Builder Jan Woźnica has a strong reputation in the world of LEGO space builds. Case in point, you may remember LEGO Ideas 21340 Tales of the Space Age, a set soon to retire from the slate of available sets on the LEGO site. While this isn’t as minimalist as those great pieces of art, this take on a Martian space elevator is stellar, featuring some forced perspective that’s out of this world!
Animatronic doll Young-Hee loves games! Especially Red Light, Green Light. The Squid Game icon just finished her encore in season 2 of the hit Netflix series, and now she makes her debut in LEGO courtesy of Finnish builder Jannis Mavrostomos. Jannis is a master at turning complex subjects into adorable brick packages, and his skills are on full display here. Using bananas for the doll’s out-turned hands is especially clever. It’s such a spot-on likeness, I know you want to sing along. Mugunghwa-kkochi pieot-seumniDA!
Can you believe LEGO’s Architecture theme has been going for 17 years now? That would make it old enough to get a driving license in the UK! It’s testament to the diversity of the theme that in all those years, you can count the number of buildings to receive repeat sets on one hand. We can add another finger to that hand now, as 21062 Trevi Fountain re-visits one of Rome’s most famous landmarks. The first iteration of this set – 21020 – included 731 parts, but that number has now ballooned to 1,880 pieces in the 2025 version. It will release March 1st, but you can pre-order it from LEGO’s website now for US $159.99 | CAN $209.99 | UK £139.99. You may also be able to pick it up from eBay or Amazon, once it has released.
The LEGO Group sent The Brothers Brick an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.
When in Rome… Read our review to visit the Trevi Fountain!
Sometimes, there is beauty in simplicity. Torger Almaas‘ debut on TBB is a LEGO build that doesn’t feature much in the way of clever parts use or innovative building methods. But what it lacks in tricksy techniques, it more than makes up for as a work of art! Considering it’s all done just one brick high, the setting sun that draws the eye looks absolutely superb. It’s a great focal point to sell the forced perspective at use elsewhere in this creation, such as the mountains or the birds flying overhead. I find myself wondering what the story is behind this lonely warrior, though. To me it seems like they’re on the way home after a long, arduous conflict – perhaps walking slightly gingerly. But they could just as easily be setting off on a journey, and that sunset could just as easily be a sunrise. What story do you see in this build?
A certain recently confirmed political official had us Googling brainworms a bit more than usual lately. Perhaps this has been the case with Djokson who has presented his own brainworm. We have a slew of the 2×2 round bricks with 45 degree elbows in both white and trans-dark pink. You’d have to stockpile at least a couple of the DreamZzz Never Witch’s Nightmare Creatures sets to obtain those tasty trans-pink ones. Maybe this is just the brainworms talking here but I am clueless as to what that brain piece is from. While it shares some family resemblance, it is most certainly NOT this piece. Let us know in the comments what that neat brain part might be because I am truly braindead on the matter.
With the release of the Ninjago Movie in 2017, LEGO debuted the first LEGO City modular super-set, with a new expansion following every two years. Today, as the fifth entry in the beloved line, LEGO announces LEGO 71837 Ninjago City Workshops. After the scenic Gardens and bustling Market, fans can now visit an industrious district where mechs are built and danger hides in the form of villain Dorama and his mechanical puppet. While this latest entry contains roughly half the pieces of the previous Markets, at 3,244 parts it’s still likely to be one of the year’s biggest builds – one that packs in play features, innovative techniques, and oodles of Easter eggs. Ninjago City Workshops will be available to all on March 1st, 2025, and can be pre-ordered now for US $249.99 | CAN $329.99 | UK £229.99.
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With months of work now complete, LEGO Masters US Season 2 winner Mark Erickson has debuted an absolute monster of a build. This massive construction is taken right from the film series Dune, featuring a massive sandworm (or Shai-Hulud) staring down members of the Fremen and protagonist Paul Atreides huddled around the rocks. A studs-not-on-top technique brings the sand sea of Arrakis to life, and the massive worm is kept upright thanks to an inner skeleton made of Technic.
Explore more of this great creation below!
While a lot of the news recently has been all about sets releasing in March, we’ve still got a few that just made it to the LEGO website for purchase with the start of February. The most notable of these is LEGO Ideas 21354 Twilight The Cullen House. Plus, there’s a pair of GWPs and more special bundle discounts available right that are now worth checking out – US | CAN | UK. But if you’re looking for the full catalogue of all sets available as of February 1st, you can find that here: LEGO US | LEGO CAN | LEGO UK. And remember, by using our affiliate links for your LEGO shopping, you can passively help us to fund our maintenance and bandwidth costs, allowing us to continue featuring the best work by LEGO fans across the globe, along with plenty of news, reviews, and features from this great hobby.
Check out our favorite sets in the February wave below!
Extraterrestrials have generally been projected as quite the “grabby” culture, be it in film, literature, or LEGO. With a reputation for taking things, via tractor beams and all kinds of abduction tech, they’re no doubt to blame for my missing socks and car keys. Just look at them trying to make off with a microscale castle in this vignette by Zapalski! The details in this creation are superb. I appreciate the small field made of grill plates, and the large chunk of rock exposed by the flying saucer lifting the castle. And what a tractor beam it’s using, using a Ninjago Spinjitzu piece to great green glowing effect!
Seven years ago, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi hit theaters worldwide, and the world has never been the same since. Not because it’s a somewhat polarising film among the fanbase – but because it inspired LEGO starship phenom Tom Loftus (AKA Inthert) to create a model of the bulky Resistance Bomber from the opening sequence. And it’s only now that we finally get to see the fruits of that labour! It’s a fantastically detailed model, as per Tom’s usual sky-high standard. It’s some way bigger than the set LEGO made of it too, even though it uses some of the same printed turret dishes.
That LEGO set (75188 Resistance Bomber, if you’re curious) is infamous among enthusiast circles for the late addition of a character named Finch Dallow – a name that strikes terror into the hearts of minifigure collectors. (You can read why here.) And sure enough, he’s present in this model too! He and his crew get a fully decked-out interior. Even the structural elements of the fuselage look to be accurate to the movie. That’s 7 years of hard work well spent, if you ask me!
It’s not like Tom has only been working on this since 2018, though. You can see what else he’s been up to in our Inthert archives.
From Iron Forge finals to the biggest LEGO Sandworm we’ve ever seen, it’s been a week full of amazing MOCs and builder news. Our friend ABrickDreamer is here with the highlights, including our Lunar New Year interview with Vooi Loon Low. Which build is your favorite this week?
According to his biography, when he’s not building LEGO spaceships, Thomas Harding can be found photographing pigeons. That affinity for birds must extend to geese as well, as Thomas rustled up this charming fellow for us to take a gander at. Thomas first tried to make the Canadian goose using only the remaining parts from his phenomenal deer alt-build using parts from 31154 Forest Animals: Red Fox, but the plan didn’t quite fly. With a few extra parts, the bird came together swimmingly. I especially love the minimalist yet unmistakable head. It’s funny how the 2×3 design plate was first designed for simulating rock, but has found life in LEGO sets as fur and feathers.
Honk!
