Malaysian Sit Tat Wai is a newcomer to the pages of The Brothers Brick, with a debut that’s equally inspiring by day or night. Like many LEGO fans who tinker with projects and city/train layouts over time, perfecting each building piece by piece, “Sitropolis” is his ongoing namesake work-in-progress city. What struck me when I came across the scene on Flickr was the density of the packed streets and the beautiful, copious lighting filling apartment units and adorning buildings, a rainbow of colors, and light warmth changes across the neighborhood. There’s even some backlit store signage. If you look closely there are tons of textures to appreciate: there’s a neat white building in the back featuring one of the most exciting building techniques we’ve seen recently. The post A city balancing light and dark appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Ryan Wood

Most of us are at home right now, but if you are in a position to fill your time with some LEGO building, there are 25 new sets and items to choose from for April–with six new sets as part of a mid-month wave. Notable sets launching today are the new Boba Fett, Stormtrooper and TIE Fighter Pilot helmets, the droid D-O from Rise of Skywalker, and Collectible Minifigure Series 20. The new Star Wars sets and minifigures are in addition to several other new sets launched earlier this month on April 1st including the LEGO Ideas Pirates of Barracuda Bay and the Technic Fast & Furious Dodge Charger. This is a full list of LEGO themes with new products released today (alphabetized for your ease of use) that you can click on to go directly to that section of this article (unless you just love scrolling, then scroll on!): FriendsIdeasNotebooksMinifiguresStar...

The mustachioed surrealist artist Salvador Dali inspired this stunningly spindly pachydermal presentation from Dutch builder Jaap Bijl. This was an entry for Innovalug’s ongoing Style It Up! LEGO building contest. This category restricted creations to maintaining 4 studs’ worth of contact with the display surface. Dali’s “Les Elephants” features just the sort of delicately balanced build many of us actively try to avoid. Thanks to the plethora of newer curved slope pieces over the last few years the Daliphant’s shape is well represented, and I’d almost wager it took longer to get the thing to safely stand in place than it did to build. Need more LEGO Dali in your life? We’ve featured a few creations in the past, including Lin Kei’s own “Les Elephants” take which earned him a spot in the LEGO House’s Masterpiece Gallery. The post Surrealism and LEGO are a match made in elephants appeared first on...

While you’re enjoying mechs, Star Wars, castles, Classic Space or whatever else amuses you here on Brothers Brick, here is a rather cute, rather chibi RoboCop. It was built by John Cheng and acts as a reminder that we should probably rewatch that 80’s gem now that we have a lot more time on our hands. Resistance is futile. I mean seriously, you should rewatch it. But before you do, here is some other stuff of John’s that we liked. The post Come quietly or there will be...trouble. 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 of LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the third week of April 2020. A new addition to the Star Wars Ultimate Collector’s Series arrives! Keep reading our Brick Report to get all the details. TBB NEWS, FEATURES AND INSTRUCTIONS: This week we saw the announcement of two new sets, learned how to build a tiny bowling alley and met the winning team crowned the US’s first LEGO Masters. LEGO 42107 Ducati Panigale V4 R motorcycle revealed as newest Technic superbike – Take a spin on the newest LEGO Technic motorcycle, the Ducati Panigale V4 R superbike.LEGO 75275 A-wing Starfighter revealed as next Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series set – The next LEGO Star Wars UCS set is this sleek 1,673-piece A-wing Starfighter available on May...