For the past several years, my friend Steve Witt has been collecting the necessary LEGO bricks and fiddling with his design to produce a 7-foot-long (2.1 meter) recreation of a Paris-class UNSC heavy frigate from the Halo video game universe that he’s dubbed the Katara. After following his work-in-progress photos on Facebook and Flickr for five years, I’m very pleased to share this closer look at the finished ship, exclusive to The Brothers Brick. We’ll take a closer look at the details and share some of the build’s history in a moment, but let’s pause and take in just how massive a LEGO ship 7 feet long really is, with this photo of the builder working on it. From stem to stern, Steve’s Katara is packed full of greebly details. The front section bristles with communication arrays and sensors, and the brick-built numbering is just the first of many we’ll see...

LEGO just announced a new record of 35 submissions by fan creation  submissions to be considered for the second 2020 review, the highest ever amount since the inception of the programme for a single review period.  The first review earlier this year had 26 submissions, making it a total of 61 sets now in the pipeline of options for LEGO to decide what creations would be made into official LEGO sets. The qualifying entry period for these sets were between early-May and September 7 2020. These creations all had tremendous support from the community and the threshold to meet the criteria of 10,000 votes on the LEGO Ideas platform. Below are the 35 qualifying fan creations. 1. The Mountain Windmill by Hanwasyellowfirst 2. Community – Greendale Community College by bulldoozer 3. Lego HeroQuest by KingGloriousSquirrel 4. Brickwest Studios by Bricky_Brick 5. House from Up by bramant1 6. Animal Crossing New Horizons: Nook’s Cranny by Micro_Model_Maker 7. Trabant 601 by pedankopet 8. Night At...

USA Today has reported that The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special will be coming to Disney+ in November. This new show pays homage to the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978 and it is an updated version of the cult film where some of the Star War sequel trilogy characters celebrate Life Day. The episode is 45 minutes long an will air on November 17 on Disney+. Thanks to everyone who emailed in about it. The post The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special Coming to Disney+ in November appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System (71374) is one of the most popular sets that LEGO has released and earlier today, the designer video for the set went live on YouTube. LEGO designers Pablo Gonzalez, Leon Pijnenburg, and Daire McCabe talks about some of the details in the set. I do like that the set is almost 1:1 scale with the real console. Graphic designer Anthony Palamaro talks about some of the decorative pieces within the set. He notes the Mario figure pixel per pixel perfect to the on screen representation and was the first element to be designed graphic first. Benjamin Ma talks about his involvement in the set by integrating the Mario figure from the Starter Course (71360) to the TV. Currently the LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System (71374) is temporarily sold out on Shop@Home and there’s no timetable of when it will be back. Hopefully it won’t be that long...

Although they haven’t been officially announced yet, the Series 2 LEGO Harry Potter Collectible Minifigures (71028) have been spotted at Target. They are not street dated and if you’re looking for them, your store may have them out a little early along with a lot of the other September 1 LEGO set releases. They are priced at $4.99 each and there are 16 to collect. The full lineup of the characters are below. Thanks to Brian for the heads up. • Harry Potter with Advanced Potion-Making• Albus Dumbledore with Fawkes• Hermione Granger with Butterbeer• Ron Weasley with Butterbeer• Luna Lovegood with a lion hat• Griphook with Sword of Gryffindor• Lily Potter with baby Harry• James Potter with photograph• Ginny Weasley with a chocolate ice cream• Fred Weasley with Weasley Joke Box• George Weasley with Marauder’s Map• Bellatrix Lestrange in Azkaban outfit• Kingsley Shacklebolt with broom• Moaning Myrtle with Tom Riddle’s diary•...