Celebrating International LEGO Day With Our Best LEGO Store Stories
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To celebrate International LEGO Day, we’ve collected some of BrickNerd’s best stories about shopping for these coveted plastic toys!
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Down On His Luck: An Australian Painting Pop-Up MOC
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Sometimes art speaks to you, other times it literally jumps off the canvas! Today we chat with LEGO builder Jane Gibbons-Eyre about her pop-up MOC of the Australian painting Down On His Luck.
Read MoreTrondheim in Miniature: Birth of a Custom LEGO Event Kit
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For the tenth anniversary of the most northern major LEGO event in the world in Norway, the organizers partnered with some of the best talents in the fan community to make a special model. This is the story of how the custom Trondheim Skyline event kit came to be.
Read MoreFrom Gardens to Gambits: An Interview with Cindy Zhan
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We travel to sunny Southern California to chat with LEGO builder Cindy Zhan about her massive MOC, The Garden of Flowing Fragrance, and the Huntington Library in Pasadena that inspired it.
Read MoreRainbow Heart: A LEGO Mosaic Pulsing with Color
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What do you do when you have too many LEGO Dots? Create a mosaic bursting with color! Guest contributor Joe Meno from BrickJournal Magazine talks with BrickNerd-in-Chief Dave Schefcik about how his Rainbow Heart came to be.
Read MoreThe Need For Speed: An Interview with Jon Elliott
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When you think of amazing LEGO cars, one MOC builder immediately comes to mind: Jonathan Elliott. Today we sit down with Jon to talk about his vehicles, Speed Champions, what inspires him, and his constant drive to push the envelope of what a LEGO car can be.
Read MoreBrickHeadz Blueprints: A Middle Earth Study of Shape and Form
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What essential characteristics define a BrickHeadz figure? We push the boundaries by going on an unexpected journey through Middle Earth with LEGO’s Lord of the Rings BrickHeadz.
Read MoreModulex Motorsports: Taking the Pole Position in Sculpting Formula 1 Cars
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Not all cars are made equal. Take a look at this beautifully sculpted Ferrari and find out what went into creating it – a study in Modulex that will surely impress!
Read MoreBlacklight Galaxy Squad: A Strange Glow In The Dark
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What happens when you shine a blacklight onto LEGO? An entirely new, strange world appears! We chat with Cyrille Bouquinet who used florescent bricks to build a glowing Galaxy Squad diorama.
Read MoreBionicle is Back: A LEGO Legacy Hidden in Plain Sight
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LEGO is bringing back Bionicle for a Gift With Purchase (GWP) set at the end of the month. We chat with LEGO designers Nico Vás and Niek van Slagmaat about how the set came to be and how Bionicle’s legacy is hidden in LEGO sets all around us.
Read MoreThe LEGO Dark Arts: Incorporating LEGO Packaging Into Your MOCs, Part 2
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Perhaps LEGO packaging shouldn’t be thrown out or recycled immediately? Take a look at these ingenious MOCs that use LEGO containers to great effect.
Read MoreThe LEGO Dark Arts: Incorporating LEGO Packaging Into Your MOCs
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How do you use LEGO packaging in your MOCs? BrickNerd’s Caleb Huet takes you on a tour of some of the best in his “LEGO Dark Arts” series.
Read MoreDoctor Who in the Land of Oz
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For the 58th anniversary of the first screening of Doctor Who in Australia, we chatted with local builders about the show and how it inspired their LEGO creations from Daleks to Doctors.
Read MoreInstructions to Build a Polaroid Camera
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The Polaroid is one of the most iconic cameras of all time, and now you can build one yourself! The BrickNerd team designed a LEGO Polaroid camera with instructions only available here and in BrickJournal Magazine’s most recent issue.
Read MoreLight Painting: Add a Little Magic to Your LEGO Photos
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Looking for a way to add a bit of magic into your LEGO photos? Ann shares her tips and tricks on how you can use light painting to add a bit of whimsy and color into your brick-built scenes.
Read MorePoseable Possibilities: The Way of the Mech
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Keith Espinoza’s Bushido mech combines the articulation of a Gunpla/Gundam model with LEGO. Clearly, the days of stiff immovable models are long gone. We had a quick chat with Keith to find out the secret to his highly poseable builds.
Read MoreHands-On with LEGO Braille Bricks: Learning Through Play
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To mark World Braille Day, we are getting hands-on with LEGO Braille Bricks, showing how to build your own set, and showcasing some resources from The LEGO Foundation to help learn how to read them by having fun!
Read MoreBuilding Block: Making A LEGO Tribute to Ken Block
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In honor of Ken Block who tragically passed away earlier this week, we are republishing Are’s story about meeting him as a fellow car nerd and building a LEGO tribute to the stunt-driving legend.
Read MoreThings Are Better With (LEGO) Friends
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LEGO recently relaunched its Friends theme with the intent of making sets more inclusive and reflective of society today. BrickNerd put those ideals to the test by engaging with educator and LEGO Masters contestant Corey Samuels who led a community event with a new generation of young female LEGO builders to see what they thought of the new Friends.
Read MoreLEGO Contest Round-Up for January 2023
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Check out all these LEGO contests and challenges for the month of January 2023. From fantasy to castles to seed part competitions, there are MOCs to be built and prizes to be won!
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