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LEGO Brick Box Ideas

LEGO brand building blocks have been a family favorite since their first production in 1949. Their ease of use and almost limitless versatility have enabled enthusiasts of all ages to explore their imaginations and express their creativity through this colorful craft. The LEGO Brick Box is a starter kit with a small inventory of pieces. Because of its limited size, you will need a bit of imagination to create things with it.

LEGO Brick Box
- The LEGO Brick Box, as a starter kit of crafting blocks, contains 221 pieces, some unique to the set. If you want a full view of the box inventory, you can find it on a website called "Bricklink" under set 6161. While over 200 pieces might seem like a lot in written format, all of the bricks barely fill a large soup bowl. This small inventory limits considerably what you can make. Fortunately, the small number of bricks is offset by the large variety of shapes within the set.
Humanoid Figures
- Because the Brick Box contains several eyes of different colors, it is a good set to make various humanoids. Because the set only has a single brick and costume for a small scale human, the obvious choice to create variety in your humanoids is to create them on a larger scale. The variety of colored bricks allows you to create a number of interesting costumes for your person, themed after your favorite characters from fiction or fantasy. You can also use the colored bricks to create aliens or humanoid monsters.
Creatures
- In addition to the fair assortment of eyes, the variety in both color and shape of blocks gives you the ability to create a number of creatures. Given the angled yellow pieces, you can easily create avian creatures such as ducks or chickens. The large number of green pieces (including a green eye) makes fabricating amphibians, snails or reptiles fairly simple. Using the entire set, you can construct a number of fantasy beasts, such as chimeras, hydras or dragons.
Dwellings and Machines
- The number of angled and block-style bricks, as well as the door and window bricks, make simple dwellings and machines easy to build. Accent pieces such as flowers, stems and fences add flourish to any house project. You can use the angled yellow and black pieces with the windows to create simplified earth movers or trains, though the lack of any wheels makes robotic or hover vehicles a better choice. Because of the number of appropriately shaded blue bricks, you can build a reasonable facsimile of a TARDIS from the Doctor Who television series.

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