Tricky Bricks

Everything You Need to Know About the Trick or Treat Challenge

by Monica Berry | Oct 16, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

Trick or treat, join my guild, show me your amazing build! OK, we don’t have a guild, but this is your time to do a creative interpretation of Trick or Treat. Will you show minifigures going trick-or-treating? A mosaic? A sculpture? There are no size limits or...

Everything You Need to Know About the Make a Monster Challenge

by Monica Berry | Oct 1, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

This two-week challenge is to make a monster! No size or scale requirements; you can make a monstrous mosaic, a scary sculpture, a behemoth minifig build, or anything “Monster” that you can think of! It generally goes without saying in our group, but do...

Everything You Need to Know About the 2-Week Music Challenge

by Monica Berry | Sep 19, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

Thanks to FabuFanMKE for the idea for our next two-week challenge! The theme is: MUSIC! What’s your favorite genre of music? Do you play an instrument, multiple instruments, or sing in a choir? Do you like to dance or just take it all in? What will you build to...

Everything You Need to Know About the We Arrr Family Build Challenge

by Monica Berry | Sep 3, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

Ahoy hoy mateys! The challenge for this fortnight be a collaboration with Llano River Blue! Aye, In celebration of Talk Like a Pirate Day, we’ll be battening down the hatches for some pirate themed builds. She says, “Come aboard and help us build a Pirate...

Everything You Need to Know About the 2-Week Hobby Habitat Challenge!

by Monica Berry | Aug 25, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

This two-week challenge is to build a minifig habitat, 16×16 studs or smaller, that portrays you enjoying one of your non-Lego hobbies. What, besides the lovely plastic bricks, fills your spare time? Gives you a feeling of satisfaction? Puts you in a state of...

Everything You Need to Know About the What a Punderful World Challenge

by Monica Berry | Aug 10, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

This is a two-week build all about puns! No limits on the size or scale, just tickle our funny bones with your pun-erific word-play! Bring on the groaners, the dad-jokes, the belly-laughs! Who will be the first to “break Flynn” or get the blank stare? How...

Everything You Need to Know About the 2-Week Free Build

by Monica Berry | Jul 29, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

This is a two week long free build. Build whatever you want in any scale, minifigures or none, all is fair game for the free build! Be creative and build something spectacular! You can upload your photos to our Google Form Which you can find HERE. This is the...

Everything You Need to Know About the 2-Week Mythology Build

by Monica Berry | Jul 12, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

You have two weeks (due Thursday the 22nd) to complete a build of any size and any sort inspired by mythology. Will it be Greek, Roman, Japanese, Urban myths, or your own personal mythology? All are fair game! We did do a mythology build in 2020; if you participated...

Everything You Need to Know About the 2-Week Micro-City Challenge

by Monica Berry | Jun 26, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO

It’s time to go teeny! This challenge is to build a micro-scale city. Technically, micro-scale is anything smaller than minifig-scale. For this challenge we are limited to a 16×16 stud baseplate. For inspiration, check out this article Tom Alphin (better...

Everything You Need to Know About the Liz Seed Part Challenge

by Monica Berry | Jun 13, 2021 | Challenge Builds, LEGO, YouTube Videos

This two week challenge is all about using the microdoll of the LEGO Friends character Liz as a seed part! Liz is the younger sister of Andrea and can be found in the LEGO Friends Andrea’s Family House set 41449 and the much more affordable LEGO Friends Flower...