Building the Blue Cottage
/Andrea Lattanzio (Norton74) is known for his realistic LEGO scenes with organic landscaping and realistic vehicles. His newest country creation is a small and cozy blue cottage, and he shared his work-in-progress photos with us for a behind-the-scenes look at this idyllic forest scene.
Read MorePlaying in Space: Travelling the Cosmos Through Forced Perspective
/Ever wondered why anyone would want to travel to outer space? Well, if these LEGO builders’ brick-built travel posters are anything like reality, outer space is an awfully cool place!
Read MoreThese Budding Bonsai Blossoms Signal the Start of Spring
/With its vibrant pink and red blossoms, builder ZiO Chao’s Plum Bonsai stands out from the crowd. And there’s a lot to enjoy on a closer look too like the use of large constraction fists on the table legs!
Read MorePegasus Racing Team Takes LEGO Teamwork to a New Level
/We’d watch these LEGO space rally races compete in an instant! Get the inside story of how this team came together and created such a cohesive group of racers.
Read MoreThis 253rd Legion LEGO Battle is Definitely a Star Wars Thing
/The story behind this impressively-detailed Star Wars battle MOC by LegionDude goes back more than five years as part of an evolving collaborative building RPG, The 253rd Elite Legion.
Read MoreShine Your Astro Spurs and Don Your Robot Fist!
/Builder Matt Goldberg manages to bring this LEGO Western figure to life while nodding to three other members of the community in his HeroFebruary build.
Read MoreDon't Mess With This Bear
/Builder Andrea Lattanzio has treated us to an awesome diorama illustrating once and for all why you should never mess with a bear… or traverse a rickety wooden bridge in a vehicle!
Read MoreWe’re in the Mooooood for an Amazing MOC
/This ox made of blocks made us have a cow over how udderly amazing it is! The steaks are high so check out this impeccabull LEGO creation.
Read MoreBionicle Reborn on the Island of Doom
/From concept to recruiting, building to editing, Island of Doom is a collab of revitalization worth your time. It brought together ambitious LEGO fans from all around the world who shared their passion, talent and artistic skills to showcase the best the Bionicle community has to offer.
Read MoreMaking Minimalism a Big Deal
/There’s an art to picking the perfect LEGO element for a model, and builder Dan Ko does it masterfully. The parts he chooses to build with transcend from their original purpose to become something entirely different and more beautiful, yet minimal and elegant.
Read MoreBlack Rover, Black Rover, Send the Impeder Over!
/Despite being a year old, or from the “before times” as some members in my LUG call it, Capt. Dad’s first building foray into the land of Neo-Classic Blacktron got noticed by BrickNerd’s Message Intercept Base. I do love a good rover, and it is a great way to kick off Febrovery!
Read MoreA Bonsai Strong Enough to Weather a Winter Storm
/If you have noticed the internet being overrun by LEGO bonsai trees as of late, it is for good reason. Brickset’s Build a Bonsai Competition is churning out some amazing entries (all because of the goats for a prize, I’m sure!), and Carter Witz is throwing his hat into the ring. His elegant bonsai would look at home on the neatest desk, but there’s more to this creation than meets the eye!
Read MoreFly Casual, Chewie! This Massive LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer is the Size of a Car
/You would need 30 copies of LEGO’s newest Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer set to even come close to the 140,000 pieces in this nine-foot-long behemoth. Builder Garry King has really outdone himself this time!
Read MoreA Tribute To Trebek
/With the tragic loss of Alex Trebek last year, I wanted to build a meaningful tribute to the man and his legacy of knowledge. So I built a moving kinetic sculpture of the “Greatest of All Time” tournament and discovered that building LEGO is not too dissimilar to Jeopardy. I knew the answer of where I wanted to go, I just needed to figure out the right questions that would get me there.
Read MoreMastering the Art of Bonsai
/The art of Bonsai is an elusive one, taking years to learn, requiring careful decision-making and patience above all. In that sense, it feels a lot like creating LEGO models—which is definitely an art Marius Herrmann has mastered. Marius, widely known as steponabrick both on Flickr and Instagram has shared an entry for Brickset’s ongoing Build a Bonsai competition—an expressive and lifelike sculpture, making masterful use of a variety of elements and beautiful techniques.
Read More"Know Your Pieces" Like This 10,000-Piece Framed LEGO Painting
/Being a fan of highly detailed facades, especially most from the Oriental part of the world, I must say that the more you look at this one the more you will find. Builder Hoang Dang—known in the LEGO community as Know Your Pieces—has practically created a “Where’s Waldo” of spectacular nice-part-usage (NPU) out of 10,000 pieces.
Read MoreThe Art Of Silly Walks
/This tribute to the venerable John Cleese by Swedish builder Rikard Stensby (aka stensbylego on Instagram) tickles my funny bone, something I really need these days.
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