BrickWarriors offers custom LEGO® compatible weapons, guns, helmets, armor, and accessories. All BrickWarriors toys fit seamlessly with your LEGO® minifigures! Take a look at the toys BrickWarriors has to offer in the shop and subcribe to our mailing list for great deals and new release announcements! Also be sure to check out our blog for interesting insights into BrickWarriors and the LEGO® world! Check out an excerpt of the Desert Eagle Building Instructions (PDF) From LEGO guns mastermind and 18–year-old YouTube sensation Jack Streat comes LEGO Heavy Weapons, a collection of complete building instructions for four truly impressive, 1:1-scale replicas of the world's most iconic firearms. LEGO Heavy Weapons will show you how to build brick-based models of: A massive Desert Eagle handgun, with working blowback action The compact but deadly AKS-74U assault rifle with folding stock A bolt-action Lee Enfield rifle (a.k.a. Jungle Carbine) A pump action SPAS combat shotgun
Each set of instructions includes a complete parts listing, so you can find (or special order) any hard-to-find bricks. The book's illustrated, step-by-step building instructions will be clear to anyone who's ever played with LEGO bricks, and the biggest models will challenge and delight even the most serious builders. About the AuthorSince posting his first LEGO gun online at age 13, Jack Streat has played an influential role in the LEGO weapons builder community. In his spare time he modifies guitars in a never-ending quest to make them as loud as possible. Streat wrote this, his first book, when he was 18 years old. Check out the LEGO Heavy Weapons video! Table of ContentsChapter 1: Desert Eagle Chapter 3: Lee-Enfield Sniper Rifle (Jungle Carbine) Chapter 4: SPAS-12 Combat ShotgunReviews"If I'd seen Jack Streat's LEGO gun creations [as a kid], my head would've exploded. Heck, seeing them as an adult is doing just that—ka-boom!" —Brian Ashcraft, Kotaku (Read More)
discusses the book and interviews Jack Streat, the author (Read More) Featured on The Daily Mail (Read More) Wired Magazine's GeekMom interviews Jack Streat, the author (Read More) "Equal parts disturbing and awesome." —Wired Magazine’s Tumblr (Read More) "Nothing is more satisfying than building something with your own two hands—especially when it's a 1:1 scale AK47 assault rifle!" —MTV Geek (Read More)The San Francisco Chronicle's Mommy Files blog discusses the controversy behind the book. "The only thing 'scary' about his book is how some are overreacting to it.” —NRA, News & Issues (Read More) As seen on Uncrate! Featured on Boing Boing (Read More) As seen on Cool Hunting (Read More) Profile of Jack Streat, the author —East Anglican Daily Times (Read More) "An excellently designed, and thoroughly informative piece of work which I highly recommend." —Greg Barbrick, Blogcritics (Read More)
Featured on The Gentlemint (Read More) "Love the shotgun and Enfield." —The Firearm Blog (Read More) "The directions are straight to follow, and easy to manage. I commend young Mr. Streat on his ingenuity and dedication in building such incredible replicas." —A LEGO A Day (Read More) "If you want a collection of cool guns without the expense and danger of real firearms, you need LEGO Heavy Weapons." "If you love building cool looking models with intricate mechanisms, even if you’re not into guns, then this book is for you." —Bot Bench (Read More) Featured on Laughing Squid (Read More) Featured on episode of The Brick Show (Watch it here!) Wikinews interviews Jack Streat, the author (Read More) "Make sure to check out LEGO Heavy Weapons if you get the chance because it is one book you won't want to miss." —BioGamer Girl Magazine (Read More) "By the time you finish LEGO Heavy Weapons, by Jack Streat you’ll have the skill set to begin designing your own replicas...of just about anything."
—Jeff Soyer, Alphecca (Read More) "Really, this is pretty slick." —Stuff From Hsoi (Read More) Featured on The Hundreds (Read More) Featured on HiConsumption (Read More) Featured on Design You Trust (Read More) "The mechanisms that he designs are intricate; a watchmaker would have been proud of this work." —Mark Crosbie, Think Bricks (Read More) "I love that each set of instructions contains a list of LEGO bricks needed to complete each project so you can be sure you have everything piece on hand before you get started!" —My Springfield Mommy (Read More) "This was a very interesting and satisfying way to get back into a very cool and mentally stimulating hobby." —Michael Chu, Cooking for Engineers (Read More)Infinity GunIt'S LegoLego MinecraftLego GunsGun CloseBricks NeededGuns WorkFunny LegoFunny GamingForwardLego gun. I need the plans to build this, then it's off to legoland to buy all the bricks needed!Imperial Assault Hovertank™product_label_list_price_accessibility 20 Reviews123451FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISSpaceStar Wars™Seek out the rebels aboard the armor-plated Imperial Assault Hovertank!
Imperial Assault Hovertank⢠Reviews - page 2You Can Build a Working Nerf Blaster Using Lego12/30/16 12:01pm Proving once again that the only toy any kid really needs is a giant box of Lego, YouTube’s Astonishing Studios has managed to recreate a working version of the classic Nerf Maverick REV-6 blaster using nothing but plastic bricks and a metal spring for power. The Lego blaster even accepts and fires standard Nerf suction cup-tipped darts, although each one needed to be slightly shaved down in order to squeeze into the gun’s rotating cylinder made from Lego rims. But otherwise, it’s an impressively faithful recreation of the original Nerf toy.As I recall, LEGO's oldest weapons were actually wooden ones, from before LEGO started making plastic building bricks! LEGO had several wooden guns, like this one in the 40's and 50's:Within the building toy lineup, LEGO's had a very gradual increase in the amount of weapons that they've featured. LEGO used to have very conservative values, and attempted to avoid any sort of weaponry, religious symbols, or other controversial items.
They even used to avoid making standard green, brown, and gray bricks-- supposedly because these facilitated making military models!LEGO's first representation of a weapon in a building set (that I'm aware of) was a gun in the 1976 set 210 Cowboys:Of course, as you can tell, it's not really a "gun" element-- it's just a black 1x2 plate that's being held as though it were a gun. Clearly the intention is there, even though you could probably argue that it's something innocuous like horseshoes instead!Beyond that, LEGO started putting out more weapons in 1978 in its castle lineup. That initially featured swords, lances, and axes, but would later go on to include other weapons like bow & arrows, spears, halberds, and more:These are a far cry from modern weaponry, though, and were deemed acceptable. After all, it would be hard to make a castle theme without them!In the meanwhile (also starting in 1978), LEGO Space sets had a fair number of "gun-like-things", which designers and kids clearly interpreted as guns.
But the official policy was always that they weren't weapons-- they were intended to be futuristic sensors and tools-- not guns!In 1989, LEGO pushed the line again when it came out with pirate sets. These featured cannons, pistols, sabres, and rifles. But they still clearly didn't look like modern weaponry-- and this is likely when LEGO decided on its policy which was roughly: "Weapons are ok, as long as they're in a historical context":That thinking, however, paved the way for "more modern" guns that were featured starting in 1996 with the Wild West lineup, which featured pistols and more modern-looking rifles. In fact, many have argued that the Wild West weapons were SO similar to modern guns that the two were virtually one and the same.In 1999, LEGO had to again make some adjustments to their "policy" when LEGO Star Wars came out. They featured futuristic weapons (clearly not historical) that were clearly weapons. Hence, the thinking became that weapons were ok in licensed sets, as long as they looked more like futuristic/fantasy weapons, and not modern-day weapons.
Finally, in 2006, LEGO started making more realistic modern weapons. This time, it was for the Batman sets, which were exceptions because they were from a licensed lineup:Since then, LEGO's occasionally put out other more modern-ish weapons, so you'll see them sprinkled here and there in several different lineups-- Indiana Jones, Super Heroes, etc. But also even within non-licensed themes like Agents, Monster Fighters, and Collectible Minifigures!LEGO still tries to avoid blatantly modern military, like tanks and fighter jets. But these days, I don't think anything's off the table. They'll probably opt for a less-violent theme if they have a choice, but they've come a long way from their old policies of having nothing (or very little) violent in their sets.As Peter Hale says, it's been a gradual transition... flintlock pistols and blunderbusses date back to the late 1980s and the first Pirate sets. Colt revolvers and rifles date back to the Wild West line of the early 1990s, and there were additional weapons in the Indiana Jones sets of the early 2000s but for the most modern weapons you can thank Batman :)