Like many men my age, at heart, I don’t necessarily feel all that different from when I was six years old and playing with my LEGO train. Besides LEGO and trains, as a boy, I liked fire engines, diggers and trucks, preferably with lots of lights. My latest build still fits that pattern. It is a Mercedes Actros truck with a stepframe trailer, as operated by the Dutch company Mammoet, which is Dutch for mammoth. They specialize in heavy lifting and transport of oversized and heavy objects. So, by their standards, this truck is actually quite small. Their vehicles have an attractive and distinctive color scheme. It uses a lot of red, but the vehicles’ cabs are usually black. The trailer, built by the Dutch company Nooteboom, has a yellow edge for increased visibility. When I started building the truck, I wasn’t sure what load I’d put on the trailer, except...

This latest creation by Andrew Tate brings some 1920s style to a staple modular of any LEGO city. Standing at four stories tall and topped with a clock tower, Andrew’s Art Deco bank has both the perfect color scheme and expertly designed architectural details. The light bluish gray concrete facade flaunts a variety of textures and geometric patterns, ranging from your standard 1×2 grille and log bricks to 1×1 pyramids and angled tiles. The use of SNOT with tiles achieves a sturdy look fit for a bank, while techniques like the slightly offset dark green cheese slope detailing and gold accents around the windows break that monotony. From this street-level view, we can see a generous use of jumper plates for creating both the recessed doorways and added decoration on the facade. I’m loving the use of brown on the ground floor as well, as I imagine it gives a warm...

Taking a page out of LEGO’s playbook, Walmart is now offering pre-orders for the new LEGO Creator Fish Tank (31122) for 35% off the normal retail price. Even at $19.49 as of this post, it’ll still be cheaper with shipping and applicable taxes than if you were buying from the LEGO Shop so if you’re wanting this set, now is a great time to put an order in for it. The only bad thing is that it won’t ship until August which is the release date here in the US so it doesn’t really matter that much. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Women of Computing project by 20tauri is the latest one to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The set celebrates six notable women in the field of computing and technology including Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Betty Holberton, Jean Jennings Bartik, Gladys West, and Annie Easley, all of which comes with a little vignette. The project now joins Imperial Island Fort, Movie Set, Lifeguard’s Shack, A-Frame Cabin, Spaceballs, The Costume Store, Boston Dynamics Spot 1:4 Scale Motorized Model, Medieval Tavern, and Tavern Under the Snow as the ones to reach the Second 2021 Review Stage. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The folks at Promobricks has reported there are some new LEGO Monkie Kid sets that have been able to be purchased at the Dusseldorf LEGO Brand Store. Sandy’s Power Loader Mech (80025) faces off again Syntax’s little spider mech and Pigsy’s Noodle Tank (80026) is as what you expect the name to be. It’s a traditional noodle bowl that has been transformed into a tank. There’s also a huge villain set numbered 80028 that was found in the instructions and it uses a lot of glow in the dark pieces. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran