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Read MoreThese are the best LEGO features from around the fan community for September 2022. They are well worth your time!
Read MoreMeet Sir Termie who went too far back in time and is trying to blend in. We talked with builder Aaron Amatnieks to get all the terrific LEGO Terminator details.
Read MoreThe characters from LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 23 are ready to eat! Join us on a photographic journey through some food-filled festive frolicking!
Read MoreTo celebrate LEGO’s release of the UCS Razor Crest, we here at BrickNerd are celebrating some sharp Mandalorian MOCs from around the AFOL community.
Read MoreThe rare gold LEGO RCX and NXT bricks have been revealed! The epic tale involves trips to the US and Billund, a Technic dinosaur, a local jeweler, a group of AFOL superfans and lots of cake.
Read MoreHow 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 MoreEven though LEGO Masters is a fierce competition, Season 3 contestant Liz Puleo shares how the cast became a family in no time at all.
Read MoreHow 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 MoreWe challenged our BrickNerd readers to create pirate-themed LEGO MOCs but with a twist—no humans allowed! We received a stunning 78 entries, took a deep look at each, and are awarding the shiny gold loot to…
Read MoreAs LEGO builders, we’re well aware that we can get inspiration anywhere—so we tend to keep our eyes open and pay attention to visual art wherever we see it. But what if we search a little deeper? Can we get inspiration from what we read as well as what we see?
Read MoreWhat is the LEGO Inside Tour really like? We continue our mini-series with Wayne Tyler sharing the second day of the tour including exploring the LEGO factory, going inside LEGO Campus, visiting the employee store and more.
Read MorePools and LEGO don’t seem like a good mix. Getting a MOC wet seems like the most unintuitive thing you could do. But what if a LUG member had a pool and issued a challenge to build something that could face the waves?
Read MoreContributor Lorren Loveless takes us to BrickSlopes 2022 in Utah. Read all about the LEGO convention, including their million-brick play area for kids and AFOLs, today on BrickNerd!
Read MoreWelcome back to BrickNerd Quick Builds! Instructions this time are for a General Grievous bust, one of the most iconic Star Wars villains.
Read MoreWhen I wrote about BSBT 2021, it was from the agonizing perspective of a LEGO train fan desperate to participate. However, now I can write a gushing and enthusiastic first-hand account of my participation at this year's event.
Read MoreJoin us as we venture into The Lord of the Rings to celebrate the many amazing builds created for the 2022 Middle Earth LEGO Olympics.
Read MoreAero-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.
Read MoreThey 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.
Read MoreCheck out all these LEGO contests and challenges for the month of September 2022. There are some amazing prizes to be won!
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.