Bonsai in bloom or a minifig vignette?
This beautiful bonsai from Denil Oh (@deniloh85)joined a LEGO-hosted Botanicals event in Kuala Lumpur. We’re enchanted by the grey and pink tree.
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Bottoms up, we’re getting brickfaced!
TBB’s own Kimberly Giffen (@k_giffen_creates) gets the weekend started right with a tropical LEGO libation
LEGO Icons 10365 USS Enterprise: a ship worthy of the name [Review]
Reviewer’s log, stardate -297548.10*. A curious missive appeared on the bridge today: a new Starfleet vessel has been sent to us for appraisal. Its designation? LEGO Icons 10365 USS Enterprise. This is not a starship in the conventional sense. It consists not of tritanium or duranium, but of plastic bricks – 3,600 of them, in Continue reading →
Cowboys and Dinosaurs make for a very wild west
Builder Martin Dasnoy (@md_brickstudio) blends cowboys and dinosaurs with a series of “Jurassic West” builds featuring wonderful brick-built LEGO dinos.
You’ve got chainmail!
LEGO Castle sets have offered plenty of armor options for your medieval knight minifigs, from pauldrons to full plate, but while mail has been available on printed toro, the company hasn’t figured out how to deliver the supple weave of a true chainmail experience. Hamilton Whitney (@the_brick_hamster) solves the minifig chainmail problem by working with a really big head – one of the sorting bin variety!
Visit Kyoto’s Gion district in LEGO
Meredith Najewicz takes us back to Japan’s Edo era with a miniland-scale scene of meiko in Gion, Kyoto’s geisha district. This larger scale allows for beautiful architectural detail and clever techniques, like the rooftops made from garage door panels, and wood texture from stacked spiral staircase axles.
LEGO sets phasers for stunning on Black Friday with 3,600 piece Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
Star Trek, the final frontier of fandom, is coming at last to LEGO this month with the Black Friday release of LEGO Icons 10356 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 3,600 piece set is designed by Hans B. Schlömer (no stranger to big ships, having also designed the Millennium Falcon and Continue reading →
The Tengu Temple above the Clouds
Drawing on Japanese Mythology, @pickybrickster shares a beautifully constructed Tengu temple high above the clouds with a gripping backstory. The various techniques used to build the rock foundation and the surrounding clouds work really well together, especially highlighting the smoothness of the clouds in contrast with the jagged rocks.
Celebrate 15 years of LEGO Ninjago with fantastic Four Weapons Blacksmith [News]
To celebrate 15 years of Ninjago, LEGO is planning a year of surprises, starting with a set honoring the very beginning of the Ninjago story: 71858 Four Weapons Blacksmith, available on January 1, 2026.
Little Tykes for big dreamers
If you have memories of tooting around in a little red coupe with a yellow roof, and headlight eyes, you were one lucky kid! The Little Tykes Cozy Coop was the ride of choice for the preschool set… at least until you were old enough to see Power Wheels commercials. @nikifilik pays tribute to the ubiquitous kiddie car scaled up for a grown-up minifig. Just look at Bubba Blaster – he couldn’t be happier!
SEGA’s Sonic and Tails soar on this stunning Tornado MOC
Sonic fan and LEGO vehicle impresario Sérgio Batista recreates the Tornado biplane from Sonic & Knuckles, outfitted with Tail’s turbo boosting rocket in lovely chrome.
Bringing back the Ma.K
Every year, it seems like we have more and more monthly themes and building challenges in the LEGO community. Febrovery, SHIPtember, Frogust, and the new NovHENber, to name a few. Sometimes it seems like a trend has always been around and always will be… until it’s not. Ma.Ktober used to be a huge event in the community and one that TBB would cover excitedly each year, but for the last decade, the Ma.K is an endangered species. Gone, but not quite forgotten thanks to builders like Redbirch, who is bringing Ma.K back with the Wanze Box, a recon and espionage walker.