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.

Zombie dance off is a real thriller

It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in the dark. It’s LEGO Zombie Michael Jackson, who definitely appears to have the soul for getting down. I spotted one of those red hinges in a brick box and thought it looked a little like a leg. An hour’s building later and Michael appeared, strutting his zombie stuff. It’s a simple model, but I was pleased with the chunky cartoony vibe he’s giving off…

And just in case you missed it previously, Hallowe’en seems like the perfect excuse to remind you about LEGO 7‘s amazing Zombie Michael — a model considerably more complicated than mine! The face and hair are excellent, and I love the overall poseability. Don’t miss that single white glove too — a nice touch (although not strictly correct if we’re being geeks about Thriller-outfit accuracy).

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Come and play with us, for ever and ever and ever

Take a ride on your tricycle down the hall — just look who you might bump into. It’s the iconic Grady Twins from The Shining, recreated in LEGO by Matt Forrest. The use of the Alice In Wonderland minifigure reversed is very clever in capturing the look of the girls’ outfits. It’s not often plastic bricks manage to send a shiver down the spine, but this creation does the job.

‘Cos I ain’t got no body

Here comes Duncan The Dancing Skeleton — a LEGO creation for Hallowe’en that’s equal parts cooky and spooky. Great work on those bones by Logey Bear. I particularly like the ribcage fashioned from Bionicle claws, the Belville spoon as a nose, and the use of pith helmets for eye sockets. However, it’s the jauntily-angled hat and cane which lend the model its fabulous sense of character.

Legendary warrior revived as huge LEGO figure

Gatot Kaca, from the scriptures of the Mahabharata, is a legendary warrior with magical powers of flight. In the modern world he has become popular once more as a superhero in a game called Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This is the version of the character depicted in LEGO by Dennis Qiu. The model took about 3 months to build, stands 1.4 meters tall, and consists of 19,780 pieces.

To get a better sense of the scale, here is Dennis standing beside the model. The inner frames were built using Technic parts for stability and sturdiness. With a tall build like this, the challenge is to find the center of gravity and the right arrangements of knees and ankle to ensure it stays upright.

Giant LEGO F4U Corsair

One of the latest and greatest propeller-driven aircraft of WW2 is surely the F4U Corsair. The American fighter is instantly recognizable with its inverted gull wing. Brought to life in LEGO by Patrick MAGO this monster of a model is built at a scale of roughly 1:10. It has a wingspan of 1 meter and weighs in at a hefty 6 kg (13 pounds).

It took Patrick approximately 10 months to build the model, and he had to redesign it no less than 3 times during the process to deal with the weight. Beyond the structure itself, a big challenge in such a build is the limited selection of dark blue parts available.

Check out the video to see the wings unfolding, and more details like the cockpit interior…

LEGO to re-release 5,923-piece Taj Mahal on Cyber Monday 2017 [News]

Today LEGO is announcing that the iconic 10189 Taj Mahal will be re-released as Creator Expert 10256 Taj Mahal. Formerly the long-time record holder for Largest LEGO Set until being dethroned a few months ago by the new UCS Millennium Falcon, this set is still the second-largest LEGO set of all time with 5,923 pieces and will be available on November 27 (aka Cyber Monday) in LEGO stores and from the LEGO Shop Online for $369.99 USD.

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Padishah’s plush palace

LEGO builder Greg Dlx continues to explore large-scale recreations of exotic architecture. Following from last year’s desert fortress, here’s a beautiful Persian Palace. The white and gold domes grab all the immediate attention, but it’s the arches with their fabulous purple touches and the surrounding greenery which draw you in further. The vines snaking across the elaborate facade are well done, and there’s lots of nice tilework on the floors. The surrounding gardens look beautiful and Greg has filled the grounds with a veritable menagerie of animal life. However, it’s perhaps a shame there aren’t some appropriate minifigures lending a little more action to the scene.

LEGO Space builders take over the moon [Interview]

This year’s season of LEGO shows in the UK saw a massive collaborative moonbase display, from some of the UK’s best-known and most talented builders. The model was absolutely enormous, 2.5m square, featuring a huge tower and multiple compartments. It was built with more than 50,000 bricks…

The moonbase plays host to an impressive collection of landing pads, with Neo-Classic spaceships and rovers of all shapes and sizes…

But below the lunar surface, there is even more action going on, with dozens of cutaway compartments and corridors, stuffed with lighting effects, motorised elements, and cool building techniques…

Brothers Brick caught up with Jason Briscoe, one of the collaboration’s organisers, to find out more…
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TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for October 29, 2017 [News]

In addition to the best LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick also brings you the best of LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the last week of October 2017.

TBB NEWS: This is a week of winners and losers. On the winning side, some amazing Millennium Falcon builds, NASA and New York. In the losing corner? Lego Dimensions.

Announcing winners of The Brothers Brick’s Millennium Falcon LEGO building contest — TBB’s building contest ended with more than 160 entries showing off the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. Who walked away with the top prize, a UCS Millennium Falcon?
Review of LEGO Ideas 21312 Women of NASA — The set includes four minifigures depicting women astronauts, scientists, and engineers from the US space program’s history.
2018 LEGO sets for DC Comics Super Heroes, Creator, City and Technic revealed — There are a couple of interesting sets in particular with 31081 Modular Skate House within the Creator theme and 42074 Racing Yacht from the Technic line-up.
LEGO Dimensions is officially dead — LEGO Dimensions has officially been cancelled by LEGO and Warner Brothers, per the game’s official Twitter feed.
LEGOLAND New York to open in 2020 — Merlin Entertainment will build a third LEGOLAND park in the United States, located in Goshen, New York.
Instructions to build a waste container transporter — This garbage transporter will happily pick up any used and discarded LEGO bricks for disposal.

OTHER LEGO NEWS: Video reigned supreme this week in other LEGO news. Enjoy these clips!

LEGO Mini Chocolate Machine, YouTube — This year for Halloween, JK Brickworks decided to build a Mindstorms chocolate dispenser to surprise trick-or-treaters.
Fan-Made LEGO RICK AND MORTY Short Makes Us Want More, Nerdist — This video was a collaboration by two Redditors who combined their talents to bring the world of Rick and Morty to the world of LEGO style animation.
Unikitty’s Halloween Sneak Peek premieres on Cartoon Network, YouTube — Unikitty is getting her very own TV show and this is the first preview, sans studs.

The secret weapon of Scuderia Ferrari

As Sebastian Vettel spectacularly claims his 50th pole position in the yesterday’s qualifying session of the Mexican Grand Prix, there is no better time to look back at the car that has won the very same race in 1970 — the legendary Ferrari 312B. A stunning 1:8 scale copy of the car by Greg998 captures all the glory of the machine that once was called “the secret weapon” of Ferrari and which brought the team 10 wins and more than 20 pole positions.

Of course, the part that deserves the most attention is the legendary flat-12 engine in the back of 312B. Bonus points are for shiny chrome round plates!

An exercise in loft poetics

You don’t need a lot of LEGO bricks to build something fascinating. Moreover, you only need a handful of plates and tiles to tell your viewers a (love) story. Nikita Lazarev explores modern spacious lofts, which seem to be so empty that every smallest detail becomes too important to be neglected. And once you’ve pictured the owners of the room, even that huge empty wall and a cold wide window suddenly become sweet and cozy.

A hell of a good character

Hellboy has long-been a favourite subject for builders. We’ve featured our fair of LEGO Hellboy creations in the past. But this version by LEGO 7 is an absolute cracker. Built at a premium action figure scale, this has poseability to match the fine sculpting. Hellboy’s horn stumps and massive right fist are perhaps the defining features of the character, but this model faithfully captures other elements of Mike Mignola’s creation — the coat with its long tails, the defined abs, and the Samaritan pistol. I particularly like the beard and sideburns, something hard to recreate at this scale. This is LEGO character building at its finest.