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 September 2019.

We review the new LEGO Ideas Friends Central Perk set. Could we BE anymore excited?

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS: This week saw the release of a massive new Star Wars ship, a peek at the 10 set proposals up for review on LEGO Ideas and revealed the winner of our Stranger Things contest!

• • LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series returns with 75252 Imperial Star Destroyer –
    The Empire is back with this 4,784-piece UCS Star Destroyer, available from LEGO for $699.99 starting Sept. 18th.
  • LEGO announces new Star Wars mobile game: Star Wars Battles – LEGO’s upcoming mobile game lets you battle it out with characters and locations from across the galaxy!
  • Announcing the TBB Banquet brick-built food collab for BrickCon 2019 – Do you like brick-built brunches? Studded snacks? How about AFOL appetizers and MOC munchies? Then you’ll want to attend the TBB Banquet!
  • 10 new fan projects have qualified for the second 2019 LEGO Ideas Review – The next 10 sets up for consideration for LEGO Ideas are out. Which is your favorite among them?

• Announcing the winner of TBB’s Stranger Things “Darker Hawkins” building contest – Let’s dive into the deep end with the winning entry for TBB’s “Darker Hawkins” LEGO Stranger Things building contest!
• Six LEGO sets from Disney’s Frozen II revealed – Get a first look at six new LEGO sets from the upcoming Frozen II, featuring Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven, and more.
• September new LEGO sets include Friends Central Perk, Collectible Minifigures, Advent Calendars and Disney Train – The LEGO set inspired by Central Perk from TV’s Friends is now available along with the brand new Harry Potter Advent Calendar, a bunch of freebies, and much more.
• Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks to keynote BrickCon 2019, sponsored by The Brothers Brick – If anyone epitomizes BrickCon 2019’s theme of “Just Build It,” it is Jason Allemann.
• LEGO Ideas 21319 Friends Central Perk – could it BE any more 90’s? [Review] – LEGO Ideas 21319 Central Perk from the 90’s TV show Friends is out. Should you pick it up, even if you’re not a hardcore Friends fan? Read our review to find out.

TBB FEATURES, INSTRUCTIONS AND VIDEOS

• Watch this LEGO Boost Droid Commander orchestra play the Star Wars theme – Experience your favorite Star Wars music like you have never heard it before–performed by an army of LEGO droids.
• Secrets of the new LEGO Star Wars UCS Imperial Star Destroyer revealed by the designer himself [Video] – Get a close up and internal view of the new Imperial Star Destroyer from LEGO designer Henrik Anderson.
• Tom Servo and Me – a journey, part 2 [Feature] – Chris Doyle has been working on a new version of his Tom Servo replica, his first big build in nearly a decade. Come along on part two of this journey of LEGO rediscovery.
• Which LEGO sets have the most part count of a single element? [Feature] – Ever wondered which set has the most repeated element? Thanks to a Brickset forum user, dvdweyer, we have an answer and visualised the findings for you to digest.
• Catch a rodent with this functional LEGO mousetrap [Instructions] – If you have a rodent problem at home, you’re in luck. Here’s a solution using a LEGO-built mousetrap designed and tested by Jerac.

OTHER NEWS: There were quite a few other interesting LEGO news articles from around the web this week. Here are the best of the rest:

• LEGO replica of Texas State Capitol unveiled at Capitol Visitors Center, KVUE – The replica can be seen at the Capitol Visitors Center for free.
• Lego working with shops to avoid Brexit disruption, BBC – The boss of Lego has said the toymaker is working with UK retailers to “make sure they have enough stock” this Christmas in case of a no-deal Brexit.
• Niels Christiansen, Lego chief making everything awesome again, Financial Times – Remodeling of Danish group is bolstering its status as the world’s biggest toymaker.

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 last week of August 2019.

No matter how famous you are, it’s still a prestige to be made into a minifigure. Keep reading our Brick Report to get all the details.

TBB NEWS AND FEATURES: This week LEGO introduced audio and Braille instructions, Hollywood stars met their minifigure doppelgängers and we got an depth look at the building process of one of our own.

• The TBB Banquet brick-built food collab for BrickCon 2019 – Do you like brick-built brunches? Studded snacks? How about AFOL appetizers and MOC munchies? Then you’ll want to attend the TBB Banquet!
• LEGO is using AI to create audio and Braille building instructions as it aims for greater accessibility [News] – LEGO is trialing a new program that employs AI to create audio and Braille building instructions for visually-impaired builders.
• Tom Servo and me – a journey, part 1 [Feature] – Our own Chris Doyle gives us an inside look at his process building the iconic Mystery Science Theater 3000 character.
• These Hollywood stars love their LEGO minifigures [Feature] – We all secretly wish we had our own LEGO minifigures, and it looks like Hollywood Stars feel the same way! We take a look at some of the actors and actresses and their interactions with their minifigure selves.

OTHER NEWS: There were quite a few other interesting LEGO news articles from around the web this week. Here are the best of the rest:

• Lego architects and super-fans on designing perfect miniature worlds CNN – The concept of using Lego bricks to inform future design was the subject of a recent exhibition, “The Cubic Structural Evolution Project,” at London’s Tate Modern gallery.
• The LEGO Group partners with Great Big Story to inspire young girls and their parents to dream big, Yahoo – Starting this month, Play Her Way celebrates exceptional young girls who are breaking the norm in different fields of art, sports and business across the Asia-Pacific region.
• Billionaire Lego Fund Taps Google to Name Only Woman for Board, Bloomberg – The fund managing the wealth of the family behind Lego has chosen Malou Aamund, a director at Google in Denmark, to join its board.