AFOLs With Kids: Should You Combine Your Collections?
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Whose LEGO piece is this!? Brian Hickey explores the dynamics of adults and kids sharing a LEGO collection.
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How to Organize Your LEGO Parts Collection, Part 1: Organizing Strategies and Constraints
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LEGO parts can become unwieldy as collections grow bigger, so how do you organize everything? This article will explore your many options as an AFOL from figuring out your building approach to setting a sorting strategy that makes the most sense to you.
Read MoreSets vs Parts: What Kind of AFOL Are You?
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When it comes to collecting LEGO, do you build and then keep sets together or do you part them out into pieces? Or do you fall somewhere in between? Between sets and parts, what kind of AFOL are you?
Read MoreOne Shot Wonders: Single-Instance LEGO Colours
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Which LEGO colors have only ever been used for a single part? Come take a deep dive into the rare rainbow of single-instance LEGO colors to find out!
Read MoreWhere’s Leia? Gender Disparity in LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendars
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LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendars have been a Yuletide highlight for more than a decade providing a total of 288 small gifts from a galaxy far away. But what are the odds of finding a female minifig in your advent calendar?
Read MoreLEGO Inside Tour Exclusive Sets, Part 2: A New Age
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Continuing our deep dive into LEGO Inside Tour sets, we take a look at the more modern models, how designs have changed over time, and what effect the opening of the LEGO House had on these incredibly rare sets.
Read MoreLEGO Inside Tour Exclusives: Once In a Lifetime Souvenir Sets
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What are LEGO Inside Tour exclusive sets and why are they so rare? Today we take a look at the history of these highly desirable and impossible-to-find sets, how they came to be, who has designed them, and what they represent to the history of the company.
Read MoreDuplo Decoration: The Eyes Have It!
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There are lots of examples of LEGO animals that have received updated moulds over time, but what about the ones with the same moulds but different prints? Today we take an eye-opening look at the spectacle of Duplo animal eye decoration.
Read MoreEverything You Wanted to Know About Tiny Themes: LEGO Originals
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Yesterday we took a deep dive into LEGO themes based on intellectual property that didn’t quite go anywhere. Today we are looking at the themes that LEGO came up with themselves—which also didn’t stick around for long!
Read MoreEverything You Want to Know About Tiny Themes: IPs
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Today on BrickNerd, Griffin Rose takes a deep dive into some of the smallest and “flash in the pan” series that have been brought to life by LEGO.
Read MoreOff (Or On!?) With Their Heads: Every Non-Human LEGO Head
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With only two weeks left to enter our pirate competition, I wondered just how many creature heads there are in the LEGO ecosystem? Starting to research, I realized I was in way over my head…
Read MoreMusings on Modulars: Building LEGO Modulars for the First Time
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What would it be like to build the LEGO modular series for the first time? Guest writer Justin Speers did just that and shares his experience, observations and future goals for his modular collection.
Read MoreLEGO Love at First Sight
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What was the moment you fell in love with something LEGO-related instantly? Was it a set that ended your Dark Age or maybe something more subtle? For Valentine’s Day, we asked our BrickNerd contributors to share the stories of their LEGO love at first sight.
Read MoreI Spy: Searching for Sets in a LEGO Bulk Buy
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Follow the clues in a random bulk LEGO lot and put your searching skills to the test to identify the sets hidden within the chaos!
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Collecting LEGO Parts for Fun (But Not for Profit)
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Some LEGO fans build sets and some build MOCs.But others have fun simply collecting. We chat with Wade Davey from Australia about his passion for collecting specific parts.
Read MoreChasing Amy: The Hunt for an Elusive Elephant
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Amy the Elephant has eluded me for many years. Join me on my winding quest to collect this yellow LEGO elephant, bowtie and all!
Read MoreSorting Nightmare: The Blocky Horror Picture Show
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Just when you thought sorting, storing, and organizing your LEGO bricks couldn’t get any scarier, Gwyneth Kozbial conjures up some dark-magic solutions to those monsters we’ve all faced.
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