WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE ABOUT?
At Kalais Bricks blog you'll find unique custom original creations made with LEGO® bricks, stop-motion animated films and interesting articles. The things you see here weren't built from instructions but designed by the creator of this wonderful website ;)
AUTHOR
Kalais Bricks blog is run by... Kalais (what a surprise). My real name is Dominik Skarbek-Kruszewski and I love LEGO bricks. Designing My Own Creation (MOCs) and making stop-motion animated films are my favorite things to do with the Danish plastic and I love it!
My passion has also turned into a job and for several years now my company has been creating animated films for LEGO. I have a dedicated stop-motion animation studio in Warsaw, Poland.
Kalais in the Kalais Studios :)
Previously I also was building LEGO models for commercial purposes and co-organized LEGO exhibitions.
I am a member of several official LEGO hobby groups (LUGs). In alphabetical order they are: LUGPol, WAWLUG and the Zbudujmy.to association.
How did I even get into the world of LEGO? I don't know exactly how it all started. A big point in this journey was the film "The Lego Movie." It reminded me of my stop-motion films from my youth. I shot them on VHS tapes and they were in black and white!
After watching The Lego Movie (around 2014/2015) my girlfriend (now my wife) and I dug out old sets from the closet and started building and buying bricks and sets that I'd dreamed of as a kid only seeing them in Pewex stores and catalogs.
Pirates, Castle, M:Tron, Blacktron II, Classic Space – these series have always been my favourite. I still love them! For me they're timeless classics. And the dioramas that you could see in catalogs and as box art are still incredibly impressive and I admire the photography style and design skills of people who made it.
On the internet I discovered there were tons of adult LEGO fans (AFOLs) and websites where you can buy every single part and set. And I got really into it. I started going to exhibitions, meeting new people, expanding my collection and it's been that way ever since.
LEGO COMPETITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
It is probably not everything because I come up with the idea of making this list very late.
2025.07
First place in the 7th edition of the international Colour it Blacktron competition in the "Blacktron set remake" category.
2025.07
Second place in the 7th edition of the international Colour it Blacktron competition in the "New Blacktron model" category.
2025.07
First place in the international Star Wars competition on the largest LEGO forum, Eurobricks, in the "Asymmetrical Ship" category.
2025.05
First place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Model in transparent colors"
2025.03
Third place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a soap racer"
2024.12
First place overall in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure 2024H2"
2024.12
Second place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure - A superhero of your own design"
2024.11
First place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure - apprentice"
2024.10
First place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure - a soldier from LEGO Pirates series"
2024.05
First place overall in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure 2024H1"
2024.05
Third place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure - any construction worker"
2024.04
First place in the Polish LEGO LUGPol fan community competition - "Build a scene using a minifigure - any alien"
2024.02
First place in the Polish LEGO fan community competition LUGPol - "Build a scene using a minifigure - any pirate"
2017.06
Special prize, bonus winner (out of 565 submitted videos) in the international "Rebrick Ninja for a Day" competition for an animated film. LEGO Group, Denmark.
2017.04
Second place (out of 130 submitted videos) in the international "Rebrick Build and Rebuild" competition for an animated film. LEGO Group, Denmark.
2017.02
First place (out of 602 submissions) in the international competition for animated film featuring LEGO Batman. LEGO Group (Denmark) and Warner Bros (USA).
2016.02
First place in the Polish LEGO fan community competition Zbudujmy.to - "With Fire and MOC - Sienkiewicz competition"
2016.02
Main prize in the competition for creative photo of a Star Wars set. LEGO Poland.
PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER
I don't think everything is here either. I'll probably add something more here.
2025.09
"Jack Skellington’s Santa's Sleigh" on the most popular LEGO blog Brothers Brick
2025.09
"Jack Skellington’s Santa's Sleigh" featured on the home page of the largest LEGO forum - Eurobricks
2025.07
"Necromancers - Master and Apprentice" featured on the home page of the largest LEGO forum - Eurobricks
2024.11
Orc hut wins the title of MOC of the month at LUGPol.
2024.10
Orc hut featured on the home page of the largest LEGO forum - Eurobricks
2022.08
Classics of Polish Painting with LEGO Bricks - exhibition. Design and construction coordination of the painting "By the Seashore" by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz - Dominik Skarbek-Kruszewski. Galeria przy Plaży on the Vistula Boulevards, Warsaw, Poland
2020.09
Ikea Blacktron base on the most popular LEGO blog Brothers Brick
2020.03
Kalais BrickShop, Kalais Bricks and Kalais YouTube on the one of the biggest Polish LEGO YouTubers - Brodaty Geek
2019.07
M:Tron Castle featured on the home page of the largest LEGO forum - Eurobricks
2019.07
Wizard on the blog MOC builder (webarchive link)
2019.07
M:Tron Castle on the popular channel YouTube BrickVault (from 2:36)
2019.04
Imperial base on the popular channel YouTube RichboyJhae (from 9:23)
2018.09
Kalais BrickShop, Kalais Bricks and Kalais YouTube on the one of the biggest Polish LEGO YouTubers - Maciek i Klocki
2018.07
M:Tron monorail on the popular The LEGO Car Blog
2018.03
Space base on the popular channel YouTube BrickVault (from 2:16)
2017.11
Castle Orcs vs. Humans on Arch Brick Daily blog
2017.11
Castle Orcs vs. Humans on the most popular LEGO blog Brothers Brick
2017.09
Fragments of the animation appear in The LEGO Ninjago Movie. Kalais appears in the credits of a feature film for the first time!
2017.08
Castle on the YouTube channel Brick Central (from 0:20)
2017.07
M:Tron Base on the Brickbuilt LEGO Blog
2017.06
The LEGO Batman animation appears on the official DVD/Bluray release of LEGO Batman, with commentary by actor Will Arret
2017.06
Co-organization of the LEGO zone at the first edition of the Comic Con festival. Nadarzyn/Warsaw/Poland
2017.02
MOC of the Month title on LUGPol for the LEGO Batman film
2017.05
Co-organization of the LEGO zone at the great Pixel Heaven festival. Warsaw, Poland
2017.02
Article about the castle on the most popular LEGO blog in the world, Brothers Bricks
2016.12
The castle on the popular channel YouTube BrickVault (from 9:57)
2016.06
Screening of the film "Micro Dream Race" at the Steinerei Brickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2016.03
Pirate Buildings on Lego's Soul - article on the popular Polish LEGO blog.
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