Building LEGO Masters EP 1 Scene: Drain the Ocean

LEGO Masters Season 4 is finally here! To kick off the first challenge, each team had to build something they thought could be found at the very bottom of the ocean. The Brickman team built the shipwreck at the centre of this challenge as well as designed the 8 circular round base plates for the […]

Building a life-size LEGO® Technic McLaren Formula 1 Race Car

We are super proud to finally be able to reveal our latest massive project for The LEGO Group – a life sized LEGO Technic® McLaren  Formula 1 Race Car !This enormous model is over 5m long and weighs more than the real F1 car its modelled after! It took our whole team nearly 1,900 hours […]

Brickman Exclusive T-shirts coming soon!

Brickman is proud to present the first in a range of VERY limited edition T-shirts! Seen here is our model Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught , who carries a LEGO Bricksmas trophy of his own creation from the recent LEGO Masters Bricksmas Specials! His T-shirt design will be available as part of a small batch print run […]

Castle Hill LEGO Certified Store Models!

For Sydney’s third LEGO® Certified store in Castle Hill we decided to make our giant LEGO® minifig a Conservationist cuddling some cute koalas!  We always try to localise our models to make them represent the area of the store and with so  many wildlife parks not far from Castle Hill, it gave us the perfect […]

Building the LEGO® Masters Bricksmas Tree!

Merry Bricksmas everyone! For the two Christmas LEGO® Masters Australia specials this year we built both a giant LEGO brick Christmas Tree as well as new Christmas-themed version of the LEGO Masters Trophy. The Christmas tree was designed as huge upscaled version ( 16 x to be precise) of a small LEGO build, with giant  […]

Jurassic World by Brickman Re-Opening in Melbourne!

We are very excited to announce that Jurassic World by Brickman in Melbourne will be able to re-open from 6th November as the Victorian Government eases restrictions within the state! We are also extending our stay through until the end of January 2022 to try and give those who missed out during the lockdowns a […]

Perth LEGO Certified Store Models!

For Perth’s first LEGO store in Karrinyup we had the task of building both a giant LEGO minifigure as well as a mosaic for the store wall. Being the first store in WA we couldn’t go past a chance to build some of WA’s most iconic creatures- some Quokkas!When it came to building this model […]

Townsville LEGO Certified Store Models!

We are super excited to be able to finally reveal some of the models we built for the new LEGO® certified stores opening in 2021! As with all of the stores so far we built one giant minifig model and a huge mosaic for the new store in Townsville.The builders, from left, Darren, Eamon, Jordan […]

Canberra LEGO Certified Store Models!

The models we built for the Canberra LEGO Certified store were actually some of the first ones we finished in 2021, but unfortunately lockdowns meant a major delay in the store’s opening. That said, I think you can agree the store was worth the wait! For this store we chose to create our minifig posing […]

Building the Scene: Above and Below LEGO Tree

How incredible did the life-size LEGO Masters tree look in Sunday’s episode? For the second last episode we made a 3.4m high , 2.5m wide tree for the final 4 teams to build on! The remaining 4 teams had to create something on each branch and with a twist, build something below where there were […]

Building the Scene: Mars Shuttle

The massive LEGO brick shuttle on LEGO Masters Australia was one of our biggest ever! We’ve had a lot of experience building space models which definitely helped when designing and building this model. The Saturn V Rocket,  NASA SLS and the upside down hanging shuttle for our Brickman Experience exhibition are the most notable models we’ve previously built.There were […]

Building the Scene: Stopped in Your Tracks

To kick off LEGO Masters Australia Season 3 we built a huge Mountain range with working trains and tracks for the contestants to build around. This model set the scene for the episode as the aim of the challenge was to create an attraction that would make the train “Stopped in your tracks”. The most […]

Building for a life-size VIDIYO Beatbox!

Last week a life-size LEGO beatbox model was unveiled at Sydney Harbour in celebration of LEGO’s new theme, VIDIYO. Our team created the LEGO part of the model, made from 56,217 bricks and took over 300 hours!The life-size replica of the 43105 Party Llama BeatBox was displayed in-between the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge and […]

Jurassic World by Brickman Melbourne- Now on Sale!

Over 2 years, 6 million LEGO® bricks and 10,000 build hours have gone into the creation of our latest exhibition, Jurassic World by Brickman®, making it the biggest exhibition we’ve ever created — and we can’t wait for you to see it! Watch our first trailer for the exhibition then book your April school holiday […]

Dinosaurs on The Tan!

After two years of designing and building, we were thrilled to surprise people at The Tan Track in Melbourne with an up-close preview of our latest exhibition opening April 1. The three dinosaurs we took to The Tan were Blue, a fan favourite Velociraptor, and two adorable baby Triceratops and Sinoceratops. The world-first exhibition features […]

Highpoint LEGO Certified Store models!

We are super proud to be able to finally reveal the models we built for the new (ish) LEGO Certified store at Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne!  (We’re posting these a little later than usual, even though we built the models early last year in 2020 just before the pandemic hit, because the opening of […]

Build your own LEGO® brick Pinchy Lobster!

So back in 2012 when the LEGO Group celebrated their 80th birthday in Sydney and all the guests, including Kjeld Kirk Kristensen (3rd generation owner of LEGO) built some undersea creatures, including this LEGO brick Lobster Ryan designed!  After Kjeld and the Australian and New Zealand LEGO staff built them Ryan built a big fish […]

Newcastle LEGO Certified Store models!

Last week the newest LEGO Certified store in Australia opened up in Newcastle NSW! Which means the models we built for them way back in February and March can finally be seen! As with all our LEGO Store builds we had the opportunity to build both a 3D minifig sculpture as well as a LEGO […]

LEGO® brick Mount Hondarama

This year for the Honda Australia-LEGO Masters Australia partnership we built a huge LEGO brick racetrack- Mount Hondarama! Based on Bathurst’s famous Mt Panorama, the model features real RC cars made from LEGO bricks. These cars we based on the new Honda Civic Type-R (the same car we built a life-size LEGO version of last […]

Build your own LEGO egg!

As promised during of of Ryan’s last Facebook livestreams, here are the instructions for building a LEGO egg! This is NOT an easy build- it uses SNOT and complex plate layering to recreate the curves of an egg shape and requires using 106 LEGO pieces. None are super rare or uncommon, but remember you don’t […]

Brickvention 2020 Spotlight: LEGO® St Louis Gateway Arch

For our last Brickvention 2020 Spotlight we’re focusing on Stephan’s enormous LEGO® Technic version of the St Louis Gateway Arch. Perhaps not so well known outside the US, the Gateway Arch is the largest human-made arch in the world and is a massive 192m tall! Stephan lived and worked in St Louis for a number […]