Today we feature a guest article from one of BrickNerd’s patrons Liz Puleo. She shares her experience visiting Boston Children’s Hospital and meeting the kids there who love LEGO. The world of LEGO is ever-expanding. There are more possibilities every day that allow fans to interact with their favorite interlocking brick system and the famous builders that show us what they love. Some of the most popular ways are buying new sets and enjoying them at home, watching favorite streamers online, absorbing new techniques or community news via journals and magazines, or even visiting LEGOLAND properties and attending conventions. With all of the publicity and popularity of LEGO, one can get overwhelmed with possibilities for the future or the fear of missing out and overlooking what is happening in the here and now.  View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Like some others who have been absorbed deep into the LEGO community, I chose...

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...

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...

Builder Mathijs Dubbeldam gives us a glimpse into the LEGO medieval fantasy world created by Eurobricks, known as ‘Guilds of Historica’. The build, titled ‘Sculptor’, is presented with a prompt, “. . . a large order from the King. His majesty wants an enormous statue . . .” inviting us to delve deeper into the layout and characters within the scene. Despite the prompt, the concept of a sculptor diligently working to unveil a statue of significance is readily apparent. Additionally, the presence of a green-skinned character immediately indicates that this is no ordinary medieval scene, but likely one from a fantastical world. In the second image, a close-up reveals how the rockwork, or brickwork, as it were, has been carefully designed and thought out, offering us a glimpse into the ongoing formation of a legendary dwarf warrior. The ‘messy’ hair on the sculptor gives the impression this artist has been...

Joss Woodyard has a thing for creative LEGO creature designs (just look at what he’s got in our archives). But since 2024 is the year of the dragon, what better excuse than to get some awesome dragons out of him? April’s entry takes inspiration from birds both ancient and present for a striking feathered fiend. It’s part bearded vulture, part Archaeopteryx – the feathered flying dinosaur from the Jurassic period. And the feathers are what really make this build stand out, using a variety of pieces from the Bionicle and Chima lines of years gone by. The post What happens when you cross a vulture and a dinosaur? appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Theo Spencer