I love building ships. There’s no other way to say it. With their complex blend of curves and uncanny smoothness, they pose a very special sort of challenge when it comes to LEGO building. Well, that being said, although LEGO ships may be a passion of mine, I never expected to see one of my ships displayed as a permanent exhibit in a museum—still less to sell one for just over $10,000 USD through Creations for Charity with a fully paid trip to Brazil thrown into the bargain! The Best Laid Plans… My journey opened at the beginning of 2020 when I started on my largest and longest LEGO project to date: a 72-gun galleon called the Bucanneer's Dread. I’d ambitiously planned to build it entirely in one month, and take it to Brickworld Chicago that Spring, but… With three days left before our trip to the States and little more...

JB Spielwaren has some product pages up for the recently revealed summer 2024 LEGO Animal Crossing sets. Both sets are listed for an August 1 release. Fly with Dodo Airlines (77051) – 292 pieces K.K.’s Concert at the Plaza (77052) – 550 pieces The post LEGO Animal Crossing Summer 2024 Official Set Images appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In December 2021 and January 2022, the Space Jam contest was held on Flickr. With my friends Lokiloki, BobDeQuatre and F@bz, we formed a team to participate in the collaborative challenge whose main goal was to invent a Sci-Fi corporation. We had the idea to create a corporation around the breeding and raising of frogs until their consumption in a chain of restaurants. The full story of Hopper’s Corp and all the MOCs can be found following this link. The whole industrial frog-farm-to-table endeavor gave me the idea to embark on an artistic classic; that of diverting the famous painting of Edward Hopper. I will describe in this article all the steps on how this MOC came to be. Nighhawks is one of the best-known paintings from Edward Hopper, circa 1942. I like the atmosphere that emerges from this painting, with the particular luminosity inside the restaurant. Image via Wikipedia Numerous...

LEGO has released a short video celebrating 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars theme and it looks like they have teased some new minifigures that we could be getting later this year. At the end of the video, there’s a very quick photo op of all of the Star Wars minifigures that LEGO has made so far but there are also some new ones in the picture as well including Ahsoka’s Ezra Bridger, Cal Kestis from the Star Wars Jedi game series, Nien Numb, and Young Leia from the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The characters have been rumored to be in various sets later this year. The post LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary Video Teases Upcoming Minifigures appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Portal 2 Quantum Tunnelling Device. The “Portal Gun” by Hooded-Blaze is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build is a physical replica from Portal that has been redesigned from the original submission that also hit 10k. The project joins Spirited Away, Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender, Venus Flytrap, Minerals Display, Dreamworks’ Shrek’s Swamp 2, Hello Kitty and Friends – 50 Years, Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch, Medieval Tournament, Among Us: The Skeld, Cherry Blossom Ikebana, Roman Forum, The Wizard of Oz 85th Film Anniversary, Interstellar, Working Suspension Railway, Metallica M72 World Tour, Suitcase Express!, Outer Wilds, Medieval Inn by the Gatehouse, Clockwork Solar System, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, My Neighbor Totoro, Tower Chess, Medieval Bee Farm, LEGO Gundam, Dancing House, Prague, The Wizard Peaks, Rocky Reef Restoration, Finding Nemo – First Day of School, Coraline – The Pink Palace, Vintage Record Player, The Highland...

The AdoraBuild is almost over! You only have a few days left to enter the ultimate LEGO contest of all things cute and cuddly. Bring to life your most adorable creations that make us go “Awww!” and you might just win some amazing prizes. Don’t hold back—build something so cute you wanna die! Cute Countdown What Makes Something Adorable? The AdoraBuild isn’t just a LEGO contest; it’s a journey into the whimsical, the endearing, and the outright precious. From fluffy creatures to heart-melting scenes, your mission is to capture the essence of cuteness in brick-built form. Here’s a random sampling of some of the adorable builds entered so far: But what makes a build “adorable”? Is it the splash of color, the clever use of pieces, big googly eyes or the endearing story it tells? Maybe it is about the perfect joke or how much you want to hug it? We...

The fan vote for the LEGO Ideas If We Can Turn Back Time building contest is now live and you can vote for the next LEGO Ideas sets. There’s a short list of five projects that are in the running and they feature classic movies from the 80s. The fan vote will run until June 14 and there will be a second fan vote on September 1 for another group of projects for this contest. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – ‘Fly Across the Moon’ – Diorama by Brickester The Karate Kid (1984) “Wax On, Wax Off” by Delusion Brick Gremlins by Bulldoozer The Goonies (1985) – Delusion Brick Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! by Brick Built Labs The post LEGO Ideas If We Can Turn Back Time Fan Vote Live appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Hong Kong’s Instagram has posted a teaser for two new LEGO Animal Crossing sets coming this August. The top set shows the Town Hall and it includes minifigures of Isabelle, Audie, K.K. Slider. The other set features the Airport for Dodo Airlines and it includes Wilbur and Tangy holding a Nook Miles Ticket. View this post on Instagram A post shared by LEGO香港 官方帳號 (@legohk_official) … Continue The post Two August 2024 LEGO Animal Crossing Sets Teased appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO’s product catalog is saturated with promotional tie-ins and intellectual property (IP) LEGO sets. So how did we get from McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to today’s movie tie-in sets and Comic-Con exclusives? Join us on our journey as we look at LEGO’s IP partnerships of yesteryear. I do highly suggest you take a read of the first article in this series about the earliest instances of partnerships and co-branded sets, as there were a few I missed in the early years which I will cover starting right now! (Pictures in this article come from BrickLink, BrickEconomy and Brickset.) Have You Had Yours? Promotions with UK cereal maker Weetabix were in full swing in the 1970s. Consumers collected tokens from Weetabix boxes and could redeem them for these exclusive sets. 00-1 Vintage Castle was one of the four that was offered. Others included the Weetabix House v1 (1976), Weetabix House v2 (1976), Weetabix Windmill...

2024 is the year of LEGO Space sets and today LEGO has revealed two new ones with the LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System (10341) and the LEGO Art The Milky Way (31212). Both releasing on May 15 for Insiders, the Artemis has 3,601 pieces and retails for $259.99 while the Milky Way has 3,091 pieces and retails for $199.99. Check out the images of the set below as well as the press release for today’s announcement. THE ART OF ENGINEERING: LIFT OFF INTO SPACE AND EXPLORE THE MILKY WAY WITH TWO NEW LEGO SETS 25th April 2024: Today the LEGO Group unveils two new sets that allow space enthusiasts to go out of this world, by exploring the art of engineering excellence behind the human space missions to get a glimpse of what’s out there. The LEGO® Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System set is a 3,601-piece set for...