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With all the talented LEGO builders out there, cool techniques are constantly showing up in our feeds. However, it’s not every day that I’m so intrigued that I bookmark the page. Thanks to Joost van Velzen (MejoliDesign), I have a new trick I have to try! This ship is nice by itself, complete with moving landing gear and ramp, but the real head-turner is the use of 2×3 light bricks and a little bit of centrifugal force. Read on to see how! The GIF below gives you a taste of the genius design. And for a look at the other mechanisms, check out the video below: The post Taking LEGO lights to the next level appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Bre Burns

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With two decks built above and below its iron arch, Portugal’s Dom Luís I Bridge is a beautiful testament to late 19th-century engineering. Inspired by this double-deck marvel, civil engineering student and LEGO architecture fan Sébastien Houyoux took to Studio to painstakingly recreate the bridge and the the buildings of Porto and Gaia built in its shadow. The model stretches 1.3 meters and is made up of 13,000 elements. The builder designed a 1/650 scale version of the bridge two years ago, but for this updated take, Sébastien doubles the detail with a scale of 1/325. Designing the structures around the bride was especially tricky as none of the streets and buildings are aligned with the LEGO grid, requiring some clever use of wedge plates. While this version is made digitally in Studio, the builder moves to physical bricks when possible (like Sébastien ‘s last bridge project, the Viaduc de Garabit)....

The mesopelagic (or twilight) zone is the lowest layer of the ocean that sunlight can reach, after which strange creatures with bioluminescent qualities start to appear. nu_montag riffed on this interpretation of “twilight” for a Rogue Olympics LEGO building challenge, creating a terrifying anglerfish with glow-in-the-dark teeth made from 101 parts. This monstrous fellow must have missed the memo that fish are friends, not food, as it lures a pair of lost reef fish in for a meal. Inspired by Bioncle Rahi, nu_montag added a biting function when you squeeze the tail, which you can see here. The post Your next undersea stop: the twilight zone appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes