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Minifigs of Spooky Season: The Final Nightmare [Minifig Monday]

Halloween is over, so it’s time to retire the jack-o-lanterns and put away the ghosts and plastic spiders (unless you’re in Australia, in which case it’s just spiders all the time). But before we close the book on spooky season, let’s take one last look back at the chilling minifig creations with costumes and creatures!

Let’s jolt things to life with this incredible take on Frankenstein and the Monster from Garret (2p_figs). These are characters that have been recreated so many times in LEGO, but Garret makes them his own with some brilliant choices, like using Nute Gunray’s head for the monster’s face and Tasha’s buckle-heavy torso for the doctor. Incredible staging too!

frankytea_lego creates a grizzly scene from the dark corners of Fleet Street. I hear the pies there are delicious!

Love The Addams Family and Wednesday but aren’t a fan of minidolls? gcbricks recreates the altogether ooky family as minifigs. My favorites are Cousin Itt and the uncannily perfect Fester made from Gru minifig with the eyebrows erased. Of course Wendsday brings her friend Thing…

Our Spooky Season roundup concludes after the break

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Quoth the raven, MORE GREEBLES!

LEGO might be more commonly associated with three-dimensional models, but in recent years, the medium has seen an explosion of creativity around mosaics. While mosaics can be flat and tile-based, many builders play with texture and layering in ways that add depth. Greeble Mosaics take that to the extreme, adding large vertical elements, or even whole scenes, that dissolve into a painterly texture when seen from a distance. GothGirlBricks, a frequent mosaic builder, created her first greeble mosaic this Halloween and the results are spectacular.

The builder started the project four weeks ago with a flat base layer of the raven and skull. While ravens may be “black,” there’s an iridescence to the feathers that she brings out with color highlights in the pink and blue spectrum.

Up close you can see so many parts that GothGirlBricks brings into the model – especially the animals! I see spiders, kittens, owls, butterflies, and even an octopus in the mix!

For builders who would like to try making a greeble mosaic but with instructions and parts, LEGO’s Milky Way set is a good way to try your hand at this immersive style. You can also check out the breathtaking work of Gerardo Pontierr, an artist whose work is currently on display in LEGO House in Billund.

Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky- and that’s just their butler!

Right on the tail end of delighting us with this LEGO Zombie-fied dinosaur and Mothman, lightning strikes again as Trevor Pearson-Jones builds Lurch from The Addams Family. At 6′ 9″, the stoic, emotionless giant strikes an imposing figure, but is a gentle soul and protector of the Addams Family, particularly the children. He is often tasked with doing the family’s menial chores, like dumping hot oil on Christmas carolers, but does it with an air of professionalism and formality. The big fellah doesn’t say much, as it turns out, but how can you not love that misshapen face?

Building Beauty and Decay in LEGO: An Interview with Dark Dreamlands

The word “fantasy” often brings to mind pristine castles, shining armour, and impossibly lush flowerbeds. Today’s guest, however, is a builder who prefers to find beauty in the shadows. Alexander, aka dark_dreamlands, is the mind behind “Plague Town”, an 18th-century city of crumbling cathedrals, grisly guillotines, and an all-consuming deadly plague.

Alexander’s regular updates to the architecture and inhabitants of Plague Town has helped inspire a rising trend of dark fantasy creations in corners of LEGO fandom. We are thrilled to take the grand tour with him and find out how to craft melancholy in a hobby so commonly associated with glee.

Our interview with Dark Dreamlands follows

Scarily good DUPLO celebrations of Halloween

LEGO’s big bricks for small hands, DUPLO, doesn’t often feature in AFOL builds unless it’s as filler under the terrain of a giant diorama, a challenging seed part for Iron Builders, or you’re Djokson and there are no rules. For Japanese builder Haru Takatsugu, DUPLO has become the medium of choice for 5 years of MOCs, with the builder recreating everything from lifelike sushi to a recreation of the Spirited Away bathhouse. Halloween builds are especially challenging, given how few DUPLO sets feature black bricks, but Haru has managed to amass enough to make spooky black creations an annual tradition.

Most impressive is the builder’s haunted house from two years back which features a full interior for a poltergeist party.

Some of these DUPLO figures and accessories are exceedingly rare, like the skeleton that appeared in a single set back in 2006 and is almost impossible to find on the secondary market. If you’re wondering who that strange onion-headed figure is, it’s Spud from Bob the Builder, a living scarecrow who is truly the stuff of nightmares.

Little Shop of Horrors meets LEGO Belville as Audrey II turns over a new leaf

LEGO’s Belville dolls are such strange and wonderful creations – a product of the late ’90s that looks like they came from a much earlier decade – which is probably why the dolls work so well in the amazing nostalgia-steeped dioramas of Victoria Worsley. They’re especially perfect in Victoria’s homage to ’60s set Little Shop of Horrors where she depicts the climactic confrontation as Seymore suddenly stands up to the alien plant. The larger scale allows ample space for potted plants, and of course, the diva plant herself, Audrey II. Hero Factory cocoon shells work perfectly for the petals around Audrey II’s mouth.

Flip the scene around and you can see what happened to demented dentist Orin Scrivello. His ride is the conveniently scaled Creator 3-in-1 Vintage Motorcycle. It’s great to see the Fabuland garbage bin is capable of holding severed limbs.

Victoria’s model is currently on display in the lobby of the LEGO Campus in Billund, along with her darkly delightful Belville tribute to the wives of Henry VIII.

Moko’s latest CUBE-ROBO squares off against Halloween

Mecha master Moko gets into the Halloween spirit with the 14th entry into the builder’s CUBE-ROBO series. At first glance, it’s a cute cubic Jack-O’-Lantern, but like the 13 bots that precede it, the model holds a secret. With a few deft tugs and swivels, it transforms into an impressive and articulated mech!

As Moko explains in their blog, the model began with the cube form, so the robot’s humanoid frame inherited the triangular “head,” which lends the mech an insectoid appearance. Moko leans into the bug-quality with pincher claws.

Fourteen transforming cubes is impressive, but it’s just the start of what Moko dreams of being a set of 100. Although the builder notes that at the current rate, getting to that ambitious target will take more than one lifetime. Here’s hoping Moko is able to square that dream!

You can see Moko tranform the model in real time here:

LEGO Haunted Houses of all sizes to usher in Halloween Week

Builder Kat (klegofan3000) loves celebrating holidays with LEGO creations and challenges, especially Halloween! Over the past three years, she’s built a haunted house or two to ring in Spooky Season. Our favorite is this maniacal mansion brimming with teeth, eyes, and tentacles. The combination of lavenders and greyscale is such a fun Halloween palette and is shared across more of her builds.

Kat’s latest haunted house is a more grounded affair with just a hint of purple. Here, she showcases her talent for mosaics (Kat’s regular star of #mosaicsonmonday) with a cheese slope design under the door and a deft use of tiles and textures throughout. The house is in line with the builder’s other architecture builds, like this modern beauty.

Speaking of mosaics, Kat also also brings her favorite subject and colors to two-dimensions for an all-tile take. Happy haunting,

Finally, we present Kat’s smallest houses of all in this clever forced perspective scene from Hocus Pocus created for the Halloween Habitats challenge.

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 popping pustules takes the creepy cake. Excellent use of the Blacktron mutant CMF legs.

Zakar.ion gets into the Halloween spirit with The Grove’s Curse. Apparently the pumpkin patch got tired of getting carved up and decided to uproot and do some carving of its own!

_motherofcatdragons_ gets medieval with a perfect plague doctor. The Kubaz mask is a little bit creepy no matter what galaxy you’re from.

It’s a nightmare on minifig street after the jump!

Six years in the making, this massive 25,000+ brick haunted house is spookily spectacular [Feature]

From Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion to the clanking metal doors of the midway ghost ride, haunted houses are the best part of any theme park. Tomáš Kašpařík reminds us why, with this incredible 25,000+ piece tribute to spooky amusements. The model debuted at Skærbæk Fan Weekend last month, where we had a chance to explore the display in person.
To make it easier to transport, the model is divided into two sections – the spooky ride queue, with winding lines and a few interior set pieces – and the ride itself, a two-story motorized build. While the physical build is new, the design itself started six years ago as a collab with Jason Pyett of Playwell Bricks. We asked Tomáš about how this project came together and he was gracious enough to share his story:

It all started in March 2019 when I decided I want to build a LEGO Haunted house just like the real thing in theme parks, with carts where people (in this case minifigures) can sit in and enjoy the ride. As you can see from my other builds I am a big theme park fan :-)

Tomáš continues the story of this haunted collab after the break

Celebrate Halloween the Not-So-Scary way with legonano’s Disney tributes

Japanese builder legonano specializes in tiny LEGO tributes to all things Disney. With Halloween fast approaching, legonano has curated a selection of iconic villains for a Not-So-Scary display. The builder has created 164 mosaic tiles in her Disney series, establishing her own visual language for adapting beloved characters.

Also featured in her Halloween tableau is legonano’s miniature take on the Haunted Mansion, the latest in the builder’s series of Disneyland ride vignettes. The front of the facade captures the New Orleans Square landmark, while the back features some hitchhiking ghosts and a heart-stopping rendition of the bride.

A selection of legonano’s creations were previously featured in LEGO House’s Masterpiece Gallery, delighting kids and Disney Adults in Billund last year.

Minifigs of spooky season – the first omen [Minifig Monday]

Throughout October, spooky builds take over LEGO feeds like a Spirit Halloween store. With so many eerily good costumes and creepy characters this month, we thought it would be a treat to summon the specters early for a month of monstrous madness!

ASortaOkayBuilder kicks things off with Manny, the skeletal bard. Equipped with Héctor’s guitar from Coco and a trans neon green ectoplasmic flourish, this swashbuckling is the perfect minifig to lead us to the lands of the dead.

Captain Dark Shark captures footage of paranormal activity in medieval times. Created for the newly launched Graymane Guild Role-Play community, this haunting is sure to kick of an epic quest when the villager enlists magical help to solve the Ahsenhollow curse.

Anotherlegoaccount has been going through the decades capturing obscure horror films you’ve probably never heard of, like the obscure 1979 Soviet sci-fi thriller “In Space” with its hideous Extroform. The scene with the mandroid was terrifying. I’m just glad the dog survives.

Trick or treat? Spooky Halloween and horror minifigs continue after the fold