Although we usually try to keep our writing on The Brothers Brick accessible to everyone, LEGO jargon inevitably sneaks in. This page works like a dictionary and lists the LEGO terms you’re most likely to encounter here on The Brothers Brick, and is not intended to be exhaustive. 3.18 3.18mm. The diameter of a cylinder Continue reading →
Today marks the third anniversary of The Brothers Brick! I believe that 2007-2008 was the year that The Brothers Brick truly became more than just another LEGO blog. All of you out there make this a community, with LEGO Ambassadors representing the tens of thousands of you who visit the site. The LEGO fan community Continue reading →
I must be feeling homesick for the land of my childhood tonight. I’ll wrap up this round of Japanese-themed posts with this great troll swordsman by Hamilton Scott: And in case you haven’t been paying attention, LEGO trolls are the new cave racer.
Our resident virtual LEGO and cave racer expert is dutifully withholding judgement as the Pigs on the Wing contest winds down. But this virtual cave racer by Matt Wagner is too cool to pass up:
Like Nannan’s Black Fantasy and Tim’s cave racers, Nick Dean‘s RAMM theme has become an Internet phenomenon, copied ad nauseum — sometimes successfully, sometimes not. So it’s always refreshing to see a new RAMM creation from the Feldmarschall himself: But perhaps Nick is most famous for his future-military vehicles, like this RAMM Bluthund Quadruped:
With everybody distracted by shiny Cave Racers, it seems the end of the world has been staved off for a while, or so it would seem from the dearth of decent ApocaLEGO lately. Fortunately for us, Horace Cheng has taken his recent snowmobile design and added a bunch of stuff to make it zombie-proof: Bonus Continue reading →
Adrian Florea (Olog) mashed together some of the curretly hot bandwagon themes into an action-packed diorama. Without scrolling down to the answers, what themes do you recognize? Answers: cave racers, black fantasy, frogspace, post apoc, and fabuland
If you haven’t seen the recent Cave Racer fad taking over LEGO areas of Flickr, you must be living under a rock. If you haven’t played (or at least recognize) the epic game Portal, you’ve definitely been living under a rock. Well, while trying to survive school, I decided to try my hand at a Continue reading →
Nathan Proudlove has mainly been building amazing hotrods and other vehicles lately, but that doesn’t mean he’s not also a talented space builder. Nathan’s “Lucky Strike” cave racer is blocky and colorful on the front and round, spiky, and black in back. The contrast of color and shape is wonderful. (Via the ever-vigilant Young Spacers.)
@alex_lyman_studios takes us back to that moment on Mustafar in LEGO Star Wars when couch co-op becomes a versus battle as Anakin and Obi-Wan duel it out over pixilated lava as viewed through the HUD of the game.
It’s time to open six more doors and reveal today’s LEGO gifts, along with alt-builds and commentary, in our annual Advent Calendar celebration!
Over on the site, we sit down with spaceship building ace Steve Marsh (@rubblemaker_lego) to talk about his