From Lagers to LEGO: Finding Midlife Creativity
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Today we’ve got guest contributor Jesse Gros’ tale of finding an outlet for his pent-up creativity. You guessed it: LEGO!
Read MoreGuys and Dolls: The Beautiful Failure of Belville Figures
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LEGO has produced a variety of humanoid figures over the years, but none more fascinatingly frightening than those in the Belville theme. Join us for a closer look at these creepy dolls and for an analysis of how they size up to other LEGO figures.
Read MoreReverse Engineering MOCs: Building Without Instructions
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Have you ever seen a LEGO creation online and wanted to build it yourself? Before asking for directions, why not try reverse-engineering the MOC? We have some tips and tricks to get you started.
Read MoreBizarre Belville Baseplates: A Fine Foundation
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We are going all the way down the Belville rabbit hole to the bedrock and building up the foundation from there. Join us as we explore the bizarre baseplate of LEGO Belville!
Read MoreMOC on Mars: Perseverance and the Ingenuity Helicopter
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To honor the little helicopter that could, today we showcase the LEGO version of Ingenuity built by engineer Stephen Pakbaz, who worked on the actual Perseverance chassis. The real-life version has flown its last mission on Mars after a rotor blade was damaged on its 72nd interplanetary flight. It now stands as a monument to human creativity on the Red Planet.
Read MoreEverything You Want To Know About LEGO Goats
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Just when you thought you already knew everything there was to know about LEGO goats, here comes another herd. What is it exactly about these animals that makes them so coveted?
Read MoreAwesome Black Creativity: An Alphabet of Meaning
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We chat with LEGO builders Dave Kaleta and Richard Dryden about their celebratory alphabet of significant cultural figures in their Awesome Black Creativity project.
Read MoreBraille Bricks: Build and Feel
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Today on BrickNerd, Gwyneth explores the new Braille Bricks line, what they’re all about, and how she’s built MOCs meant to be touched!
Read MoreLEGO Community in Ukraine: Welcome to Kyiv’s Comfort Town
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Guest writer Jenn Williams shares her experience finding connections across borders through the AFOL community in Ukraine. The events in this article took place in Comfort Town, a vibrant neighborhood in Kyiv featuring LEGO-inspired architecture.
Read MoreFrom Gardens to Gambits: An Interview with Cindy Zhan
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We travel to sunny Southern California to chat with LEGO builder Cindy Zhan about her massive MOC, The Garden of Flowing Fragrance, and the Huntington Library in Pasadena that inspired it.
Read MorePreparing for LEGO Masters Denmark, Part 3: The Finale
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How do you prepare for the final challenge of LEGO Masters Denmark? In this third and last part of the series, we find out if Esben Kolind’s preparations paid off and if he and his partner took home the grand prize of being immortalized in LEGOLAND Billund.
Read MoreI Found Rome a City of Bricks: The UCS LEGO Trevi Fountain
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How do you collaborate across continents to build the ultimate version of the LEGO Trevi Fountain? Join us as we chat with Italian builder Luca Petraglia about his 50,000-brick masterpiece—all bricks and no marble!
Read MoreMosaic Masterpieces: LEGO Fine Art in Warsaw, Poland
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How do you build museum-quality renditions of famous works of Polish art out of LEGO? Easy, you stack 150,000 tiny pieces in columns with all your friends for days on end! Read all about the monumental effort to make these mosaic masterpieces.
Read MorePreparing for LEGO Masters Denmark, Part 2: Twists and Time Management
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How do you prepare for challenges while filming LEGO Masters Denmark? In this second part of the series, Esben Kolind shares his team’s planning secrets and how it worked to their benefit.
Read MoreBig Mashup in Little Asia: A Tale of a Thousand Figs
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Have you ever been transfixed by looking at all the details and more than a thousand minifigures in a LEGO MOC? Well, Tim Parrish’s “Big Mashup in Little Asia” did just that and stole the show at Bricks by the Bay 2022.
Read MorePreparing for LEGO Masters Denmark: Casting and Challenges
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How do you prepare to be on LEGO Masters in Denmark, the very country where LEGO is from!? Esben Kolind shares his planning regimen and how it paid off while on the show.
Read MoreEmerging From The Dark Age: An Interview with Jack England
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Many people started building with LEGO again throughout the pandemic, but perhaps none emerged from their Dark Age as colorfully as Jack England.
Read MoreAFOLs and TFOLs and KFOLs at Bricks by the Bay
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Bricks by the Bay is unique among LEGO conventions for its support and inclusion of the KFOL and TFOL community (Kids and Teen Fans of LEGO). We take a look at that impact and how it played out at 2022’s convention in California.
Read MoreMOC on Mars: The LEGO Ingenuity Helicopter
/What do you do after landing one of your projects on Mars? Build an earth-bound version out of LEGO! NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Engineer Stephen Pakbaz has done just that, creating a working version of the interplanetary Ingenuity helicopter as well as instructions for a 1:3 scale model.
Read MoreOne Color, Thirty-Nine Times: An Interview with Caz Mockett
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Take a deep dive into color with builder Caz Mockett who created these stunning habitats for LEGO monofigures. She talks about how she was inspired, which color was the hardest to collect, and what’s the most expensive element in the entire display.
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