The Train Bookends by Jimmi-DK is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 1,038 piece build features a train making its way through a tunnel with the locomotive on one end and the carriage on the other. The project joins “Big Boy” Locomotive, Retro Arcade, Spartan Helmet of Leonidas, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, The Muppet Show, Red Bull Racing F1 Team RB18 1:12, Scooby Doo Mystery Machine, Western River Steamboat, Dreamwork’s Shrek Swamp, Asterix & Obelix, Venice, Stilt House, Red Bull RB18, Trojan Horse, Red Dwarf: Sleeping Quarters, TaleSpin Seaduck Meeting Seagull, Stud Lane Book Nook, Minifigure Gumball Machine, Greenhouse, Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Box: Dark Magician vs Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Phineas and Ferb Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc., Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Taylor Swift “Lover House”, The Motograph, Taylor Swift’s Lover House, Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: Perry the Platypus/Agent P, Flying Scotsman – LNER Class A3 4472 4-6-2 Pacific Steam Locomotive,...

Next up on our reviews of the LEGO DREAMZzz sets, we’ll be checking the Dream Village (40657). It’s one of the smaller sets in the wave coming in at 434 pieces and it retails for $29.99. Minifigures The set does include a minifigure of Jayden. He has on his usual purple pajama set with the unicorn printing on the torso. His double-sided head shows him having braces with one side of his head sleeping. There is also three Dreamlings in this set, the Blacksmith, Baker, and Wizard. The Blacksmith has a full beard going on along with long slicked back hair tied up in the back. His accessory is a hammer. The Baker has on a toque which is the white chef’s hat. His accessory is a whisk. Lastly, we have the Wizard who also has a full beard but in white. He also has the blue wizard hat that we’ve...

As many of you know from our earlier article, the VIP system is being replaced with LEGO Insiders as of today, August 21st. To kick off the transition to this new comprehensive loyalty program, LEGO is holding a contest through October 2nd with a jackpot of 1,000,000 Insiders points. For those working out the math, that equates to US $9,000 | CAN $12,000 | UK £7,000 in discounts on purchases through LEGO stores and their website. The form of the contest is a treasure hunt, with the prize “buried” amid LEGO parts. Using an AR phone app, piles of System bricks can be scanned in search of a golden brick or other prizes. These can include digital LEGO comic books, bonuses for LEGO games, and other items. But for the grand 1M point prize, six winners will be chosen each week, making for 54 winners over the treasure hunt’s duration. More...

Sometimes you just gotta throw caution (as well as your hair and face) to the wind and strap into a single reptile-themed roller coaster car and let gravity and evolution do the rest. That’s exactly what’s going on here with lokiloki29’s new LEGO creation. I like that the coaster car’s face looks just as scared and exhilarated as its rider. Will it go well? Magic 8-ball says “Reply hazy, try again”. While we mull over that vote of confidence, check out our lokiloki29 archives to learn why Loki squared x29 both exhilarates us and scares our sensibilities sometimes. The post Ride the Walibrick Roller Coaster. What can go wrong? appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Lino

Until 3 years ago, it would have been hard to predict just how ubiquitous an item the soap dispenser has become. So much so that they now pop up in LEGO models, like this one by Pedro Sequiera. It’s a neat model, very nicely presented – it looks worthy of being a still-life piece regardless of its brick-built nature! It’s spring-loaded, so it has some built-in functionality to it. But the best detail might actually be the labeling on the side. A selection of printed tiles make up the typical warnings you might expect to see on soap bottles. Mainly these are re-purposed number plates, but the use of piano tiles for a barcode is so clean! The post Always wash your hands before handling LEGO, kids appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Theo Spencer