Now the music legend, Prince, has been immortalised in LEGO. The talented Paul Hetherington has created this amazing stage set of Prince and the Revolution. The band members include: Wendy and Lisa, Doctor Fink, BobbyZ, and Brownmark. And of course the set includes Prince’s signature purple piano, firepole, and bathtub. The custom-made figures are by Citizen Brick and features Crazy Arms made by Crazy Bricks. Check out more of Paul’s work here
Planks and Trouser Trumpets Nick Beggs has created a hilarious Lego video for Trifecta’s ‘The Enigma Of Mr. Fripp’ “It’s amazing what you can do with an i-phone and a computer. And that’s about it. After I was contacted by Daniel Kerson at Musical Brick a light bulb went on in my head. Daniel kindly created the lego characters and sent them to me from Singapore where he lives. I then set about making a stop frame animation. It…
We’ve only just purchased the LEGO® Originals Wooden Minifigure. This 5:1 upscaled version of the classic minifigure, is carved out of oak and has adjustable plastic hands. It is presented in a premium gift box with a leaflet featuring inspirational ideas for owners to customize the model in their own ways. It measures over 7” (20cm) tall, 4” (11cm) wide and 3” (8cm) deep. Although, before it was released in 2019, my father had built a few of his own.…
Just for fun, we have listed some classic synthesizers and drum machines in their model number order. This was originally compiled into a children’s numbers chart to mashup the LEGO toy, learning numbers and Synthesizers. It was interesting to see that most of the famous synths fit into a 1 to 10 sequence. Although we had to apply some ‘artistic licence’ for 4 and 9. A Roland TR909 could have been used for number 9! 1) Linn LM-1…
We are really impressed with this amazing Genesis live stage model created by Christophe Andrieu and his son, Félix. The extra bonus is that it was on the 1992 tour that we saw Genesis for the first time. (specifically Knebworth, UK. 2 August 1992.) When Christophe posted the Lego model stage to Facebook a month ago, we decided to send over some updated minifigures to match the 90s era. So now we have some new images of Phil Collins, Tony…
Linn LM-1 The Linn LM-1 Drum Machine was manufactured by Linn Electronics and released in 1980. It was one of the first programmable drum machines and the first to use samples of real acoustic drums. Designed by Roger Linn The Drum Machine That Changed Everything It was widely used in 1980s pop music and its early adopters included: Genesis Peter Gabriel Prince Plus: Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Human League, Gary Numan, Mecano, Icehouse, and Michael Jackson. LinnDrum The LinnDrum,…
Sentence – I saw a flower. Acid Rock – In empty fields where nothing grew but weeds I saw a flower, And it turned into a dragon Barbershop Quartet – I saw a flower (I saw a flower) It smelled so fine (It smelled so fine) Calypso – Down Jamaica way, mon, I saw de flower a-growing by de road. Country – I was ridin’ a tractor and I was drinkin’ a beer, but then I saw a purty…
BrickHeadz is a theme released in March 2017 which brings you a brand new way to collect, build and display. There are many different themes available and can be seen here. A reddit user named DankSide2112 has created these cool Genesis BrickHeadz. Another builder (IRowland) has created this Peter Gabriel BrickHeadz.
