In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of October 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS This year marks the 20th anniversary of LEGO Batman, and Merch will see the release of a bunch of LEGO sets to celebrate, including a pretty cool Batman logo covered in black and sometimes very, very dark gray greebles. Be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report for more news and features you may have missed.

• [NEWS] LEGO celebrates 20 years of Batman with new Batmobiles and a Bat logo releasing March 2026 — Batmobiles from three movies, and one big logo for your own Bat-signal mark the first wave of sets celebrating 20 years of LEGO Batman.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Bricklink Designer Program Series 6 – Sequoia Tree Trail: Towering beauty — we explored this tribute to some of the most magestic trees on the planet.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• [FEATURE] These Friendshiptember builds are out of this world — The heavy hitters of SHIPtember are forming their armada for the poster, leaving the defence of the galaxy to FriendSHIPs.
• [FEATURE] A symphony of Silksong tributes in LEGO — Some games are so distinct they make perfect subjects for LEGO, like the critically aclaimed sequel to Hollow Knight, Silksong.
• [INTERVIEW] One does not simply make LEGO models of Barad-Dûr this big — A larger collection of black rocks you will not find this side of the Anduin.
• [FEATURE] LEGO pirates make a scene as Umbasa LUG x Brothers Brick contest sails to an end — Ahoy me hearties, pour out some rum for this collection of coarse corsairs.
• [FEATURE] Looks like meat’s back on the menu: 19 custom LEGO orcs — A showcase of slobbering brutes, and other colorful characters inspired by Middle Earth’s most notorious henchmen.

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 1st week of October 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Nintendo fans have a lot to be excited about with the release of the nearly perfect 1:1 replica LEGO 74206 Game Boy, which is already on backorder, proving this thing hits hard with nostalgia. I myself remember playing Pokémon Yellow on my console back in the day, so it’s no wonder the Game Boy set was our TBB Pick of the Month for October.

• [NEWS] October 2025 New LEGO Sets Available Now — Minerals, Gremlins, Consoles, and Death Star Slices, Wednesday Addams, and holiday sets, all available now.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• [FEATURE] We Arrr Family celebrates LEGO pirates of all stripes — Swashbucklers unite with our collection of scurvy dogs from the seven seas and beyond.
• [FEATURE] Incomming fleet detected by long-range scanners – SHIPtember 2025 week 4 — An amazing end to another month of SHIP building by LEGO shipyards around the world.
• [FEATURE] Lino rounds up the classic vehicles that put him on the LEGO automotive map — LEGO car model and TBB contributer Lino rolls out some of his favorite models from his garage.
• [FEATURE] Making magic with mind-bending custom minfigs [Minifig Monday] — Witches, Wizards, and other magic users cast a spell on Minifig Monday

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 4th week of September 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Since the last Brick Report, we have not seen much in the way of official news from LEGO, but we did get a chance to review the Star Wars holiday-themed set, and the LEGO Ideas Mogway Gizmo set, complete with a pair of 3-D glasses. We have also been in Billund all last week for LEGO Fan Media Days, bringing lots of great content to our social media accounts. For even more news and reviews from TBB, be sure to check out our last Brick Report.

• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT: a sweet deal for Life Day — Gingerbread Darth Vader sipping (or slurping) hot chocolate by the fire inside his cozy cookie-themed walker…
• [REVIEW] LEGO Ideas 21361 Gizmo – Mogwai in the Spotlight — With the new release of the Gizmo set, you can break all the rules without worrying about a nasty surprise.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Between SHIPtember and Minifig Mondays, we’ve been featuring a lot of Sci-Fi the last few weeks, and we top that off with an interview with a prolific mecha builder. There’s also a healthy dose of nature, between National Public Lands Day and a showcase on building pastoral LEGO scenes, there’s something for everyone.

• [FEATURE] Meet the 17 artists debuting in the LEGO House Masterpiece Gallery  –– every year a talented mix of AFOLs are selected to have their work displayed in LEGO House for all to see and we were there to talk to the builders for the big reveal.
• [FEATURE] Prepare to launch into SHIPtember, week 3 — SHIPtember is nearing its epic conclusion as we head into our week 3 coverage
• [FEATURE] No Theme? No Problem! A Wild Card Showcase of Minifig Excellence — When it comes to creating custom minifigures and brick-built characters, this wild card edition blurs the lines of LEGO figures.
• [FEATURE] Celebrate National Public Lands Day with the LEGO Park Ranger — Celebrate the beautiful lands of our treasured national parks in LEGO style, with an actual park ranger.
• [FEATURE] Blast off into SHIPtember – week 2 — Catch up with SHIP builders new and old, as we cover the second week in the month-long build challenge.
• [INTERVIEW] Celebrating 10 Years of MOCs with LEGO Mecha Maestro Marco De Bon — Get to know this iconic mecha builder and learn more about his classic anime inspired builds.
• [FEATURE] An Ode to the Goatherd: designing a pastoral LEGO diorama — Take a closer look behind the scenes to find out what it takes to create a compelling story with landscape.
• [FEATURE] Wake up samurai, these Cyberpunk minifigures have the coolest upgrades around [Minifig Monday] — Bionic limbs, bright colors, and edgy characters are essential elements to any good cyberpunk build, and these crafty creations are perfect examples.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 3rd week of August 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Longtime fans of Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise have a lot to get excited about with the announcement of the new LEGO Icons set presenting the Black Pearl, or as LEGO calls it, Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship, the all black cursed ship with the tattered sails which was featured in several of the movies. Another favorite franchise also revealed a new set coming later this year, the adorable Mogwai Gizmo, from the 80s film Gremlins. For even more news and reviews, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report, where we reviewed the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory set, and wrapped up Vingnweek coverage.

• [NEWS] Gremlins’ beloved mogwai is back in bricks! LEGO Ideas 21361 Gizmo revealed for October 1 — This buildable Gizmo has one clear advantage over the original: you don’t have to worry about getting it wet.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Nike 43021 Nike Dunk Trickshot and 43010 Nike Slam Dunk – Double Dribble — LEGO x Nike’s sophomore sets are a curious mix of play and display. We found Trickshot to be a winner, but Slam Dunk is a skunk.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Icons 10365 Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship – A shiny Black Pearl — While the price tag is steep, LEGO’s latest pirate ship is a real jewel.
• [NEWS] The LEGO Group shares earnings report for first half of 2025 – double-digit growth, doubling down on strategic investment — The LEGO Group continues to thrive despite the potential impact of tariffs.
• [NEWS] Set sail again for the Caribbean with LEGO Icons 10365 Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship — Jack Sparrow’s iconic ship gets a hefty upgrade, and a hefty price to match.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Many of us here at The Brothers Brick have been working on builds to contribute to our Steampunk-themed worlds fair collaborative display which we are sponsoring for BrickCon 2025, the longest running LEGO fan convention in the country! We hope to see some of our readers participate in the display as well as at the public convention days… be sure to stop by if you are planning to attend, or even better, bring a model of your own to add to the display. If you are a registered attendee, and have a steampunk-themed build, just select TBB Royal Exhibition 1898 when you register your MOC (My Own Creation) and we’ll see you there. For more information, check out our announcement post.

• [FEATURE] Happy Plant Madness takes cuteness to strange new places — One of the cutest display sets in my collection, the Happy Plants set has inspired all manner of humorous and innovative builds.
• [FEATURE] Celebrate Silksong with these LEGO Hollow Knight tributes –  With Silksong launching next week, we gather up some of our favorite Hollow Knight LEGO builds from the first Team Cherry game.
• [FEATURE] Get ready to showdown with these LEGO samurai, ninja, and cyber-ronin — Ninjas, Samurai, Ronin, these fierce warriors are both bold and stealthy, ancient and modern, honorable and ruthless.
• [FEATURE] Last call for contributions to the Royal Exhibition 1898 – our LEGO steampunk collaboration at BrickCon 2025 — If you are planning to attend the BrickCon 2025 private convention, we’d love to have you participate in our Steampunk World’s Fair collaborative display. Or just drop by and say hi!

OTHER NEWS

• Pick a Brick: Standard bricks service halted in North America [New Elementary] – The removal of the De Minimis exemption means LEGO is no longer shipping Pick-a-Brick orders to North America that had been fulfilled from European warehouses.
• This Week in Bricks [YouTube] – ABrickDreamer provides a weekly video survey of amazing builds and stories from the AFOL community. Always worth watching!
• tinybrick.world – Dan Ko’s new website with Free LEGO Instructions – Dan Ko, a prolific MOC builder and BrickNerd contributor, is a wizard with miniature character builds and NPU. Now he has created a website to share free instructions with Bricklink parts lists. Visit our Dan Ko archives to see some of his wonderful wee builds.

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 3rd week of August 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS Is it just me, or did the announcement of the new LEGO Ideas Willy Wonka set come out of nowhere this week? Not only did we get a news announcement, but the next day, a full review of this set, which seems to combine the original Gene Wilder movie with the Johnny Depp reboot from 2005 for inspiration. We also learned about the latest LEGO Batman game, which is set to release next year and covers a wide range of source material surrounding the Dark Knight. If you’re looking for more LEGO news and reviews, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report.

• [REVIEW] LEGO Ideas 21360 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Candy is dandy but plastic’s fantastic — Unwrap your golden ticket with our in-depth review of the latest LEGO Ideas set.
• [NEWS] Adapting a sweet idea into LEGO 21360 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory took more than pure imagination — You can almost hear the Oompa Loompas singing as they dance through the chocolate factory.
• [NEWS] Traveler’s Tales LEGO Batman returns, goes hard — The latest LEGO Batman game journeys through the Christopher Nolan trilogy, as well as many other origin stories in this new video game due out next year.

One of the builds to be included in our TBB Collab at BrickCon 2025.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• Announcing TBB’s Steampunk collaborative display at BrickCon 2025 [NEWS] Just a reminder of TBB’s Steampunk collaborative display at BrickCon 2025, Royal Exhibition 1898 — If you are planning to attend BrickCon 2025 in Bellevue, Wa, and you have a steampunk build, you can join in on the display just by sellecting the TBB collab when you register your MOC.
• [FEATURE] Nature reclaims all as Vignette Week comes to a close — Our coverage of Vignette week comes to a close with the appropriate theme of nature reclaiming evidence of mankind’s existence.
• [FEATURE] Creating a new castle faction with the Minifigure Factory — Our guest contributor Brennen checked out the new Minifig Factory service from LEGO to craft a poultry knight.
• [FEATURE] Marvel at this Legion of Extraordinary Superhero Minfigs — Capturing that X-factor can be a challenge, but this week’s Minifig Monday builds did just that with Mutants from the X-Men universe.
• [FEATURE] We’re head over heels for Vignweek’s day 5 upside down builds — Building on the theme upside down, creators of these entries for Vignette week were certainly topsy-turvy with creative interpretations.

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of August 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS This last week may have been light on news, but it was big on features, with the first part of our daily roundups for Vignette week, with colorful builds daily based on a single word prompt. Also, to celebrate just how awesome everyone is, we reminded our readers that the colorful and inclusive set LEGO 40516 Everyone is Awesome is still available for purchase on LEGO.com, four years after its release. Just imagine for a moment just how bland life would be if LEGO elements were only available in limited colors… This iconic set celebrates the magic of accepting everyone as they are. For even more news and reviews, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report.

• [NEWS] Everyone is Awesome set still available, still essential — The best source for multiple minifigs in a rainbow of colors, this set is an awesome pic, even after 4 years.
• [EDITORIAL] LEGO reveals two new NIKE sets, further blurring the line between play and advertising — Creative branding, or cash grab? The latest sets from LEGO + Nike team-up.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Over the past few days, we have been showcasing some of our favorite builds created for Vignweek, and we’re only halfway through. Already, the one-word prompts, such as momochromatic and nautical, have inspired some truly eye-catching builds, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the week reveals.

• [FEATURE] Beyond the spider-verse – these creepy fantasy minifigs and creature builds will catch you in their web — The more legs the merrier with these creepy, crawly creations inspired by arachnids.
• [FEATURE] Huzzah, LEGO Castle fans! Your Summer Joust 2025 winners have been crowned — One of the busiest LEGO-building contests of the summer has just announced the winning entries.
• [FEATURE] Returning to Medina Al Musawrah – the massive Middle Eastern city collab from LEGO legends — A truly stunning collaborative build of a city filled with delightful details.
• [FEATURE] Digging up some awesome LEGO vignettes as Vignweek 2025 kicks off — Uncover our favorite archeological builds from the first day of Vignette week.
• [FEATURE] Vignweek Day 2: Color us impressed with these monochrome creations — If you thought monochromatic minifig habitats were cool, check out these scenes built using only one visible color.
• [FEATURE] Fishing up some amazing nautical LEGO scenes from Vignweek Day 3 –Dive deep into the latest round of LEGO vignettes built around the prompt: Nautical.
• [FEATURE] Life is a LEGO highway as Vignweek Day 4 goes road tripping — The intrepid vignweek builders hit the road with vignettes themed around travel.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 1st week of August 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS While the week was a bit light on news and reviews, we did feature a review of the One Piece minifigures available now, and the latest LEGO Ideas set, Italian Riviera, which was announced in late July, is available now for LEGO insiders to satisfy your LEGO modular cravings until later this year. You can keep the review magic alive with last week’s Brick Report.

• [REVIEW] Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate fig look-see! A custom minifig creator reviews the new One Piece Minifigs — Our TBB Guest Reviewer breaks down a collection of One Piece minifigures from the new wave of sets announced earlier this year.



TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Hey TBB readers… if you plan to attend BrickCon Seattle this September, and you want to join us in our Steampunk Collaborative display, be sure to check out our announcement post. We’re putting together a steampunk world’s fair, we’re calling Royal Exposition 1898. We posted some standards in the announcement post, along with a link to the Discord server for more information.

• [FEATURE] Learn how to master Brick-Built Water with this free LEGO ebook from Exe Sandbox — This free water-building guide is full of great ideas for your next custom LEGO creation.
• [FEATURE] Now this is Pod Racing! The most wizard LEGO Pod Racers in the galaxy — It may not be Boonta Eve yet, but any time of year is a good time for podracing.
• [FEATURE] Minifig Monday: These golden K-Pop Demon Hunter LEGO creations are sweet as soda pop — The hit Netflix movie K-Pop Demon Hunters was full of colorful characters, many of which have been re-created in LEGO and featured in a unique look.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 4th week of July 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS This week, we had a few reviews from the Creator line, including a neat new version of the Kingdom Joust set. A new excavator from the Technic theme, and an update to the 2014 MTT with Separatist colors. We also announced our TBB-sponsored collaborative display at Brickcon 2025, a steampunk-style world’s fair. Keep reading for more news and reviews in week’s Brick Report.

• [NEWS] August LEGO Star Wars sets and Soundwave now available — Catch up on August’s additions to the Star Wars and Transformers lines, in a busy month of releases.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31167 Haunted Mansion: Ghosts, graveyards, and ghoulish monsters — Three ghastly, ghoulish builds in one set.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31168 Medieval Horse Knight Castle: A kingdom of versatility — A new castle set featuring what may be a new faction, Horse Knights.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Technic 42215 Volvo EC500 Hybrid Excavator – Worth its weight? — A stocky new excavator with plenty of features.
• [NEWS] Announcing TBB’s Steampunk collaborative display at BrickCon 2025 — We’re hosting a collaborative display at Brickcon 2025 in September in TBB’s home territory. Check out our announcement post, and the new channel on discord
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 74535 Battle of Felucia Separatist MTT — We got a good look at the new MTT, and compared it to the previous version in our full review.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• [INTERVIEW] Zen and the art of building LEGO Castles with Cathedral of Bricks — We sat down for a chat with Luke, a builder who came to LEGO later in life and is making waves with impressive castle builds.
• [INTERVIEW] Bricks of questionable character: We chat with internet phenom, Iain Heath — TBB talked with alum and internet-famous meme-builder Iain Heath about his creations and the state of the LEGO landscape.

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 4th week of July 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS From musicals to gaming to comic books, what a wild and wacky week we’ve had. DC fans have a lot to get excited about with the latest modular featuring Gotham City’s famous prison for the criminally insane. Netflix celebrates the return to Hawkins, Indiana, and the Upside Down with a new 5-pack of BrickHeadz. Oz and the Emerald City return to LEGO with a new mixed-scale diorama, and retro gamers get ready for nostalgia with a 1:1 scale model of the Game Boy handheld game console. Still here? then check out last week’s Brick Report for even mkore news and revews from TBB.

• [NEWS] LEGO celebrates upcoming season 5 of Stranger Things with Brickheadz four-pack — After 4 seasons, and in anticipation of the 5th and final season premiering later this year, we finally get the whole gang of basement D&D playing friends.
• [NEWS] LEGO Gotham City expands with 16-minifigure-strong 76300 Arkham Asylum — Batman and friends are giving the X-Mansion a run for the money in this fig-filled modular set.
• [NEWS] Wizard of Oz’s Emerald City gets the LEGO treatment as part of Wicked wave of sets — With the second part of the movie adaptation of the musical adaptation of the book hitting theaters this fall, Wicked fans get an interesting scene that feels like it can’t make up it’s mind if its a playset or a display set, or both.
• [NEWS] Re-live your handheld gaming days with new LEGO Game Boy — A way more affordable Nintendo console LEGO set… but no Pokemon yellow?
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75432 V-19 Torrent Starfighter: Republic repeat — A new version of one of the Clone War’s more interessting starfighters IMO. The V-19 Torrent!
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75431 – 327th Star Corps Clone Troopers Battle Pack — What may be one of the last battle packs we get, if rumors are to be believed. While most collectors have plenty of B-2 battle droide by now, this collection of Star Corp troopers is sure to be popular.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• [INTERVIEW] Engineering for excellence – the Star Wars builds of Jürgen Wittner — TBB chatted with one of my favorite Star Wars LEGO builders, with attention to detail that is galaxies above the average.
• [INTERVIEW] Building on the wild side with rising MOC star Hodgepodge Builds — TBB “sat down” with an up-and-coming MOC builder to learn more about their journey.
• [INSTRUCTIONS] Build your own Star Wars AT-RT Scout Walker with these free instructions from Creativbricks — With this year being the 30th anniversay of Star Wars Episode III: Reveng of the Sith, you can build your very own AT-RT.

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 3rd week of July 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS This week was a mix of Star Wars, with a return to the prequels featuring Jango Fett’s starship, Architecture, which brought us one of the most iconic real-world castles, Icons, which revealed a charming sea-side village, and the Dark Knight with a Batmobile from perhaps the most over-the-top Batman movie of that era, Batman Forever. For even more news and reviews, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report, and you can also catch A Brick Dreamer’s weekly recap of LEGO creations on their YouTube channel

• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75433 Jango Fett’s Starship: Slave I 2: Electric Boogaloo — How does the latest version of this iconic starship measure up?
• [REVIEW] LEGO Architecture 21063 Neuschwanstein Castle – Bavarian Cream of the Crop — Fairy tales come to life with this beautiful model of a most inspirational castle nestled in the Bavarian forests.
• [NEWS] Ciao! LEGO Ideas travels to the Mediterranean with 21359 Italian Riviera — A perfect place to sit by the sea sipping espresso or enjoying a gelatto.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75414 The Force Burner Snowspeeder – Bringing chaos and cool to a galaxy far, far away — The fast and furious mash-up of a classic speeder and a hot rod.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Batman 76304 Batman Forever Batmobile – Bricks love the car — Certainly one of the most ostentatious versions of the usually sleek and streamlined Batmobile since the original 60’s version.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS Our coverage of the charming contest Heroes of Fur and Feather, which combines Animal Crossing with Dungeons & Dragons comes to a close with the winning entry. This has been one of the most enjoyable contest to follow, and I’m sad to see it end. Hopefully this event will inspire other storytellers to create their own grand adventure.

• [FEATURE] Our top 10 favorite LEGO creations of 2025 thus far — We look back over the first half of the year to revisit some of our favorite creations of 2025
• [FEATURE] Heroes of Fur and Feather Grand Prize Winner – Ben Grayson’s adventures of Priscilla Bramblewhisk — Of all the heroes and their stories we have featured over the last 3 weeks, one hero rises above the rest, with the announcment of the grand prize winning entry.
• [INTERVIEW] Building The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’s open world in LEGO with BDD Builds — We talked with the creator of some stunning Skyrim locations.
• [FEATURE] Bounty Hunters, Troopers, and Droids – oh my! — Star Wars is the inspiration for this week’s Minifig Monday, with some amazing custom characters inspired by the franchise.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of July 2025.

TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS We feasted on LEGO Star Wars last week, with a bunch of new sets announced, including the highly anticipated AT-ST UCS set that looks to add tons of great details to the classic chicken walker. This week, we get a robot from another franchise, the latest Transformer to join the lineup. Soundwave and his two cassette tape pets were one of those toys that I played with so much that I broke both of the mini-bots from repeated transforming. And while K2-SO may not be the droids the Empire was looking for, He has been eagerly awaited since the Disney+ series Andor brought so many characters from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story back to mind. Still hungry for more LEGO news? Sink yer teeth into last week’s Brick Report for a tasty snack.

• [NEWS] Summer Faction Festival invites you to show your true space colors — A new summer building contest based on classic space themes with a colorful twist…the summer music festival!
• [NEWS] LEGO Transformers enters its villain era with fan-favorite Soundwave, complete with sound functions, Ravage, and Laserbeak — The first Decepticon in the LEGO Transformers theme comes with 2 bonus bots, and a boom box to get the party started.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75434 K-2SO Security Droid – Good enough to parade before the Emperor — Erasing all doubts about his value, K2-SO joins the lineup of buildable droids, even if the scale is a bit off.
• [REVIEW] LEGO Star Wars 75417 AT-ST Walker: does the latest UCS set walk the walk? — The latest UCS set from Star Wars brings some awesome upgrades to previous versions of the walker, including a detailed interior with two seats.

TBB FEATURES & INTERVIEWS We interviewed another LEGO builder from the community, and got round three of the most adorable mash-up ever with more Animal Crossing characters re-imagined as Dungeons & Dragons adventurers.

• [INTERVIEW] Sleeps With LEGO dreams of telling stories with friends and LEGO sigfigs, one stitch at a time — LEGO minifigures wearing tiny crocheted sweaters? The surprising combination of hobbies in this weeks interview.
• [FEATURE] This Week in LEGO Bricks: Shuffling cards and crabs — Check out this week’s recap of some of the internet’s most interesting LEGO creations, by A Brick Dreamer
• [CONTEST] Heroes of Fur and Feather Challenge 3: Heart and Darkness — Easily my favorite contest of recent years… there is sooo much to love about these custom character scenes.

Read all the rest of the LEGO news from around the web