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.

Announcing the LUGNuts Heroes and Villains building challenge

Lino Martins says, “Everyone knows Batman has all the coolest rides.”

As Nathan Proudlove demonstrates above, that’s certainly true! But if you’ve always thought that Spider-Man got hung out to dry or the Green Lantern got left out in the dark, the Heroes and Villains Challenge in the LUGNuts group on Flickr is your chance to give your favorite characters a sweet, sweet ride.

Here’s a bit more from Lino:

Variety is important and I’d like to see this become the coolest and most successful LUGNuts challenge yet, so if the creative juices are really flowing and you can’t decide on just one good guy or bad, then with this and every challenge, each LUGNut is encouraged to “go nuts” and build lots of MOCs! Also, while Marvel and DC offers a vast array of material to work with, you can build for your fave hero or villain outside of the comic book world as well.

Read all about the this challenge in Lino’s official announcement.

Finally, I can’t help sharing a bit of inspiration from one of my favorite builders, MisterZumbi:

Wicked. Okay people, get building! Zoom zoom!

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Dome of the Rock

Arthur Gugick is a master of recreating famous landmarks in LEGO. Check out his latest colorful work, the Dome of the Rock. Be sure to take a look at his gallery, how many places have you been? I counted eight.

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The Arvo brothers build a classic Volkswagen Beetle

The fraternal building team known as Arvo have built a beautiful classic Volkswagen Beetle with so many cool details it’s tough to choose a favorite. The gas pedal and brake are a wonderful touch, and the detail around the rear bumper is fantastic.

Don’t miss all the great details in the full gallery on Brickshelf. Thanks for the tip, Zach!

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10185 Green Grocer, new addition to modular street [News]

It’s only a thumbnail, but it sure is pretty…

UPDATE: Green Grocer is now available from the LEGO Shop.

Kudos to Anthony Sava.

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I can see your humerus

Brickshelfer crises sends a minifig to the doctor in this rather ingenious vignette.

(Via Klocki.)

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A Christmas Carol by Ed Diment

The brick-built lettering alone makes this very cool house from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as built by Ed Diment, worth sharing with the world. Of course, the minifigs and interior are wonderful as well.

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Wheeling around Hong Kong with Horace Cheng

I’m sorry to say that I really only look for LEGO pictures on Brickshelf and Flickr, so it was wonderful to find Horace Cheng on Flickr earlier today. (Remember his awesome Flappters?)

Anyway, Horace doesn’t live in Hong Kong, but he’s captured a couple iconic vehicles I remember from my visit there in 1989 — a natural gas delivery-man (above) and rickshaw (below).

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Classic Beetle LEGO set revealed at Frechen [News]

Joachim S. Müller attended the big LEGO event in Frechen, Germany and has posted over a hundred photos on Flickr.

Last year’s show yielded the first photos of the upcoming Classic Beetle set, so it’s fitting that the final version would be shown this year:

Lookin’ good!

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Visit lovely Gongfujian! See the sights!

Inspired by Shannon Young‘s Shannonia, mastergongfu recently posted his own micropolis. And I got to name it!

Gongfujian is the beautiful capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of the Gongo. Heh heh.

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Vrrrooommm!!!

It’s reader submission, day! :-D Peter Edwards sends us word of several new creations, including new racing pits for his track racers (above) and 4954 Model Town House rebuilt as a train station (below).

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Microscale Taipei 101

Spencer R. constructs a microscale version of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper located in Taipei, Taiwan. The model stands 31.5 inches and features a very detailed shopping center and plaza at the foot of the tower.

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10182 Cafe Corner Space Roll by Mashikuf

Brickshelfer mashikuf (of the LEGO/Playmobil blog Toys in the Attic) has been building “space rolls” for quite some time, and has even posted specifications.

His latest space roll is inspired by 10182 Café Corner:

Click the picture to see the full gallery with lots of cool details.

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