The German brick toy maker BlueBrixx had their Enterprise-D on sale recently, so I took a chance and imported this set.

Pics of the front and back of the box, which weighed 8 lbs and was packed very securely for the overseas trip. 

Two inner cardboard boxes contain all 20 or so bags.

The dominant color is a light gray that looks just about identical to Mega’s “BLG” color (their 2016 Enterprise 1701 and other sets). Close enough to not notice a difference when combining these bricks with Mega pieces of that color.

The bags are numbered, but not like Lego and Mega do. Here’s the scheme: You pick out all the bags with the number 1 on them, then gather them together (like into a 1-gallon bag as I’ve done), gather all the number-2 bags with each other, and so on. So you have six sections which correspond with the six parts of the instruction booklet.

Part 1 assembles the display base. Parts 2 and 3 are for the secondary hull. Parts 4 and 5 are respectively the top and bottom of the primary hull (saucer section). Part 6 comprises the two engine nacelles and stand-alone placard.

Here you can see all the parts listed in the final pages of the manual. 

And they include a little part separator.

With almost no exception, the pieces fit together very solidly and nothing felt like sub-par plastic in my hands.

The only occasions when I didn’t have confidence in the pieces maintaining their grip on each other were with the tiniest (1×1 stud) pieces. For instance, if I were to take this model and turn it upside down, I’d worry about losing one of the four tiny tiles with rounded corners that are resting on the saucer. Most of those pieces of that size stay on fine, but a small number have a looseness to them.

Overall, I’ve definitely happy with this set and am regularly checking the Bluebrixx site since they’re cranking out new construction sets all the time for the Trek license. I intend to take this Enterprise set apart and add the bricks to my supply of mostly Mega pieces for future MOC projects, which in the long run is what I wanted.

Live long and prosper!

This project comes in large part from pieces from the Snake Mountain set from Mega. The dark purple base plates are from the Havoc Staff set.

I had put together the Mega Bloks Portal of Fire (# 9889) set and thought it would be an interesting challenge to reproduce its general shape with as much of Snake Mountain as I could. The big skull at the front, which is just a little too heavy to stay in the “up” position for very long on the ball-joint hinges I used, needed ram horns like Skeletor’s staff weapon to underscore the Evil Warriors theme.

More shots of the playset!

This monster combines pieces from Battle Bones and the new Zombie Horde Pit set. He can carry off unlucky MOTU warriors in his claws …

… or in his mouth, or entrap them in his rib cage …

or wrap his tail around them even.

Here’s a better look at the ruined structure/terrain base that I made.

Mostly made from pieces from the 2016 Enterprise (NCC-1701) set from Mega Bloks, here’s a ship for the Star Trek universe, but not any particular one from a show or movie.

The U.S.S. Vernal’s mission is to patrol and defend Federation worlds and colonies in and around Sector 306. This vessel’s captain is the only member of Starfleet native to Rho Exo VII, the planet of sentient llamas.

Evil warriors from MOTU need a place to hang out too, so I constructed this diorama just for them.

Here’s a better look at the structure without any figures displayed.

Mer-Man didn’t make it for the group shots above. Probably he’s been eaten by Panthor.

Mostly constructed from pieces from Mega’s Castle Grayskull set, this is just a place for displaying heroic warriors and weapons.

Here’s a better look at the structure without any figures displayed.

He-Man’s half of the power sword is made out of Mega pieces, and measures about 28 inches long.

The “bottom” side is flat, to reflect how He-Man’s sword and Skeletor’s sword are split-apart halves.

Here’s a project using pieces that Mattel sent me at no cost. I know, just another Man-At-Arms helmet made out of construction bricks — seems like you can’t swing a battle cat on the Internet without hitting one of these nowadays. But this is my attempt at the helmet, so enjoy the pics!

For a little bonus, I made an extra attachment for the front of the helmet. This represents the 2002 action figure Samurai Man-At-Arms! The attachment easily pops on and off.

He-Man’s flying friend with the groovy Elton John specs. A handful of blue pieces that Mattel sourced for me at no charge were used to make this project.

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Stratos belongs to “Old Bolty Portraits,” and is No. 1 in the series. Because we’ll just say this is a thing now and then figure out later whether it is ever possible to do any more in the series. 🙂

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Skeletor figured that one blade on a vehicle was good, but two grinding blades on a vehicle would bring the hurt in a new way.

Behold the evil warriors’ Hurtbringer:

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To film a couple of quick video clips, I affixed a webcam to a separately built Roller Googly, pictured below.

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