The Brief:
Woohoo first ever blog entry! This build was my participation for FROGust 2025. The prompt’s simple: Build a frog in August. Although I built my frog in August, it didn’t end up getting photographed and posted until the end of September, oh well…
The first frog was built on a large part constraint, seeing as I was away from my Lego collection at the time. Being August, I was on summer break, which meant away from school where all my Lego resides, and back home where much less is available to me. With that in mind, I had made some small Bricklink orders around the time and had some botanical sets lying around the house to pool parts from, so the build possibilities were still there.
The Construction:
The very first part of the design I came up with were the limbs. I was super inspired by the medium blue dino tails and bright green candles I had recently ordered and wanted to go from there. The feet were an obvious choice for me since threaves (3-leaves) are incredibly versatile and come in many colors, including my desired orange.
The construction to get the limbs on was less easy to say the least. I have to shout out Owen (@brickbytes) and Cole (@MCGWERKS) for their attempts to figure out how to connect the bright green claws to the body. In the end, Cole’s suggestion of rubber liftarm abuse proved to be the right one as it allowed it to be posable, yet still kept the claws in place.
Another key challenge was the head design. As with many of the other great frogs posted during FROGust, 2×2 and 3×3 curved quarter domes were the go to option for the mouth. Rounding out the top of the head was the more difficult aspect though. Initially, I opted for slit eyes using the antenna base with lever removed, but upon arriving back at school I opted to switch to the simpler option of black ball joints. In both variations, the Ninjago bandana gave the eye a nice pop as well. After that, I lifted a bright green macaroni from the recent Petite Sunny Bouqet, and the head was done!
A Second Frog?
Upon returning to school in September, I now had access to all my parts. I didn’t want to fully revamp the first frog since I felt that defeated the purpose of the challenge, so I opted to use my parts to add a stand and a second frog. Although the bases weren’t particularly interesting, I had always wanted to try out the popular paint palette lily pad technique, and I confess it looks incredible! As for the second frog, I had initially wanted the two to have the same color scheme, but having run out of a lot of the right color parts I opted for a new color way. The inspiration for the second frog came largely from the Dreamzzz turtle head shoulder shell, which I felt reflected the dots a lot of poison dart frogs have. I combined that with the Auspicious Dragon eyes to match a similar vibe. From there I simply copied the construction of the first frog using colors reflected on those two parts, and the duet was complete!
Paparazzi:
Thanks for Reading!
Also quick shout-out to The Brothers Brick who wrote a nice piece about this build as well! You can check it out here: A LEGO frog is not just for Frogust