You know Star Wars and Harry Potter and City and Friends . . . but do you recall the most festive advent calendar of them all? Deborah Higdon‘s LEGO hearts calendar, a response to LEGO’s #BuildToGive campaign, yielded this adorable little wooden reindeer on day 7. The sweet little guy (or gal) looks ready to guide Santa’s sleigh tonight—or just hang on your tree. Take a look at the builder’s Flickr page to follow along as the merry advent calendar continues till Christmas. The post This cute reindeer really shines (you could even say it glows) appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Ryan Kunz

After a phenomenal Dungeons and Dragons Collectible Minifigure Series, it’s hard to imagine another CMF series following it with as much grandeur. However, we’re on to next either way! LEGO Collectible Minifigures 71048 Series 27 may not be a licensed series, but the folks at LEGO are still swinging for the fences. Join us as we give each one a close inspection! Series 27 consists of 12 characters and will be available beginning January 1st. Individually, they’ll retail for US $4.99 | CAN $5.99 | UK £3.49. The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews. Unboxing the case and packaging Like the D&D minifigure series, we received this collection in 2 tall cases, each with 12 individual cartons stacked inside. Also like the last series, each case has a complete set of 12...

Do you hear what I hear? No, there’s no one on the rooftop… yet. It’s tiny bags crinkling inside their boxes just waiting to be unwrapped and built! Put an extra log and the fire before we continue opening all six LEGO advent calendars: Friends, Disney, City, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-man! As ever, our intrepid TBB team is on hand with witty comments, insightful observations, and bad jokes for each day’s builds. And of course, you can add your own thoughts in the comments section each day! So without further ado, let’s crack open the build for day 15… Yesterday’s frog from Disney gains a princess pal. It’s Tiana, still glowing from the debut of her  E-ticket ride revamp at the Magic Kingdom. Friends presents a sewing station, stool, and Santa cap. Did young Olly get his sewing start this Christmas? Harry Potter brings another table with goblets and...

All year-round, we here at The Brothers Brick spend our time featuring amazing builds made by the LEGO fan community. But we figured, for the holiday season, it would be great to build something together. For each day from December 1st through the 24th, we’ll be posting instructions to a custom TBB advent calendar build, one part each day. Want to participate? You can find all the parts you’ll need for the TBB Advent Event from our announcement in November. Read on to see what we’re building today! Time to finish this fireplace. Before anyone asks, a wrench is about as close as I could get in shape to a minifig-sized fire poker. Here’s what it looks like in the real world: The post 2024 TBB custom LEGO advent calendar – Day 14 [Feature] appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Kyle Keller (TBB Managing Editor)

For a while now, Bartosz Sobecki aka Sobek_Bricks has been engaging the online AFOL community in an amazing way by showing off well-thought-out minifigure combinations. Known as fig-bashing, creating custom minifigures out of existing parts is a longstanding tradition in the community, but Sobek takes it to the next level. Importantly, he also gives advice to other builders, new and old, on how to improve on creating custom minifigures. He does this by showing tutorials and by rating minifigures of others, teaching that creating minifigures can be a lot of fun! Disembodied Mage I sat down with him to talk through his process and you might be surprised at how much thought goes into these “purist” custom minifigures. An Interview with Sobek Bricks Marco: Looking at your Instagram feed, it's clear that you love creating fantasy characters. Where do you get most of your inspiration from? And is there a theme...