Where does Santa go to get away from it all? Why to his Christmas cottage of course! Builder Andrea Lattanzio (aka Norton74) shares with us his tradition of building Christmas LEGO creations every year and shows how his newest one came together.
Read MoreThe final countdown is on for Nerdvember 2021! This is your last reminder to post your LEGO comic creations by the stroke of midnight unless they turn into a pumpkin! Oh wait, wrong fairy tale…
Read MoreAt BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks. But there are so many more fascinating stories from within the LEGO community that are worth your time! So here are some of the best LEGO articles and videos that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month of November.
Read MoreLEGO’s annual Build to Give event is up and running as they donate sets to children in need this holiday season for every star built and posted online. But it may be a bit more challenging than at first glance! How exactly do you build a five-pointed star out of LEGO? We have some tips and a gallery of inspiration to help get you started.
Read MoreIs the new LEGO UCS AT-AT sold out or a bit out of your price range? Now you can build a mini All Terrain Armored Transport from only 52 pieces using these instructions instead!
Read MoreAlright BrickNerd fans! It’s Thanksgiving in the US of A, so we all know what that means, right?!? Tryptophan coma? Binge-watching football? Playing Pull-My-Finger with your eccentric uncle? No, no and no. You guessed it: A LEGO turkey MOC round-up! I hope you’re hungry!
Read MoreA few weeks ago, a little LEGO frog started popping up all over some amazing builders’ creations in quite some fantastic locations! I had to know more about Fred the Frog, how the collab came to be, and how they each created individual builds that looked perfect together as a group.
Read MoreAre you ready for more LEGO Beatles nerdity? Part two of the magical mystery tour starts now as we go behind the scenes of my brick-built Beatles’ British studio albums.
Read MoreThere is only one week left to enter our comic-themed building competition for Nerdvemeber! You could win a rare event-exclusive LEGO set from Comic-Con or Star Wars Celebration, have your scene drawn as a comic book cover, and win the rare Golden Nerdly!
Read MoreSome 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 MoreA few days ago I attended Bricks in Florence Festival, one of the most important Italian LEGO events that takes place every November in Florence, Italy.
Read MoreTo celebrate the arrival of The Wheel of Time series on Amazon, a few brave LEGO builders embarked on a journey to recreate the series out of LEGO. You can see watch Robert Jordan’s story unfold over the next month, and we have the perfect preview to tease what is coming.
Read MoreI may officially be a “BrickNerd” but there is no subject about which I am historically nerdier than The Beatles. So I present to you “The Thirteen British Beatles Album Covers” created in LEGO.
Read MoreWhat is it like building on-demand props for LEGO Masters behind the scenes? Well, almost like building as a contestant on the show! Emilio Mazur shares with us his unique job, how he organized the Brick Pit, some of the Easter eggs he’s hidden throughout, and what pieces have been on the show from his personal collection.
Read MoreBuild your own LEGO vintage camera with these nifty instructions from BrickNerd. 83 pieces never looked so photogenic!
Read MoreGundam Wing meets Star Wars in this LEGO fusion build by Grammaticul. We chat about where inspiration comes from, the work that goes into building digitally, and how the LEGO community made this perfect render possible.
Read MoreLEGO builder Loïc Brun shares with us his newest explosion of color in the form of a bird taking flight into freedom. We chat about creativity, color, contests, community and more.
Read MoreWhat do you do when all of a sudden you have a building block preventing you from finishing your next LEGO creation? Here is a list of all the things that help me have ideas and inspiration to break through creative blocks, but it all comes down to one thing: build more!
Read MoreAmy the Elephant has eluded me for many years. Join me on my winding quest to collect this yellow LEGO elephant, bowtie and all!
Read MoreThough Halloween has passed, we still wanted to highlight this terrifying scene by LEGO builder “Renaud Petit Lego” whose abduction by a creepy hand could give us nightmares.
Read MoreWhat happens when you turn a LEGO pirate ship into a Great Ball Contraption? Brian Hickey and his family find out, building a working module and learning a few hard lessons when it joins the GBC loop at BrickCon.
The Spindlejack messengers have a new predator on their tail! Dan Ko shares his T-R3X Speeder Bike, a dinosaur-inspired ride for the light-fingered Swindlejerks, with free instructions to build your own bike and display stand.
Creating LEGO cityscapes is an AFOL passion, but how do you build sidewalks and curbs that curve like in real life? We share some step-by-step instructions using some helpful new elements to make sure your city has curb appeal.
Monet painted his garden many times, exploring changes in color and time of day. Meredith Najewicz follows his lead, rebuilding the LEGO Art Water Lilies set with a darker palette and some creative part substitutions to cast the lilies in a different light.
It is time to take to the skies to see all the LEGO floating islands that populate our imaginations. Check out these gravity-defying rocks and learn why they might be one of the best ever collab ideas.
Old LEGO magic still has its charms. We revisit Borgin and Burkes and Dumbledore’s office to compare how their buildings, curious objects, and magical creatures have changed across generations of Harry Potter sets.
Want to customize a minifig without fancy printers or toxic fumes? Learn how to use the dark art of reductive design to literally erase the line between official and custom LEGO parts.
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Are you one of those people that has a perpetually messy building table? If so, you are not alone. Ted Andes comes out in defense of creative clutter and pleads the case for there being a method-to-the-madness of a messy building table. Read on to find out why a little bit of disorganization can be a good thing.