[NEWS] Fullerton Hotel – Grand Lego Structure

As part of the celebrations of Fullerton Hotel’s 90th annivesary, a five star luxury hotel in Singapore, the management has comissioned a grand structure of the hotel made of Lego displayed at the ground floor of the hotel’s grand lobby. Perhaps unknown to many the Fullerton Hotel before its illustrious present used to serve once as the General Post Office of Singapore.

The giantantic build is made up of a whooping 0.5 million pieces! This brings the term massive to a whole new level. The sculpture well potrays the present and the history that the building has gone through since 1928 when it was first opened. It was once a General Post Office, the Singapore Club as well as a Hospital and Headquarters during the WW2. Today it is a luxury hotel for all distinguished guest to Singapore such that even the supreme leader Kim Jung Un requested to stay here during the Trump-Kim Summit!

Presently the hotel is managed under Sinoland which acquired the building from Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. Refurbished at a cost of $300m the hotel was opened by the ex-prime minisiter Goh Chok Tong in 2001.

Head down to Fullerton Hotel to admire this beautiful work of art and the legacy of the Fullerton Hotel building which have trascended over the last 90 years and would most likely live on for decades, centuries and generations to come.

[NEWS] Voltron (21311) Ideas release!

Fans of Voltron, rejoice! Yes it is finally here! Final images have been released by Lego and they look absolutely amazing. Credits to len_d69 for his absoultely genius work for not only making the 10k supporter mark but also the buy-in of the Lego Ideas panel! All 2,321 pieces will exceed the Fishing Village (21310) Lego Ideas set in terms of piece count and retail for S$299.90. The priviledged SDCC visitors will be the lucky ones to be able to purchase and own one at this year’s astute event.

Voltron come from hit old school cartoon series in the 1980’s which allows us to relive our childhood with this set. This mecha is “transformed” from five seperate unique lion builds which we will be very keen to learn from the technics applied by the designer. We believe the applications could be utilised for future mecha builds.

Seems like going big has become the norm with not only official Lego sets but the Ideas series as collectors demand for more details and intricacy in their build to offer more play and display value. We definitely like to see more of these large Idea sets coming to fruition from the designers. This is a must for all Voltron fans!

[VOTE!] Evan’s Bike Shop

Bricksworld, Singapore’s largest chain of Lego Certified Shops (LCS), have recently organised an AFOL My Own Creation (MOC) competition where Lego fans may unleash their creativity and garner votes online from the AFOL community. The MOC will be displayed at the Bricksworld’s shops. Top three entries win $100 voucher as appreciation for their creativity.

Featured in Bricksworld – Jem, we found the Motorbike Shop modular designed by local AFOL Evan displayed there attracting the attention of many shoppers. Support the Motorbike Shop via this link with a WOW! https://goo.gl/4iiugN.

Evan’s modular building features a three storey Motorbike Shop with bike lift and roof top garden. Each level is removable for maximum playability just like the Creator modular buildings series.

On the first level, shoppers are greeted warmly by the helpful counter staff with a full range of motorbike helmets behind the counter. Couple of the newest motorbike models are displayed at the window display at the front of the shop for maximum visibility for by passerbys. Shoppers may also rest on the comfy L-shaped couch while processing their paperwork for purchase.

On the second floor, staff can sit down on the long board room for morning meetings before business. Customers may also come up to view the shop’s extended offerings of bikes and helmets.

On the third floor sits the Managing Director of the motorbike shop where his secretary is just passing his morning daily papers and coffee. A fully furnished oakwood desk, bookshelf, leather chair, red telephone accompanies the MD for his day to day job.

The roof top garden is adorned with a beautiful flower bed and a lovely pebbled path done by the Motorbike Shop’s seasoned gardener. Head down to Bricksworld, Jem to appreciate all the other fine details included in this MOC!

[NEWS] Harry Potter Minifigures Series 1 are out ! 22 Minifigures !

E’nuff said, one of the best collectible minifigures series in our opinion has been created! Yes it is the Harry Potter series, all 22 figures (16 original Potter Series and 6 Fanatastic Beast Series)! Rumour mail have been circulating The Harry Potter minifigures release since the start of the year and the wait is finally over set for release in the third quarter on 1st August to be exact! Let the pictures speak for themself, almost the entire cast are featured. We think it will be a great addition to collectible minifigure series the details and accessories looks absolutely amazing!

Given there are 22 minifigures in this series there must be at least 2 that are rares out of the 60 blind packs in a single box, lets see what are the minifigure distribution in the days to come!

[NEWS] New Groot and Rocket Brickheadz

A new dynamic duo from the Guardians of the Galaxy, Groot and Rocket Rabit (opps i mean Racoon) will be getting their own Brickheadz! Love the use of the plants on top of Groot’s head and the printed tiles you recieve with every brickheadz figure. Rocket Racoon’s whiskers are also creatively and smartly potrayed using wolverine claw parts.

Can’t wait for the them to join our Brickheadz family! Especially since we have Starlord and Gamora already released previously and we head one step closer to complete the Gurdians of Galaxy.

[MOC] Modular Museum and Wedding Hall

The latest MOC craze for Creator modular series is to utilize exisiting parts from official Lego sets to re-create into beautiful alternative buildings. This help spare the hassle of part sourcing from bricklink or Pick-a-Brick which may take the process into months especially for those who prefer instant gratification. Many of the instructions are available for a small fee on rebrickable.com.

Singaporean based AFOL, Evan Chang, have recently completed two of such alternative builds using the original Lego sets namely The Grand Emporium (10211) and Tower Bridge (10214) and we must say it looks really impressive, kudos to the orginal designer InyoungBricks’ creativity. Please help to support the various designer’s creativity by puchasing a copy of their instruction on rebrickable.com as appreciation so that more MOC instructions will be created.

Evan has raised the notch to next level by also further customising the building with lighting effects to enhance the overall look and feel. The Tower Bridge is magically transformed into a European styled Museum of Natural History together with a cafe for your minifigure visitors to chill out over a cup of coffee.

The Wedding Hall is re-created from the now retired Grand Emporium. The Wedding Hall features a solemnization room where minifigures of your Lego town can go to pledge their once in a lifetime wedding vows in the presecence of their family and friends.

We have had our first red carpet wedding ceremony conducted this morning in the solemnization room of the newly married wedding couple. Congratulations to a blissful marriage!

The night never gets dull in Evan’s town as the the artifacts and prehistoric animals in the whacky museum come alive when the minifigures go to sleep.

Absolutely romantic night wedding ceremony for our newly wed Mr and Mrs Brick under the beautiful spotlight. We definitely highly recommend Lego city fans to attempt this two builds and we believe it will be a fantastic addition to your modular city layout!

[NEWS] SDCC Aquaman and Storm (75996)

A new SDCC set is announced, featuring a Aquaman minifigure together with his dynamic sidekick Storm the seahorse has been released! This 197 piece set also features a manta ray, octopus and a cute yellow crab; as well as couple of seabed structure. This comes right after yesterday’s release of the Millenium Falcon cockpit and with a similar comic style box art design. We are really excited to see what is the third SDCC exclusive set.

[News] Minifigure Factory in Copenhagen Lego store

Copenhagen has become the first country to be choosen to start a trial run for just a couple of days a new Minifigure Factory concept where customers can customize and instantly print your own minifigures! Fantastic!!!

One can select from a number of designs via a touch screen and further select from an plethora of colours and personalised text printed over a plain torso for a mere DKK 30 bucks. Talk about pushing the limits of customisation and instant gratification! Great job!

For obvious reasons, customer will not be able to upload own designs for printing, otherwise we would all be tempted to fly in to Copenhagen to print those limited edition minifigures. Lets look forward to the world wide launch.

[NEWS!] Two New Solo: A Star Wars Story sets!

The Imperial Conveyex Transport (75217) and Imperial AT Hauler (75219) images have been officially released! Finally!!

Awesome figures from both sets especially of the new and exclusive Han Solo and Chewbacca figures with googles from the Conveyex Transport which we cannot get enough of as they escape from pursuing Imperial Range Troopers. We believe this will be the start of a new era of Starwars train diorama.

The AT hauler is great as a support vehicle for all your walkers deployment needs on to the battlefield. Qi’ra, Val and Rio Durant looks great as well as an excellent addition to the Solo wave of minifigures.

[MOC] UCS AT-AT Minifig Scale – 6,647 pieces!

The Brick News Channel has done the unthinkable, over the last three months we have been hard at work tirelessly to complete a massive Minifig scale All Terrain Armoured Transport also popularly known to Star Wars fans as the AT-AT designed by jhaelego. This beast is the amalgamation of over 6,647 pieces, completed over the span of over three months and not to mention a huge dent to our wallet.

The figure took three person to setup at the Headquarters of The Last Order Council, given the sheer weight of 17.6 KG. The cockpit is articulated and can house two pilots and commanders. The AT-AT also features an interior that can house 4 speeders and a whole platoon of Imperial Snow Troopers to march their Attack on Hoth. See if u can spot our favourite Starwars hero Luke Skywalker in the midst of his tactical mission!

Also displayed in the picture below are the Extra Large AT-AT designed by Raskolnikov and couple of official and vintage Lego playsets AT-AT for size comparision. It is without a doubt that the AT-AT size triump in size against all that we have attempted or created in the past.

The partlist and instructions is created by talented designer jhaelego on rebrickable.com. It has taken him over one year to design this massively accurate model and we give every credit to his marvelous achievments. Recommended for all diehard trilogy Star Wars fans!