With Brickvention 2026 well and truly out of the way and Bendigo Bricks 2026 pretty close to organised I am now feeling ready enough to set my sights on my major build for the year, I have told a few people about it as I have been planning it for quite a few years, and it is once again a revisit of a beloved theme from my childhood (with more than a little twist).

This time I am revisiting M-Tron, however I am going to dramatically reframe the theme in the Victorian era and give it a ‘steampunk’ make over. My new subtheme will be called M-Tron 1880.

The idea and I guess the reason behind the idea was an article I read about the theoretical possibility of the Victorians applying the technology available to them at the time, namely electromagentism, to propel a vessel into the upper atmosphere and achieve spaceflight.

You can pretty much see the spark of my idea from there as it is not too hard to get from electromagnetism to M-Tron: literally m (magnet) and tron (electron)).

I am still nailing down exactly what I will be building, but a Victorian era palatial tower of industry, a ship, various other vehicles are definitely on the cards.

I am looking forward to getting started!