With all the talented LEGO builders out there, cool techniques are constantly showing up in our feeds. However, it’s not every day that I’m so intrigued that I bookmark the page. Thanks to Joost van Velzen (MejoliDesign), I have a new trick I have to try! This ship is nice by itself, complete with moving landing gear and ramp, but the real head-turner is the use of 2×3 light bricks and a little bit of centrifugal force. Read on to see how! The GIF below gives you a taste of the genius design. And for a look at the other mechanisms, check out the video below: The post Taking LEGO lights to the next level appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Bre Burns

With two decks built above and below its iron arch, Portugal’s Dom Luís I Bridge is a beautiful testament to late 19th-century engineering. Inspired by this double-deck marvel, civil engineering student and LEGO architecture fan Sébastien Houyoux took to Studio to painstakingly recreate the bridge and the the buildings of Porto and Gaia built in its shadow. The model stretches 1.3 meters and is made up of 13,000 elements. The builder designed a 1/650 scale version of the bridge two years ago, but for this updated take, Sébastien doubles the detail with a scale of 1/325. Designing the structures around the bride was especially tricky as none of the streets and buildings are aligned with the LEGO grid, requiring some clever use of wedge plates. While this version is made digitally in Studio, the builder moves to physical bricks when possible (like Sébastien ‘s last bridge project, the Viaduc de Garabit)....

The mesopelagic (or twilight) zone is the lowest layer of the ocean that sunlight can reach, after which strange creatures with bioluminescent qualities start to appear. nu_montag riffed on this interpretation of “twilight” for a Rogue Olympics LEGO building challenge, creating a terrifying anglerfish with glow-in-the-dark teeth made from 101 parts. This monstrous fellow must have missed the memo that fish are friends, not food, as it lures a pair of lost reef fish in for a meal. Inspired by Bioncle Rahi, nu_montag added a biting function when you squeeze the tail, which you can see here. The post Your next undersea stop: the twilight zone appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes

Muse’s Grammy-winning rock album The Resistance might have dropped on 2009, but its thematic mix of Orwell, conspiracy, and posthumanism feels very much of the moment. Maybe that’s what prompted TBB alum Nick Jensen, master of 1:1 scale models and Muse superfan, to recreate the kaleidoscopic cover of Muse’s fifth album in LEGO bricks. You don’t need to know the music to be drawn in by the gorgeous tunnel of colors and fractal geometry. A closer look is better for appreciating the subtle angles Nick uses to achieve the striking microfig perspective. For planet Earth, at the end of the tunnel, Nick swaps in a printed disc from Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Nick’s commitment to The Resistance is no passing fancy – in addition to the brick display, he also has the album art tattooed on his shoulder. The post Muse about resistance to the brick separators who won’t stop breaking...

Last year SeigneurFett spent months backpacking throughout South America. Since coming home to his collection of LEGO, he’s been unable to forget the visions of Quechua women determinedly walking the high-altitude trails of Bolivia and Peru. Drawing on photos and memories of Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca, SeigneurFett uses LEGO bricks to depict a Quechua woman walking with her alpaca. In contrast to the sun-bleached terrain, the builder uses a mix of bright colors for the woman’s clothes, with grill plates adding texture to the petticoat fringe. An umbrella makes for a perfect hat on this large-scale character. I like the use of twine for the alapaca’s leash. SeigneurFett’s model makes me nostalgic for walking those same trails many years ago. I wonder if he also ate pasankalla (bolivian popcorn) from a street vendor after coming back from Isla del Sol? The post Quechua me if you can appeared first...

Back in 2021, we featured an amazing set of monochrome habitats from Caz Mockett featuring every color brick available at the time. As LEGO continutes to introduce new colors, the potential spectrum of habitats has grown since then. This time builder Dana Knudson has accepted the nigh-impossible mission of creating a minifig habitat using only parts from a single LEGO color, this time hitting a total of 50 unique hues. Neon yellow and coral are some of the newly possible configurations that Dana includes. Monochrome habitats like these are such a fun way to explore the relationship between color and shape in LEGO’s vast catalog of elements. While some colors offer a vast array of options, other colors, can be a challenge to build with. Some, like sand red, can be quite expensive to source. But the results are spectacular. And seeing how different builders create their own little scene from...

Taking an official LEGO set and building something new with it has been a common activity ever since the launch of the modern building block, with many early sets featuring alternate models pictured on the back of the box. But Dicken Liu  has taken this to an entirely new level, and I will never look at a rabbit the same way again… The tan and light nougat color scheme perfectly matches the terrifying stage in the Xenomorph life cycle known as the facehugger. If you dare to look closer at the creature’s maw, you can even see a few small brown espresso handles serving as part of the creature’s squishy underbelly. UPDATE: Looking to build your own adorable(?) facehugger? Dicken shares the instructions on Instagram. The post In space, no one can hear you hop [Updated – With Instructions] appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Daniel

“Corneria, fourth planet of the Lylat system.” For gamers who grew up with the N64, those words are enough to set your imagination spinning with polygonal starfighters doing barrel rolls. Builder Matteson Pino is far from the only person to name Star Fox 64 their favorite game, but he’s surely the first to pay tribute with a LEGO microscale diorama atop a brick-built N64 cartridge. It’s a briliant concept, depicting the game world spilling out of the physical media that stored it. The Great Fox carrier ship looks great, as do the chibi arwings, but it’s the pixelated terrain of Corneria that most draws me in. Now can Nintendo please bring Fox and co back to consoles? Switch 2 launch title, please.   The post Star Fox 64 in microscale (Rumble Pak not included) appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jake Forbes

Building a circular model using LEGO is a challenge in itself, but Plastic Pauper took on that challenge and built a microscale city with not just one ring, but three, creating nested neighborhoods that all have a specific purpose and vibe. The outer ring looks industrial, with smokestacks, factories, and other gray structures. The middle ring is composed of many smaller buildings and greenery, while the central section sports tall, sterile, and modern structures fit for the city’s wealthy elite. And what futuristic city would be complete without flying cars? The post This futuristic microscale LEGO city runs rings around modern cities appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Daniel

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders worldwide, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of March 2025.TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS While there may not have been much news this last week, we did get a pretty big set for Mario fans: a brick-built Mario in his classic kart. We also saw good news for LEGO as they shared financial details from the second half of 2024, and business is booming. If you are looking for a bit more LEGO news coverage from TBB and the rest of the world, be sure to check out last week’s Brick Report. [NEWS] LEGO by the Numbers: LEGO Group announces 2024 financial results — LEGO reports growth for last year, which is good news for LEGO fans around the world.[FEATURE] This Week in LEGO Bricks — Landscaping,...