Tag Archives: Jean-Philippe Leroux

Go gorillas for this feel-good LEGO build

When you see LEGO creations featured on the Brothers Brick, they’re normally no more than a few days old. But we can’t see them all – and some excellent creations do slip through our net. Happily, though, we’ve recently discovered Jean-Philippe Leroux‘s superb floating windmill, built a little over three months ago! But this isn’t any windmill: this is a vessel known to Gorillaz fans as the Slowboat. Even if you’re not a Gorillaz guru, you’ll probably still recognise it from the Feel Good, Inc. and El Manana music videos. The album from whence those songs came – Demon Days – is celebrating its 20th birthday today, so that makes our discovery of J-P’s build very timely indeed!

We’re going to give our Demon Days record another spin, but while that plays out, why not see what other musical builds have featured on the Brothers Brick down the years?

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Massive LEGO spaceship is over 5 feet long

Canadian LEGO builder Jean-Philippe Leroux has built a massive LEGO spaceship with a suitably impressive name! The Empress took over 24,000 parts to build and weighs over 43 pounds. If you like sci-fi bits and bobs, The Empress has it in spades; so let’s look at the engines back to front. For sports fans its got minifig skis and snowboards. For the handy-folk there’s saws. After the robot arms, there’s stud shooters and the old 1×8 bar. Finally, towards the front, there are robot binoculars and zipline handles. And that’s just the engines!

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Planes, trains, and LEGO builds

If you love Italy and/or railway architecture, look no further than this lovely LEGO creation by Jean-Philippe Leroux! Leroux has captured the elegance of the Italian railway bridge, the Viaduct of San Bartolomeo, built in the late 1960s. Leroux has used stacked 2×2 jumper tiles to add the layered texture to all of the pillars, and notice how all the slopes at the base of the pillars are actually 2×3 slopes on their sides? That’s what allows Leroux to “embed” the arches in between the wider supports. Great work on that micro-scale plane too! I can’t imagine he’s used more than ten parts to build it! I’m also excited to see the multiple colors on the outside of the diorama representing the different geological layers; I’d say it really grounds the build!

If you need me I’ll be in the garage

Say what you will, but fall is the best seasons for road trips. And since every trip starts from the garage door, Canadian LEGO fan and builder Jean-Philippe Leroux opens for us the doors of his newest build. Apart from perfect autumn mood of the corner, the build allured me with just perfect amount of weathering: a sheet of old newspaper in the window, dry grass, and some old rubbish by the windows. What a beauty!

But it becomes really cozy when you look inside the garage! With the wall swung open, the garage reveals “perfectly cluttered” interior full of neatest elements. What official sets does it remind you about?