The “sword saint” Miyamoto Musashi in LEGO

Ever since LEGO transported the Castle theme to medieval Japan in the ’90s, samurai have inspired countless LEGO builds. @artist_davs pays tribute to perhaps the most famous samurai of all, Miyamoto Musashi, in an incredible LEGO vignette that looks more like a museum diorama than a model built from bricks. Musashi, the famous duelist and philosopher, is uses a minifig head and a cloth-covered brick-built body for realistic proportions. 

Musashi’s armor is as impressive as the man himself, incorporating cloth and string. The tatami floor, made from profile bricks laid on their side, is artfully raised a half tile above the floor. If you’re wondering where the kanji scroll comes from, it’s a sticker from the Hanzo vs Genji set and reads “Dragon Head, Snake Tail.” I don’t think that comes from the Book of Five Rings, but it makes sense that Musashi would display it as he was famously fond of playing Overwatch.

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Heavy haul the American way

Our own Ralph Savelsberg breaks down his take on some of the USA’s hardest working machines.

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A grand finale: The Hollow Knight

In a surprise follow-up to his Bugs of Hallownest series (see our summary here), creature builder extraordinaire Joss Ivanwood (jayfa_mocs) presents the final boss of the original Hollow Knight entry. We’re once again captivated by how well he was able to capture this character, which is also perfectly to scale with the other buggy builds. Continue reading →

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Ekow Nimakow’s mythical turtles swim to a new home on LEGO campus

I’m in Billund this week, representing The Brothers Brick at Fan Media Days, where we’re lucky to get an inside look at what projects LEGO is cooking up for the months to come. As cool as those sneak peeks are, a highlight of this experience has been the chance to see the MOCs on display Continue reading →

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LEGO goth queen reimagines Beauty and the Beast Castle as a vampire château

When LEGO goth queen Pernilla Johansson (legonillan) shows up with her sigfig, you know things are about to get spooky! The Swedish builder found a lot to love about the recent Beauty and the Beast Castle, but the lilac and gold simply would not do for Pernilla’s coterie of vampires and ghouls. In Extreme Makeover: Continue reading →

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Scavenging the wastelands for greebles

Greebles are famously the extraneous bits added to the outside of a model to add texture. Builder Aidan Webb dares to ask, what if a model were nothing but greebles? The Wasteland Strider is inspired by the mechanical wildlife of the Horizon games, with Aidan exploring what a creature might look like if its rider was constantly scavenging for parts to keep the mount functional. As fragile as the beast appears, Aidan managed to wrangle it into a rideable state for a desert nomad and their supplies. It’s an incredible amount of detail for such a compact creature. 

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No Theme? No Problem! A Wild Card Showcase of Minifig Excellence [Minifig Monday]

This week, we’re throwing out the rulebook and smashing the (injection) mould. Welcome to a Wild Card edition on Minifig Monday — a glorious grab-bag of minifigure madness where demons rub shoulders with space police, and chicken hags party with cake golems. You read that right. This week’s featured builders are a masterclass in thinking Continue reading →

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Celebrate National Public Lands Day with the LEGO Park Ranger

In the United States, the fourth Saturday in September is National Public Lands Day – a day of service and celebration for the stewardship of public lands, from community gardens to national parks. It’s a day to give back as well as a chance to visit any of the county’s national parks for free. If Continue reading →

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We can deal with this massive Transformers build

Magnuses don’t get much more Ultra than this 7,000 piece creation by @exquisite_shipmaster

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Journey through the Forgotten Temple

It might be called the Forgotten Temple, but @pickybrickster uses LEGO to bring their world travel memories home with them.

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Surfing through the jungle with this beautiful LEGO butterfly

This incredibly detailed model of a Green Birdwing Butterfly by moptoptrev (@moptoptrev) looks like it just might fly right off the page.

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Pikmin and Pellet Posies make a Perfect Pair

While Mario is busy hogging the spotlight, @neo_mocs brings us a build of a lesser seen Nintendo game that we’d love to see more brick versions of.

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