The LEGO Chinese New Year sets are especially popular with adult LEGO fans due to their intricate details, unique elements, exclusive minifigures, and beautiful designs. This year is especially exceptional with two larger sets as well as several smaller ones. So let’s take a look. The smaller Chinese New Year sets include the #40678 LEGO […]Original linkOriginal author: Thita (admin)

With Chinese New Year coming up, it is no surprise that we are seeing a bevy of Asian-inspired LEGO creations from our friends around the globe. BrickheXe presents The Hidden Sakura, and it is for the Far East Elegance challenge over at Brickscalibur. We are greeted by two regal gate lions guarding the round entryway. Beyond that, a bonsai tree promises a tranquil garden visit. Outstanding textures abound in this exquisite scene. The post In the category of Far East Elegance appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Lino

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the 2nd week of January, 2024. TBB NEWS AND REVIEWS We are wrapping up our end-of-year features this week, including our Builder of the year and our Creation of the year. We also took another look back, on our most popular reviews, and we saw one more Creator 3in1 set review, of flowers in a watering can. [FEATURE] Top ten TBB LEGO reviews of 2023 — We recapped the most popular LEGO set reviews of 2023.[REVIEW] LEGO Creator 3-in-1 31149 Flowers in Watering Can — We went into the weeds with another creator set about flowewrs, insects, and something yellow.[NEWS] The Brothers Brick LEGO Builder of the Year 2023 — We welcomed another amazing LEGO builder into the ranks...

With 2023 behind us, we’ve been looking back on LEGO moments, and crowning our LEGO Builder of the Year and LEGO Creation of the Year, congratulations to both. But one of the things that our readers enjoy about our content is our in-depth set reviews. Many of our readers (myself included) count on our reviews to help them decide whether or not to buy that new modular, or that Star Wars set packed with unique minifigures. So, lets take a look back over our most popular reviews of 2023 based on total views. Before we start the countdown, here’s a look at two reviews that almost made the cut. Honerable mentions LEGO Batman 76252 Batcave ShadowboxThe Batcave shadowbox was certainly an unusual choice for a large direct to consumer DC LEGO set that left many fans disappointed when compared to the Daily Bugle, and the Avengers tower for Marvel fans. Create...

Next weekend, the LEGO convention Brickvention will return to Melbourne, Australia, bringing with it so many brick-built creations from the continent. Now we’ve seen some pretty impressive stuff from this show in past years, so it should be no surprise that a LEGO dragon of this scale will be making an appearance for this year’s con. From the mind of Donny Chen, this marker of the coming Chinese New Year 2024 can stretch out to 2 meters long and contains 1300 2×4 oval tiles as golden scales. As impressive as the body is, with a flexible skeleton supporting all those tiles, the dragon’s face is also quite the marvel. Pearl gold has a fairly limited part palette, but Donny is still able to create some fantastic shapes in constructing the eyes, crown, and jawline of this majestic mythical beast. I particularly like his use of 1×1 slopes to create the appearance...