It seems like a crime how underrated Dutch builder Barthezz Brick is, and he’s lucky to have Spider-Man stop this crime! Barthezz Brick has been featured on the Brothers Brick before with a smaller downtown city scene, but he has outdone himself with this large and extremely detailed diorama of Spider-Man, surrounded by busy and realistic city life. There is so much detail here that it is hard to take it all in without revisiting the pictures a few extra times. The busy city life shows both completely oblivious citizens and ones very much involved in the story, such as the robber right under the corner of the larger building and a security guard and obviously Spider-Man chasing him. While the amazing minifig action fills it with life, the diorama would work perfectly fine on its own, from the water tank on the roof and the level of detail above ground...

Built by the members of SwissLUG as a collaborative build, this amazing Victorian-age city has details everywhere you look. Unlike many LEGO cities, the properly scaled tall ship at the docks doesn’t dwarf the rest of the layout, fitting right in while also serving as a beautiful anchor in the center of the scene. The builders have named the city Brickerei, and have assembled it to display at public LEGO shows along with their club. On the far end of the town lies the church with a small cemetery. Builder Peter Dornbach says the design was inspired by the Bodelwyddan church in Wales. It’s connected to the rest of the town by a fantastic little arched bridge for the roadway. Here also is where one of the rail lines exits the city, carrying the beautiful classic steam engine and ornate passenger cars. Just across the rail bridge into the city is the large quay...

Large spaceships are a flagship of LEGO space creations, where “large” is generally accepted to be 100 studs in length (or honestly any other spatial dimension) — these are called capital ships or SHIPs (Super Huge Investment in Parts). For the past few years, it’s seemed like there might be fewer built throughout the year, because many people rather concentrate their efforts in the annual SHIPtember community challenge in September. So in a way, Lysander Chau‘s Battleship Andromeda is like a Christmas gift in May, and I hope your big spaceship lust is as satisfied as mine. The spaceship has some nice red and yellow highlights that break up the grey surface. Among these, I especially love what looks to be giant red intakes and a yellow-lined hangar door in the front. The overall shape is not the most original amongst LEGO spaceships, but that is part of its charm. It...

Gali-what? For the uninitiated, Galidor was a line of quirky buildable action figures released by LEGO back in 2002. Galidor coined and subsequently destroyed the word “glinching,” which was used to refer to the interchangeability of the various body parts. LEGO had great expectations for Galidor and invested a great deal of money in promoting the product, which included a tie-in TV show, video games and promotional McDonald’s Happy Meal toys. Despite LEGO’s efforts, Galidor was a huge commercial failure and has been a running joke in the LEGO fan community every since. Between all the laughter, there has been very little in the way of discussion of what Galidor could have been….until now. Ryan Howerter brings us this great model of Jens, but look closely… When I first caught a glimpse of Ryan’s model of Jens, Chief Scientist of the Royal Court of Galidor, I thought I was looking at an actual Galidor...

Pinball machines bring out the kid in all of us, hanging out in an arcade losing quarters and setting high scores. And the Classic Space era of LEGO sets appeals to so many of us who got our first LEGO sets back in the 70’s through 90’s. The Brothers Brick contributor Bre Burns hits it out of the nostalgia ballpark with a fully functional LEGO pinball machine called “Benny’s Spaceship Adventure.” She spent several months perfecting the design with over 15,000 LEGO bricks, including LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable bricks to make sounds and count your high score. Bre has kindly shared loads of details about her LEGO masterpiece, which stands over two and a half feet tall, exclusively with The Brothers Brick. Let’s pull back that ball launcher, flick those flippers, and learn more about this amazing LEGO creation! But first, let’s take a look at the pinball machine in action...