Our favorite holiday tradition is opening all six LEGO Advent Calendars, one day at a time, with you, our readers! Along with spoiler pics of the daily gifts, we include commentary and alternate builds to celebrate the season and creativity. We have an all-star cast of custom minifig creators leading our Advent adventure this year. Fool’s Figures is wizarding his way through Harry Potter and Frozen calendars. ExpansionBricks is launching Star Wars and Friends. And beyondb0nes is digging into Minecraft and City. Now let’s open some doors and see what gifts are in store for today! Fools: A nice frothy glass of butterbeer! I can’t help but crave a glass after looking at this little build. Bones: It’s not really the season to enjoy a nice cold beer, but the build is quite interesting. This piece of white cream is perfect for the top. Expansion: That’s a minifig scale glass right?...

Minifig Monday is back after a few weeks away, and since it’s been a few weeks, we thought we’d bring you a jumbo-sized lineup of “large” characters. All of the featured figures incorporate minifig elements but are assembled from dozens of elements to create ornate designs and dynamic poses. Bricksnbeasts leads the pack with Anubis, Keeper of Forgotten Souls in black and gold. The Egyptian god’s weapons are especially epic, like the sword that uses dual axe blades for the hilt. A gold sprue works perfectly for a scarab detail on the chest. brickbot_studio diverges from his signature bot style to pay tribute to one of the great 90s sci-fi films: The Fifth Element. This all-gold Mondoshawan is instantly recognizable. The ray gun element seems like it was made for that alien face. phiphibrick has been making waves lately by starting a trend around prosthetic arms and giant swords. This video...

LEGO’s Happy Plants is one of our favorite sets of the year. Not only does it offer joy right out of the box, but the set has inspired so much creativity in the community as folks remix the concept with a personal touch. Tim Goddard, a legend in these parts, is the latest builder to get the green thumb bug. As end-of-year appreciation gifts for colleagues, Tim assembled a greenhouse worth of potted pals with bright colors and even brighter expressions. It’s evidence of just how rich the soil is for cute LEGO planters. You’re probably wondering how Tim came up with all of these brilliant flowerpot builds. As talented as Tim is, I suspect he had a little help from a Trandoshan botanist and droids. The post The joy of Happy Plants keeps growing with Tim Goddard’s potted pals appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes...

As most collections do, it started innocently enough. LEGO’s Collectible Minifigure (CMF) Series 3’s Gorilla Suit Guy tickled me—something about seeing the minifigure’s eyes through the gorilla mask. The snowball began rolling down the hill with Series 5’s Lizard Man, and picked up steam with Series 7’s Bunny Suit Guy, and really hit a fever-pitch with Series 13’s Hot Dog Suit Guy. At that point, I knew I was on a quest to acquire every costumed minifigure ever produced, which has resulted in a collection of roughly 145 minifigs. After Hot Dog Suit Guy, costumed minifigs started getting more and more CMF slots while also showing up in sets, not just in the CMF series. One of my personal favorites costumes is Stumpy, which came in 2018’s 60174 Mountain Police Headquarters. I clearly wasn’t the only fan, as LEGO reacted with Series 18 and 23, both of which were almost all...

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s almost Christmas, and for a lot of us, it already feels like it’s been winter for a while now. But if Hallmark can do Christmas in July, why can’t we do July for Christmas? Our Southern Hemisphere readers get it! BrickNerd contributor and long-time builder, Miro Dudas, just can’t leave well enough alone: “I don't know how many of you go through constant refinement of certain MOCs. I often start a MOC and wish there was a part in a specific color, and I often have to either wait for me to obtain it or wait for LEGO to produce it. So I put off updating it for years at a time.” That all makes perfect sense. LEGO evolves, your skill as a builder evolves, life happens, you disappear, then all of a sudden, you’re back! I get it. History Miro’s 2016 edition caught my eye...