Originally, in the Hebrew tradition, golems are humanoid beings made of clay.

Subsequently, in medieval fantasy works, the golem is more generally a creature of human form made of inert matter (earth, stone...), brought to life by a magician. He represents the mysterious power of nature in the face of human fragility.

While the fantastic medieval universe is very regularly used by Lego designers, the golems have been very little represented until now.

I have been building this kind of creatures in Lego since my childhood. But with Bricklink,

the use of a limited variety of parts turned construction into a challenge.

The golem is here represented in its natural element, just emerged from the ground in the forest where it slept for a few million years. The army of skeletons, which has built a tower on his shoulders, woke him up to face a noble knight errant.

The golem is a composite construction, with limbs using Technic parts for the joints, associated with staggered plates representing the layers of the rock.

The dinosaur fossil embedded in his back indicates that the golem was already there at the origins of the world.

His powerful arms are articulated at the shoulders and elbows, and the legs at the hips and at the ankles.

Despite the height and weight of the tower and the tree, the golem is perfectly balanced, and holds standing easily (tested with real bricks!).

The decor, consisting of a dirt road crossing a pine tree forest, is arranged like a western duel with the golem at one end and the knight errant at the other. The flexibility of the golem allows him to take natural poses and make the diorama livelier.

His 1230 bricks and 4 minifigures (including 3 skeletons in armor) allow an excellent playability and multiple scenarios, while the limited size of the set facilitates its exposure on a shelf.