The TBB editorial team recently announced our shortlist for LEGO Creation of the Year, but what do you our readers think? Over the course of the year, you let your mouse clicks do the talking, and it’s clear that you felt the same way about many of the best LEGO creations we highlighted. Based on clicks, likes, shares, and other stats, here are the top 10 most popular LEGO creations featured on The Brothers Brick in 2016, as voted by you! 10. LEGO Technic Porsche 919, the 2015 Le Mans winner Manuel Nascimento honored the winner of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans race with this gorgeous Porsche 919 built from LEGO Technic pieces. Manuel’s Porsche sports custom stickers, and has numerous working features. 9. 11-foot-long LEGO Classic Space spaceship LL-2016 We visited Seattle-area LEGO builder Mark Neumann’s home and interviewed him about his massive spaceship, which features amazing detail, working lights, tons of minifig action, and various support craft. 8. 4-foot-long 1:15-scale LEGO F-14 Tomcat
British builder James Cherry one-ups even our own master aircraft builder Ralph Savelsberg with his massive US Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. James used LEGO Power Functions to create working variable sweep wings and control surfaces, and spent nine months assembling the 8,000 piece LEGO creation. 7. Amazing folding LEGO Himeji castle Japanese builder talapz created a folding LEGO version of the iconic “White Egret Castle” in western Japan, recently brought to life in LEGO by Ryan McNaught’s team as well (though Ryan’s version doesn’t fold up). 6. Life-size LEGO facehugger is a thing of nightmares One could argue that some LEGO creations might be best left unbuilt, like this life-size, articulated facehugger from the Alien movies. 5. 5,000-piece LEGO Star Wars AT-AT properly scaled to minifigures Most fan-built and official LEGO Star Wars AT-AT walkers are far too small. Not so with this 5,000-piece monstrosity by Noah. You’d best scramble your puny snowspeeders, Rebel scum!
4. MacLaren’s Pub from How I Met Your Mother in LEGO While a few minifigs might have improved this scene by speedyhead, that didn’t deter readers from making this the fourth most popular LEGO creation featured on TBB in 2016. 3. LEGO Battle on Rhen Var from Star Wars: Battlefront Most LEGO Star Wars creations we feature here on TBB are from one of the movies, but Markus has built a massive battle scene from the video game Battlefront. Markus used 250,000 LEGO bricks to recreate the scene, complete with massed minifigures, vehicles, and a detailed interior. 2. Silly readers, bookshelves are for displaying LEGO! In what is sure to come as a surprise to our humble friend Alan McMorran, his ingenious modular buildings spanning bookshelves in his home office takes the #2 spot in our list of most popular LEGO creations of 2016. Alan integrates his display of official sets on either side with a lovely span of custom buildings. 1. LEGO Technic A-Team van Technic is making a clean sweep of each of the categories on TBB this year — most popular news item, most popular LEGO set review, and most popular custom LEGO creation as well.
This LEGO Technic A-Team van by Chade is remote controlled, with working lights, powered doors, and more. Combining high nostalgia, working features, and a solid design, Chade’s van was our most popular LEGO creation of the year! 0. LEGO Star Trek Klingon Bird of Prey six years in the making But wait, there’s more! Decloaking itself and blasting past the rest of the list at Warp 5, after we’d already put together this post, Kevin Walter’s fantastic Klingon Bird of Prey takes the top spot for the year. Kevin spent six years designing and redesigning the model digitally before finally assembling all the necessary pieces to build it in real brick. A well-deserved top spot for a top-shelf LEGO model.Home > Guides > By Mike Flacy on October 17, 2015 Making for some seriously awesome shelf decorations for any Star Wars fan, these LEGO sets are awesome to look at as well as build. It’s likely that we will have to wait until after The Force Awakens comes out to get even more new builds.
Often selling out due to the popularity of the Sith Lord, this Darth Vader build includes fully posable limbs, black armored suit, fabric cape and a buildable red lightsaber. Similar to General Grievous, it’s a simpler build. One of the new characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Poe Dameron has been recreated in LEGO form along with his jet black X-Wing fighter. Features in this set include 4 spring-loaded shooters, 2 stud shooters, retractable landing gear, opening wings, opening cockpit with space for one of the minifigures (Poe Dameron, a Resistance ground crew member and a Resistance X-Wing Pilot) as well as space for the included BB-8 Astromech Droid. Replacing the 2014 build of the Millennium Falcon, this slightly more complex set comes with detachable cockpit with space for 2 minifigures, rotating top and bottom laser turrets with hatch and space for a minifigure, dual spring-loaded shooters, sensor dish, ramp, entrance hatch and opening hull plates. There are seven included mini-figures: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Rey, Finn, Tasu Leech and a Kanjiklub Gang Member as well as a BB-8 Astromech Droid.
I have been trained in your Jedi Arts… by Count Dooku.” Arguably a Star Wars villain that doesn’t get enough credit for being a badass, this General Grievous build includes posable limbs, 2-into-4 separating arms and 4 buildable lightsabers. It’s a much easier build than larger sets, and thus could be ideal for younger builders. Ideal for anyone who’s really into Return of the Jedi, the LEGO Ewok village is an impressive set with 17 minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, two Rebel soldiers, five Ewoks, two Scout Troopers and two Stormtroopers. Features include a tree-trunk hideout and secret lightsaber stash, spider web and net traps, slide, catapults, elevating throne, speeder rammer function, kitchen, food storage area, bedroom and a planning room. Who is ready to experience the power of the Imperial fleet? This set features a lifting handle, removable top and fold-down sides for easy play, 8 synchronized turning cannons, 2 spring-loaded shooters, storage compartment for 2 spare missiles, 7 powerful blue engines, and a detailed interior including rotating Emperor Palpatine hologram, rotating chairs, turning weapon rack, bridge, blue screen and a control panel.
Minifigures include Darth Vader, Imperial Officer, two Stormtroopers, Imperial Crew and Imperial Navy Trooper. Just make sure you have the cantina song playing on a loop when you build this. This set features a dome roof, entrance with sliding door and droid scanner, opening roof, slide-out floors to the middle rooms, bar with shelves, money and bottles, stage for the Bith band, seats, table and windows. Minifigures included are Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Greedo, a Sandtrooper (on a Dewback, no less!) and 3 Bith Musicians. While the actual LEGO Death Star is difficult to find (and expensive to buy at $400), this set allows you to recreate the moment when Luke triumphed over the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. Features include swing-out side sections, opening entrance doors, Force Jump function, collapsing stairs and bridge, reactor shaft, and detachable throne section with rotating throne and hidden Lightsaber pop-up function. It also comes with five mini-figures: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and two Royal Guards.