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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 [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 […]

Dating back to the 18th Century Japan, the Beckoning, Maneki-Neko or Lucky Cat is a popular good luck charm and is said to bring good fortune and success! Our model builder Tullett wanted to build one for his Brickvention model as he has a growing collection at home and wanted to challenge himself using technic […]

When Ryan presented the Brickman team with the opportunity to build whatever that wanted for Brickvention, Mark’s mind went immediately to dragons! Titled “The Sad Tale of Sir Warick the Overconfident”, Mark’s finished LEGO model is dominated by an enormous brick-built dragon blasting a single unfortunate knight, Sir Warick, on horseback with its fiery breath. […]

Our original interactive Brickman Experience exhibition is back home in Melbourne these school holidays at Harbour Town Melbourne for the final time in Australia! Before we take the show overseas we wanted to farewell Australia back in our home town of Melbourne, so we brought it back, with a few new models that weren’t built […]

In 2009 Ryan had one of his first big LEGO company jobs as the newly minted Australian LEGO Certified Professional helping the LEGO build teams from Enfield LEGO Workshop in the US install and repair a huge number of massive LEGO models for Sydney’s Aquarium and Wildlife World. There was a MASSIVE 4+ metre tall […]

For this Throwback Thursday we’re focusing not so much on some Banana models we built as what happened to them- they were stolen! Back in 2015 we were invited to display as part of Townsville’s Strand Ephemera festival, where sculptures from local and international artists are displayed along the Townsville beachfront around the trees. We […]

It’s the moment that Australian AFOLs have been waiting a lifetime for-the opening of Australia’s first LEGO store at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast! But we’ve also been waiting for it because it means we can finally reveal the massive models we built for it! We built 4 models in collaboration with LEGO USA for […]