Boldly Going Places with LEGO Trekkie Samuel Hatmaker

Boldly Going Places with LEGO Trekkie Samuel Hatmaker

LEGO Star Trek: the final frontier. These are the stories of Samuel Hatmaker. Their mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out and create community wherever they go, to boldly go where no builder has gone before.

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Walking the Green Brick Road with LEGO for Earth Day

Walking the Green Brick Road with LEGO for Earth Day

This Earth Day, one AFOL shares her own personal journey in supporting LEGO’s environment-centered initiatives by building models of flowers to promote biodiversity and conservation.

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Habitation on Hibernia: Literal LEGO Worldbuilding

Habitation on Hibernia: Literal LEGO Worldbuilding

Welcome to the fictional planet of Hibernia where LEGO builder Bongobert and his friends have created a world all their own. We take a close look at the story behind the evolving collab and the planet’s newest habitat MOC with some stellar golden arrays.

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Highlighting Uniqueness: A Chat with Pierre E Fieschi on Design and Creativity

Highlighting Uniqueness: A Chat with Pierre E Fieschi on Design and Creativity

Sometimes LEGO builders can inspire other AFOLs in the community and throughout space! Today we chat with Pierre E Fieschi about creativity and designing spaceships from Homeworld to Star Wars—and how highlighting the uniqueness in a build can make it shine.

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There and Back Again with LEGO Builder Balbo

There and Back Again with LEGO Builder Balbo

One of the big perks of getting a gig here at BrickNerd is the opportunity to reach out to builders from all over the world and ask them questions—without appearing like a complete stalker! So today, I have the privilege to shine the spotlight on one of my favourite builders in the community, Balbo.

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LEGO-Aero-gami: The Art of Automatic Paper Airplane Making

LEGO-Aero-gami: The Art of Automatic Paper Airplane Making

Aero-gami is the art of making paper planes. Okay, we totally made that up, but it captures today’s feature build so well though! Kenjiro Negai talks with us about his paper plane making LEGO robot, his plans for the future, and gives some excellent advice to aspiring robot builders.

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The Novel Builds of Shannon Sproule

The Novel Builds of Shannon Sproule

They say that you should never judge a book by the cover, but book publishers have long known that we still do anyways. Shannon Sproule’s appreciation for classic sci-fi cover art from the ‘50s to ‘70s has led him to create some eye-catching LEGO book covers of his own. Let’s take a closer look.

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