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...