For me, as long-time fan of the Transformers and having built LEGO Transformers myself, LEGO releasing LEGO Transformers 10302 Optimus Prime was a pleasant surprise. It looks great as a robot, decent as a truck and the transformation sequence is fantastic. Its look is also largely faithful to the original Optimus Prime toy from the eighties. In my book, the one thing that could make it even better was for Optimus to have his trailer or Combat Deck. So, I built one myself. The outside has a distinctive pattern of blue and white stripes, as well as a prominent Autobot logo. I did not want to use stickers, so I brick-built them into the sides. The original toy trailer was quite large in comparison to the tractor. This is great, because it gave me enough space for all of this. Optimus’ blaster, when stored on the rear of the tractor, has...

Our annual tradition moves along, another batch of Advent Calendars. Ace handling Star Wars (again), Eric handling Harry Potter (again), and Nick handling Marvel (again). We’re adding a little twist to this and doing our own bonus calendars of silly things, so Ace is doing , Eric is sampling Hot Sauces that may kill him, […] The post FBTB’s LEGO Advent Season of EXTRA Spam 2022 Day 7 appeared first on FBTB. Original link

I’ve lost count of how many LEGO versions of Porco Rosso’s iconic seaplane we’ve featured here on TBB, going way back to Uspez Morbo’s Savoia S.21 I wrote about in 2008. And yet I enjoy every version we’ve highlighted, not least this fantastic microscale version by Marcin Otreba, complete with stand and tiny Adriatic seascape. A miniature Porco pilot may try to steal the show here, but the details I love most are the little contrails emerging from the engine exhaust and the rounded cowling on the seaplane’s bow. The post Porco Rosso takes the lead in his Savoia S.21 seaplane appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)

Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published March 28, 2021. One of the best parts of LEGO is creating new worlds—worlds that often come to life with well-thought backstories. The same goes for paintings, like the work of artist Jakub Różalski who creates alternate universes on canvas. His classic style of paintings often combines a rural landscape with mechs in the background. These mechs often look peaceful but you can feel the silent threat of the machines in the distance. His creative work has been used for the board game Scythe and the recent real-time strategy game Iron Harvest. Recently, members from the Polish LUG Zbudujmy To were inspired by Różalski’s work and decided to use it as the inspiration behind a fantastic online collab. Mihal, one of the builders in the collab takes us through some of the progress. Learning Some History About 1920+ Marco: Thanks for chatting with us today! To...

The AFOL world is a great, global community united by our love of LEGO. Within that greater community, there are many smaller interest groups, from local LUGs to people interested in specific themes like Castle, Space, Mosaics or Microscale. For International Women’s Day, we wanted to take a look at some of those groups through the lens of representation, but as I looked, one of the themes stood out to me the most… a theme where I searched high and low for female builders: trains. After searching around the globe through my network of AFOLs, I could still only count female LEGO train builders on the fingers of my two hands! (I hope to be proven wrong that there are more!) So let me introduce you to two women from this very select group: Sarah Brennan-Dunn and Ingrid Broeders-Bos, who have very different stories to tell. Meet Ingrid & Sarah Ingrid...