Kmart presents Jurassic World by Brickman at the Australian Museum Sydney!
We’re bringing more than fifteen dinosaurs to Sydney’s Australian Museum when the Jurassic World by Brickman exhibition opens on Saturday 5 March 2022! Our biggest ever exhibition brings to life Jurassic World – the blockbuster franchise from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment – turning it into the largest LEGO® exhibition in Australian history. The latest […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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® Beckoning Cat
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 […]
Brickvention 2020 Spotlight: LEGO® Brick Dragon
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. […]
Brickman Experience returns to Melbourne
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 […]
Throwback Thursday: LEGO® Sydney Aquarium models
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 […]
Throwback Thursday: LEGO® brick Banana Heist
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 […]
LEGO Store Dreamworld models
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 […]