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brick projects – lumibricks cyberpunk train station
Front of the box Back of the box — with an unreleased set! Game Stack hasn’t been released yet -
brick projects – lumibricks alpine observatory – in progress
this set just dropped on lumi’s site or amazon and figured it looked like fun while waiting for the cyberpunk train station set (which came out yesterday, september 12th) a little quicker than expected but i’d already bought this one, might as well full send. also this was the first one i got with only the lumibricks branding — much, much better brand name than funwhole, right?
Front of the box, AKA how it will look at the end, dramatized 
More dramatic shots and a lot of text from the back of the box 
Layer 1: Structure 
Layer 2: Additional structure 
Little work bench and some flooring… 
After and before – that piece on the right is one big weird brick and there’s 4 of them that make these neat little mountainy things 
Scenic photo, everyone takes that 
The first of the lights – above the desk 
The first fixtures and some detail work… 
Installed more floors. And a wall. And a bookshelf! 
Probably hook up this wiring at some point and make things interesting 
Bunkbeds 
Second set of lights and more walls 
Closeup of the wall detail (poster) 
More interior detail 
First time turning the lights on outside of testing – the first junction box is installed (rear) 
A slot for the battery box 
A sliding device to mask the slot for the battery box 
Starting to look a little like alpines 
We’ll just put a cute little crag right here… lotta work done today don’t usually smash through almost an entire booklet of instructions in one day but might be a little excited for the cyberpunk train station
edit: okay so i finished up the actual rest of the book, first time i’ve finished a book of instructions in 24 hours but here we are, i’m going fast so i can get to the next one(s) i guess? and then i’ll have ……………
Just a cute little desk I didn’t mess up on at all and had to completely redo because of that little grey slice… 
Outside of (easily) removable wall 
Inside of (easily) removable wall 
It feels like this is probably all of the first floor and I should be working on the rest in the next book. Will I finish tomorrow? Will I no life Destiny Rising? Tune in next week yeah yeah did more the next day (sunday 14th september)
Floor 
But also ceiling and useful bits. The thing on the lower left with the wires coming out of it is the pogo pin power connector (so it’s kind of plug and play) 
Side wall and maybe like an AC unit or something 
Office coffee pot and model rocket, standard office decor 
Books 
Books on a bookshelf (and desk, computers, lamp) 
Outside lighting 
Windows are in 
Lights work! 
Pies cooling outside on a windowsill? I will steal 
This looks neat but is on an exterior wall… 
Oh, the wall swings out. Convenient. 
Stairway to the observatory 
I will steal. 
Outside lighting check 
Inside lighting check. There’s a sweet little planet display that rotates and the moon rotates around the planet as it goes around the Sun. If this was motorized, I’d lose my mind tuesday, september 16th saw more building, few more steps (#10, 11, and 12) two left – but one of those is just finishing touches. this last step should be the projector level (neat) so i’ll be able to figure out which i want to “project” of the five that came with it — i chose constellations
Another floor 
Which is also another ceiling 
Third floor balcony 
Neat little lit globe 
Looks like the start of an office 
Handy outside lighting 
No office would be complete without six screens 
Sweet little lightbox that’s going unseen 99% of the time 
Globe lights up 
Ceiling lightbox lit. This one is neat it should be on the wall or something 
Speaking of walls, here’s a wall 
Start of the projector/telescope box 
Projector bits 
Kinda looks like a camera 
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brick projects – lego great pyramid of giza (#21058)
picked this one up to be the next project with mom, figured it would also look cool when we’re done (check out that water in the front) and after this we’ve got neuschwanstein castle too. having a really good time doing all these sets both with mom and the ones i’ve done on my own. if you’d asked me a year ago if i was gonna be that guy i probably would have been surprised… but i also still have the lego bricks from the sets i got as a kid somewhere in my garage still. maybe i wouldn’t have been that surprised.
update: finished on 6th sepetmber 2025
started today, sunday august 24th or whatever day it is. time is weird when you don’t really have a day-to-day schedule anymore
Front of the box 
Back of the box 
First parts of the frame 
Putting in a seabed 
Bottom of the Great Pyramid 
These represent the rolling dunes 
Finished up for the day with a little ramp/chute thing got around to more work today (saturday, august 30th) not a whole lot but progress is progress
“Mini” pyramids 
These trees were awful to plant 
Miniature Minifig statue 
Progress for the day, next up we start work on the Great Pyramid and a lil’ more on sunday. two days in a row who are we people?
I was wondering what these floating blocks were gonna be… 
Framing for the “log ramp” 
I thought these were gonna be tomb details 
But no, this is the cutaway cross-section of the tomb 
Disappointed by the lack of 20000 Jew minifigs to move these blocks 
Getting there! Just “three” more bags (actually somewhere between five and nine but only three “steps”) finished here, saturday uh 6th of september
A little winch setup to haul bricks up. Smart. 
Pyramid shell structure, part one 
Pyramid shell structure, part two 
Pyramid shell structure, finished – with gold capstone 
The back side, but there’s a neat cutout to represent the tomb inside The finished product <3 -
brick projects – lego himeji castle (#21060)
mom really wanted to do a castle and this was the first one i found for sale that was an actual castle shape and not just a building facade. although, lego does have a new one for sale coming out soon in august that i might pick up that’s more of the medieval castle style she wanted to build — lego neuschwanstein castle #21063 — but we haven’t really made much progress on this one lately
Himeji Castle … or at least that’s what the frame says. There’s a neat Japanese nameplate you can use here as well more today after mom’s physical therapy
More front wall and garden today 
Itty bitty little steps update: saturday, july 26th: a few wall details in. we’re done with bag 5 of 17
Exterior wall part one 
Exterior wall part two 
I think it’s a little guard house. It looks like a little guard house. more stuff done this week
Some mini roof details 
Side entrance 
More front walls? 
Main castle flooring 
Looks like a little bit of plumbing here 
Finished up for the day with a couple interior walls more progress, still have bags 11-17 left to do after these:
Another tiny little guard house? 
Arch support 
Smaller detail and front walling 
Porthole windows? (It wasn’t, it was a connector) but the other spaces are intentional windowing detail I thought was neat 
More of the windowing detail 
Curious what these interior wall details are (long slits) 
Third level of building — fourth overall if you include the platform I guess 
Here’s where we finished for the day after bag #10 mom had real physical therapy today (august 12th, 2025) so she wanted to read/rest a little after, but an hour later we got in two bags — more than normal lately — so i’ve got some new pictures to show off
Tiling to give the castle that iconic Japanese look 
Another floor of structures (and what will be windows) 
Close-up (ish) of additional construction 
Adding neat little roofing details 
Mustachioed building #1 
Mustachioed buildings #2 and #3 also have mustaches on the other side. So I suppose they’re Double Mustachioed ™ more photos, more work – probably finish up tomorrow (sunday, august 17th 2025)
Starting work on the Main Keep 
Mustaches (boomerang) = awnings 
According to the book, each floor of the Main Keep was made to resemble the floor plan from the actual castle 
Really coming together now 
Fourth floor detail 
Fourth floor finished (more mustaches) 
we finished up today (thursday, august 21st 2025) and gonna put it into the display cabinet this weekend with the rest of our lego projects, pretty stoked about the next one (pyramid of giza) and the one after that too. maybe by the time we’re done with the next two there will be some more new sets out and we just kinda keep chaining them. gotta have something to do in retirement, right?
Interior detail with page notes 
50+ tons of roof tile weight saved feels like a lot 
Main keep finished! 
Add some trees and we’re all done! 
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brick projects – lumibricks cyberpunk apartment/mansion
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weirdly, this one is called “mansion” when you look at it on amazon but packaging refers to it as “apartment” so that’s the one i’m going with. except in the title and again in the text. but i only used apartment once, or well twice now that it’s in this sentence too. anyway, here’s my progress so far, just started it this weekend (july 19-20 2025)
shameless amazon link, no referral code dropping the link again, buy these so they make more
Running wires 
First stage complete 
Placing lights 
Short-order window 
Open 24 hours! 
aw look at the cute little exhaust fan + stairway to nowhere (yet) did a little more, this is ~24 hours of progress total
Rolling door rolls 
Garage door facade 
Just a chill lil’ vending machine 
2nd floor in progress 
Stairway to heaven? 
Power junction under the desk 
2nd floor lights: working! and did a little more today (tuesday, july 22nd)
Just an ordinary repair shop… 
..& ripperdoc behind rotating wall 
Interior lighting 
Building the garage 
Garage second floor 
Front view, now with more tube 
Still wondering where this light on the floor above the garage is going to end up (it has a power transfer connector) finished up the first book of instructions, second book is a little thinner
Sliding entry door 
Interior: bathroom under construction 
Light wire routing and pogo pin connection panel 
Extra little connection bit detail 
The wall to the apartment swings out. Seems like that would be bad irl though. Here is why I called this power junction box “under the desk” in an earlier picture (the keyboard was several days ago) saturday, july 17th: more progress. did bags 8 (five bags), bags 9 (five bags), and about four-fifths of bag 10 (two bags) to do this roof two floor apartment because i really wanted to see all the lights and there wasn’t really a good way to check without finishing
Kind of what a ceiling looks like irl, right? 
Starting electrical (and a bit of trim) 
Turns out, this is a floor 
Sorta coming together… 
Trim, with lighting kit run 
Second floor loft bed: installed 
A wall, another pogo power connector 
Little more wiring detail 
Bag complete but it’s not ready yet… 
Couple windows installed now 
Four stories, back view 
Apartment window details 
All four stories together and lit up. Only have a tiny bit more detail (the roof, notably) but this one is definitely taller than the izakaya, or at least will be. It’ll be neat to see them together finally. finished up today, sunday, july 27th. it’s so neat how these will just click together and share power. i really, really want more of these cyberpunkish sets soon because i am enthralled.
Adding a tree I didn’t finish last night 
Starting work and wiring on the roof 
HVAC unit in place 
Just gotta run some venting… 
And a little more “duct work”… 
Cell phone tower on the building for good 5G 
Probably helps to have some fresh air, too 
Security camera 
Don’t fall in the open manhole! 
Here’s the finished work! Plus my thumb. Wish I’d checked that before uploading but meh whatever. The real neat thing is this video below where you can see the Izakaya (right) is plugged in, but the Apartment (left) isn’t. I push them together and with a little luck, poof, magic power and everything lights up. I need more of these sets in my life <3 -
brick projects – lumibricks cyberpunk japanese-izakaya
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this was my next project and the one that really impressed me with how everything came together. plus all the lights? and other “blocks” (as in city, not as in lego) from the same company can just click together and share power? i’m sitting here typing this out just mind blown
A final virtual walkthrough of the full Izakaya set block. I’m very excited to work on the next set, Apartment 
Starting out 
First wiring placed 
Inside the Izakaya 
Vending machine vibes 
Izakaya walk-up window 
2nd floor tea house 
More progress 
Another angle of progress 
Front door view 
Alley walk-up window 
Checking out more lights 
Back alley view 
Takoyaki hut 
Another alley view 
Completed and displayed https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/10013762-82A9-49B8-8DCA-EFF490A12DFB in case you want to buy your own
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brick projects – lumibricks cyberpunk future-bus
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i think i saw these on an instagram ad and well, they got me. i picked this set to go first as it was the smaller of the three that i picked up. funwhole on amazon link i got the bus, izakaya, and “mansion” (apartment?) link isn’t even a referral i just want them to sell more so they make more of these cyberpunk sets. i did these lighted ones on my own as the light wiring bits is really small and technical
Lights off view 
Front view 
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brick projects – lego milky way (#31212)
ooh this one was a good time and i really liked how it all came together. enough to hang up on my wall, as a matter of fact… unfortunately, this set was short a brick that went under other bricks so we had to wait a while for a replacement to get mailed in from denmark. lego is super cool that way though and is eager to fix any missing pieces!
How it started 
2nd set of panels coming in 
2nd column in place 
Column 3 placed in 
Almost all there! (notes in post) 
Everything’s in place 
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brick projects – lego coral reef (#40783)
got this one as a gift with purchase of some of the other sets i picked up, figured it would also be a nice little milky way project intermission. it was.
Front side 
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brick projects – lego cats (#31163 playful cat, #40813, lucky cat)
these two were pretty quick and we did them during intermissions of the next post (above this one) which was a nice little break from how detailed that one was. these were building up instead of specific placing on a grid idk they required different skillsets
Maneki-neko halfway 
Maneki-neko complete 
Playful cat and gubbins 
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brick projects – lego tuxedo cat (#21349)
mom had a couple strokes, so we figured we build some lego projects together to help with her dexterity. i had a good time so i picked up some other brick projects with lights and have been really enthralled with those too.
The box that everything came in 
Starting out… 
In progress… 
Getting there… 
Coming together… 
Almost done… 
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amusing names
just a few of the most amusing names i have seen out there in the solar system
update 12/26: here’s a few more
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1-(888)888-xxxx
idk i couldn’t think of anything amusing but here’s 1,888,888 lifetime final blows i guess
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destiny 1 feels
found an old video, thought i’d add it to these xbox clips. back when the slam was a one-and-done
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absolute disrespect
guess i thunderclapped those cheeks