I love sci-fi superadvanced armor.

From the very first mention of the concept ever (Galactic patrol, by E.E. “Doc” Smith) to anime armors big and small, to iron Man in comics and movies, to the novel “Armor,” I am a fan.

One of the advantages of this is that when someone kindly decides to get me a geeky gift, I’m easy to buy for. Case in point, LEGO Iron Man Brickheadz.

I have loved LEGO in principle for years, but I haven’t actually built any in decades. So not only did this gift appeal to my sci-fi armor/Iron man fandom, it let me reconnect (no pun intended) with LEGO.

My wife and I took about 20 minutes to assemble this as a 3-D jigsaw puzzle, and we were both surprised how much fun we had. I was originally going to just take two pictures, a “before” and “after,” but got excited and documented the whole process more thoroughly than expected.

The pieces come in two plastic bags, and includes a pictorial  instruction booklet.

The instructions are clear that step one is sorting all the pieces into the different specific types.

It’s interesting to me that I get Hulk Green pieces, as well as some orange and pink, which are part of the interior and will be totally concealed once the piece Brick Headz is finished.

The torso is… squat.

I am embarrassed to admit I hadn’t realized the pieces with bumps on the sides of them were designed to put studs on the sides at a 90 degree angle to the “top”of the Brick Headz. Those studs are how the tiny arms are clicked in place.

I call this the “Creepy Cage Head Iron man” stage.

While there are a very few specialty pieces that clearly exist only for this Brick Headz, I was impressed how few of them are needed.

It’s amazing how big a difference the smooth-topped LEGO make to  the final appearance.

I was simple amused by the apparently universal symbol for “Turn your Brick Headz upside-down.”

Here is the final Brick Headz! I had four tiny one-stud, smooth-topped LEGO left over.

The “Chibi LEO” Iron Man suit looks weirdly appropriate on my “random” shelf in my home office. It may end up moving to my desk at Paizo… we’ll see.

Did you enjoy my over-documented LEGO project? Well feel free to back my Patreon for a few bucks and tell me to do more of this!