The LEGO community is lucky to have so many blogs, magazines and channels that create amazing content about our hobby. Here at BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks!

September was like a bouquet of flowers here at BrickNerd: We announced the results of our piRATS & BUGaneer contest, looked at fantastic fantasy minifigures and got to read how a LEGO Master contestant thrives with ADHD. We learned how to get inspired by books, got some LEGO photo tips and continued our trip to the LEGO Inside Tour 2022. And if that wasn’t enough we visited the Bauspielbahn-Treffen in Germany, BrickSlopes in Utah, covered the 2022 Middle Earth LEGO Olympics, got to shine a light on various LEGO lighthouse MOCs and even published instructions for a nifty General Grievous bust. We’ve published so many interesting articles, that we’ve included an interactive calendar of them 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!

Adam Savage and Angus MacLane in the Tested studio

Adam Savage’s Tested: Lightyear LEGO Build with Adam Savage and Director Angus MacLane!

Adam Savage sits down with Lightyear director Angus MacLane for an afternoon of LEGO Building and conversation about making his latest film and on working with LEGO to design the XL-15 spaceship from Lightyear.

A LEGO Technic build of the Schmidt coupling

Brick Experiment Channel: 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless LEGO Machine

If you want to learn something about different mechanical principles then this video by the Brick Experiment Channel will have you covered. It’s whimsical, educational and like most LEGO Technic videos utterly mesmerizing.

Brick Replicas: The LEGO Company’s Forgotten Gun Toys

A long long time ago, there was a working LEGO gun. And not just one. This interesting article sheds a light on the history of these lesser-known LEGO toys when the LEGO group was still completely reliant on wood and covers everything from a simple pistol to an army machine gun(!).

Brickset: Interview with Chris Stamp, designer of 007 Aston Martin DB5 and 1970 Dodge Charger

Speed Champions is known for it’s intricate and interesting builds replicating real-life vehicles. Chris Stamp talks about the theme’s new movie-inspired cars and what design considerations got the team to the final products.

Sandro Quattrini, the fan designer of 21335 Motorised Lighthouse

Jay’s Brick Blog: Interview with the LEGO Ideas Design Team and Fan Designer of 21335 Motorised Lighthouse

Find out what went into designing 21335 Motorised Lighthouse, Sandro’s inspiration for the model and his favorite details, and what changes had to be made during the design process to arrive at the final product you can now find in the stores.

A LEGO robber is apprehended by a LEGO police officer and his dog

matyho kostky: Crime is rampant not only in LEGO City (translated)

Vlastimil jumps from LEGO City into the real world and covers some interesting cases of LEGO related crime – and it’s not just toy store robberies!

Various colorful LEGO space tools on gray background

New Elementary: Space Tools Parts Fest: Thomas Jenkins

Thomas Jenkins explores iconic LEGO space elements such as the air tanks or the showel. Exploring various connections for both elements he then incorporates them in inspiring MOCs – and made us learn a thing or two, too!

slow start.: The Making of Bionicle (1995 - 2022) | PART 3

The final chapter of this multipart docuseries explores the story of Bionicle’s inception, it’s lifecycle and it’s legacy.

The LEGO Office set with close-up highlights

StoneWars: All (?) References in the new LEGO The Office Set (21336) (translated)

The StoneWars team went through all seven seasons of The Office as well as every single brick of the upcoming LEGO set and compiled a list of what just might be every single hidden reference.

A LEGO Lord of the Rings vignette by Thorsten Bonsch

StoneWars: LEGO Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – MOC series from Hobbiton to Weathertop (translated)

An in-depth exploration of the first part of Thorsten Bonsch’s Lord of the Rings vignettes, this article covers the ideation, Thorsten’s design process as well as the challenge of creating minifigures that LEGO never released back when there was an official LEGO Lord of the Rings theme.

Top-down-view of a partially assembled LEGO Ideas Globe

The Brick Blogger: Brick Breakdown: LEGO Ideas Globe

William highlights the various different principles that made the building experience of 21332 The Globe interesting and different: Ballast, the design of the hollow sphere as well as the various ways of reinforcement throughout the build are things that can also be applied to your personal creations.

Furniture techniques by Michael Jasper as highlighted by Tips & Bricks

Tips&Bricks: TECHNIQUE DISCUSSION: Unique furniture by Michael Jasper

Michael Jasper’s name is synonymous with smart minifigure-scale techniques that make one question one’s own skills. Tips & Bricks took a deepdive into some of his furniture designs, highlighting elements and the techniques used to achieve them.

LEGO castle elements with a smiling minifigure head

wbur: Why you're never too old to build 'castles in the air'

We all remember when we stepped out of our dark ages. Read how one of wbur’s editors got hooked with the Lion Knight’s Castle – familiar, in a way, isn’t it?

A spread of special stamps celebrating the 90 year anniversary of the Wiener Riesenrad

Zusammengebaut: 90 Years of LEGO: Special Stamp Presented at the Prater Riesenrad in Vienna! (translated)

German community zusammengebaut was invited to the launch of a special LEGO themed stamp celebrating the 90 year anniversary of the Wiener Riesenrad, a giant ferris wheel in the heart of the Austrian capital.

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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