Xethral, Legacy of the Vanished, where ancient secrets slumber
@bart.dedobbelaer takes us to the lost civilization of Xethral with another stunning alien monument in LEGO.
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Hey you guys! LEGO reveals 21363 The Goonies, complete with 12 minifigures and lots of booty traps [News]
Goonies never say die. Especially when there’s still a chance for a comeback in LEGO form! Available on November 1, LEGO Ideas 21363 The Goonies turns the beloved ’80s classic adventure film into an elaborate 18+ playset based on a fan design from Vaggelis Ntezes. One side of the model shows One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship, Continue reading →
Builder Aesstog mixes Bionicle, bricks, and textiles to create stunning Souls-like Knights and Nightmares
The dark fantasy aesthetic of games like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and the Witcher have cast a huge shadow on the minifig community in recent years, but perhaps the most Souls-like character models I’ve ever seen are at constraction-scale. Noted knight enthusiast and “occasional moccist” Aesstog has been creating Bionicle-based characters inspired by FromSoftware’s aesthetics. Continue reading →
Green antlers for leaves. Grey trunk potted in a tire. It’s LEGO Bonsai.
@jimbagginslego has always been a strong LEGO arborist, finding new ways to create bark, branch, and foliage from interesting parts. After a busy 2024, the builder has been on a MOC hiatus, but Isaiah found time to get back to his roots with a fabulous bonsai pine. This tree uses almost exclusively green antlers for the leaves, perched elegantly on greeble branches.
Poké-builders celebrate the release of Pokémon Z-A with Mega Evolutions in LEGO
If you want to be the very best trainer, it’s not enough to collect ’em all anymore. It’s not even enough to evolve your Pocket Monsters. These days, to be the best there ever was, you have to MEGA Evolve those Pokémon. In celebration of last week’s release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A on the Nintendo Continue reading →
Party like it’s 2002 with Bob DeQuatre’s latest Neo-Ice Planet creations
Blacktron might be the most popular Classic Space subtheme in numbers, but all the cool kids stan Ice Planet 2002. It has amazing colors, chainsaws, and courtesy of the CMF space series, penguins in space suits. Bob DeQuatre heats up the Ice Planet Renaissance with his latest retro tribute, the Ice Falcon. The classic color Continue reading →
A humble medieval home with waterfront views
Joel Tyer titles this medieval structure a “humble dwelling,” but when it comes to building techniques, there’s much to crow about. The rounded tiles in the brickwork, both 1x1s stacked within the wall and 2x1s applied to the exterior, add a stylized texture without getting messy. Similarly, the slope of the roof tiles is clean Continue reading →
Looking for a job? LEGO Yubaba is always hiring
Yubaba, the witchy proprietress of the bathhouse in Spirited Away, is my favorite type of villain: powerful, grandiose, nasty without being evil. Yubaba has a big head to match her ego, which makes the character the perfect subject for builder Rokan Cheung, who specializes in creating character busts in LEGO. The builder sets the character Continue reading →
Mooncakes and tea under a fish lantern’s glow – Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in LEGO
While in much of the world, October is spent getting in the Halloween spirit, in much of Asia, the month aligns with the Mid-Autumn Festival (it fell on October 6th this year), when mooncakes and tea are enjoyed to honor ancestors. Khang Huynh celebrates the festival with traditional cakes and tea alongside a Vietnamese-style fish Continue reading →
Bricknap’s LEGO spacecraft paint a colorful, cyberpunk-cool future
LEGO Spaceships don’t need to be 100+ studs long to amaze. Oftentimes, it’s the crazy angles, color blocking, and creative use of parts at a smaller starfighter scale that hit like a supernova. Take the KLR-420 starfighter from French builder Fabien (bricknap), a craft so dense with fun detail it’s dizzying. Fabian first started designing Continue reading →
LEGO Trogdor comes in the night to burninate your peasants
In the pantheon of great dragons, you have Smaug, Falcor, King Gidorah, Toothless, and of course, Puff the Magic, but all of these legendary beasts pale in comparison to the greatest dragon-man of all: Trogdor, the Burninator. Trogdor was introduced to the world back in 2001 with Strongbad Email #58, one of the greatest memes Continue reading →
Minifigs of spooky season – Return of the living bricks [Minifig Monday]
We’re back for a second roundup of Halloween minifigs, ranging from slightly spooky to downright terrifying. Warning – some of these get pretty dark! Our cover image goes to 2brickmonsters who breaks out the trans neon green for an oozy splatterfest. There’s so much creative parts usage on display, but I think the green crowns as Continue reading →