Are you sure you want to log out of LEGO Ideas?Spooktastic LegoDanilyn LegosVav LegosLego Duplo IdeasLegos IdeasLego DiyKids LegosBuilding With LegosLego Building IdeasForwardThis spooktastic LEGO DUPLO bat is ready for Halloween! What are you and your little ones building? It’s no wonder that Legos remain incredibly popular with kids and parents—they’re not only fun to play with, they also develop critical skills like problem-solving, creativity and dexterity. If you’ve got a brick builder in your life, these books are a great way to get them thinking about all the different creations they can build with their blocks. The LEGO Ideas Book See All Formats & Editions › The Lego Ideas Book, by Daniel Lipkowitz As its title suggests, this book provides ideas for building lots of different Lego creations. The book is divided into 6 sections—transportation, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes—each featuring the basic parts needed to make the creations featured in that section and completed designs photographed from multiple angles to help builders reverse-engineer them.
The book also offers suggestions for ways to simplify the creations, so you don’t have to worry if you don’t have all the parts. LEGO Chain Reactions: Design and Build Amazing Moving Machines LEGO Chain Reactions: Design and Build Amazing Moving Machines, by Pat Murphy This spiral-bound book features instructions for building 10 Lego machines that can be used together to create chain reactions. It includes more than 30 pieces to build the machines, but requires other Lego pieces, so it’s best for those who already have an extensive Lego collection and want to discover new ways to use their pieces. The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town! The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town!, by Brian Lyles and Jason Lyles The Lego Neighborhood Book gives experienced builders a chance to create buildings with architectural features like cornices and facades, as well as real-world features like park benches, plants, traffic lights and scaffolding. The book includes step-by-step instructions for 4 multi-story buildings, as well as a gallery of the authors’ designs and inspirations for other builds.
LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life, by Daniel Lipkowitz and Gregory Farshtey The LEGO Play Book features more than 200 builds, from simple to more complex designs, as well as tips and tricks to help builders get more out of their bricks. The book also includes “ten-minute” builds for quick and easy designs, ideas for using key Lego bricks and a “handful of bricks” section for ideas using a limited number of bricks. Cool Creations in 35 Pieces Cool Creations in 35 Pieces, by Sean Kenney In this book, Lego artist Sean Kenney uses the same 35 pieces to construct different Lego creations, including vehicles, spaceships, animals, robots and more. The book includes step-by-step instructions for some of the builds, as well as a list of the 35 Legos used to make them. Many of the parts are more specialized than typical Lego bricks, but this book is a great way to spark creativity and think of alternative ways to build creations, even if you don’t have all the parts.
Lego Crazy Action Contraptions Lego Crazy Action Contraptions, by Klutz This 50-page, spiral-bound book comes with 105 Lego parts—every brick, axle and gear you need to build all 16 projects featured in the book. Each project also includes step-by-step instructions, making it easy to replicate the builds. If you’re looking for something that includes all the parts you’ll need and diagrams for every project, this book is a great find. The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines, by Yoshihito Isogawa This book uses parts from various Technic sets to create hundreds of working models. To aid with building, each model uses color-coded pieces and is photographed from multiple angles. Included in the designs are basic gears, shafts, pulleys, turntables and connectors, allowing the builder to create cranes, motorized cars, a rocket launcher, drag racer and musical instruments. Brick Vehicles: Amazing Air, Land, and Sea Machines to Build from LEGO(R)
Brick Wheels: Incredible Moving Inventions to Make from LEGO, by Warren Elsmore Master modeler Warren Elsmore highlights 40 amazing vehicles in this book highlighting the history of transportation. Broken into four chapters—Road and Rail, Rivers and Oceans, Flying Machines and the Final Frontier—it includes illustrations of a horse and carriage, freight train, speed boat, cruise liner, the Wright Brothers’ first airplane, Tesla electric car, Curiosity Mars rover and more. Included in the book are two posters featuring Lego transportation scenes and step-by-step instructions for some of the smaller projects. Is there a lego-lover in your life?It's 2017, and it's hard to imagine a world in which Lego didn't exist. From its ubiquitous bricks, to its theme parks, to the host of media tie-ins, via video games, movies, comics–and more! – Lego is the biggest toy brand on the planet.In this post we've celebrated the Lego legacy (a Legocy, no doubt!) by presenting you with some of the greatest models ever built.
So sit back and enjoy, as we showcase the very best in Lego art, from both certified Lego professionals and some amateurs whose love for Lego knows no bounds. Kicking off our Lego art examples is this brilliant Batman Batarang, which crash landed in London recently to mark the release of the Lego Batman movie. Made from 35,000 lego bricks, it took the team at Bright Bricks 225 man hours to build, with broken pavement, smoke and lights (all non-Lego based) completing the scene of destruction. Lego Albums is a project by Harry Heaton, an artist who recreates iconic album covers using the little bricks. The finished products resemble low-resolution pixelated versions of album art, but are nonetheless brilliant. This replica of JME's Integrity album is definitely one of our favourite. Check out Heaton's collection to find yours. Everyone loves the Simpsons, but veteran Lego artist Matt De Lanoy clearly loves them more than most. Just a few months after the release of the official Simpsons Lego set, he's recreated the entire town of Springfield in coloured bricks, including the Kwik-E-Mart, Moe's, Krusty Burger, the nuclear power plant and more.
This image only shows one corner of his creation – see more on his Flickr page.Professional Lego artist Warren Elsmore broke records in March, with an exhibition of 72 Lego models. Attracting over 50,000 visitors, with 2,000 on the busiest day, the likes of the Olympic Park and St Pancras Station in London and the Forth Bridge were on show. His Las Vegas strip also proved hugely popular.Korean Lego artist Jin Kei has given life to one of the giant four-legged mammals from Salvador Dali’s painting 'The Elephants'. At 32 inches, the artist added his own steampunk twist with mechanical accessories, making for a seriously impressive piece of Lego art.The Creative Bloq team was extremely excited to learn that Back to the Future Lego was a thing. Our excitement then prompting us to then search for BTTF Lego fan art, which is when we came across this 19th century train by G Russo.Currently featured on the Lego Cuusoo website, Russo is keen to get his design developed into an actual Lego set.
And he's gone all out to try and ensure that happens, adding fine details including two side panels that fold open to reveal an overhead door, some foldout steps, and various controls, levers, pipes, and wheels for controlling the train.The talented team at Brickworkz create the most amazing custom Lego art work. posed of over 20,000 Lego bricks, the cool mosaic currently resides at legal office of William Ellyson in Richmond, Virginia.This Lego aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman has got to be one of the most impressive creations on our list, in terms of size and detail. The 200,000 brick, 4.5m long, 350-pound aircraft carrier comes complete with electrical lights as well as moving elevators and radar dishes.The epic sculpture, built by German Lego fan Malle Hawking, also includes a half submarine and a mini gunboat on the side.After discovering the Lego Factory and latest Lego Digital Designer software recently, artist Simon C Page was become hooked on Lego art design. And this Lego framed rainbow is his first creation.
Created out of 3,029 bricks, there are over 200 1x1 pieces of each of the 16 colours used throughout. Page comments on his website: "It has took me over six hours to put together and wasn't easy - stacking nearly 50 1 x 1 piece end to end nearly 50 times across, all the time keeping to a strick colouring pattern."Project 'Build Up Japan' was sponsored and curated by the legendary toy brick makers and encouraged school children to build imaginary structures - with the result of a Japan that they wanted to see.With a little help from their parents and a few Lego officials, children across Japan were able to create their country the way they wanted it. The total number of Lego bricks used was a jaw-dropping 1.8 million!How cool is this? This isn’t a child-sized toy set: it’s actually a life-sized LEGO forest in the Australian Outback! It’s made up of 15 pine trees, and 15 flower sets, all 66 times bigger than their design toys counterpart – making the trees a whopping 4m high.The iconic toy brick company built this amazing creation in Living Desert State Park, a 2400ha reserve more than 700 miles west of Sydney, as part of its 50-year anniversary celebration.
Last year, the UK's only certified LEGO technician Duncan Titchmarsh built this huge advent calendar sculpture. Made up of approximately 600,000 bricks, the installation was unveiled in central London's Covent Garden shopping area.Each door was opened at 4pm every day in the lead up to Xmas day. The presents behind each were also cool Lego creations. An awesome way to celebrate the festive season.Take a trip to Disney World in Florida and you'll find this awesome Lego sea monster, Brickley. The cool character is made out of 170,000 LEGO bricks, stretches a whopping 30 feet and weighs half a ton!The brilliant sculpture is one of many found in Downtown Disney at the LEGO Imagination centre. Other models include a Transformer, giant models of Woody and Buzz Lightyear and the Seven Dwarves.Paul Hetherington - known in the Lego world as BrickBaron - had already given a sneak peek to this incredible creation, by showing off the lower structure full of mermaids, oceans and ships. Little did we know that it would actually play as part of a much larger sculpture featuring the God of the sea.
Poseidon was built for the Vancouver Lego Club's Mythology exhibit at the Surrey Museum; taking place from July until September 15th. The attention to detail is astonishing: we don't know if we'd have the patience to build something as impressive as this! You can see more photos of Poseidon, as well as Paul's other work on his Flickr page.This stunning sculpture was created by Bram Lambrecht using LSculpt - a program which converts a triangle mesh into an LDraw file. Like the sphere generator, the generated model consists of a surface of 1×1 plates oriented in whichever direction provides the best detail.We love that Bram has taken the time to create not only the body and branch but the shadow too. It's these details that make certain Lego sculptures stand out from the rest. You can see more of Bram's work on his official website.Although created in 2009, this huge Mario sculpture still deserves a mention. Crafted by brick layer Dirk Van Haesbroeck, it took him just over two weeks to finalise the plumber.
Mario is comprised of 30,000 LEGO bricks with the pedestal containing another 12,000. This video showcases the 160 hours of work in just over a minute.Once the sculpture was finished, it was auctioned off on eBay in aid of Ronald McDonald, a Dutch organisation that arranges proper housing for relatives of hospitalised children in the vicinity of clinics. It sold for an impressive $5100. You can see more of Dirk's Lego art on his Facebook page.Despite its short run on television almost ten years ago, fans of Firefly and film Serenity still express an intense love and passion for the Joss Whedon series. One such fan decided to build the ultimate homage to the sci-fi show with a replica of the ship Serenity.Adrian Drake used around 70,000 Lego pieces and the project took 475 hours over the course of 21 months. The ship itself weighs an incredible 135 pounds due to the intricate details Adrian has included. You can more of Adrian's stunning Lego art on his website.What can we say about Nathan?
Well, first off he's one of the, if not the biggest Lego artist around. Counting himself as one of the world's certified Lego professionals, when he's not jetting off around the world showcasing his artwork in prestigious galleries, he's at his studio creating the next array of Lego art masterpieces.Here, the pop-up book is a celebration of Waldo H. Hunt - ''the king of pop-up.'' It's created entirely out of Lego (which is handy for this list) and is based around a poem Nathan wrote himself. You can see the said poem across the pages of the book, which we think is a lovely touch.See more of Nathan's incredible work at his personal website. Or just go to number 2!We could compile this entire list with Nathan's creations but we'll treat you to just two. 'Crowd' has been trawling the United States for quite some time thanks to Nathan's popular exhibitions so you may have seen it before.Inspired by the throngs of people walking the streets of New York, 'Crowd' also gives us a sense of George Orwell's 1984 with its watchful eye.