LEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for September 2021
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The LEGO community is lucky to have so many blogs, magazines and channels that create amazing content about our hobby. At BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks! This past month, we’ve judged a cube contest, visited space, Poland, Chile, and Skærbæk, made paper airplanes, took some pictures, and had a pool party. We took a look at pigs, talked like a pirate, and went tubular. We built bridges and basketball, uncovered a golden NXT mystery, confessed our anti-digital secrets and more! Whew! In fact, we’ve included an interactive calendar of all our articles at the bottom of this post so you can make sure you didn’t miss a thing.
But there are many more fascinating stories to be told from within the LEGO community, so here are some of the best LEGO articles that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month of September. We applaud the effort that went into each of these features, so click on the headlines or photos to head to each story or video. They are well worth your time!
Beyond the Brick: How Accurate is the LEGO Fender Stratocaster Guitar Set?
Beyond the Brick's Joshua Hanlon sits down with David Ju to compare the new LEGO Stratocaster and amp set to their real life counterparts.
Bits N’ Bricks: The Life (and Legacy) of George
Inside the birth of Life of George and how a flat, LEGO brick puzzle game sparked a reexamination of the role digital experiences can play in the physical toy business
Brick Fanatics: Are LEGO Ideas sets getting too expensive?
Plenty of smaller LEGO Ideas projects make it to 10K. Dozens have reached the review stage over the past couple of years. But the LEGO Group seemingly keeps choosing only the biggest projects to turn into official sets, rejecting smaller submissions.
Brickset: Interview with Matthew Ashton and Diego Sancho, designers of 10291 Queer Eye
10291 Queer Eye - The Fab 5 Loft is the latest in an incredibly diverse selection of LEGO sets produced within the last two years, exploring countless different subjects.
New Elementary: Old Elementary - A Closer Look at Lego Binoculars, Part 30162
Minifigs got a whole new perspective on Legoland back in 1998. That was the year part 30162 first graced their clawed hands across Town (this was before the conurbation grew to become City) and the new Adventurers theme.
Rambling Brick: Whatever happened to Classic Town? Part I: 1978-1990
Over the years, this theme has evolved, with the LEGO City theme of today looking very different, yet incorporating similar subject matter. This investigation covers material released over more than 40 years.
StoneWars: Tour de LEGO - The LEGO Store in Hamburg (translated)
Our “Tour de LEGO” will introduce you to all of the German brand stores. Today we arrived in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and took a closer look at the store.
The Brick Blogger: Creating Angled Designs with LEGO Bricks
LEGO elements, especially bricks and plates, are often viewed as being incredibly square. But when it comes to angles, you often need to hunt down a specialized facet brick or wedge plate for the job. Well, what if I told you there are ways to angle your most basic elements easily?
Tips&Bricks: Celebrating International Week of the Deaf
Continuing on with our posts celebrating International Diversity occasions, this week is International Week of the Deaf! We're taking a deep dive in the representation
of hard-of-hearing people in LEGO, speaking to two builders who are part of the Deaf community and sharing a number of hearing related LEGO initiatives.
Zusammengebaut: LEGO House History Collection Live Tour: A journey through time from 1962 to 1978 (translated)
The LEGO House regularly presents the highlights of its history. This is my experience report on the virtual tour through their History Collection.
If all of those amazing features weren’t enough to satisfy your LEGO community craving, here is an interactive calendar of everything that BrickNerd has published this last month to make sure you didn’t miss a single article.
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