Andrea Lattanzio knows a thing or two about building cozy scenes for minifigs to live their best lives – after all, his A-Frame Cabin remains one of the most charming sets to come from the Ideas program. For his latest creation, Andrea draws on another master of coziness – Miyazaki – specifically, the film Porco Rosso. Andrea recreates Porco’s beach hideout in LEGO with a painterly eye for detail. Of course, the Savoia S.21 seaplane is here, as well as a campsite filled with details from the film. Most impressive is the limestone cove and crystal clear water, inspired by the Croatian coastline. We’ve seen many stunning takes on the Savoia S.21 in LEGO over the years, most recently this version from Eero Okkonen, and it’s always great to see another expert builder take it on. Andrea digs deep into the parts archive for elements to incorporate, such as a Fabuland...

Everyone’s got one of those creepy furry plushes somewhere. Huh? Le-Booboo? No, I’m not talking about French words for an injury. Back in the late nineties, our creepy furry plushes were called Furbys, and Nick Jensen has presented an exemplary study of one in LEGO bricks. Much like the recently-completed Iron Forge contest, Nick’s local LEGO User Group (LUG) runs challenges to complete builds using seed parts. In this case, that’s the 3×3 quarter-circle brick, perfectly used for those uncanny animatronic eyes and beak. Surely I can’t be the only one to find these things creepy? Maybe I’ve been watching too much Gremlins… Speaking of LUGs – why not see if there’s one near you hosting similar build challenges? You can find a list of LEGO-Recognised LUGs over here! The post Before Labubu, there was Furby – and now it returns in LEGO! appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author:...

Here’s a fun stat for you: of the 107 Technic sets released in the last 5 years, 40 have been cars. Several of those have been racing cars, and this year, LEGO Technic 42228 McLaren F1 Team MCL39 becomes the sixth set in that timespan to depict a Formula One car specifically. It joins Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari F1 cars on the shelves, at similar price and piece points of US $229.99 | CAN $299.99 | UK £189.99 and 1,675 parts respectively. You can pre-order it now, or wait until it shows up on sites like eBay or Amazon after March 1. With the glut of automotive options available to Technic fans, how does this latest open-wheel racer stack up? LEGO Technic 42228 McLaren F1 Team MCL39 | 1,675 Pieces | Available March 1; Pre-orders open now | US $229.99 | CAN $299.99 | UK £189.99 The box and build...

Hello! I’m ASortaOkayBuilder, and I am a sorta’ okay builder. Two of my passions in life are LEGO and Dungeons & Dragons, and I will combine the two at any given opportunity. For me, one of the most fun things to build is tiny little fantasy weapons. Swords, spears, axes, hammers, staves, incredibly cursed artifacts–The works! I post a collection of 10+ Weapons each Wednesday for a little thing I like to call “Weapon Wednesday.” Some of these I will actually use in the DnD sessions I run, but most of them are built just for the love of the game.  In the process of posting these each week, I’ve come to learn the term “knolling”!  Knolling.org , a real life actual website, defnes it as “the practice of arranging similar objects in a precise, perpendicular manner. The goal of knolling is to create a sense of order and clarity in...

During its two-year run, LEGO produced just nine M-Tron sets, but for ’90s kids lucky enough to have a few sets with the magnet-wielding spacemen, the theme promised a boundless universe of adventure. We’ve featured many tributes to the theme over the years, but today’s M-Tron moc is special as it comes with free instructions to let you create your own retro Mobile Moon Base, just in time for Febrovery! Designed by Thomus Bean, the rover reworks the Arctic Explorer Science Lab set with M-Tron livery, magnet tech, and rugged tires. It’s a fun remix, freely shared, so you can continue to riff on the design. The free instructions are available here. Thomus has created several retro M-Tron rovers over the years. This asymmetrical carrier is especially inspired. The post Build your own M:Tron Mobile Moon Base with free Instructions appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes...

The Year of the Horse is here! Vincent Kiew leaps to the occasion with an impressive equestrian display. The builder had impressed  is several times over the years with their LEGO horsemanship, so it’s excellent to see they haven’t lost their step for the Lunar New Year. The post Leaping into the Year of the Horse appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes (TBB Managing Editor)

RebelLUG member Marc Linares (Syrdarian) is one of the hardest-working builders around, participating in competitions and collaborations that push outside of their comfort zone and learning from peers to broaden their toolbox of techniques. Marc’s latest is a microscale scene of extra-solar exploration on the planet Gothea, where miners work in domed settlements under an icy moon. The banded horizon evokes the iconic Tales of the Space Age ideas set, while the rockets and domes follow the colors of City Space. What impresses most about the build is the texture and depth. The icy moon features so many clever textural bits across its blue gradient. The planetary vista is made from a mix of studs up and SNOT planes, some a brick tick, others just a tile, creating so many layers in a compact space. And around the colony, incredible details come into focus, like a hill made from a minifig...

Febrovery is an annual event for LEGO Space fans where builders share their wheeled creations for exploring distant moons. Some passionate builders share a new rover every day of February while others focus on one special build for the month. This year, Febrovery turns 15 years old, making it one of the longest-running traditions in the AFOL community. To learn more about the event’s history, Rover regular Andreas Lenander  created an excellent primer over on Brick Nerd). As we pass the halfway point, let’s roll out some of our favorite rovers of the month so far! Speakin of Andreas Lenander, this Swedish builder is always on the lookout for new elements to turn into wheels! This year it’s the Unikitty tail that helps the rover get around. Huw Gwilliam is a digital creator who has created several stellar rovers so far. We’re especially fond of this HV-W8 model used by Crystal...

The Knights of the Old Republic games remain some of the finest adventures to ever be told in the Star Wars universe. They even spawned some of the best (and most expensive among collectors) LEGO Star Wars playsets. One ship that never made the jump to official set is the player’s primary ship and home base in the games – the Ebon Hawk. Builder Jonah Frost corrects this oversight with a wonderful take on the beloved starship. Better yet, the model opens up with rooms for your custom crew of misfits to plan their next mission. Built to play-scale rather than UCS, things might get a bit cramped for a full party of companions. I’d love to see Jonah or other builders expanding on the Ebon Hawk with a full party of companions. For now, this is just the build I need to bring back those gaming memories as we await...

Rawcliffe & Sons is a British heavy haulage firm, one of whose specialisations is machine transport. My latest model represents one of the vehicles used for this: a Volvo FH. While most of my minifigure-scale trucks are tractors with semi-trailers, this one is a bit different. The truck itself has four axles, with steering on the front and rear. It has a flatbed with a rear-mounted knuckleboom crane, for (un)loading cargo, and pulls a three-axle drawbar trailer. On quite a few of my recent truck builds, the cargo is more of an attraction than the truck. I am thinking of my combine or my bulldozer transport, for instance. For this build, I wanted the truck itself to be the starring attraction. Hence, the cargo is a fairly simple set of crates, for machine parts, and a little forklift. The truck is recognisably British, with its green and red colour scheme and...