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 Zion Williamson for NBA2K21 from LEGO® bricks!
Earlier this year we got to build a whole new kind of LEGO® brick model which we can finally reveal- a life-size version of NBA superstar Zion Williamson for NBA 2K21! Getting the model’s dynamic pose- looking like he’s about to land an epic slam dunk-was the first challenge. Being a model that was going […]
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 […]
Marion LEGO Certified Store models!
We can finally reveal the models we built for the new (ish) LEGO Certified store at Westfield Marion in Adelaide! (Like the Highpoint cricketer, we built the models early last year in 2020 just before the pandemic hit, and the opening of the Marion store was also delayed thanks to the COVID pandemic.) As with […]
Building Team New Zealand’s AC75 America’s Cup super yacht from LEGO!
As part of bringing Brickman AWESOME to Auckland Museum we’ve also built a brand new LEGO brick model just for Auckland- a version of Team New Zealand’s epic AC75 super yacht that will compete in this year’s America’s Cup in Auckland! The AC75 is an amazing piece of nautical engineering and features some very specific […]
Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Lunar New Year! This year it’s the Year of the Ox, so we’ve designed a LEGO brick ox you can build! In keeping with Chinese traditions we’ve made it from mostly red LEGO pieces ( with a Chrome Gold “One Ring” piece on the nose for extra luck!). But as with any of our […]
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 […]
Build your own LEGO brick Honda Civic Type R
Ever since people saw the mini LEGO® brick Honda Civic Type R we built in the Honda advert on LEGO Masters Australia people have been asking for instructions on how to make it. You know- this one: This year we got to make a new LEGO creation for Honda- a working LEGO RC racetrack! But […]
Build your own mini LEGO Masters logo!
If you’ve been following along with Brickman’s weekly Facebook livestreams recently you would’ve seen him show you how to build your own mini LEGO Masters logo from real LEGO bricks! In case you missed it, we’ve created the instructions as an easy to download PDF here so you can build it whenever you want! You […]
Building LEGO Masters’ Smash & Grab Challenge Bike
When we were given the idea of the Smash and Grab challenge for LEGO Masters Series 2 we had to think long and hard about the right sort of model to build for it. It had to be impressive, but it also had to be easily push-over-able by Hamish! AND it needed to be as […]
The Brickman Family Challenge Book cover reveal!
Time to reveal.. the cover of our upcoming book, The Brickman Family Challenge Book! The awesome folk over at Murdoch Books have been working hard putting together the 30+ LEGO® brick challenges of starting with this amazing cover, including a quote from a certain LEGO Masters Australia host! The cover features just a handful of […]
