The Blocksventure

Subsidiary of Block & Roll Still a jackanape of all trades, but now also specialising in Lego Oxventure fanart Absolutely no AI used, just a little Photoshop

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Lego Oxventure - Faire Trial

Hello again. Back again after an annoyingly long time, for which I apologise. Things have been flat out here. Anyway, happy to be back with Faire Trial.

In this adventure Egbert is informed that he has left his Paladin renewal too long and has to retake the trials. Onwards to the trials' fairgrounds.

The fair is very fun for some

Never mind that stuffy minotaur. Or the bees in that balloon. I'm sure they won't come up again. That candy floss is innocent though.

For the first trial, Egbert's jousting opponent is "Cedric Albright"

Corazon thoroughly enjoys hamming it disguised up as the stuck-up paladin, before allowing Egbert to theatrically unseat him from his gryphon in the joust.

The obstacle course is conquered

With a little help from his friends, and his own exceptional paladin talents, Egbert prevails before all the trials, until he is faced with his final task...

...defeat Brawlin' Stan the Minotaur

Egbert brings his a-game to the battle, but before either party can defeat the other, something strange happens.

A mysterious orb sucks Stan into it

Prudence's intervention makes short work of the minotaur. Egbert totally had him though.

And so Egbert is reinstated as a full paladin. And so the guild set out once again, with kidnappers and cults on the horizon.

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Lego Oxventure - Exhibition Impossible

Having done most of his character work offscreen, Corazon only has one remaining cursed coin to find. An encounter with Panniers reveals its location- The Treasury. Only open to the public for one day every five years, the guild sets out on an audacious heist.

Merilwen guides the Damnation through the minefield

Latched onto a ship ahead, she uses ink to mark the trail through the marine defenses around The Treasury.

Prudence finds a totally-not-important-or-evil orb in the occult section

Rolling a 1 on her resist check, she is entranced and pockets it.

Victor Dietrich gifts Egbert a new mace

Fascinated by Egbert and his order, Victor makes a donation to the Order of La Vache Mauve.

The last cursed coin is found

One near-encounter with Chekov's Acid Ceiling later and...

Security is dispatched to deal with the thieves

Enter- guard robot with cannon arm.

Egbert's new cursed Mace turns Victor into a seal

Who turns out to be one pissed-off Pinniped.

Merilwen decides to give this 'don't be a Dob' thing a try

Turns out casting Moonbeam in a room with an acid ceiling does not rank highly on the list of good ideas. Panniers seems not to care though.

A hasty escape is bid, courtesy of the skeletons

Who, as payment, say really mean things to the Oxventurers.

With the coin in their hands (at least once Corazon's digestive system works it's cycle) the guild can eventually lift the curse. But the first of many distractions comes almost immediately, as the next adventure sees Egbert put to the test.

Apologies about the long wait between this one and the previous one. Being busy can be quite the inconvenience. As compensation, please accept this bonus image of Panniers skeleton after his acid bath.

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Lego Oxventure - Peak Performance

Very sorry about the long wait everyone, things got really busy. But we are back now, and I can't believe it took me this long to realise a cover image for each episode would be a good idea.

Anyway, the guild brave the icy peaks in this adventure, and have their first face-to-face appearance with a dragon. But it starts, as many adventures do, in Necropolis on Sea.

Binbag arrives with a quest

The wizard is received with the usual 'enthusiasm'. He entrusts the guild with righting a great evil on the mountain near the mansion.

"Where did Corazon go?"

It is not long before trouble is found, and a scuffle with some Ice Mephits is underway. Corazon hides as usual. Oh and Remus the wolf got caught in a trap. Pass it on.

The mountain is fraught with traps

Oblivious to the danger, Corazon has to pull of a last-second rescue. That was a close one. She was almost a Prudence-sandwich.

The duality of Dob

Exhibit 1- Defying gravity climbing up a tree

Exhibit 2- Falling into a pit trap he knew was there and was looking right at

The guild attempt to hide in the hunter's lodge

This is accomplished by disguising themselves inside the taxidermied animals, with varying success.

Vex returns and gets what's coming to him

The necromance hunter that turned Merilwen's cat into a hat returns and is summarily drop-kicked into a flaming bear

The dragon is awoken

And is not too pleased with Vex, freezing him solid and demolishing him.

With the dragon satisfied, the guild head back to the mansion, some opting to toboggan down the mountain on a shield, and others electing to go on a contemplative walk down the way they came.

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Lego Oxventure - Dread 2025 Canoe Escape

Today's the day, Happy Halloween everybody. And what better to post than a visual chronicle of Optimus Pine himself from the unbelievably tense Dread 2025 episode.

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Lego Oxventure - Rolling in the Deep

The relaxing at Necropolis on Sea is cut short when a guild of hermits charge Prudence with paying an old debt.

A reunion with an old acquaintance

Prudence never thought she'd be seeing her old caretaker Cyrus again. Turns out his guild aren't too please she murdered him. He did deserve it though. We think.

The Cave Without Incident is misnamed, it turns out

"What does it say Prudence?"

"It says full of treasure, please open me."

Also, Merilwen can turn into an octopus now.

"Prudence has 'got this'"

Corazon is paralysed, and Egbert, Dob and Merilwen are deep in character fooling a group of Grell, and leaves Prudence to take point.

The power of teamwork

Prudence assists partially-paralysed Corazon in killing the escaped Egbert clone.

Prudence then poisons the remaining tank-bound clones, and her debt is paid.

A short one this time, I know, but up next is the four-part Peak Performance. And you know there'll be plenty to do for that episode.

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Bismuth, Triple-Changer

As an addendum to the Mind Your Manors post, I wanted to also visually chronicle this moment of dubious canonicity, because why not? It's not every day you get to use some Transformers in an Oxventure Lego art.

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Lego Oxventure - Mind Your Manors

Continuing directly on from the last adventure, the guild find themselves tasked with a challenge- survive one night in Necropolis on Sea, and win the mansion.

Christmas (and birthday) comes early for Prudence

Necropolis on Sea is exactly her vibe

Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhoun The Third At Your Service

At your service.

The Mansion is perfect...

...or so it seems. Although Corazon doesn't seem to notice.

"Look Egbert, a ghost!"

"The dragon-man who believes in the sky cow doesn't believe in ghosts everybody"

Also, Prudence adopted Frisky and The Darkness.

Egbert's wisdom leads him to do the one thing he shouldn't

And so the guild are forced to fight a trio of flame skulls in the basement.

But the guild is, as ever, victorious. The mansion is theirs come sunrise, as is their new flame skull foreman.

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Lego Oxventure - Ship Happens

The Oxventurers are chartered by the Lads for a stag do of epic proportions

Payment to be a total of up to 300,000 gold pieces

If the entertainment is satisfactory. Something the Oxventurers (Corazon mainly) intend to happen, as the voyage sets sail.

Featuring a once-in-a-lifetime* appearance by famous magician Prudence the Evening Ruiner

*Lifetime referred to is the lifetime of the viewer

In the downtime, Merilwen spies on the Lads

Details as to their ultimate plan emerge, but no complete picture is formed yet...

Dob's all-nighter leaves a bit to be desired

Not much you can do when you roll a 1, alas.

Corazon VS the Sahuagin

Rather appropriately, it fights like a manatee.

Ladsenkaldyr is summoned

At last the truth is revealed, and Dob takes the Joyful Damnation into battle with the god.

In the interests of time, Ladsenkaldyr is defeated in short order, and the guild make port in Necropolis on Sea, soon to explore the mansion atop the hill...

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Lego Oxventure - Out of Order

And we are finally back with our regularly scheduled Lego Oxventure, kicking off Season 2 with an adventure about atonement.

Egbert is contacted by La Vache Mauve

And thus the guild is tasked with heading East to prevent a great evil...

Egbert is smuggled into Mistmire disguised as a giant seahorse

"He's doing the water supply, inn'he? He's going to spoil that right off."

Operation Eavesdrop was a complete success.

Corazon's impeccable Chauncey disguise fools everyone

"I'll do it sir, I'll report in good."

Darkfall's Downfall

And so ends the tale of the dastardly rogue, disrobed of both his clothes and his dignity, his final plan to poison the well foiled.

So now with the return to the original guild's adventures, I do intend to resume regular posting, with the same frequency as before. Apologies in advance if any take longer than normal. Juggling multiple projects is fun :)

But anyway, onwards to an adventure where some ship happens.

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Lego Oxvdenture Wyrdwood- Robin & Morven

Wyrdwood Season 2 is almost upon us and I can't wait. It was awesome to have some of my work appear on the fanart portions of the Season 1 marathon stream.

Wyrdwood characters are generally hard to replicate accurately in Lego, but I was able to make Robin and Morven here in a piece that was intended for the stream but had to be cut to showcase the many other great works by the other talented proper artists.

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Lego Oxventure Deadlands - S2 Villains

With season two now over, all I can say is what. A. Season. And what a gut-wrenching finale. Marshal Andy also brought his A-game with the villains, who are also all easy to make out of Lego. Enjoy.

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Lego Oxventure - Season 1 Highlights

We're still a little busy working on another project, so alas work on Season 2 is yet to begin. In the meantime here is a collection of my favourite pieces of art from the first season's episodes.

The Spicy Rat Caper - Corazon VS Chicken

I should specify that this is not my favourite from this episode because of the booting of the chicken but instead because of the accurate Lego recreation of the stock image used.

A Spot Of Bother - Egbert

By default, this one. Should probably go back to this episode sometime.

Wild Wild Woods - Goblin POV

A homourous image, benefitting from a good stock image background itself.

An Orcward Encounter - Dob's Dark Doppelganger

The only player KO in the story, plus it was fun to make evil Dob.

Quiet Riot - Merilwen's Meatgrinder

ICONIC

Plunder Siege - The Journey To Redcastle

The ballad of Vindaloo never looked so good.

A Fishmas Carol - Prudence

Possibly my favourite image so far of this entire artistic venture. The Chuul fight was a close second for this adventure.

Bad Chair Day - The Consequences Of Egbert's Actions

Not the first, or the last, time Corazon had to dive out of the way of something Egbert did.

Brawl Of The Wild - The Coraswans

Still need the real Coraswan animal to pop up somewtime for the guild to fight.

Heist Society - Corazon "explaining" to Amelia

It's always fun to recreate a humourous internet image with the Oxventurers.

Stop! Hammer Time - The Skeleton Minotaur Voltron

Was an absolute blast turning a Bionicle into a giant DnD creature.

Spell Check - Egbert Minus One Kidney

Possibly the longest-running plot thread in the entire series.

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Lego Oxventure - Spell Check

The season one finale plants seeds that would go on to flourish all the way into the last season.

Egbert wakes up minus a kidney

The other Oxventurers, also captured, thankfully retained all their organs.

Breaking free, the guild adopt one of the guards

Although Corazon and Egbert were all too happy to play bad cop-bad cop with him.

A plan goes awry

Beron the dwarf misses his attack, and then Egbert misses his, hitting the dwarf with his own battleaxe.

The signal is given, the battle begins

The first of many skirmishes with arch-nemesis Liliana.

Corazon and Prudence are briefly empowered with magical juice

Corazon The God uses his newfound power to spawn many, many sandwiches.

Liliana will return...

...with Egbert's kidney (hopefully).

And so the first season is concluded. I'll be taking a brief break before embarking on season 2, so that I can have a short rest and plan the next season.

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Lego Oxventure - Stop! Hammer Time!

The town of Bumble is irreversibly changed after the Oxventures unveil a guild of 60 enchanted skeletons.

Dob summons the skeletons in the crypt

"We...are...Ethelfrith's...chosen."

Prudence takes an instant liking to the skeletons

The Dob Orphanage for Orphans is opened

Problem is, it's a very wet orphanage. And a very red orphanage.

Shortly thereafter, union negotiations get out of hand

The skeletons form up into a giant minotaur-voltron

The Oxventurers prevail however, and the skeletons are returned to the hammer until they are required again.

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Oxventure Deadlands is back, and I'm loving it. And so I see no better time than now to unveil this image from the archives. A while back I wanted to do a Deadlands-inspired Lego diorama, but I shelved as I wasn't happy and didn't think it was good enough.

To spot from the OX campaign is Nate being attacked by a Tumblebleed and Rex Randall ready to take on a Glom.

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Lego Oxventure - Heist Society

A social adventure in Rutherglen turns to an costumed investigation into the true perpetrator of a jewel theft

In the costume shop (it is a masquerade ball, after all)

Starring-

Merilwen as Prudence as Deadpool

Prudence as sexy minion Prudence

Corazon as sexy nurse Corazon

Dob as Egbert (in an electric blue tuxedo)

Egbert as himself, but with a coat made from 80 wolves

Against all odds, and reason, the guild drift a carriage

Egbert absconds with an information broker for a serious discussion

"What's chess?"

As Dob attunes to the wind, Hurricane Corazon ransacks the office

And successfully uncovers some shocking information...

...Which he tries to explain to Amelia...

...without success.

Later, the Bear-Down Protocol is enacted...

...with smashing success.

And so, with the truth out, the guild leaves another successful adventure

It's just, in all this excitement, the Emerald Tear went missing.

And so onwards. Bumble, brace yourselves. The guild is coming.

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Lego Oxventure - Brawl of the Wild

An adventure that has it all really. Bombs, family reunions and a certain pirate making wildly deceitful claims.

Prudence's idea of stealth leaves a bit to be desired

Turns out holding a tree branch in front of you just isn't enough when your skin is bright red.

Dob's plan goes a bit too well

It seems that super-hench, rabies infected boars are perfectly happy to chow down on half-orc.

The Professor's identity is revealed

"Dob, what does your sister look like?"

Corazon invents the pedal-boat, and fashions it after himself

And thus the Coraswan was born. Also the dead-squirrel-clenched-in-a-fist-to-honour-the-fallen swan.

Illegal-moonshine-still inspector Corazon is not pleased with the state of things

Which gets the Kobolds' attention because, as Johnny put it, Kobolds be dumb.

Prudence shields the flammable party members from an explosion

Because, as she reasoned, "they have nice stuff and I don't want it to burn"

So with every animal and their grandparents in the forest blind from a concentrated-moonshine spill, the guild leave the woods behind to head for an adventure in high society.