The team from LEGO shares a favourite video feature of ours by hearing directly from the designers involved in the creation of the LEGO Ideas 21326 Winnie The Pooh set. Featuring (L-R, image below) lead LEGO Model designer Ilia Gotlib, Simon Wilson (LEGO Element Designer), Felipe Silva Telles (LEGO Element Designer) and Ashwin Visser (LEGO Graphic Designer) Ilia tells is about the overall design approach, which intends to bring back memories of adults that grew up reading and watching Winnie the Pooh adventures and friendship. There’s also a neat new way that the trees are shaped using coral elements, something that’s not done before as a LEGO build technique in an official set Element designers Simon and Felipe talks about how the new minifigures molds come to life. It starts with a preliminary size and shape that’s either made with hand or computer and eventually scaled down to the actual minifigure...

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best of LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the first week of March 2021. Welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood, we’ve got lots of pots of huиny! Keep reading our Brick Report to get all the details. TBB NEWS & REVIEWS: This week we met LEGO Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood, reviewed some adorable BrickHeadz kittens and tested out a couple of new 4+ sets! LEGO Ideas 21326 Winnie the Pooh: building the Hundred Acre Wood – We take a close look at just what this sweet-as-honey set has to offer in our full reviewLEGO Ideas reveals 21326 Winnie the Pooh 1,200-piece set, bringing Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, and more – Winnie the Pooh and friends are coming to the Hundred Acre Wood in...

Making alternate models from released LEGO sets is a challenging hobby, but Rogel Dela Fuente (RJ BrickBuilds)  takes things to an impressive extreme with their transformation of a 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator into Johnny 5 of Short Circuit fame. This is more than just a static creation – RJ has made a Johnny 5 that is truly ALIVE. Engineered to make both arms swivel up and down while the neck turns from side to side while it’s pre-programmed to make spins and turns on the tracks. It’s remote-controlled via the LEGO Powered-Up App via a mobile device. RJ showcases this amazing, fully-motorized creation in a three-minute video. The post This alternate model is ALIVE – Johnny 5 made from a 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Chris Doyle

True story; one of the best days of my life involved flying fish. I was in the Navy and got reassigned to gyro school while we were deployed out in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of waiting until we pulled into port, they hired a small craft to meet our ship. I was (carefully) hoisted over the side, and onto the craft. Usually, the captain gets a series of bells to announce his or her arrival and departure. Little enlisted schlubs like me didn’t get the same treatment except during our final departure from the ship. So they rang me off with bells and headed for shore. Here’s where the flying fish came in, jumping over the craft in droves as we sped through the water. I felt like freakin’ James Bond on a special mission! Once on shore at Panama City, Florida, I was reverted back to common schlub transportation...

One of the coolest things about LEGO building is how it can cross over with other art forms. This stunning mosaic by Deep Shen was inspired by a cross-stitch pattern. Translated into LEGO, it uses about 6,700 pieces to cover 160×104 studs (that’s about 50 inches x 32 inches) and took two weeks to build. The end result was definitely worth the investment in time and parts, as it really captures the majesty of the peacock. If you do the math, 160×104 studs would normally require 16,640 1×1 plates, not 6,700. Deep Shen built this image pixel by pixel in Stud.io first, then used the software to optimize things by combining the 1×1 plates into longer ones where possible.  It’s cool to see different techniques for designing mosaic images being applied, and a good reminder that not every mosaic needs to look like a LEGO Art Set. Believe it or not,...