Built for New Elementary Parts Festival featuring the Donkey Kong foot. More on my blog.

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This is my first completed building for the Medina al Musawrah collab at Brickfair NoVA 2025, which depicts a near-future Middle Eastern city. This building was loosely inspired by the Mehmet Agha Mosque on Rhodes, which I saw in 2023, and so I've given it the same name. Many of its namesake's architectural features are visible here, but they've been rearranged and altered to fit the look of collab, and my own whims. While the mosque on Rhodes was my main inspiration, I have seen a great deal of Moorish Architecture in my travels, and drew inspiration from many other places too, especially Morocco and Turkey.

There is an Easter egg hiding in plain sight. While in Morocco, I bought a hand-made carpet, which now lives in our living room. The carpet displayed unfurled in the ground floor carpet shop is a custom sticker that I created from a photo of my own carpet; and the minifig looking at it is my own sigfig.

The namesake has shops on the ground floor, which I replicated; and I added a ramshackle hookah bar on the roof to fit the deliberately chaotic look of the city. The namesake is no longer in use as a mosque at all. This build added several more floors, so there is plenty of space for one to take up part of the building, but I left it to the imagination.

While it has only been three weeks since I posted the Hashimacorp Tower, I have not become miraculously fast at building. I started this build in September, and worked on it at the same time as I was putting the finishing touches on the tower, especially as I neared the end and the tower became more frequently stalled by Bricklink orders.

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Year of the Dragon: November

This month is based on a jellyfish! Super weird creatures that I got really inspired by when visiting an aquarium in Kyoto.

Unfortunately though, I had quite a bit of creative block this month, It happens! And at 10 dragons in, I'm honestly surprised it didn't happen earlier.
Wasn't until fairly late into the build for this one that it finally started shaping up into something I was happy with. Turns out relying on big clear parts as key shaping elements presented a lot of challenges.

I think the final effect is really cool though! It looks appropriately jelly like and I had a lot of fun playing with different textures for the various tendrils and such. Also I'm well aware that jellyfish don't have brains, but I couldn't resist including the new brain creature piece from the Mindflayer DnD minifig 😁

Only one dragon left now! Stay tuned...

Photo edited by the wonderful loafbuilds

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Year of the Dragon: October

I had to do a spooky pumpkin dragon for October! This one was definitely a quicker build than most of the others. I spent the majority of October in Japan, so I only had a few days to put this one together, but I'm pretty pleased with the result!

I find pumpkins fun subject matter to build out of lego, and its always interesting to see how many different approaches people can take when making them. These big macaroni parts do a pretty good job if you ask me!

Only two dragons left now, I can't believe it's almost the end of the year! Happy Halloween to everyone and I hope you've all been enjoying this series, I certainly have been 😊

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Year of the Dragon: April

This month I decided to take inspiration from one of my favourite birds, the bearded vulture. They're an incredibly striking animal and I stayed fairly true to the source for the head design on this one. The body plan however is mostly inspired by that of an archaeopteryx or other similar, more avian dinosaurs. It's far and away the biggest of the monthly dragons so far, and was a great excuse for me to use all of these dark red and black fur/feather parts I've been hoarding for years. Hope you all like the finished build!

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