The dog days of summer are upon us and like many of our fellow New York City-dwellers, we here at BrickUnderground are taking a semi-vacation for the next couple of weeks.

What does this mean for you, our dear readers? Rather than rolling out 100% new content, we'll repost some of our most popular stories of 2012 as part of our traditional Summer Flashback Series. But don't worry, we'll still have some original stuff, too.

We hope you'll take the opportunity to catch up on some of the great stuff you may have missed this year. If you're lucky, you'll be doing it from a beach chair.