Yubaba, the witchy proprietress of the bathhouse in Spirited Away, is my favorite type of villain: powerful, grandiose, nasty without being evil. Yubaba has a big head to match her ego, which makes the character the perfect subject for builder Rokan Cheung, who specializes in creating character busts in LEGO. The builder sets the character on a mosaic mat, complete with the witch’s rolling “Kashira” head pets. You can see the builder’s skillful facial sculpting in play with Yubaba, like the plates with bows under her baggy eyes or the bold lashes created from minifig hands clipped to hotdogs. You can see Rokan’s talent for brick-built likenesses in this kindly old man (clearly no relation to the witch above). The post Looking for a job? LEGO Yubaba is always hiring appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes (TBB Managing Editor)

While in much of the world, October is spent getting in the Halloween spirit, in much of Asia, the month aligns with the Mid-Autumn Festival (it fell on October 6th this year), when mooncakes and tea are enjoyed to honor ancestors. Khang Huynh celebrates the festival with traditional cakes and tea alongside a Vietnamese-style fish lantern. The builder photographs with his usual care, lending a soft glow to the tableau that makes it easy to overlook as LEGO. The sand green and turquoise teapot is a beautiful sub build. Dinosaur tails are used to create the ornate handle and spout, while leaves lend subtle texture to the sides. While the pot and lamp are new builds, the cake comes from a Mid-Autumn festival tribute that Khang created three years ago. That year’s tableau featured an equally elegant teapot design. The post Mooncakes and tea under a fish lantern’s glow – Celebrating...

LEGO Spaceships don’t need to be 100+ studs long to amaze. Oftentimes, it’s the crazy angles, color blocking, and creative use of parts at a smaller starfighter scale that hit like a supernova. Take the KLR-420 starfighter from French builder Fabien (bricknap), a craft so dense with fun detail it’s dizzying. Fabian first started designing the ship a year ago and completed it back in 2024 as an addition to his sprawling sci-fi universe of Fantapolis – which is a bit like New Hashima with a heavy dose of the Friends color palette. There is so much to love about this ship design, from the cockpit module for a pilot to lay down between clear windshields, to the arms from the Mobile Construction Crane used for the wings, to the pair of Nexo Knight hubs/grinders wrapped with a Dots bracelet. The S-foil wing formation and engines are clearly X-Wing inspired, but...

In the pantheon of great dragons, you have Smaug, Falcor, King Gidorah, Toothless, and of course,   Puff the Magic, but all of these legendary beasts pale in comparison to the greatest dragon-man of all: Trogdor, the Burninator. Trogdor was introduced to the world back in 2001 with Strongbad Email #58, one of the greatest memes to arise from the pre-social media internet. Builder Grant Holyoak recreates Trogdor with all of the dragon’s essential features – smoke, fire, wing-a-lings, spinedies, and angry eyebrows. He even includes peasants mid-burninating. My only nitpick is that there aren’t enough consummate Vs! The post LEGO Trogdor comes in the night to burninate your peasants appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes (TBB Managing Editor)

If you’d asked me three weeks ago what a G12 was I would have thought you were playing Battleship. And as for the Royal Württemberg colours… those could have been pink and lime green for anything I knew. But now, even if I were in a game of battleship, G12 would instantly bring this beautiful train model by Pieter Post to mind. Not only is the train itself loaded with accurate detail, it’s also perfectly presented in a snowy landscape! Building the setting for the train really makes it stand out rather than being a photo of the steam engine alone. I’m far from crazy about trains, but I do love a good LEGO model, so I wanted to hear more about this one. I reached out to Pieter with a few questions. Geneva: First, why this particular locomotive and why the Royal Württemberg colors? What's special to you about them?...