable step up from the LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz figures.

Herbert has built eight characters from across all three trilogies. Let’s take a look at each one of them in their best poses.

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Renault is celebrating 40 years of its Formula One racing team with unique LEGO Certified sets [News]

The 2017 Formula One World Championship has just finished last weekend with a spectacular Abu Dhabi gran-prix. Even though the Renault F1 Team ended up in sixth place in the Constructors’ Cup, the car manufacturer is celebrating 40 years of competing in Formula One. There’s no better way to celebrate such an event than with a dedicated line-up of LEGO sets—not regular sets, but special ones developed exclusively for Renault under the LEGO Certified Professional license.

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2017 LEGO Advent Calendars: Day 1

It’s that time of year again! Break out the hot cocoa and stoke the fire, because The Brothers Brick is counting down to Christmas the only way we know how: with LEGO Advent Calendars! Each day, we’ll reveal the three mini-builds from the LEGO City, LEGO Star Wars, and LEGO Friends 2017 calendars along with commentary from our team.

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Blue and lime with two front prongs

I have been participating in the annual NnoVVember project for the past few years and it has always been a blast. This year is no different, although I admit I could be more imaginative than milking the retro train tracks used in all of the portruding elements of the spaceship. I have gone a different direction than previous years, when I avoided the characteristic Vic Viper tail fin – this time I have embraced the theme and decided to make an especially prominent tail.

The build started out with the wings and tail, then continued on with a body to connect all the wings together. The body is based on the lime tail pieces with blue hull built over it, a Bionicle Kanohi mask as the “wind”screen and grey technical details on the bottom. In reality it is quite a simple build, save for the integration of curved elements. Most of all, with contests, displays and projects flying from all directions, it was nice to build a creation just for fun, without stress.