We’ve seen many stunning takes on the Savoia S.21 in LEGO over the years, most recently this version from Eero Okkonen, and it’s always great to see another expert builder take it on. Andrea digs deep into the parts archive for elements to incorporate, such as a Fabuland engine block.

A custom Porco minifigure looks quite comfortable surrounded by everything an aerial ace needs. The cloth tent from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull matches Porco’s tent perfectly.

If you’re a fan of Andrea’s work, like the now-retired A-Frame Cabin, his latest Ideas project – the Stilt House – is up on the platform now and could become a set with enough support.

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Speaking of LUGs – why not see if there’s one near you hosting similar build challenges? You can find a list of LEGO-Recognised LUGs over here!

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LEGO Technic 42228 McLaren F1 Team MCL39 | 1,675 Pieces | Available March 1; Pre-orders open now | US $229.99 | CAN $299.99 | UK £189.99

The box and build

Black and orange is the theme for the box just as it is for the car. The reverse features a casual flex that McLaren are the reigning Contructors’ Champions. You won’t find that on any of the other 1:8 F1 car boxes!

The parts are spread across 10 paper bags, with the tyres in their own box and the bigger parts in a plastic bag. The instructions, meanwhile, are in a paper envelope, along with the sticker sheets.

Yes – that’s sticker sheets, plural. The numbers go up to 54, and since some of them are duplicated, the actual number is closer to 60 decals. So we have those to look forward to.

Let’s ignore that problem for now and read up on the McLaren MCL39. I wonder how many times that ‘Formula for Success’ pun has been used when talking about F1 cars. (Far too many times, if you ask me!)

As with many a Technic build, we start with a differential and frame. There are some conspicuous tow-ball joints here…

… And it’s not long before we put them to good use. The diff tells us that we’re at the rear of the car, where McLaren employed push-rod suspension. As the name suggests, this means there’s a link from the wishbone that pushes the shock absorber when the car goes over a bump. The shocks aren’t here yet, but don’t worry, we’ll get to that.

For now, we’re going to extend the car forwards. We start with a simple two-speed gearbox, atop which the Mercedes V6 turbo-hybrid engine is mounted. Or, er, the regulation Technic engine.

Every gearbox needs a gear lever, and that goes on at the end alongside what I presume is an actuator for the engine. You’ll also notice those shocks I mentioned earlier.

Real-life F1 cars don’t have shocks this big, of course – in fact they barely have them at all. But they are packaged in weird and wonderful ways, so I appreciate the ingenuity of connecting these ones underneath the chassis.

And the fact that they’re exposed means we get a great look at how the suspension will work!

With one set of suspension done, we can focus on the front. Here, we have the opposite of the rear: this time, a pull-rod is attached to the upper wishbone. We’ve also got the steering to contend with. With that in mind, it’s quite impressive that the centre portion is mostly packaged into a 3-wide assembly.

We made it through almost four bags before needing to disturb the sticker sheet. Our first ones are on the wheel fairings, which themselves are cleverly connected using a single macaroni tube.

Extending it backwards, we attach the seat and much of the steering mechanism. A set of gears transfers the action from the top of the chassis to the bottom, then back out just above the engine.

The knob to turn it pokes out just above the engine, where those white beams are. There are loads of pins to line up as the front and rear of the chassis go together, but after a bit of wiggling it does go together. And mighty solid it is, too.

Oh hey, there’s that yoke I said should’ve been used in Micheal Schumacher’s Ferrari F2004. I have test-fitted it, and I stand by what I said in that review. In fact, this piece is probably a bit small relative to the rest of the McLaren here, so maybe I’ll replace it permanently!

That’s the core of the McLaren pretty much done, so we can start focussing on the outer surfaces now. That means two things: one, we’re going to see a lot more Technic panels, as used in the intricate angled assembly at the floor’s leading edge. Two, things are going to get a lot more orange. (I like the use of a minifigure hose for the antenna on the nose!)

Oh, and the rate of sticker usage is going to increase dramatically. The front wing is a dizzying array of curved wedge panels, every single one of which has a sticker on it.

When we come to attach it, we complete a nice, smooth curve with the nose panel.

Then it’s time to cover up the sides. I’m sure some people see the use of System parts in a Technic set as tantamount to cheating, but the combination of curved slopes and Technic panels does do a good job of closing the gaps.

The next sub-assembly – the engine cover – is another one with virtually every surface covered in stickers. At this point, they start to get a bit ridiculous. The Chrome stickers aren’t particularly nice to apply to a concave surface, and we have several stickers that are barely a stud wide, including a tiny Mastercard logo.

What I do like is the shaping of the halo head protection device. Using two flex tubes with different curvatures does a great job of communicating the slightly flat profile.

I’m not so sure about the airbox inlet though. Not because it’s made of System parts – they actually make for a good impression of the real thing – but because it’s very fragile. Much of it relies on one- or two-stud connections, and I knocked parts of it loose more than a few times while man-handling the car.

Still, at least the rear wing will be more fun to make, right? Well, to be fair, it is – as long as you don’t mind stickers. I’m sorry to keep harping on about it – I know that such things are necessary in large models of race cars. But here we have one sticker that is literally just a black bar, and a 1×2 Technic beam with a sticker on both sides! Granted, the kiwi logo is a nice nod to founder Bruce McLaren’s mother country of New Zealand, but is this really a necessary detail for a LEGO set? I’m not so sure. I’d be intrigued to know what you think, readers – let me know in the comments.

After some more building and stickering, the rear wing is ready to go onto the car. Most of the connection is pretty straightforward, but there is an interesting one to the rear-most aerodynamic element. This will presumably engage the Drag Reduction System (DRS) when one of the faster gears is engaged. If so, that’s a nice touch!

Sidepods up next, and to accomplish the complex curves and angles of modern F1 cars, we use a tow-ball joint to taper the bulk of the side structure. Each subsequent sub-assembly covers up the gaps with more aero devices. By now, this area is so busy you need to pay close attention to where exactly you’re connecting this stuff.

We’re on the home straight now – all we have left is the engine cover, which uses more system parts for curves…

… And the wheels and tyres, which – finally! – make use of printing, to great effect.

The finished model

Yep, that’s an F1 car alright! Now that my fingers are a little less sore (big Technic sets are a test of endurance in more ways than one), I can stand back and say the papaya Macca looks very nice.

The rear angle looks pretty good too. My main criticism is that, yet again, the front and rear tyres are the same size. Given this is the fourth car made at this scale, surely the cost of a new mould would have been justified?

The car does sit a bit higher than you might expect a Formula One car to. It’s not unique to this set – many Technic sets trade correct ride height for movable suspension. If your F1 car moves as much as this in real life, you’ve got a big problem. I also inadvertently highlighted just how rickety the top of the airbox is – I wouldn’t recommend pushing down on it like I did here!

The steering is, thankfully, a bit more solid. With the steering wheel moving, it’s also more realistic than the suspension.

Sticking at the back of the car, let’s see how the DRS works. It may look like I’m making a bit of a meal of it here. In my defense, you do need a fair bit of pressure to move the lever. It’s also really tricky to get to with the bodywork on. Presumably the fin at the back is attached a bit loosely to give access to it, but it’s a real pain in the rear diffuser to get to.

So let’s take the engine cover off, and get a good look at our engine! Or, er, just a look. You can’t see much of it at all.

Still, at least the actuating mechanism is much easier to get to now. It’s still a bit janky though.

Of course, the purpose of this lever is not just to open the rear wing. You can choose between two speeds: slow and fast. Or fast and faster, depending on your outlook on life.

It’s a shame the engine is buried so deep within the body. You can only really see it from above, so I’m not sure how easy it is when you’re pushing the car around the carpet. (Yes, I know it’s ostensibly an 18+ display model, but come on, who isn’t giving their toy cars at least a couple of laps of their living room?)

Conclusion and recommendation

I don’t own any of the other large-scale Technic F1 cars, so I’m relying on other reviews for the inevitable comparisons. To LEGO’s credit, they all appear to have been designed from the ground up rather than being simple re-colours. That’s evidenced by the DRS, which is a novelty on the McLaren. Nonetheless, there still similarities; the suspension, engine and front wing don’t vary much between the cars. They also share inaccurately sized tyres. I forgave this on Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari F2004, where the difference between front and rear would have been less than 2mm in diameter. At this larger scale, and with the larger size difference on 2025 F1 tyres, I’m not going to be as forgiving. The rears should be about half an inch bigger. Surely the investment in a new mould was worthwhile for $200+ flagship sets like this one.

My overarching feeling of the MCL39 in isolation is not dissimilar to what others have said about the Ferrari and Red Bull: accurately shaped models, tyres notwithstanding; nice (if predictable) functionality; perhaps a tad expensive, but a good option for the Technic-minded F1 fan. DRS aside, there is very little to set it aside from the other 1:8 Technic F1 cars though, so whether you go for 42228 here specifically may well depend on how much you like the colour orange.

One more thing before we close out. Given that last season, McLaren completed their first Cosntructors’ and Drivers’ title double since 1998, a flagship MCL39 set was perhaps inevitable. I can’t begrudge them or LEGO that. However, I am now starting to feel a bit burned out on LEGO Formula One, particularly 2025-spec cars. The sets we’ve had have, on the whole, been done to a pretty good standard. But if this partnership is to continue, we need to see more of the weird and wonderful that F1 has to offer. I’m privileged to be able to have done so, but there’s only so many times I can build front and rear wings, V6 engines or double-wishbone suspension before I get bored. I’m beginning to reach that point – and I’m a pretty big F1 fan. I need some variety next.

LEGO Technic 42228 McLaren F1 Team MCL39 | 1,675 Pieces | Available March 1; Pre-orders open now | US $229.99 | CAN $299.99 | UK £189.99

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For me, one of the most fun things to build is tiny little fantasy weapons. Swords, spears, axes, hammers, staves, incredibly cursed artifacts–The works! I post a collection of 10+ Weapons each Wednesday for a little thing I like to call “Weapon Wednesday.” Some of these I will actually use in the DnD sessions I run, but most of them are built just for the love of the game. 

In the process of posting these each week, I’ve come to learn the term “knolling”! 

Knolling.org , a real life actual website, defnes it as “the practice of arranging similar objects in a precise, perpendicular manner. The goal of knolling is to create a sense of order and clarity in a space by aligning and organizing the objects within it”… Which I guess I accidentally started doing to satisfy my own longing for precision! It is very satisfying though, isn’t it? 

People frequently ask how I come up with ideas for weapons, and I always answer the same way. It’s rarely about planning to make a specific armament or implement at any given time, and more about sitting down with a bin of the fiddliest little Lego pieces I own, and clicking things together until it looks cool. Typically, I try to make things at least semi-believable as a proportionate weapon for a minifigure, but we also know that everyone loves some Giant Anime Swords, so some of them do get a little outta’ control. 

Rarely are weapons made with specific weeks in mind. When building, I tend to create as many little builds as I can make look nice, and keep them in a big pile, waiting to be used in a future collection. It’s frankly horrifying. 

When when I sit down to actually lay out the post, I pick my background color. This immediately helps dictate what weapons I might want to use that week, as I try to avoid putting black weapons on a black background, for example, or maybe I’ll put blue on a pink background for that extra pop! From there, I start with a few weapons that I’m excited to highlight, or that feel thematically appropriate together. Then it’s just a matter of building around that, using shapes and sizes that fit together like a puzzle. Sometimes fun prints of 1×1 and 1×2 tiles help to fill in those awkward gaps where a full weapon wouldn’t fit. 

One of my favorite pieces to use has gotta be the delightfully unexpected Mini Doll Shoulder Pads (Item No: 5106). They make for such an excellent crossguard on swords, and really fit a lot of detail and shape into such a small shape. More than any other piece, it’s the one I get asked about. 

One of my personal favorite swords I’ve ever made highlights that part quite well! I’ve included it in a few minifigure characters over the years, including recently for my interpretation of Galahad of the Round Table for the collaboration y’all featured recently. It just feels like legendary sword from myth, y’know? Gold, shiny, a radiant gemstone… What’s not to like? 

It’s been crazy to see any sort of traction on a hashtag, but #weaponwednesday is still picking up speed. When I first started posting on Instagram, the hashtag was almost entirely showcasing guns and knives, but now, over a year later, it’s slowly but surely starting to be filled with… Uh. Tiny, plastic guns and knives (And other more fantastical weapons, obviously).

Big shout out to @AmorphousBricks, who’s been posting Weapon Wednesdays right alongside me since essentially the beginning. We even hosted a Battle Axe tournament last March to see who had the baddest axe in all the land, with @k2_kilo being the winner with an icy snowflake/sawblade inspired axe. Maybe we should do another contest sometime soon?

I’d also pay a lot of credit to the entire crew of the Umbasa_LUG for the continuous inspiration. @jdm_bricks is the realest one. @beyondb0nes is hugely underrated and makes some of the cleanest and cohesive figures out there, if you ask me. @_motherofcatdragons_, too! Gosh, I really could keep going… So I will.@haon.brx, @2p_figs, @brickbot_studio…  There’s so many cool and creative builders that I’ve gotten to know in the last year! And finally, a whoop and a holler for @masterbuilderalec. He’ll know why.

All-in-all, though, posting things weekly has been a wonderful little comfort in the tumultuous times that seem ever present these days. It’s a tiny ritual that I get to share with everyone, and all I gotta do is hope they enjoy it! I’m truly always delighted to see what folks come up with or what ideas for weapons they have to share.

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Thomus has created several retro M-Tron rovers over the years. This asymmetrical carrier is especially inspired.

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The planetary vista is made from a mix of studs up and SNOT planes, some a brick tick, others just a tile, creating so many layers in a compact space. And around the colony, incredible details come into focus, like a hill made from a minifig turkey.

If you’re a fan of Marc’s microscale work, you have a chance to vote on turning another model into a Bricklink Designer Program set as part of Series 10. Village in the Sky even adds kinetic functions, designed in collaboration with BLDP alum Leewan.  Voting is open until February 20.

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Speakin of Andreas Lenander, this Swedish builder is always on the lookout for new elements to turn into wheels! This year it’s the Unikitty tail that helps the rover get around.

Huw Gwilliam is a digital creator who has created several stellar rovers so far. We’re especially fond of this HV-W8 model used by Crystal speculators. The diamond tiles make great treads for those oversized wheels.

Joey_brick_things had a similar idea with the tread element, attaching diamonds to parabolic rings. Brilliant!

I’m sensing a tread trend here! Peter Xu created several rover variants using this wheel technique. My favorite is this one inspired by Mad Burnish from the Promare anime. The color combination is incredible, and I love a car with literal teeth.

Nikolaus Löwe is an Febrovery veteran who often brings in Technic and motor functions. As amazing as the builder’s engineering marvels are, my favorite so far is this decidedly old-fashioned mechanical horse and buggy rorveer.

Kalais Bricks is one of many builders tapping into classic themes for their rovers. This super clean M-Tron rover is a very easy on the eyes.

Ids de Jong continues his tradition of turning Febrovery into a travelogue. Here the protagonists encounter a repair rover and its bot team. But what is that spider camera bot up to? A tease of the next rover, of course!

Prolific bot builder zakar.ion makes his Febrovery debut with this greebly masterpiece that looks like it could be straight out of a hard science film like Ad Astra.

carrier lost taps a Space-adjacent action theme for this Ultra Agents rover. With quad wheels and tank treads, nothing will stop this rover… from moving straight ahead!

OG rover rebel Crimso Giger innovates with Classic Space colors for this pickup truck rover that is build entirely upside down! No tricky SNOT connections needed, just shift in perspective to turn a windscreen into a truck bed.

1corn finds inspiration in the natural world for this Woodtron Woodymog that rolls on pinecone tires and is covered by a leafy canopy.

Space_e introduces the Bluetron faction with this enormous rover that makes excellent use of large windscreens and medium azure curves.

Woodtron? Blutron? Emil Chroboczek brings back the original -tron with this sleek Blacktron Predator tank rover. I’m a big fan of the contrast between the smooth cockpit and heavily-textured treads.

Karf Oohu Lite finds a beautiful classic-space design in miniature with this drilling rover. The water effect and cracked earth effect is perfect.

Also playing with microscale comes Xiheng Xu (Little Monk), making his Febrovery debut fresh off an incredible win in the Iron Forge. The builder’s knack for NPU continues with wheels and treads made from flower bells and car doors.

Frost can always be counted on for showstopping rovers, and this year is no exception. The Buggoid Rover brings back the insectoid aliens of Galaxy Squad. What an amazing color combination that theme had!

Commander Xander also has bugs on the brain and rolls up with the Nebulanaut Beetlepod, the perfect ride for the Beetlezoid from CMF Series 26.

Shannon Sproule creates models that are decidedly retro without feeling like LEGGO designs at all. The Biijao Helium3 harvester rover brilliantly employs large curved windows for its gas capturing device. The vehicle evokes farming equipment from an alien planet.

Richard Young creates the most whimsical wheels of the year with this Penguin rover. I wonder if it can slide on its belly to get down hills faster?

Space legend David Roberts shares the X-Rover, perfect for when you and your cargo need a lift.

Rounding out our mid-month selections, Complex 81941 keeps to classic colors for this intergalactic spin on a Popemobile. I don’t know what sort of alien dignitary is standing under the capsule, but they seem very important!

This month has been absolutely stacked with amazing rovers – too many for us to feature them all. To keep up with all the Febrovery builds, check out the Febrovery group on Flickr and follow the hashtag on Instagram. We’ll be back at the end of the month with another batch of favoritees.

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Better yet, the model opens up with rooms for your custom crew of misfits to plan their next mission. Built to play-scale rather than UCS, things might get a bit cramped for a full party of companions. I’d love to see Jonah or other builders expanding on the Ebon Hawk with a full party of companions. For now, this is just the build I need to bring back those gaming memories as we await the upcoming Fate of the Old Republic. Will the Ebon Hawk make an appearance in KotoR’s spiritual successor? We can hope!

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On quite a few of my recent truck builds, the cargo is more of an attraction than the truck. I am thinking of my combine or my bulldozer transport, for instance. For this build, I wanted the truck itself to be the starring attraction. Hence, the cargo is a fairly simple set of crates, for machine parts, and a little forklift. The truck is recognisably British, with its green and red colour scheme and the drop shadow lettering.

I based the design of the Volvo’s cab on that of my existing wind turbine transport, but I obviously modified it to match the Rawcliffe colour scheme.

For coupling the trailer, I used a 2×2 plate with a tow ball socket, which fortunately exists in red. The trailer drawbar is attached to it using a red Homemaker Figure / Maxifigure Hand. Amazingly, I have had a single one of those in my collection for about forty years, ever since my sister donated her LEGO collection to me when we were both children. The hand was part of the Homemaker Hospital.

The model has some functionality, such as the steering axles. The crane can unfold, but is quite flimsy. The outriggers on the model do not work: instead of extending or retracting them, I have to add or remove parts. However, they look the business. My aim was for it to look good rather than playability.

Rawcliffe seems to have several Hyster forklifts, and among other tasks, uses them for installing machinery, taking them to their job sites. Lego has made numerous parts that are great for building forklifts, such as a rollcage, the mast and forks, and I do have those parts in my collection. However, they are too big for this forklift at this scale, unfortunately (and have the wrong colours). So, I had to get creative and build my own.

A Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Clip on Bottom attaches the forks to a vertical bar. It is not super sturdy and allows the forks to rotate side-to-side, but I can move them up and down. That is enough for display purposes. I am not at all sure the forklift would be used to move them in the real world anyway. The truck has a crane, after all.

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The rippling fins are built largely from 2×1 round plates, which angle easily for gentle curves. To create feathered edges, David uses minifig flippers and a mix of horn and blade elements. The fish are accompanied by “Sammy the snail” – the builder’s take on an aquatic apple snail – and water lilies that would be right at home in the Botanicals line. David will br bringing the model to LEGO events this summer, so perhaps some of our readers will have the chance to see it in person soon!

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LEGO Ideas 21365 Love Birds | 750 Pieces | Available now | US $49.99 | CAN $64.99 | UK £44.99

The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with an early copy of this set for review. Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews.

The Build

The box has the now-standard adult branding, with a sand green bottom border and a full shot of the set on the front. The back adds a close-up showing how to pose the birds in heart shape (a requirement added by a design manager walking by!), along with a schematic telling you what a tree looks like to a robot with wireframe vision. Inside are 7 paper bags and one modest instruction booklet. The “build together” feature is only available with the LEGO Builder app; unlike some sets, if you tried to work it out yourself, you’d be hard pressed to do so until you get to the final bags with the two identical love birds.

There are a few new pieces and one new color in this set: warm pink. In the designer round table, they mentioned that with no minifigures in the set, there were a few more “frames” – basically the budget for recolors, new molds, and new prints – anything that would take up a storage bin in a LEGO factory – available. The corner curved slope and 1×3 curved slope (shown here next to a 1×2 curved slope + 1×1 tile to contrast the available lines) are great pieces to have available; the 1×3 slope is a very subtle difference, and the corner slope fills a gap with otherwise very different and imperfect solutions.

The new color is Warm Pink, used as one of the layered shades on the love birds – it’s the 2×6 wedge plate in the middle layer of the wing below (and don’t miss the coral hearts used for some extra love). There was a push to get parts in it out, and that also made a few more frames available – 8 recolors introduced in this set alone. The push also meant that other sets were coming with parts in the new color, which also made more parts available to use in this set. It’s not always a virtuous cycle, though, because other unreleased sets might be planning to use a piece, but then change their minds – and suddenly the set you’re working on needs another frame in your budget.

The build is largely layered reddish brown and dark browns, over various supporting structures with plenty of studs-not-on-top supports. Most Ideas sets have several easter eggs, references, or tributes to the fan designer, and one is visible here as internal pieces reference the colors of the Brick Bank, Micah’s favorite modular building. It’s an attractive build and convincingly organic, although every once in a while there are some distracting colors that come through, like the medium nougat hinge bricks visible at the bottom middle here.

Micah’s initials are also patterned in the bark, although as was demonstrated on the model shown at the roundtable, it’s easy to get that detail slightly wrong. The roundtable also included some amusing commentary about pairing this set with LEGO Ideas 21349 Tuxedo Cat, including how easy it is to take the head off one of the birds (easy) and what’s be needed to put it into one of the cat’s paws (maybe just a jumper). The foliage is one of the more notable changes from the original fan design, and was much discussed and voted on by the LEGO for Adults design team, with the original lavender deemed too cold with the overall color palette. The spring yellowish green leaves aren’t new, but work very nicely here, and with nearly 80 of them this is by far the biggest source for them.

Alternate Build

There’s been some talk about the tree from this set being able to drop in to a minfigure scale scene, so I took a quick shot at seeing what that looks like. Here some Forestmen are using the tree as cover to ambush some Lion Knights.

I think there’s definitely potential there. Things took a turn though when one of the birds came back, and it doesn’t seem to have been in a very loving mood… might need to take those heart tiles off the wings!

Final Thoughts

One obvious question with a set like this is, what about swapping the leaves, and did LEGO consider including a change of season, like with the Bonsai or Treehouse sets. And yes it was considered, but LEGO has gotten feedback that this sort of feature is not always a favorite – it’s hard to make it easy especially without eating up a lot of parts – and that it also makes it really hard to show the full value of the set on the box. And at $50 for 750 pieces, this set is excellent value. Whether you want the new warm pink, the foliage, or the brown shades, there are loads of useful pieces on top of a versatile final model. We think you’ll … love it.

LEGO Ideas 21365 Love Birds | 750 Pieces | Available now | US $49.99 | CAN $64.99 | UK £44.99

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Tahu has yet to appear as a minifigure, but that doesn’t stop hotdog from making an upscaled version!

Maybe you’d prefer your Tahu in a cuter form? If you want to see the baby, “Tagu” is ready for your gaze. This is the way.

In our universe, Nintendo released a boring grey brick of a handheld with dot matrix graphics. In a better universe, cool kids played the TahuBoy, and it came with blazing hot graphics right out of thee box.

What were the best games on the TahuBoy? The Tahu of Time and its sequel the Majorly Tahu Mask, both starring beloved gaming hero TahuLink. You’ve met a terrible fate, haven’t you, Tahu?

Back in the early aughts, when Tahu Fever was at its peak, the red dude was everywhere, even breaking taboos over on Comedy Central. “Screw you guys, I’m going to Ta-Koro.”

But while some cartoons thought they were breaking new ground by going Tahu, we all knew Simpsons already did it.

Tahu was also a trendsetter in the AFOL world, starting traditions that continue to this day. #timetocrab? That was all Tahu.

Sorry, Ron Perlman. There’s only one dude with the swagger to play Big Red. Tahu Helboy will always be the best version of the iconic hero.

Sadly, not all of Tahu’s cinematic endeavors were a smokin’ success. Remember when Tahu starred in the reboot of the Mask? Why didn’t somebody stop him?

Bionicle’s popularity pulled LEGO out of a slump, but Tahu was also single-handedly responsibe for bringing the company back to the brink of financial ruin when he glinched out to Galidor.

Where do you go from such a cursed low? Tahu doesn’t seek redemption. Tahu pushes through. Tahu isn’t just the Toa Mata of Fire – he’s a vibe. He’s hot, but also chill! t a h u w a v e.wav

There’s no point in resisting. It’s Tahu’s worl and we’re just living in it. Get in the Tahu bus, losers. We’re going to Artakha.

That brings us to the end of our Tahu appreciation tour, courtesy of hotdog_waffles. Of course, we can’t say goodby without paying tribute to the most essential Tahu of all- Hotdog Tahu and his companion Waffle Takua.

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