Tag Archives: Town

Towns in the world of LEGO have everything cities in the real world do — police stations, fire engines, trains, hairdressers and veterinarians. Check out all the beautiful buildings and vehicles we’ve featured here on The Brothers Brick.

LEGO Architecture Space Needle and Empire State Building [News]

UPDATE: The newest LEGO Architecture sets are Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Guggenheim Museum.

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The two newest LEGO Architecture sets are now available from the LEGO Shop.

I’m particularly pleased to find the Seattle Space Needle available, since I see it everyday here in, well, Seattle!

The Empire State Building is another iconic landmark now available as a set:

Update: As the locals in the comments indicate, $20 for our beloved needle seems a bit steep, so Ochre Jelly suggests this one for 30 cents instead! :-D

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The Arvo Brothers boot a Citroën DS

That last post deserves an Arvo chaser.

Not only do the Brothers Arvo create a Citroën DS, they also add a funny little detail — a wheel clamp, or “boot” — that makes sure their gorgeous car can’t get away. Time to pay your parking tickets!

Early 2009 LEGO City Farm sets out now. How now non-brown cow? [News]

The complete series of early 2009 LEGO City Farm sets are now available from the LEGO Shop online.

7637 Farm includes two black-and-white cows, tan fedora, tractor, and more:

7634 Tractor and 7636 Combine Harvester add critical vehicles to your agribusiness:

A hearty “Moo!” to reader kastlekid for the tip.

The Many Poses of Lloyd Whittle

Recently Lloyd Whittle has posted a series of small creations that all feature minifigures in interesting and creative positions, including a swashbuckling pirate:

Beach bullies (the girl’s legs inspired by a creation by Amanda Baldwin):

And a creepy pool scene:

Down the F Market & Wharves Line with Alex Eylar

Alex “Profound Whatever“ Eylar invites us for a ride on his wonderful miniland-scale railcar. Seeing excellent miniland creations like this makes me want to break out from minifig-scale creations and try my hand at something bigger.

It was a three hour tour...[Parody Sets]

Dave Shaddix is working on a beautiful series of Gilligan’s Island creations. Based on episodes from the iconic TV show, they are accompanied by some pretty snazzy box art!

Just a reminder, since the box art looks so authentic, these parody sets don’t actually exist!

Spirit of the Bronx:

Gilligan & the Voodoo Monkey:

You should also check Dave’s MOCpage. Thanks to Heather for the heads up.

Benlego braces for an explosive winter

Benlego presents a couple of winter wonderland scenes about to be interrupted by those rascally Power Miners:

As a bonus, check out this creative shadow puppetry:

And, finally, thanks to the new Castle and Pirate sets, minifigs can finally go fishing properly:

Back Bay Brahmins

The building was nothing special — a little Boston Brownstone I built mainly as filler for the zombie display — so I decided to have a little fun with the presentation.

Check out the full building if you must.

My LEGO fire engine is ready to be apocafied

I’d always admired the great fire engines by Steven Asbury and Ralph Savelsberg, so when I built a fire house for Zombie Apocafest 2008, I knew I needed a fire engine like theirs.

The fire engine seats four and includes various compartments for their equipment. See more photos on MOCpages or Flickr.

Steven Marshall’s Mini Cooper Rally — what more could we possibly want?

Any new LEGO creation from Steven Marshall is a treat, and his lovely new rally Mini Cooper doesn’t disappoint, from the custom stickers on the outside to the stripped-down interior (complete with webbing).

(I am, in fact, watching Top Gear right this moment, both on the TV and here on my computer. Ah, technology…)

Firas’s Lamborghini Gallardo SE is brilliantly insectile, just like the real car

This lovely Lamborghini Gallardo SE by Firas Abu-Jaber has all the qualities of the real thing, from air intakes on the front and the tail lights that wrap onto the rear hood to functional doors and a detailed interior.

(I hereby resolve to quote or allude to Top Gear whenever I blog a LEGO car. Or at least until I’ve tired of doing so.)

Power Miners of the Eastern Bloc

Adam Grabowski (Mister Zumbi) breaks out the bricks and dusts off his photoshop skills to show how AFOLs could do Power Miners if they gave it a go. He presents both the Ursus 1410 (pictured above) and the Belarus Beta (below) as some Soviet inspired (a minor fetish of mine) Power Miners. Aside from the excellent design on these models I have to wholeheartedly endorse his message of “if you don’t like the way it’s done, do it yourself better” (to paraphrase).

Credit to Klocki for finding this one.