AFOL PSA - Powered Up! Bluetooth Battery Hub

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Australian pricing has been released for LEGO part 88009 Powered Up Bluetooth Battery Hub which is used to power and control various elements of the new Powered Up system that replaces Power Functions.

This is going to cost you $79.99 AUD from LEGO Shop @ Home...

Stock up on these from BrickLink while you can :)

Benny's 2018 LEGO Christmas Layout

Video Link: Benny's 2018 LEGO Christmas Layout

Originally I wanted to have all my Christmas themed LEGO sets under and around our Christmas tree. I especially liked the idea of the train circling the base of the tree. But with babies and kids around I decided to move everything and make a small and simple LEGO Creator Winter Village layout, separate to the tree, combining the 4 most recent Christmas seasonal sets and some advent calendar goodies.

• 10249 Winter Toy Shop
• 10254 Winter Holiday Train
• 10259 Winter Village Station
• 10263 Winter Village Fire Station

Before I moved everything from the tree I had made up a quick cargo wagon to hide the Powered Up battery hub and train motor for the Winter Holiday Train because I never liked how the official instructions intend us to butcher the look of the train and tender to make the  Power Functions fit. I tried to make it look like a wrapped present covered in holly. The bonus is I can also just run it around my City layout.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas.

I'm looking forward to expanding on these ideas for 2019!

Benny's LEGO City Update #3 - Modular Buildings Area

Video Link: Benny's LEGO City Update #3 - Modular Buildings Area

I really love the official Creator Expert designed Modular Building line. I always had a space reserved for the current and some future sets in my City layout. Most of these buildings lend themselves well to replication or expansion. So I will be either making them taller by adding floors or making them wider, or BOTH! In this first batch which makes up one block in the City, I have included the following sets, all modified to some degree:

• 10224 Town Hall
• 10211 Grand Emporium
• 10218 Pet Shop
• 10246 Detective's Office
• 10251 Brick Bank
• 10255 Assembly Square

I'm going to be making individual videos for each of the customized buildings, giving my quick thoughts and detailing any expansions, additions or changes I've made as well as going through any interesting design or build techniques I found.

Custom LEGO - 1:4 scale Bricks and Plates

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I'd like to share with you one of my custom builds that really fueled my creativity about 6 years ago. A bunch of 4:1 scale LEGO bricks and plates. Made from the original smaller versions of themselves.

The funny story behind this build is that the idea came to me while I was asleep. Whaaat?! Yeh I literally dreamed up the idea and, like some sort of Inception moment when I woke up I was just compelled to see it built. 

I shall call it... biggie me.

These parts are 4x larger than their standard equivalent.

Hank Pym worked as a consultant on this project...

The anti-stud side of the bricks and plates. Tubes Up!

The parts were all pretty easy to source except for the 2x2 round tile in blue. I initially wanted to make the 2x4bBrick in blue, my favorite color, but I didn't know at the time the blue round tile was extremely rare. They were only found in some sets from the mid 90's, but have since shown up in abundance because of the 2017 40174 Iconic Chess Set. Back then I could only find about 3-4 TOTAL on BrickLink!

Pretty straight forward build, since my brain already did all the work while asleep.

I do have some ideas for more parts in the future including modified bricks and tiles. Don't forget to check out the video for a better look. Thanks guys, Cya next time.

Custom LEGO BrickHeadz - Benny the 1980-Something Space Guy

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Check out my take on Benny the Spaceman in LEGO BrickHeadz form! I think soon I'll work on Emmet and Wyldstyle versions to go with him as well.

"Hey, I'm Ben! But you can call me Benny! And I can build a spaceship. Watch this."
- 1980's Something Space Guy, The LEGO Movie

 

The tank on his back took me the most time to be happy with.

Custom LEGO Star Wars - Benny's Modified X-Wing

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What I would love to be my personal fighter if I was living in the Star Wars LEGO universe. The T-70BA is a blue and black reskin of Poe's T-70 X-Wing Fighter (set 75102) with engine modifications and weapons systems upgrades.

S foils locked in attack position!

T-70BA X-Wing Fighter specs:

• 4x KX14 Laser Cannons
• 4x concussion missile Launchers
• 2x MG7 Krupx Proton Torpedo Launchers
• Incom-FreiTek 5L5 fusial thrust split-engines with turbo intake modifications
• Hyperdrive
• Deflector Shields 
• BB series Astromech Droid 

Upgraded laser and missile systems.

 

With these engines I'll give Dom Torretto a run for his money.

"I'm not such a bad pilot myself"
- Luke Skywalker, Star Wars

Custom LEGO BrickHeadz - Ben "Swolo" (Kylo Ren)

 Video Link: Custom LEGO BrickHeadz - Ben "Swolo" (Kylo Ren)

Ever since 'that scene' in The Last Jedi, I knew the pop culture memes and jokes referencing it would be plentiful.The internet definitely hasn't disappointed. A while ago I saw a fan made Pop! Vinyl box art for a topless Kylo Ren titled Ben Swolo and knew I had to contribute my creativity to the cause in the form of a BrickHeadz character. I really had a fun time giggling like a school boy while building it.

"Can you put on a cowl or something?"

- Rey, The Last Jedi

I definitely plan on making a bunch more custom BrickHeadz and I already have so many parts ordered to get them done, So I'll share them all soon!