Year of the Rabbit Round-Up: Ear-Resistible Rabbits
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To welcome the Year of the Rabbit, today on BrickNerd we feature a MOC round-up of other bunny builds, plus a surprise bonus feature at the end!
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Steampunk Art to LEGO Brick: A New Way to Get Around Town
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How do you transform steampunk concept art into a MOC? We chat with LEGO builder Hejjo Demkowicz about his wonderfully atmospheric scene, District 1., to get the full story.
Read More100+ New LEGO Sets for January 2023 Include Jazz Club Modular, New Classic Spacemen and the Return of LOTR
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More than a hundred new LEGO sets are available for January 2023. If you use BrickNerd’s affiliate link for LEGO.com, you are helping support community-focused journalism—a win-win situation when you get your modular Jazz Club, an official purple or brown spaceman, the return of LOTR, and more!
Read MoreIn The Brick of Time: The Journey of the LEGO Wheel of Time
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Welcome to the LEGO Wheel of Time collaboration with a full breakdown of builds and why it was built. It’s time to get wheelin’!
Read MoreBrickNerd 2022: Numbers and New Years Resolutions
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Every year we are amazed by the reception to what we are doing at BrickNerd, so today we wanted to share with you the numbers of what we’ve achieved in 2022 and some of the New Years resolutions for what we want to accomplish in 2023.
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for December 2022
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December and 2022 may be coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few more LEGO articles worth your time! These are the best LEGO features from around the fan community for December 2022.
Read More2022 in GBC: Mighty Modules and Laudable Loops
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The LEGO Great Ball Contraption theme and community evolve each year, and this year was no different. Today, we take a look back at the standout GBC modules and layouts of 2022.
Read MoreLunar New Year & LEGO: Cultural Significance and Symbolism
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Join us as we celebrate the Spring Festival with LEGO’s most recent Lunar New Year sets! We explore the cultures and traditions of the Chinese diaspora from the perspectives of LEGO fans in Asian communities across the globe.
Read MoreLEGO Lighting Lessons: Making Sets and MOCs Merry and Bright
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With many people having just opened presents of LEGO and lighting kits, I took a hands-on approach to adding lights to a set and to a MOC to see if I could come up with any bright ideas.
Read MoreThe Secret Adventures of LEGO Minifigs: It’s Christmas Time!
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The characters from LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 23 are celebrating Christmas with a little added holiday magic. Join us on a photographic journey to see all their festive secrets of the season!
Read MoreQuick Builds #5: Santa and Nutcracker Christmas Ornaments
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Welcome back to BrickNerd Quick Builds! We have two treats for you today—Santa and Nutcracker ornaments. Now you can decorate your Christmas tree with LEGO ornaments packed full of holiday NPU!
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 MoreJourney Into the Unknown: Builds by Bart De Dobbelaer
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Join us on a journey into the unknown with the otherworldly LEGO builds of Bart De Dobbelaer.
Read MoreLEGO LOTR 10 Years Later: In a Hole in the Ground There Lived an AFOL
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Exactly 10 years ago today, LEGO announced that it would be releasing official Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets. The subsequent waves of sets from Middle Earth have inspired thousands of MOCs and a building frenzy like none other in the fan community.
Read MoreThe Winner of Our Nerdvember 2022 Contest Is…
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For Nerdvember 2022, we challenged our BrickNerd readers to take our mascot Nerdly on a fantastic adventure and reimagine it into the realm of fantasy. We received so many creative entries that took us to another world, and we’re thrilled to award our Golden Nerdly trophy to…
Read MoreMolds Over Time: How Part Updates Change Build Techniques
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Every so often LEGO makes changes to an existing element that adds a new building technique—or sometimes removes one. Today we take a look at part molds over time and how the changes have helped and hindered MOC builders.
Read MoreChibi Style, Part 2: Techniques to Build Cute
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We resume our chat with Javier Soravilla and Mike Dung, pioneering builders of expressive “chibi style” LEGO characters, and learn more about all the techniques they use to build them.
Read More"Gettin’ Chibi Wit It": A Chat with Javier Soravilla and Mike Dung
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What is chibi style? We chat with Javier Soravilla and Mike Dung, pioneering builders of the expressive LEGO characters, and learn about the chibi building community.
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.
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