This website is intended for those with the maturity to read the entire Bible. For younger children, please visit our sister site: The Brick Bible for Kids The Story of Christmas The Ministry of Jesus The Passion of Jesus (Additional content can be accessed on our older site The Brick Testament, and will be added here as it is formatted for this site.) The Brick Bible is one artist’s epic endeavor to illustrate the entire Bible using only LEGO bricks. It is motivated by a desire to increase people’s knowledge and consideration of the content of the Bible in a way that’s captivating and fun while always staying true to the text of the scriptures. Each story is told using quotes from the Bible illustrated with a slideshow of scenes constructed entirely out of LEGO building bricks. Each is crafted and photographed by the renowned artist and author Elbe Spurling (formerly Brendan Powell Smith). In addition to this sprawling website, The Brick Bible has spawned a hit book series with over half a million titles in print, and carried by major retailers including Costco, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Amazon.
Autographed copies of books can be ordered directly from the artist. Since the LEGO company has never produced any Bible-themed sets, every character and every bit of scenery in The Brick Bible is a result of creative recombinations of parts from LEGO sets that were released anywhere from the 1960s through today. For ease of understanding and avoidance of copyright issues, The Brick Bible uses its own wording of the Bible’s text. But chapter and verse numbers are always cited and also act as clickable links to the rendering of the same verses in the King James Version, the New International Version, the New Revised Standard Version, the New Living Translation, and the Easy-to-Read Version.Alison Brie channels her The LEGO Movie character in new trailerWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group have released a new trailer for the upcoming LEGO Dimensions featuring “Community” star Alison Brie channeling her The LEGO Movie character Unikitty after she can’t find the last LEGO brick.
Check it out in the player below!When a mysterious and powerful vortex suddenly appears in various LEGO worlds, different characters from DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings and The LEGO Movie are swept away. To save their friends, LEGO Batman, LEGO Gandalf and LEGO Wyldstyle journey to locations beyond their wildest imaginations, and they soon realize that Lord Vortech is summoning villains from across different LEGO worlds to help him gain control. As his power grows, worlds mix, unexpected characters meet and all boundaries are broken. Our heroes must travel through space and time to rescue their friends before the vortexes destroy all of LEGO humanity.LEGO Dimensions, the upcoming entertainment experience that merges physical brick building with interactive console gameplay, will include gameplay from “The Simpsons,” “Doctor Who,” Ghostbusters, Portal, Jurassic World, Midway Arcade, LEGO Chima and “Scooby-Doo!” These fan-favorite worlds, most of which have never before been in a LEGO video game, will converge with DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The LEGO Movie, The Wizard of Oz, LEGO Ninjago and Back to the Future worlds in one thrilling adventure playable with the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack.LEGO Dimensions will be available for the Xbox One, Xbox 360
, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii U on September 27, 2015. You can pre-order the Starter Pack by clicking here. Platform: PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Windows PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Release: January 26, 2016 I entered into Lego Marvel’s Avengers with some trepidation. Last fall’s Lego Dimensions successfully shook up TT Games’ 12-year-old Lego formula by adding real-world bricks to the mix and mashing up a broad range of disparate pop culture properties. You could build the Mystery Machine on your coffee table and put Homer Simpson behind the wheel, snap together the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal and make Doctor Who manipulate it, create Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet and have it piloted by Marty McFly. It was creative, funny, engaging, and fresh. I was concerned that going back to a regular old Lego game based on a single piece of pop culture with no real-world models to build would feel like a step backwards.
And it kind of does. But while Avengers – the second Lego game to be based on Disney’s juggernaut series of Marvel Cinematic Universe films – does indeed feel somewhat slighter than Dimensions, I’d forgotten just how good TT Games is at capturing the spirit of the franchises it both celebrates and parodies. There’s plenty here that will put smiles on the faces of players both young and old — including a surprising amount of recorded dialogue from Marvel overlord Stan Lee (“Excelsior!”). And while Avengers does little to change the core Lego game formula – which is now 20 games strong – it nibbles around that recipe’s edges just enough to avoid coming off as a rote clone of games that have come before. The changes start with the structure of the story. Rather than just chronologically retell the tale of the two Avengers films, the narrative combines scenes from half a dozen different Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. Fans will instantly recognize such scenes as the snowy opening sequence of the second Avengers movie, Captain America’s showdown against Red Skull, and the helicarrier set piece battle from the first Avengers film, only now they’ll be seeing some of these sequences as character flashbacks rather than in chronological order.
And since this is a Lego game, you can expect more comedic catalysts for important events. Watching Bruce Banner get coaxed into his Hulk form not through rage but by getting sacked actually made laugh out loud. And Agent Coulson’s mystery alien weapon from the first Avengers film doesn’t fire a piercing burst of energy, but instead a red boxing glove on a spring, freeing the audience to giggle a little more heartily at his dying words, “So that’s what it does” – which, like much of the game’s dialogue, were lifted directly from the film’s audio. You can also expect significantly fewer puzzles than what we were given in games like Lego Dimensions or even the Lego Harry Potter series. Nick Fury and company are presented occasional brainteasers, but they’re generally pretty easy. Solutions frequently flash onscreen prior to the puzzle starting to let us know which buttons to press to enter a code on a panel or where to look to find a hidden object with a scanner.
Clearly, TT Games believes – right or wrong – that kids interested in super heroes would rather spend their time beating up bad guys than solving riddles. To that end, a bit of attention was lavished on how the game’s 100-plus characters take down their enemies. Just hammering buttons will usually do the trick, but players can also choose to tap the circle button to make their characters perform signature moves, individually or in tandem. They take a few seconds to play out, but they’re often pretty satisfying – like when the Hulk picks up Iron Man and wields him like a laser gun. Even minor characters, like Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill, have their own unique takedowns (which, in her case, involves tossing a bad guy high into the air and casually watching him plummet back down to the ground). However, if you’re looking for tweaks more substantial than some fresh finishing moves and a clever way of retelling a story set over multiple films, then Lego Marvel’s Avengers may not do the trick.
As with every other game in the series, the bulk of your time is still spent smashing everything in sight, occasionally constructing something new from the leftover bricks – a car, a weapon, a computer panel – that will let you clear some sort of obstacle. You’re also still meant to replay finished levels with different characters in order to find all of the hidden goodies that are inaccessible the first time through. And between levels we’re given the same set of side activities we always get, such as customizing Lego minifigure characters and spending Lego studs to unlock special abilities (the quicker you buy the attract-studs-from-afar Red Brick, the better). As with pretty much any Lego game (except perhaps Dimensions), what it really comes down to is whether you’re tired of the Lego game shtick, whether you happen to be a fan of whatever pop culture property TT Games happens to have on tap, and whether you have someone to sit beside you on the couch so you can play and laugh together – these games are always much more fun experienced with a friend or family member.